Some 80% of the more than 6,000 longhouses and villages in Sarawak’s interior do not have electricity and depend on kerosene for lighting and cooking.
While on paper the latest federal government announcement of a 10 sen in increase in kerosene to RM2.50 per litre may seem insignificant, in the interior Sarawak it will mean fewer lamps are lit and perhaps even lesser meals for the family.
For in Sarawak’s interior, the cost of kerosene could go up as high as RM4.50 a litre or more because of logistical and transport cost, said Sarawak PKR chairman Baru Bian.
“It’s a heavy burden for the poor people of Sarawak, especially the rural population in the interior who pay substantially more for their petrol, cooking gas and other essential consumer items like food and clothing upriver owing to high logistics and transport costs,” he said.
And while the federal Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs continues to claim that t& ... Read More
Tags: air, discounted monaco neirmann weeks chandelier, discounted monaco niermann weeks chandelier, heavy burden, lamp, lamps, lighting, niermann weeks lighting similar monaco, niermann weeks monaco, population
We reviewed the letter l this morning and did a lamp themed visual discrimination exercise. Visual discrimination is the ability to recognize similarities and differences between visual images. These exercises help strengthen children’s attention to detail.