‘2012 Budget made based on thorough study of country’s needs’

‘2012 Budget made based on thorough study of country’s needs’

Borneo Post

Posted on October 18, 2011, Tuesday

KUCHING: The 2012 Budget of the Barisan Nasional (BN) government is made based on a thorough study on the needs of the country.

PBB Youth economic bureau chief, Pandi Suhaili, said the budget was not something which any government, including Malaysia, could take lightly when preparing it.

“The government has received many feedbacks from many quarters when preparing the budget. After that, the government, with the help of many experts, has to make thorough assessment on all information it received to ensure that the budget would achieve its aims — to boost the country’s economy and the people’s wellbeing.

“The process of preparing a budget is really painstaking and it is not something which any prime minister of any democratically elected goverment can do at their whims,” he said when contacted yesterday.

He was referring to statements made by the DAP state chairman Richard Wong Ho Leng and the party’s Miri’s legal aid bureau chief Chang Choon Yee last Saturday. Both were skeptical of the budget.

A people friendly budget, says PBB Youth economic chief

A people friendly budget, says PBB Youth economic chief

Posted on October 8, 2011, Saturday

fKUCHING: PBB Youth Economic Bureau chief Pandi Suhaili sang praises of the newly announced budget as being a people

friendly budget that aims to improve the welfare of the rakyat.

He pointed out that the government’s decision to allocate a sum of RM33.2 billion as subsidies and incentives shows that the government always cares for the rakyat.

“Many will be glad to hear about this because without government’s subsidies, some items are going to be really expensive for the rakyat,” he said when contacted yesterday.

He added the decision also brushed aside the fear among the rakyat that the government will do away with subsidies as a way to reduce the government’s spending.

Make intentions clear before offering ‘assistance’, PPP told

Make intentions clear before offering ‘assistance’, PPP told

Posted on October 3, 2011, Monday

KUCHING: People’s Progressive Party (PPP) should come clean on its decision to spread its wings to Sarawak before offering its ‘sincere’ assistance to the State Barisan Nasional (BN) in the coming general election.

PBB youth vice chief Pandi Suhaili pointed out that so far the explanations provided by the party leaders were non-satisfactory.

“In the past the party said it had to come to Sarawak because of requests made by few hundred Sarawakians.

“It is not a good argument because those who wanted to bring in Umno claimed to have ten thousand Sarawakians behind their efforts but still Umno didn’t want to come in as the party respected the local parties in the state.

“To us in the PBB Youth, when PPP decided not to emulate Umno in respecting the spirit of Barisan Nasional, it showed us that the party had an ulterior motive of coming over here,” he said when contacted yesterday.