2020 – Page 26 – Consumers Association Penang

ENVIRONMENT MUST TAKE CENTRE STAGE TO AVERT FUTURE HEALTH AND CLIMATE CRISIS

admin April 16, 2020 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is of the view that the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that if we relentlessly destroy, degrade and encroach on nature and ecosystems, public health will be gravely endangered in ways that we have not imagined before. Indeed, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) noted last week that 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, i.e....

MCO-related policies need clear guidelines

admin April 6, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is aghast at how the economic stimulus package left gaps of problems unaddressed. Even though the government touted that every tier of society would benefit from the economic stimulus package that was announced on 27th March, there are glaring loopholes that need to be fixed urgently. The government should address the problem of escalating food prices...

Do more for foreign labourers in need

admin April 4, 2020 0 Comments

Governments all over the world have made the decision to put their countries in some form of lockdown as a step to battle the COVID-19 disease. While obviously necessary, the lockdowns have left a segment of these countries’ population in a very vulnerable situation. In Malaysia, the Movement Control Order 2020 (MCO) has put foreign labourers, be they documented or undocumented, in a dangerous...

Ban Ramadhan bazaars this year for the public’s safety

admin April 4, 2020 0 Comments

Despite the COVID-19 disease that is currently plaguing our country, many states still maintain that Ramadhan bazaars will be allowed to operate. The Consumer Association of Penang (CAP) is completely against any Ramadhan bazaars operating this year as it would completely defeat the purpose of the social distancing we have been practicing and puts peoples’ lives at risk. Ramadhan begins towards...

Protect the welfare of indigenous communities in Sarawak amid the MCO

admin April 2, 2020 0 Comments

SAM has been receiving reports from indigenous communities in interior Sarawak, which describe how the movement control order (MCO) has affected them. The communities are currently anxious over the dwindling supply of essential food items, daily necessities and cash, and their inability to access medical, banking and other essential services and sell their produce in the nearest rural...

Eminent activist, Martin Khor Kok Peng passes away

admin April 1, 2020 0 Comments

GEORGETOWN, PENANG: Malaysia has lost one of its best activist who was also an intellectual of international standing who had worked tirelessly for the downtrodden and the disadvantaged South. Martin Khor was the Honorary Secretary of the Consumers Association of Penang, Advisor to the Third World Network, Council Member of Sahabat Alam Malaysia and former Executive Director of South...

Allow slaughtering of poultry in wet markets

admin March 30, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) to allow the slaughtering of poultry in the market as consumers should have a choice between dressed poultry and those that are freshly slaughtered in wet markets. The reasons for doing away with the slaughtering poultry are not good enough because there are ways to circumvent the existing problems than...

Federal Court should postpone all leave application hearings until the MCO is lifted

admin March 27, 2020 0 Comments

With the imposition of the Movement Control Order (MCO), it has been reported that the Federal Court has said that all leave to appeal applications scheduled to be heard from April 15 to 30 will be decided based only on written submissions, without the presence of lawyers to argue it before a panel of Federal Court Judges. Leave applications at the Federal Court involves deliberation on novel...

ENCROACHMENT AND ILLEGAL CULTIVATION

admin March 22, 2020 0 Comments

During the period of the Movement Control Order it is highly probable for activities related to forest offences to escalate. Among the activities related to forest offences include entering a Permanent Reserved Forest (PRF) without a permit, and clearing or breaking up any land in the PRF for cultivation or any other purpose. Based on information from the public and referring to...

Turn Pulau Jerejak into a temporary quarantine centre to address Covid-19 situation

admin March 21, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the government to consider using Pulau Jerejak as a temporary quarantine centre for the northern region. This is not a frivolous idea since it had been used as a health quarantine centre for immigrants in 1875 and just a five-minute boat ride away from Penang Island. It has the land area, isolation, and because it is about 6 km from the Penang...

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