Tackling the ‘direct candidate’ issue

April 05, 2016

KUCHING: Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem will hold a press conference tomorrow on the issue of “Barisan Nasional direct candidates”, according to media invitations sent out yesterday.

The media invitations did not elaborate on the matter, except to say a “direct candidates” announcement would be made at the CM’s Wisma Bapa office at 2pm.

Leaders of Barisan component parties, SUPP and SPDP, declined to comment when contacted yesterday.

Similarly, members of their breakaway parties, UPP and Teras, would not reveal much.

In the past, Barisan direct candidates referred to those contesting under the Barisan ticket without a component party.

Previous examples include Datuk James Dawos and Billy Abit Joo, who later joined Barisan’s PBB and PRS.

But for the coming polls, Adenan has not made clear the mechanisms of direct candidacies.

Election very serious matter – Abdul Karim

May 2, 2013, Thursday

KUCHING: Voters should look beyond personal relationship in choosing their elected representatives during an election which is a serious matter.

Assistant Minister of Housing Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said everyone must look at elections from a broader perspective, and not put personal relationships above everything else.

“There may be cases when we have no choice but to vote against our own family members who are contesting as candidates if we know that the parties they are representing will lead us to a bleak future,” he said at a function to present land ownership offer letters to residents of Kampung Mambong affected by the clinker plant project in the village on Tuesday.

Abdul Karim stressed that election is a serious matter because it would determine the future of the nation.

“So, when casting your votes this Sunday, do not vote for the candidate just because he or she is your relative or friend. Look at their party symbol.”

Abdul Karim, who is also Asajaya assemblyman, said voters should vote for the BN in the 13th general election.

“In the case of Mambong parliamentary constituency, BN’s candidate for this area is Datuk Seri Dr James Dawos Mamit. His name on the ballot paper will appear as candidate No. 3.”

18 pintu ruang bilik bulih surat pala tanah ba Mambong

May 1, 2013

MAMBONG : Pengudah ti kelalu lama nganti iya nya semak 20 taun, 18 pintu ruang bilik ke nguan Kampung Mambong berasai gaga pengudah perintah ngemendarka surat pala tanah ungkup tanah sida ti bisi kena bungkur ketegal projek sebuah Kilang Semen ba endur nya maya taun 1996.

Penulung Menteri Pengawa Berumah enggau Pemansang Nembiak (Bandar) Tuan Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah madah, surat pala tanah ke diberi perintah nya asil ari peminta pengari rayat ke endang udah dipilih rayat ngelama tu iya nya pengari BN ba sitak Parlimen Mambong ti deka bediri ba Pengawa Bepilih Besai Ke -13 (PRU13) tu iya nya Dr. James Dawos.

“Nya alai, rayat patut milih orang ke ulih dipechaya ba Dr. James laban iya endang gawa enggau perintah. Kitai enggai meda rayat ba Parlimen Mambong rugi ketegal ngundi penyakal laban udah tu ila nyangka iya (Dr James) dipadu nyadi menteri penuh tauka mengkang megai tanggung pengawa iya ke diatu,” ku Karim.

Iya madah munyi nya rambau Pengerami Nyuaka Surat Pala Tanah Enggau Program RMR Skim Berumah Baru Kampung Mambong ke ditur ba Dewan Mambong, Kampung Mambong semak Jalai Puncak Borneo Kuching kemari (Hari Dua).

Ba pengerami nya, bisi semilan buah ruang bilik dulu nerima surat pala tanah ari 18 buah peminta lalu semua peminta nya bulih pemendar magang. Semilan agi ruang bilik ke bukai deka diberi enda lama agi.

Nangkan ke nya mega, Karim madah ungkup Projek Rumah Mesra Rayat Skim Individu P.198 Mambong, bisi 29 unit rumah udah tembu digaga ba parlimen Mambong.

Projek tu berengkah digaga kena 13 Oktober 2011 lalu tembu kena 11 Oktober 2012.

Rakyat harus bijak memilih

May 1, 2013

PADAWAN: Rakyat harus memilih wakil yang boleh dipercayai dan mampu melaksanakan tanggungjawab dengan baik. Menteri Muda Perumahan Haji Abdul Karim Hamzah berkata pilihan raya adalah bagi menentukan wakil rakyat supaya menjadi suara mereka dalam parlimen dan dewan rakyat. 

"Oleh itu rakyat harus bijak memilih supaya wakil yang dipilih dapat membawa suara seterusnya membantu mereka untuk terus menikmati segala pelaksanaan kerajaan," katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian pada majlis penyerahan Surat Kelulusan Hak Milik Tanah dan Program Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) Skim Penempatan Semula Kampung Mambong di sini petang tadi. 

Menurut beliau rakyat akan rugi sekiranya memilih calon yang tidak boleh melakukan apa-apa untuk membantu mereka. 

Akibatnya, tambah beliau rakyat tidak dapat menikmati segala bentuk pelaksanaan pembangunan oleh kerajaan kerana wakil mereka gagal menyampaikan suara masyarakat diwakili.

Abdul Karim yang juga Menteri Muda Pembangunan Belia (Bandar) berkata masyarakat Mambong sepatutnya merasa bangga kerana calon Barisan Nasional (BN) yang bertanding dalam Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 (PRU13) merupakan anak jati Mambong.

Di samping itu, katanya calon Dato Sri Dr James Dawos Mamit mempunyai jawatan penting dalam parlimen iaitu Timbalan Menteri Pelancongan. 

Impian miliki rumah kini tercapai

May 1, 2013

TERIMA KASIH: (Dari lima kiri) Dr Jerip dan Abdul Karim bergambar bersama penerima-penerima surat Kelulusan Hak Milik Tanah dan Program RMR Skim Penempatan Semula di Kampung Mambong semalam.

