Jim’s all-English album a first
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. — Neil Young, singer-songwriter After his untimely demise, I wish to do my last tribute to a friend of over 30 years, after all, yesterday completed a month of his passing. On Saturday, Aug 18, 2017, I was […]
Truly a painful loss
The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor. — Bangambiki Habyarimana, writer and blogger I was truly shocked when a friend sent a message on the evening of June 8 about the demise of a very good friend, Jimmy Adit. Subsequently, I spent some hours exchanging WhatsApp messages […]
A day of plain truth
As a tribute to the New Sarawak Tribune’s late deputy executive editor Jimmy Adit, we are rerunning his last column which appeared in the May 20 edition. Adit passed away on Monday, June 7. Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist Before Monday, Malaysians […]
Petty politicking takes precedence
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. – George Burns, American comedian, actor, singer, and writer So yes, true to his words, Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) president Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh and his field commanders, Dr Johnichal Rayong (Engkilili), Datuk Ranum Mina […]
PH May power transfer fizzles out
Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth. – Paul Krugman, American economist Something really BIG was supposed to happen this month, which does not look like it is going to happen. The Pakatan Harapan (PH) people had been saying there was an agreement, an understanding rather, that at the end of […]
Dark clouds have passed on for good
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy, American author, journalist and lecturer It was 22 months that few Malaysians want repeated. Ever! In those 22 months, projects, some of them critical to the economic wellbeing of states, were either cancelled or suspended indefinitely or […]
Sailing into the sunset
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. – Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman and military leader We have about a week more to the end of the third phase of the movement control order (MCO). We can’t be […]
The poor need food, not politics
The MCO has made a lot of rich people poor and poor people poorer. That’s how it all seems to be. Otherwise, why would almost immediately after its announcement on March 28, so many rich people were moaning about losses and demanding for aid, compensation and moratorium? Can’t blame them, though, because business stoppage means […]
Being in the opposition is hard
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, journalist and Civil War veteran The social media is abuzz with Covid-19 related news. It’s where you can get the most exciting stuff that you don’t get to see […]
The cry for autonomy gets louder
I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating. – N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY, INDIAN IT […]
