SUKMA: Kunjungan Hormat kepada Kerajaan Sabah

Pembantu Menteri Belia dan Sukan Datuk Mansiung Banah dan Chef De Mission SUKMA Sarawak Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah dalam sesi penyampaian cenderamata di Kota Kinabalu pagi tadi.

Sarawak leaders not happy

June 28, 2016

Sarawak leaders unhappy state loses full minister’s post in new cabinet lineup, accept PM’s prerogative in federal ministerial appointment

KUCHING: The federal cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yesterday is a disappointment for the state, as the minister’s post vacated by Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas was not filled by a Sarawakian.

Uggah, who stepped down as Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister to take up the post as the state’s Deputy Chief Minister, said many had expected the replacement for his federal post to come from the state.

“I am very disappointed that no MP from Sarawak was considered to take over my former position. We believe one of our MPs is qualified enough to be appointed. I am speaking on behalf of Pesaka wing in Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB).”

Uggah, who is PBB senior vice president and still the Betong MP, contested in the last state election in Bukit Saban constituency where he won by 4,599 vote-majority in a straight fight.

He was appointed Deputy Chief Minister in the new state cabinet lineup announced on May 13 and he was also given the portfolio of Minister of Modernisation of Agriculture and Rural Economy.

Lawas MP Datuk Henry Sum Agong who was appointed Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism is the only appointment from Sarawak.

Prior to yesterday’s federal cabinet announcement, speculations were rife that Kapit MP and Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi or Saratok MP Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom would be appointed to take up the post vacated by Uggah.

SUKMA: Kunjungan Hormat kepada Kerajaan Brunei

Menteri Kebudayaan, Belia dan Sukan Pehin Datu Lailaraja Mejar Jeneral (B) Dato Paduka Seri Haji Awang Halbi bin Haji Mohd. Yussof menyampaikan cenderamata kepada Chef De Mission SUKMA 2016 Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah dalam majlis yang ringkas semalam. Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah dan pegawai-pegawai SUKMA 2016 berada di Brunei untuk membuat kunjungan hormat bagi tujuan mempromosi SUKMA 2016 yang akan diadakan pada penghujung bulan hadapan.

Abdul Karim: Vital to review death penalty legislation to restore judicial discretion

June 24, 2016

KUCHING: It is important for the government to review its death penalty legislation to restore judicial discretion in sentencing, said Assistant Minister for Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.

Lauding the move, he believes that sentencing is part of the cardinal principle of judicial independence that should be left to the judges.

He said with their experience in hearing cases, judges would take into account the peculiar facts and circumstances of each case as they make comprehensive consideration when meting out punishment.

He felt that mandatory sentences create an unnecessary fetter on judicial discretion and an unwarranted impediment to the administration of justice.

“I fully agree that the Malaysian Government should have a relook at its death penalty legislation. The area that needs serious consideration for amendment are offences where only one decision is provided, that is the mandatory death penalty.

“In such situation, the presiding judge does not have any other discretion in sentencing except to impose the death penalty. This type of legislation should be reviewed. The presiding judge must be empowered, after hearing the facts of the case, to impose the sentence,” the Asajaya assemblyman told The Borneo Post yesterday.

Abdul Karim was commenting on Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nancy Shukri’s statement that the Attorney-General’s Chamber will prepare a paper on the amendments to the death penalty legislation for submission to the government.

SUKMA: Kunjungan Hormat kepada Kerajaan Selangor

June 22, 2016

EXCO Pembangunan Generasi Muda, Sukan, Kebudayaan & Pembangunan Usahawan Selangor Yang Berhormat Tuan Amirudin Shari menyerahkan cenderamata kepada chef-de-mission (CDM) Sukma Sarawak Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah dalam kunjungan hormat yang dilakukan oleh Kerajaan Sarawak, selaku penganjur SUKMA 2016, keatas Kerajaan Selangor di Shah Alam semalam.