Coffee shops in Sibu

Coffee shops in Sibu  3/12/2013

        The coffee shop operators in Sibu, I believe, are in rage with the SMC (Sibu Municipal Council) for being aggressive.   Imposing the ruling that no tables are allowed to go 3 feet beyond the shop proper without payment of RM20 per table now will bring more curses to the government.     

          I don’t know when they started this ruling that the coffee shop operators in Sibu have to pay for putting the table outside the shop proper.  The shop operators even have to apply for permission to put tables outside the shop proper.  It is a hike of RM5.00 from RM15 to RM20 since September, 2013.  Since September, the chairman Tiong Thai King has become harsher than ever before and extremely strict after 505.  About 160 plus compounds have been issued for those who broke the regulations.

        Knowing that it is impossible to put all the tables in the shops,  SMC is acting against the coffee shop operators.  A municipal council /government  is formed to facililate people but we see the government go against the will of the people and acts like an extorter.  I don’t know when the state government has reduced the allocations to different municipal councils in Sarawak.  Hence these councils have to resort to different ways to extort money from the people.

        Ya Taib Mahmud has bluffed many times that Sarawak has RM22 billion in the back up savings.  This savings is at the expense of the people.   He is the Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of Sarawak.  He is so autocratic-minded to know the needs of enough allocations for different municipalities for proper development and operation. 

       The chairman Tiong Thai King being very autocratic/UMNO-minded who lost the parliamentary seat in 505 is meek and weak to the authority but aggressive to the people.   Being the chairman, he does not guard the interest of the people in Sibu.   He helps in the act of plundering of the BN government, too.  So we people see clearly and hence we jilted him in 505 and he lost at least 7000 votes in the election.

        I cannot understand why the five-foot ways outside the shops belong to the government /SMC/MC.    But the shop owners footed the bill for the ceramic tile pavement once when SMC found the need to make Sibu five-foot ways more attractive.  

        Look, SMC shirked the responsibility when it came to bear the cost.  This brought about so much hatred and anger towards the chairman.  This happened years ago.   The respect and loyalty to the BN government just eroded gradually through different acts of plundering.   Am I right?

Sibu people depend heavily on food businesses.  We have 600 over eating outlets.    The shops nowadays have also become smaller than ever before.  This is the cut all to the benefit of the developers with the permission of the government.  Imagine how oppressive and depressive people feel over all these vice practices of our government.   Our ministers have done very little to guard the interests of the people.  Hence it is not hard to imagine why we want to flush out the BN government.