Kesan jika kenaikan Tarif Elektrik

KUALA LUMPUR, 16 Mei (Hrkh): Inflasi sememangnya semakin meningkat, kian membebankan rakyat dan hakikat itu terbukti apabila indeks harga pengguna (CPI), yang merupakan indikator utama inflasi, meningkat kepada purata 4.63 peratus April ini, berbanding indeks yang dicatat April tahun lepas.

Menurut Business Times (BT), ia merupakan kesan kepada kenaikan harga minyak Febuari lalu dan pakar-pakar ekonomi menjangkakan inflasi akan terus meningkat pada separuh pertama tahun ini.

Sembilan pakar ekonomi yang memberi respon kepada soal-selidik BT mengenai inflasi itu juga memberi amaran bahawa inflasi akan terus memuncak dengan kenaikan tarif elektrik yang dijangka akan berlaku dalam tempoh terdekat tahun ini.

Inflasi pada Mac lalu melonjak ke tahap tertinggi dalam enam tahun, iaitu 4.8 peratus tahun atas tahun, berikutan kenaikan kos pengangkutan akibat kenaikan harga minyak sebanyak 30 sen seliter.

Menteri Tenaga, Air dan Komunikasi, Dato’ Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik telahpun menyatakan kerajaan akan membenarkan Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) menaikkan tarif elektrik, untuk pertama kali dalam sembilan tahun.

Mengambil kira kesan kenaikan tarif elektrik yang dijangka menaikkan lagi kadar inflasi dan akan tambah membebankan rakyat, dua persatuan pengguna baru-baru ini menggesa kerajaan menghentikan spekulasi kenaikan tarif elektrik dengan mengumumkan segera kadar baru.

Nasharuddin minta ‘badan bebas’ menyiasat Anwar

KUALA LUMPUR – Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) parliamentary members have come out to denounce the allegation of sodomy by former deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, as a “malicious conspiracy” to smear the good name of leader.

PAS deputy President Nasharuddin Mat Isa said an independent public inquiry must also be formed to investigate the allegation in view of tainted police records in matters of “upholding people’s rights and safety professionally”.

Muhyiddin Yassin minta Anwar jgn politikkan isu pribadi

MUAR, July 5 (Bernama) — Umno vice-president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin Saturday said the police report of sodomy against Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is a personal issue and should not be politicised to the extent that it is causing confusion among the people.

He said the way Anwar was going about handling a personal issue by involving the people of the country was causing confusion to the people.

“I have been informed that the people are getting worried that Datuk Seri Anwar might repeat what he had done in 1998 (when faced with a similar issue),” he told reporters after opening a women entrepreneurs’ workshop and launching the Women Entrepreneurs of Malaysia Directory 2008, here.

Muhyiddin, who is International Trade and Industry Minister, said the happenings related to the Anwar sodomy police report were causing unease in the country at a time when the people were having to put up with an increase in the prices of goods following the rise in the global price of oil.

He said he was informed the western media was portraying Malaysia as a country faced with a political crisis to the extent that there were assumptions the national economy was on “auto pilot”.

— BERNAMA