The most pressing question that begs to be asked currently is, 'Why can't the Public Services Department (JPA) give scholarships to the top 300 SPM students in the country?

They were supposed to have screened their scholarship recipients but one is dumbfounded as to how this screening was done when students excelling in both academic studies and extra- curricular activities are rejected.

I thought they are now practising meritocracy. How wrong we are. Maybe it's about time that the entire staff of the JPA be changed to one that reflects the racial composition of our country.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called for the list of AP recipients to be made known. I am now calling on the government to publish the full list of all JPA scholarship recipients.

It has been said that the department's scholarships are reserved only for one particular segment of our society. This list should give the lie to that rumour once and for all. Then we should know where the problem lies.