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The Terasang Market at Kapit, is one of the most popular and a must visit, for locals as well as foreign tourists. However, the 'jungle produce market', no longer can cater for the high numbers of the rural folks, that came down to sell their products from their longhouses.


Here, it's a case of many products to market, but the place to market is not so conducive enough, thus at times, became an eyesore. To add-up to the Terasang Market space constraints,  there are the presence of these many vehicles, with no place to park, thus turning the place more chaotic, and at times during peak hours haywire, a congestion nightmare as everybody are being tested of their patience to their limits, trying to find a suitable place, to park their vehicles.

Netizens have voiced this not so trivial issues before, and so does the general public.

Finally, the grouses have reached the attention of the political leaders, the congestion issues have been dragging too long, thus leaving them with no choice but to intervene, for they too, have had enough of this Kapit District Council (KDC), lack of urgency attitude, for not moving fast enough to respond to the general public's grouses and wants.

DCM TSDAJM in BP today quote,

'This is an embarrassment because this problem has been going on for too long. The KDC should have looked into this. Why can't they initiate something? They should used their brain to think of something, instead of being told what to do.'

Kudos to DCM TSDAJM for this constructive criticism, and may KDC take this as a wake-up call, to 'buck-up' and take immediate action.

The criticism on KDC, i.e. on its failure to act fast regarding the Terasang Market's deplorable state, is a constructive one, that is meant, to ensure that Kapit is progressing well, and developing to be a conducive town, to live in, work, visit destination as well as for holidays.

Thus, the key objective is to rebrand Kapit to be the town of of choice, not only for the locals and tourists their visits destinations, for their holidays, but also for the civil service, too, that, it'll be their main choice, for their postings.

The main issues is that, the current state of Terasang Market now is, in the 'below the par standard', thus, the immediate focus will be to come up with the solution, on how to make amend the problems.

The focus is not on who the culprit is, because the relevant authority, knew their job responsibilities and their scope of works, hence, this critiscm is more of a wake-up call, for those in the authority, so that, they will act immediately, and remedy the situation.

In other words, the way forward is, to turn this weaknesses into an opportunity, and the opportunity is, to get the job done.

KUALA TERENGGANU: A retiree incurred losses amounting to almost RM180,000 after falling victim to a ‘parcel scam’ syndicate he got acquainted with, via social media.

Initial police investigations revealed that although the 59-year-old victim was befriended by who he believed was a British woman, the syndicate was masterminded by a group of Africans.

The police suspect that the group had worked closely with locals to obtain the victim’s personal details to fleece him of the amount.

Terengganu Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Superintendent Koh Ah Tiam said early last month, the victim had befriended a woman who claimed to be British, via Facebook.

He said the woman had sought assistance from the victim on the pretext of buying a house, adding that the victim agreed to help.

“The victim, who acted as a ‘middle-man’, managed to find a house in Damansara, Kuala Lumpur and the woman had agreed to buy it.

“As a token of appreciation, the woman said she wanted to give a present and cash to the victim for helping her to buy the house,” he told reporters here today.

A few days later, however, the victim received a call from a courier company and the Customs Department, demanding that he settle a payment, including customs tax, to the tune of almost RM180,000.

Koh said the victim then wired seven transactions between June 17 and 23, during which he had also received several threatening calls for the money.

“During that period, the victim had paid almost RM180,000 but he received neither the gift nor the cash as promised, until today,” he said, adding that the victim lodged a police report yesterday after realising he had been cheated.

– BERNAMA