Penanda jarak mengelirukan, penduduk minta PBT ubah

LANGKAP – Penduduk Felda Chalok Barat di sini, meminta pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) segera menggantikan penanda jarak yang mengelirukan terletak lebih kurang 50 meter dari pintu gerbang ke Felda Chalok Barat.

Menurut mereka, jarak sebenarnya adalah lebih kurang 500 meter sahaja dan bukannya sejauh tiga kilometer seperti yang ditunjukkan pada penanda batu berkenaan.

Penduduk mendakwa, mereka sudah banyak kali membuat aduan mengenai kekeliruan jarak pada penanda itu. Namun, sudah lebih lima bulan berlalu, pihak yang berkenaan masih tidak mengambil tindakan.

”Ini menimbulkan kekeliruan terutama bagi pelawat baru pertama kali datang ke sini, jarak sejauh tiga kilometer itu boleh menyebabkan pelawat atau ‘orang luar’ yang baru tiba di sini sesat.

”Perkara itu tidak mustahil berlaku terutama pada waktu malam, kerana biasanya pengguna jalan raya hanya berpandukan petunjuk itu sebagai rujukan,” kata seorang penduduk yang ingin dikenali sebagai Aminuddin.

Sehubungan itu, Ami-nuddin dan penduduk meminta supaya pihak berkuasa memberi perhatian seterusnya menukarkan semula jarak yang meragukan itu kepada jarak sebenar.

”Cara terbaik mengata-sinya ialah dengan menukarkan semula jarak itu, bagi kami adalah mustahil sejauh itu kerana penanda tersebut sudah pun memasuki kawasan Felda,” katanya.

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British consultant to probe stadium roof collapse

KUALA TERENGGANU: The state government will appoint a consultant from Britain to determine the cause of the roof collapse at the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium.

Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the government had earlier rescinded the decision to set up it own investigative team to avoid any clash in the scope of probe initiated by a team set up by the Federal Government.

However, after taking into account the necessity of having an independent investigation panel apart from the federal team, the state government decided to appoint a reliable firm.

“The British consultant that we are close to appointing also has a regional office in Kuala Lumpur,” Ahmad told reporters here yesterday.

On June 6, the roof of the east wing of the RM292mil stadium in Gong Badak collapsed.

Ahmad said the British firm would submit the investigation papers to the state government while the federal team would hand its report to the Cabinet.

He added that the consultant would be given three months to conduct the probe.

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Kaki pancing serbu Tasik Kenyir

HULU TERENGGANU (Harian Metro): Pengumuman kerajaan negeri menawarkan ganjaran RM10,000 kepada mereka yang berjaya menangkap ikan Arapaima Gigas atau ikan naga di Tasik Kenyir mendapat sambutan hangat daripada kaki pancing.

Tinjauan Harian Metro semalam mendapati kesempatan cuti hujung minggu digunakan kaki pancing untuk ke tasik itu mencuba nasib.

Kehadiran kaki pancing juga memberi rezeki kepada pengusaha bot dan peniaga kedai makan di sekitar tasik seluas dua kali ganda Singapura itu.

Beberapa pengusaha bot menganggap tawaran berkenaan memberi rezeki kepada mereka selain mampu mempromosikan tasik berkenaan kepada pengunjung.

Pengusaha bot, Mohd Bidin Ibrahim, 45, dari Kampung Langgar, di sini, berkata dia bersetuju dengan ganjaran diumumkan kerajaan negeri itu bagi mengelak ikan kecil di kawasan tasik berkenaan pupus.

Katanya, memang sukar menangkap ikan Arapaima itu kerana sukar ditemui dan hanya berada di sungai tertentu saja di tasik itu.

“Walaupun hari ini (semalam) kita mendapati ramai kaki pancing masuk ke tasik ini tetapi tidak pasti sama ada ia bertujuan untuk menangkap Arapaima Gigas atau sebaliknya.

“Namun, saya percaya tawaran itu akan menjadikan kawasan Tasik Kenyir kini tumpuan pengunjung dan kaki pancing dari luar negara untuk mencuba nasib.

