Joe Fernandez

They have again prevented the NGOs from delivering a memorandum to the PM against the proposed coal-fired power plant in Lahad Datu.

'We want to show the authorities concerned that we are unanimously resolved against the proposed Kaiduan dam.'

BN seat-grabbers is LDP’s euphemism for Sabah Umno after having previously blamed the party bluntly on seat allocation issues.

There have been 38 crocodile attacks reported in recent years involving 23 fatalities, but many go unreported in remote regions.

Those in Sabah who are mistakenly identified as Muslims may get a chance to get their MyKad rectified.

Former Suhakam veep Simon Sipaun steps into the breach, calling for pressure to be sustained on Putrajaya to resolve long-standing grievances.

They are compiling all the required evidence for Hishamuddin, including reports of MyKads issued specifically for voting.

Critics, however, blast the PBS president for propping up Umno Sabah and their illegal immigrant voters.

Party has not deviated from its political, social and economic agenda, says information chief Johnny Mositun.

COMMENT Its leaders are said to be distancing themselves from CM Taib Mahmud and considering taking the party out of BN.

A department should be formed just like syariah and civil courts to empower the Native Court, suggests Richard Malanjum.

The deputy minister wants to plug rampant fraud in statutory declarations (SD) by holding commissioners of oaths liable.

COMMENT The Umno cavalry is expected to descend upon the state to ‘save it from the Opposition,’ or is it the other way around?

Another warning shot across the bow for Putrajaya on the success or failure of 1Malaysia and economic welfare of East Malaysia.

The debate over whether or not Malaysia is an equal partnership of three territories is likely to rage on even after the cows come home.

It does not see why Umno must press claims for Muslim-majority seats in Sabah instead of going with consensus-based allocations.

Sabah division says BN is truly losing its grip on the two Borneo states, and Pakatan’s bid for Putrajaya ‘is not a tall order’.

East M'sians fast-forwarded 50th Malaysia Day seminar to explore how the states may have been better off had they not joined Malaysia.

Harris Salleh laments that lack of state representation in the Petronas board is allegedly allowing endless plunder of the state's oil riches.

Keeping the native voters humble and in poverty would see them needing subsidies and handouts and dependent on the BN.

The notion that BN should govern in perpetuity is flawed, says Kuching MP Chong Chieng Jen.

In Sibu, Taib Mahmud saw the face of an opposition that he had never seen before.

Rebel chiefs estimate that BN stands to lose its prized two-thirds majority at the next Sarawak state elections if nothing is done.

It accused the Sarawak DAP of provoking and instigating the voters with ‘unlawful acts’ during the Sibu by-election.