07-03-2021, 09:50 AM
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Citrawarna, the Colours of Malaysia, is a mid-year festival when the country is on parade, in all its splendour.
Well, we’ve just left June and it’s already getting quite colourful even without the festival. For one thing, Malaysians of all hues are singing the blues.
Dark skies are over us with the pandemic on the one hand and the economic crunch on the other. Businesses everywhere are in the red.
Missteps are aplenty and well-intentioned programmes are not working. We have had a litany of P words – Permai, Prihatin, Perkasa, Pemulih and many more – but Poverty continues unabated.
But there is some light, if not at the end of the tunnel, at least in our midst.
Where the leaders seem to have failed, the people are coming together. “Kita jaga Kita”, a phrase coined by the health ministry for community vigilance during the MCO, has taken on a new note, with ordinary people rallying to help each other.
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