“Walaupun tidak ramai yang mempercayai ikan itu wujud di tasik ini, saya yakin ia ada kerana beberapa tahun lalu ada individu berjaya memancing ikan berkenaan,” katanya.

Rakannya, Maaruf Kassim, 41, dari Marang berkata setiap hujung minggu, tasik itu memang dikunjungi orang ramai yang datang untuk beriadah atau memancing.

“Sejak pagi tadi (semalam), 12 bot membawa kaki pancing dari Kelantan, Singapura dan Kuala Lumpur masuk ke kawasan tasik ini,” katanya.

Menurutnya, walaupun keadaan itu tidak banyak berbeza berbanding hari sebelum ini tetapi percaya tawaran kerajaan negeri itu mendapat sambutan kaki pancing kerana tempoh menangkap ikan itu dibenarkan hingga pertengahan Ogos ini.

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Cops gun down ‘rescue’ bid

KUALA TERENGGANU (The Star): A robbery suspect who tried to “rescue” his partner-in-crime who was detained by the police ended up being shot.

The 35-year-old parang-wielding man was shot in the left thigh on Thursday evening after he tried to attack two plainclothes detectives who had apprehended a 27-year-old suspect who was with him in Kampung Teluk Pasu, Manir, near here.

The detainee was on the wanted list for a series of break-ins in Gong Badak and Tok Jembal.

State deputy CID chief Supt K. Manoharan said as the policemen waited for a patrol car to take the younger suspect to the police headquarters, his accomplice who had run off, re-appeared armed with the parang to save his friend.

The policemen fired a warning shot but it did not deter the man. Another shot was fired, hitting the man in the thigh.

The assailant then tried to escape on one of the detectives’ motorcycles but was detained after a short chase.

Police have remanded the man to facilitate investigations under Section 307 of the Penal Code for attempted murder.

He was sent for treatment to Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital where doctors removed the bullet from his thigh early yesterday morning.

It is learnt that he was also on the police wanted list for snatch thefts and break-ins.

In a separate development, a traffic policeman from the Dungun police headquarters suffered serious injuries after he was mowed down by an illegal car racer at the 79.6th kilometre of the Kuala Terengganu-Dungun road yesterday.

Korporal Azli Husin, 44, was manning a roadblock when the car rammed into him at high speed, dragging him several metres.

The policeman’s superior, Sarjan Abdul Hakim Samingan, said the 27-year-old driver was detained on the spot in the 1pm incident.

Korporal Azli who was initially treated at Dungun Hospital, was rushed to the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital after his situation worsened.

He was reported to be in a coma at the hospital’s intensive care unit.

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Ahmad nafi UMNO Terengganu bermasalah

KUALA TERENGGANU (Sinar Harian) – Menteri Besar, Datuk Ahmad Said percaya bahawa UMNO Terengganu sekarang tidak mempunyai sebarang masalah sebagaimana pernah dibangkitkan pihak tertentu sebelum ini.

Beliau yang juga Timbalan Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan UMNO Negeri Terengganu berkata, setakat ini beliau tidak merasakan apa-apa gelora yang sedang berlaku dan menyifatkan ia sebagai biasa.

Malah katanya, beliau tidak mengetahui apa-apa sekiranya ada pihak mengatakan berlakunya masalah dalaman parti di bawah pentadbiran Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan UMNO yang baru, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Husein.

“Saya biasa. Saya tidak tahulah, kalau awak (pemberita) ada apa-apa, awak tahulah, saya tiada (masalah) apa-apa,” katanya kepada pemberita ketika ditemui pada majlis makan tengah hari di Restoran Seri Wangsa di Gong Badak, semalam.

Sebelum ini, Timbalan Pesuruhjaya Pas Terengganu, Datuk Abu Bakar Chik pernah menyatakan bahawa UMNO negeri ini berkemungkinan berpecah kepada tiga dengan pelantikan baru melibatkan jawatan Setiausaha, Ketua Penerangan dan Bendahari Perhubungan UMNO negeri yang diumumkan Hishammuddin, baru-baru ini.

