Joe Fernandez

Upko acts the peacemaker with more than a generous dose of advice to BN.

Any delay, it said, will have a negative impact on preparations for impending polls in Sarawak as the state takes its cues from Sabah.

The PKR supreme council has rejected its disciplinary committee’s recommendation to suspend the Sabah 12 and instead will let nine off with a warning.

COMMENT The PKR advisor’s ill-advised trip saw cool reception and cancelled events, proving Sabah is a tough nut for PKR to crack.

The PKR advisor has been asked to cancel his planned trip to Sabah tomorrow, due to tension following the move to suspend the Sabah 12.

COMMENT The PKR supremo's machinations bring no solace to problems Sabah and Sarawak face. So, where stands the party there?

COMMENT Sarawak's "white haired raja" seems bent on building his dynasty, not bothered that the new generation does not buy the ways of the old.

Its disciplinary committee goes to ascertain whether the Sabah strongman masterminded setting up of PCS last December.

Musa Aman's blocking of bid to thrash out Mazu statue issue said to have annoyed party officials at second such meeting after four years.

COMMENT The community has lost its political voice, and now suffering economically as well, there's nothing to lure them to continue backing the current chief minister.

The Sabah business sector warns of economic and social havoc if the dependents of foreign workers in the state are repatriated.

Burning questions over Umno's commitment to the prime minister's concept, says secretary-general Wilfred Madius Tangau.

COMMENT Its president is trying to show it has a mind of its own but it should be brave enough to quit the BN.

However, the Employees Provident Fund claims to have resolved the matter which involves two individuals who share the same Mykad number.

COMMENT Will the gross deviations and distortions will be allowed to continue, without the government even batting an eyelid?

Hindraf met the department last Friday to elaborate on the plight of at least 150,000 left without citizenship by the colonial period.

Hindraf says among ethnic Indians alone in Peninsular Malaysia, there are 150,000 British subjects.

COMMENT Will the secret meeting be a repeat of SUPP's 1980s tryst with Hussein Onn to remove then Sarawak CM Abdul Rahman Ya’kub?

The party reckons that if the state election were to be called today, the opposition will deny the two-thirds majority to the ruling coalition.

Parties that "whine, moan and groan" without working for solutions with the others are the cause of alienation in the coalition.

A village is at risk following land reclamation works while the installation of landing lights is also posing a problem.

COMMENT Impressive half-year figures of 803 case files on 7,224 graft reports made, but of which 260 involved bribe-taking totalling a measly RM6m.

COMMENT The issue is not a Minimum Wage Act, as the human resources minister would have us believe. The issue is the minimum wage.