A great loss to Sarawak

LATE last week, Sarawak lost one of her glorious sons, ASP (Rtd) Wilfred Gomez Malong, who breathed his last early Saturday morning after battling colon cancer for almost a year. He was 63.

Before I write another line (lest we forget), Gomez was the youngest recipient (at the age of 24) of the country’s second highest gallantry award, the Pingat Gagah Berani following his heroic effort in a skirmish with 18 terrorists in Ulu Poi, Kanowit at the peak of the communist insurgency in Sarawak.