MP SPEAKS | Targeted rent relief to help keep businesses afloat

MP SPEAKS | I have been hitting so many déjà vu moments from the start of this conditional lockdown.

And let me answer before you ask: nope, not pleasant ones.

Stories about closing businesses and loss of jobs are on a repeat mode, tearfully laid out by those who are already poor and struggling, just like many did in March this year.

So, what more can be done on top of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s September announcement of an additional economic stimulus package worth RM10 billion to help industries and Malaysians badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic?

I would say the government needs to set-up a separate Rent Relief Fund (RRF) to help targeted small, family-owned or independent businesses...