Pada majlis sama, Ahmad turut memberitahu, kerajaan negeri bersetuju melantik satu pasukan penyiasat konsultan bagi membuat kajian berhubung punca runtuhan bumbung bangunan Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak, sebulan lalu.

Menurut Ahmad, kepu- tusan dibuat Mesyuarat Exco Rabu lalu, memilih firma milik konsultan dari United Kingdom yang mempunyai cawangan di Kuala Lumpur bagi mengendalikan kerja-kerja siasatan de-ngan seberapa segera.

Kerajaan negeri, katanya, akan menyerahkan kepada pejabat kewangan untuk membuat rundingan berhubung beberapa terma dan syarat-syarat tertentu termasuk bayaran dalam tempoh tiga bulan sebelum membuat lantikan rasmi.

“Kita fikirkan perlunya dua pihak untuk menyiasat iaitu kerajaan Pusat yang bertanggungjawab kepada Kabinet, dan kita (kerajaan negeri) kerana ini melibatkan peruntukan kita,” katanya.

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Looking for faster way to gaharu production

KUALA TERENGGANU (NST): The state Forestry Department is on the hunt for a local form of inoculation to speed up “gaharu” production and its industry here.

Inoculation of the agarwood or “karas” tree helps accelerate the process of infection which in turn leads to better yield of the aromatic resin. Traditionally, tappers slash the tree for it to be infected.

It is estimated that a “karas” tree takes between 10 and 15 years to produce “gaharu”, but with inoculation, it takes only between two and three years.

State Forestry Department director Nor Akhirruddin Mahmud said the current vaccines used were costly as they were imported from the United States and Thailand, and could only be used selectively.

This has slowed the production of “gaharu”, which is mainly used in the perfume trade. Two years ago, the price ranged between RM8,000 and RM10,000 a kilogramme.
While the economic value of an adult tree is still being researched here, on average, it can yield up to RM18,000 a kg after harvesting in Thailand and Indonesia.

The New Straits Times reported in 2007 that the state is sitting on a goldmine, because in four years’ time, it stands to earn more than RM500 million in revenue from a 47ha site at the Merchang forestry station holding 40,000 seedlings.

It is also used medicinally as a remedy for nervous disorders such as neurosis, obsessive behaviour and exhaustion.

“Despite the state’s huge potential to become a hub for gaharu production, we are still lagging behind other countries like Thailand and Singapore as we have overlooked its economic value.

“But this does not mean we cannot be part of the industry. That is why we want to come up with a local inoculation which could encourage more participants in the industry,” he told the NST recently.

Currently, the department is working closely with the Malaysian Nuclear Institution for a local substance but is open to other solutions. Nor Akhirruddin said the department was hoping to come up with its own form of vaccine in the next two years.

The department was also trying to encourage people to grow agarwood.

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Anggota polis mangsa langgar lari

KUALA TERENGGANU(Sinar Harian) – Dua anggota polis maut apabila motosikal ditunggang salah seorang mangsa dipercayai bergesel dengan treler dalam kemalangan di Jalan Sultan Mohamad, Gong Kapas, semalam.

Kejadian berlaku kira-kira jam 2.35 petang ketika mangsa, Mohd Akmal Ismail, 20, dari Pekan, Pahang dan Nur Syazana Abd Razak, 22, dari Kulim, Kedah dalam perjalanan ke tempat kerja di Ibu Pejabat Daerah (IPD) Kuala Terengganu.

Kedua-dua mangsa baru memulakan tugas kira-kira enam bulan lalu.

Ketua Ketenteraman Awam dan Trafik Negeri, Superintendan Alias Hashim berkata, ketika tiba di tempat kejadian, motosikal ditunggang Mohd Akmal bergesel dengan treler, menyebabkan mereka jatuh.

“Pemandu treler melarikan diri tetapi hasil maklumat orang ramai yang sempat mencatat nombor pendaftaran kenderaan, polis berjaya menahannya di Marang dan kini ditahan untuk membantu siasatan.

“Kami masih menyiasat punca kejadian. Berdasarkan laporan, kemungkinan besar kedua-dua mangsa meninggal dunia akibat kecederaan teruk di kepala,” katanya kepada pemberita di Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah (HSNZ), semalam.

