What about jobs, Mr Finance Minister?

COMMENT | Last week Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin unveiled the second stimulus package known as package "Prihatin" to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

The hype for this package has been enormous. A news portal, running the story under the anonymous byline “A Special Correspondent” and citing a source, described the package as “almost double that of Singapore”.

When it was finally unveiled, the so-called RM250 billion package was touted as ensuring that "no one will be left behind" in this current Covid-19 crisis.

At the centre of the package is, of course, the newly minted finance minister, former CEO of a big local bank, Tengku Zafrul Aziz. A day before the package was unveiled, he tweeted a photo of him with ministry officials who worked with him on the package. As the finance minister, he would no doubt be the key person in coming up with the stimulus package.

A week has since passed. While many ...