Reaping a terrible harvest

THE whole country is to have yet another “shake-up” of hillside development projects because, after all, having seen the tragedy of the Highland Towers, the Ulu Yam landslide and the horrors of Bukit Antarabangsa, all hillside developments are clearly in need of intervention from the central government, right?

Never mind that previous shake-ups and public inquiries have failed to produce an organisational structure capable of preventing such tragedies or that any number of Putra Jaya directives and the avalanche of departmental guidelines have simply added to the bureaucratic overload within which the safety of the people and environment is supposed to be carried out.