KUCHING: Penantian selama 17 tahun bagi 18 keluarga di Kampung Mambong kira-kira 30 kilometer dari sini memiliki rumah sendiri berakhir semalam apabila Kementerian Perumahan bersetuju membina Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) individu untuk mereka.

Menteri Muda Perumahan Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah berkata di bawah skim itu kementeriannya akan mendirikan RMR dengan satu pertiga daripada kos pembinaan akan ditanggung oleh kerajaan manakala bakinya oleh pemilik.

“Walaupun lama, saya berharap apa yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan sekurang-kurangnya akan mengakhiri penantian anda semua…difahamkan kelewatan ini disebabkan beberapa perkara yang tidak dapat dielakkan, antaranya tapak penempatan semula.

“Semua ini adalah usaha keras wakil rakyat anda di sini iaitu Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Bengoh Dr Jerip Susil dan calon BN Parlimen Mambong Datuk Seri Dr James Dawos Mamit,” katanya pada Majlis Penyerahan Surat Kelulusan Hak Milik Tanah dan Program RMR Skim Penempatan Semula Kampung Mambong, mewakili Menteri Perumahan Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Abang Openg, semalam.

Abdul Karim berkata peserta penempatan semula hanya perlu membayar RM40,000 daripada kos sebenar rumah berkenaan iaitu RM68,000 seunit.

Mengulas lanjut mengenai skim RMR individu Kampung Mambong sehingga semalam, 18 daripada yang memohon sembilan telah diluluskan manakala permohonan daripada sembilan lagi keluarga akan diluluskan dalam waktu terdekat ini.

Terdapat 19 keluarga di kampung itu yang terjejas ekoran pembinaan loji pemprosesan simen di kampung itu yang dulunya dikenali Sarawak Clinker Plant yang dibina pada 1996 dan dikendalikan oleh sebuah syarikat dari negara jiran sebelum ia diambil oleh syarikat tempatan.

Galeri: Earth-breaking ceremony for the construction of 204 units of Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) in Bengoh

March 11, 2012

UNIQUE CULTURE: Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan admires the copper rings used by the women of Kampung Semban who lined up to welcome guests. He is flanked (on the left) by Datuk James Dawos and Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah. The women wore the rings from the tender age of six.

RMR at the new Bengoh resettlement area would have a different design -Karim

March 11, 2012

KUCHING: RMR at the new Bengoh resettlement area would have a different design with three bedrooms sited on a quarter-acre of land.

This was revealed by the Assistant Minister of Housing Abdul Karim Hamzah when met during and earth-breaking ceremony of the resettlement area along Jalan Semandanh-Skio, about 40km from here yesterday.

“The design of the houses is to meet the demand and request of the affected villagers,” he said, adding that it was also to provide convenience to the people.

Abdul Karim said he hoped the houses would be built to a high quality to ensure house owners are comfortable.

A recreational centre, chapels and community halls would also be available in the resettlement area thanks to Naim Engineering Sdn Bhd, which would provide the facilities under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative.

Second Minister of Resource Planning and Environment Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan officiated at the event.

Meanwhile the villagers of the new resettlement have been asked by the Deputy Tourism Minister Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit to consider signing up for the homestay programme.

BN will win Kota Samarahan — Abdul Karim

February 3, 2012

ASAJAYA: Several people who are said to be capable grassroots leaders are ready to be shortlisted as the new Barisan Nasional candidate for Kota Samarahan if the incumbent MP Dato Sri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib is not re-nominated.

Asajaya assemblyman Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, however, did not want to say if Sulaiman’s elder brother Dato Sri Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib was among them.

He was nonetheless confident that whoever the candidate is, BN would still win in Kota Samarahan in the coming general election because the people’s support for BN in the constituency was still very strong.

“At one time, I heard rumour about him (Abu Bekir), but the rumour has since fizzled out. I’m not too sure whether he’s interested or not (in the seat).

“But if he were to contest, it should not be a problem. Kota Samarahan is a BN stronghold,” he told reporters after presenting the Kota Samarahan parliamentary-level Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) cash aid at Asajaya Sports Complex here yesterday.

According to Karim, who is also Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) supreme council member, the list of potential new candidates for Kota Samarahan had been narrowed down to a few names.

However, Abdul Karim did not want to reveal the numbers and their identities, except to say that the top leaders would make the announcement in due time.

Asajaya representative taking over duties of Kota Samarahan MP

Saturday October 15, 2011

KUCHING: Asajaya assemblyman Abdul Karim Hamzah has taken over funding allocation and administration duties from Kota Samarahan MP Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib.

Karim, who is the newly appointed Youth Development and Housing Assistant Minister, told reporters here yesterday that he had a “good relationship” with Samarahan residents.

“Whatever money is allocated to him (Sulaiman), I’m the one who is handling it,” Karim said in response to a question on whether an assemblyman like him felt “handicapped” that the Kota Samarahan MP “has not been on the ground much”.

“That problem does not arise at all,” Karim said. “The committees which are supposed to be held by him, most of them are handled by me.”

Asked what was Sulaiman’s reason for his absence, Karim replied: “I believe he has got some personal problems himself.”

On whether Karim had communicated with Sulaiman recently, Karim said: “Not really.”

“A long time ago, yes (we communicated). Each MP is allocated certain amount of funds, those funds are looked after by his (Sulaiman’s) office, together with myself and Datuk Seri Ali,” Karim said, referring to Muara Tuang assemblyman Datuk Seri Mohamad Ali Mahmud.