Kota Kinabalu: The gazetting of two by-laws last October – the Uniform Trade, Business and Industrial Premises Use Licensing By-law and the Uniform Food Establishment By-law – is a significant leap in empowering and strengthening the administration system of local authorities, thus increasing their revenue.
EVERY Sabah resident must know about Tamu Minggu in Kota Belud which is held every Sunday. Started by William Prettyman in 1878, this is the oldest Tamu in Sabah and its building was originally built via gotong-royong by the Dusun, Bajau and Iranun people.
The Housing and Local Government Ministry (KPKT) through the Local Government Department (JKT) has approved 741 small-scale development projects for Sabah this year with an allocation of almost RM90 million
PETALING JAYA: Approved aid for the Urban Poverty Eradication Programme under the Housing and Local Government Ministry was not distributed evenly and accurately to the target group, according to the Auditor-General’s Report 2021 Series 1.
Published on: Sunday, July 25, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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Preparing waste collected to get transported to mainland.
IT REMINDED me a shell-shock sight of bales of compressed plastic bottles in 2019! My first reaction was: “Waa, that looks familiar upon receipt last Monday of a press release entitled: ‘Reef Check Malaysia sends another 1,500kg of trash off Mantanani; calls for more government help’.”
This mountain of trash that had thrashed Mantanani is nothing new to me anymore.
On August 2019, I followed Swiss-based Race for Water crew to the island in in a maiden trip.
That was the shock cited earlier – just bales and bales of crushed plastic bottles packed under a village house near Reef Check’s Recycling Centre.