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- Canteens awarded for cleanliness
- Housewives eager to help fight crime in neighbourhoods
- DAP appoints audit firm to monitor polls
| Canteens awarded for cleanliness Posted: PUTRAJAYA: About a quarter of all food poisoning cases reported in the country last year was suspected to have come from the consumption of meals prepared in school canteens. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the School Canteen Cleanliness awards had been conceptualised to counter cases of food poisoning in school canteens. "This is to recognise the school staff, including teachers and canteen operators, who have taken the initiative to solve the problem of food poisoning in schools," he said in his speech during the awards ceremony. Subramaniam said he hoped the competition would encourage canteen operators to practise and maintain cleanliness and food safety. The Health Ministry, he added, worked closely with the Education Ministry to ensure that food served in school canteens was clean and healthy. "If we don't look after the students' health when they are young, there will be other problems when they are adults," Dr Subramaniam told reporters at the event. On the competition, Dr Subramaniam said the level of food safety and cleanliness in rural and urban schools, was judged under two different categories respectively. The top three primary schools from each category participated in the national level competition to represent their respective states. SK Taman Tun Dr Ismail (1), Kuala Lumpur, emerged as champion in the urban category while SK Tebing Tembah, Terengganu won the first prize in the rural category. Both schools received RM3,000 each. Normadiah Nadzir, who runs the canteen in SK Taman Tun Dr Ismail (1), said she had come up with a specific menu for the pupils. Called the Selamat, Murah, Sihat 1Malaysia (SMS1M) menu, she prepares a range of dishes for the pupils daily which includes at least one main dish and several varieties of snacks. She had also ensured that the chopping boards used in the canteen to be colour coded and those used for meat cannot be used for other types of food. |
| Housewives eager to help fight crime in neighbourhoods Posted: PETALING JAYA: Housewives and anti-crime groups are excited over the Amanita project to rope in women to help fight crime in neighbourhoods. Rokiah Hassan said they were suited for the job because housewives were home most of the time. "Break-ins also happen during the day. By having special programmes with the police, we will know who to call for immediate response. Karsom Abdullah said it was high time the police roped in housewives to help, especially in high-risk neighbourhoods. Voice of Women president Chew Hoong Ling suggested that the police formulate a structured long-term plan to ensure those participating in the scheme are able to relay messages effectively to the police. "There should be programmes to educate non-tech savvy housewives so that they can relate messages fast and effectively use mobile social media tools," she said. Chew said the community policing programme should also be extended to househusbands and others who work at home. Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) Residents Association chairman Mohd Hatim Abdullah said they had initiated an e-mail group to help feed information to the police. "We created this e-mail group two years ago, and we have 1,500 participants," he said, adding the RA held monthly meetings with the police to provide feedback on security issues. He said residents in TTDI, which has 6,500 households, had also created a Facebook page and Twitter account to help disseminate information on incidents and events in the neighbourhood. Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye described the idea as "very practical". "However, combating crime should involve all sections of the community. "Every Malaysian, irrespective of gender, can play a role in crime prevention," he said, adding that the police must provide contact numbers for residents to call when they suspect something amiss in their neighbourhood. |
| DAP appoints audit firm to monitor polls Posted: KUALA LUMPUR: The DAP is confident the erroneous tabulation of votes that led it to hold fresh polls for the central executive committee (CEC) will not recur as the party has appointed an international auditing firm to monitor the procedure. The re-election is due to be held at a special DAP congress at the One World Hotel in Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, on Sept 29. Congress steering committee chairman Anthony Loke said the firm began monitoring the process yesterday, when notices to inform the 2,576 delegates of the re-election were issued.  We are confident this measure will ensure irregularities will not happen again. - ANTHONY LOKE Declining to name the firm, he said it would monitor the process right up to the day of the special congress, including in the registration of delegates and tallying of votes. "We are confident this measure will ensure irregularities will not happen again," he told a press conference here yesterday. Loke said the DAP will hand-deliver an official letter to the Registrar of Societies to inform the RoS of the re-election. He said the candidates list used at the CEC election last December will be used again for the re-election. On July 30, RoS director-general Datuk Abdul Rahman Othman ordered the DAP to hold new CEC elections following a technical glitch that occurred in December, which led to a controversial vote count. |
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