Monsoon Cup melingkopkan duit rakyat saja...

Projek Monsoon Cup ialah hasil cetusan idea bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dengan kerjasama Menteri Pendidikan 2 Dato’ Sri Idris Jusoh ketika itu menjadi Menteri besar Terengganu selepas Pilihanraya Umum (PRU) ke 11. 

Akan tetapi malang bagi rakyat Terengganu kerana terpaksa mengorbankan wang mereka tanpa sedar akan kerugian yang ditanggung kerana penganjuran itu, walaupun diwar-warkan akan betapa gahnya pertandingan itu. 

Hal ini telah dimaklumkan kepada Dewan Undangan Negeri Terengganu oleh wakil Kijal ketika membahaskan Titah Ucapan Perasmian Tuanku Sultan Terengganu semalam. 

Dato’ Sri Ahmad Said yang mendedahkan perkara itu berkata, kerajaan negeri telah membelanjakan sehingga satu billion ringgit bagi memenuhi piawaian pertandingan dengan menyediakan prasarana-prasarana yang dikehendaki. 

Beliau tanpa ragu-ragu menyatakan pendapatnya bahawa kerajaan pusat telah mengkhianati rakyat Terengganu dengan projek Monsoon Cup ini yang telah menelan wang rakyat dengan banyaknya. 

“Mengenai Monsoon Cup, ini soal integriti. Sebab itu bagi saya, seolah-olah kerajaan pusat mengkhianati rakyat negeri Terengganu. 

Kerana hampir satu billion ringgit digunakan oleh kerajaan pusat untuk membina segala kemudahan untuk persiapan Monsoon Cup. Termasuk menggali kuala Sungai Terengganu lebih daripada RM500 juta. 

Membina hotel-hotel, Riyaz yang tidak sempurna yang hari ini kita tanggung pembaikiannya begitu besar. Hampir satu billion keseluruhannya (projek Monsoon Cup). Tapi akhirnya projek ini dialihkan ke Johor,” dedah beliau. 

Tambah beliau lagi, walaupun mengetahui Monsoon Cup itu sendiri tidak menguntungkan, tetapi sekurang-kurangnya ada juga acara besar yang dilangsungkan di negeri Terengganu. 

Sambil mendakwa seolah-olah Terengganu sentiasa dianaktirikan, beliau meluahkan perasaan kecewanya kerana apabila beliau menentang, beliau terpaksa menghadapi risiko. 

Projek Monsoon Cup itu juga pernah dikaitkan oleh bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dengan orang yang rapat dengan Tun Abdullah iaitu Patrick Lim atau Patrick Badawi. 

Mengulas tentang pendedahan ini, wakil Bukit Payong, YB Ustaz Mohd Nor Hamzah berkata, apa yang dibimbangi oleh PAS, hari ini menunjukkan kebenarannya, tetapi sayang, wang itu sudah tenggelam ditelan golongan yang tidak bertanggungjawab. 

“PAS sudah banyak kali mengutarakan penentangan terhadap projek yang jelas membazir ini, tetapi suara kita tidak kuat dan kuasa di tangan mereka untuk membuat keputusan. 

Saya menyeru kepada rakyat sekelian terutama orang Umno supaya memandang pendedahan bekas orang nombor satu Umno di Terengganu ini sebagai petanda Umno tidak boleh diharap memegang kuasa. 

Oleh itu satu sikap yang tegas perlu diambil oleh ahli-ahli Umno bagi menolak kepimpinan seperti ini pada PRU 14 nanti,” jelas beliau. 

Sidang DUN Terengganu bagi Penggal Ketiga dijadualkan berlangsung selama tiga hari bermula Selasa 12 Mei sehingga Khamis 14 Mei ini. - dunbukitpayongn18.blogspot

Monsoon Cup a mega waste, says Ahmad Said...

Former Terengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Said has made good on a pledge to reveal more instances of Putrajaya’s alleged victimisation of his state, but his latest revelation refers to decisions made when Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was Prime Minister.

Speaking in the Terengganu State Assembly, he said the RM1 billion the state had spent on the Monsoon Cup project had not brought any benefit to the state, but had instead burdened it with losses incurred in organising the annual yacht race.

He said the project was nothing less than a betrayal of the people of Terengganu by those entrusted to take care of their interests.

The project was started when Idris Jusoh was the Menteri Besar. Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was one of its critics. He once alleged that Patrick Lim, who is said to have an interest in the project, was a close associate of Abdullah.

The State Assemblyman for Bukit Payong, Mohamad Nor Hamzah of PAS, said Ahmad’s complaint about the waste incurred in the project proved that PAS had been right all along.

“PAS has, one many occasions, expressed opposition to this obviously wasteful project,” he said in a Facebook posting. “Unfortunately, power is not in our hands.” - fmt

In a recently released Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) rankings in Science and Math, which is the most comprehensive study to date, the top 5 places were all taken by Asian countries, namely Singapore (1st), Hong Kong (2nd), South Korea (3rd), Japan and Taiwan (joint 4th).

Meanwhile, Malaysia finds itself being ranked 52 out of 76 countries.

In Southeast Asia, Malaysia is ranked below not just Singapore but also Vietnam (12th) and Thailand (47th).

Malaysia is also ranked below Ukraine (38th), Turkey (41st), UAE (45th) and Kazakhstan (49th).

The full details of this study will only be released at next week’s World Education Forum 2015 meeting in Seoul, Korea where the UN, led by UNESCO, will deliberate and decide on the post-2015 education agenda to replace the targets and objectives set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

But the initial findings should send a strong message to our education ministers that we are far from being anywhere close to a "world class" education system at the primary, secondary or tertiary levels.

The fact that our ministers still insist that we have a "world class" education system, in the face of overwhelming evidence stating otherwise, shows that we are still not acknowledging the full extent of the educational challenges we are facing.

Lesson from Sweden

The lesson of Sweden should be a lesson to our ministers.

Sweden used to have one of the better education systems among OECD countries but experienced a sharp decline in its PISA and TIMSS scores from 2000 onwards.

This decline prompted the Swedish government to ask OECD to review its education system in 2014.

In this latest OECD rankings, Sweden came in at the 35th position, one of the lowest ranked OECD countries.

In the case of Malaysia, if our policymakers do not acknowledge the weaknesses in our current education system, we may even fall further behind our Asian neighbours and continue to lose out in terms of our economic competitiveness. - Ong Kian Meng,mk

Ranking Sains dan Matematik: Malaysia di tangga 52

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