Housebuyers seek solution to abandoned project
NST 25/8/2004

UTUSAN Malaysia yesterday front-paged the plight of those who bought houses in Lembah Beringin, Hulu Selangor.

The housing project, involving the building of houses called "Jasmine", valued at RM111,888, was supposed to have been completed in 1999. The project, however, has been abandoned.

A housebuyer Norhiza Jaffar, 38, wants her money back as she has lost all hope of ever resolving the problem that has burdened her for seven years.

"I have done everything, I don't know where to go anymore. All I want is for them to return my money.
"I don't want this house anymore as I know houses which have been abandoned will have bad records," she said.

She was accompanied by her husband Mohd Sukri Awang and three children during the interview with Utusan at the site of the abandoned project.

"Not only are the houses abandoned, shophouses, schools and other facilities promised have not been completed until today," said Norhiza, adding that she did not want to be burdened by the interest payments she would have to make to the bank in future.

Asked whether she had contacted the developer, Lembah Beringin Sdn Bhd - a subsidiary of Land and General Bhd, Norhiza said she had but it had been futile.

Utusan also highlighted news on Mohd Fauzan Ibrahim, five, who was orphaned when his parents and brother died in an accident along Km49.5 Jalan Kota Baru-Terengganu on Aug 7.

Fauzan has been "adopted" by the Education Ministry to ensure he was accorded all that was necessary where his studies were concerned.

Deputy Education Minister Datuk Mahadzir Mohd Khir said the ministry would sponsor Fauzan's education from pre-school up to university level.

Berita Harian gave extensive coverage to a convention on social ills in Kuala Lumpur.

Two Universiti Malaya lecturers in psychology and counselling Dr Maryani Md Nor and Hamidah Sulaiman said teenagers indulged in casual sex because parents did not give them proper guidance.

Their paper said working parents sometimes resulted in neglected children seeking the attention of their peers.