Alias berharap orang ramai yang melihat kejadian tampil memberi maklumat bagi membantu siasatan dan kes ini disiasat di bawah Akta Pengangkutan Jalan Raya 1987, Seksyen 41.

Saksi, Hishamudin Mohd Nawi, 35, berkata, semasa kejadian dia baru keluar dari kereta menuju ke pejabat yang terletak berhampiran tempat kejadian.

“Saya terdengar dentuman kecil lalu melihat dua orang terbaring di tengah jalan. Tanpa berlengah, saya menghampiri tempat kejadian dan melihat keduanya sudah tidak sedarkan diri.

“Saya menelefon polis dan ibu mangsa perempuan melalui telefon bimbit yang jatuh di tengah jalan.

“Sebelum itu, saya melihat sebuah treler berada di situ dan pemandunya berhenti di hadapan bangunan UMNO. Pemandu treler tersebut melarikan diri,” katanya.

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No e-books if you download music

KUALA TERENGGANU (NST): The state government will not hesitate to repossess the e-book computers of students found misusing them.

The stern warning came from state Education, Higher Learning, Science, Technology and Human Resources Committee chairman Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman following five reports of students downloading songs as well as unsavoury material to their computer notebooks.

Ahmad said teachers and executive information officers (EIOs) would monitor the students. EIOs are responsible for problems related to the e-books.

The state, he said, would withhold the laptops from the students for a specific period and would look into methods to punish the repeat offenders.

“We did expect such problems to crop up when we distributed the e-books.
“Although the situation is not critical with only five cases among the over 12,000 e-books distributed to date, we want to nip the trend in the bud.

“We are confident of overcoming this problem,” he said yesterday.

Ahmad was speaking to reporters after receiving a cheque for RM30,000 from HSBC Amanah Takaful (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd for the “Didik UPSR” programme at Wisma Darul Iman.

The e-book programme, reputed to be the first of its kind in the country, is aimed at giving information and communication technology exposure to students as well as to lighten their schoolbags.

The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka provides the digital textbooks installed in the laptops.

The 1.1kg e-book is installed with a complete school syllabus and religious study programs such as Muqaddam and Quran.

Each laptop is powered by an Intel Atom processor and 512MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk.

It is sold to the state government at RM999 each, inclusive of the digital textbooks and a one-year warranty.

Ahmad said there were 335 vacancies for EIOs. Currently the state has 165 such officers and hopes to have 500 by the year-end.

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Siling runtuh – Pusat Boling TER ditutup sementara

Kuala Terengganu, 1 Julai (Utusan Malaysia) – Pusat Boling Terengganu Equestrian Resort (TER) ditutup hari ini selepas beberapa keping siling pusat itu terjatuh malam tadi.

Tinkauan mendapati beberapa kabel elektrik kelihatan berjuntai dari siling dan mengahlang beberapa lorong di tengah pusat boling itu.

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Terengganu Belanja RM8.3 Juta Untuk Kurma Dan Air Zamzam

KUALA TERENGGANU, 3 Julai (Bernama) — Kerajaan Negeri membelanjakan RM8.3 juta untuk membeli kurma dan air zam-zam untuk diagih kepada umat Islam di Terengganu pada bulan Ramadan ini.

Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said berkata kerajaan merancang untuk mengagihkan 300,000 bungkus buah kurma dan air zam-zam itu kepada 300,000 buah rumah di seluruh negeri.

“Program agihan air zam-zam dan kurma ini akan dibuat pada minggu pertama atau kedua bulan puasa ini, dan semua umat Islam di negeri Terengganu akan menerimanya tanpa mengira fahaman politik mereka,” katanya di sini Jumaat.

Beliau berkata pengagihan akan dilaksanakan oleh pihak Jawatankuasa Keselamatan dan Kemajuan Kampung (JKKK) serta pejabat-pejabat Dewan Undangan Negeri.

Ahmad berkata kerajaan negeri sudah mengarahkan Pejabat Setiausaha Kerajaan supaya dapatkan senarai rumah-rumah termasuk taman-taman perumahan daripada JKKK bagi tujuan itu.

— BERNAMA

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