22 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in Health Hints
DNA testing can predict which men face the highest risk of deadly prostate cancer, scientists say.
The team at the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, say men could soon be offered genetic screening in a similar way to breast cancer in women.
22 Saturday Feb 2014
22 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in Articles & Reports
The Strategist – The Australian Strategic Policy Institute Blog – 21 Feb 2014
Reader response: Fiji and Australia rapprochement
Richard Herr was right to say that there was ‘no massacre of hopes’ in Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s visit to Suva to meet with Fiji’s Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama.
As Richard noted, it proved more of a love-in than a confrontation. But there’s no doubt that Minister Bishop took on a political risk with her Fiji policy shift. It’s now clear, however, that the risk was worth taking: she was praised in Suva, in the Australian media and the think tank world after the visit.
Ever since Julie Bishop announced some time back that there would be change in our Fiji policy, there were plenty of nay-sayers on the merits of shifting from our hard line position of trying to isolate Fiji. During the Rudd years in particular, such views had over-weening influence on the Australia-Fiji relationship, to our disadvantage in the region. Continue reading
21 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Letters
I AM referring to FNPF’s AGM Prime Services response to another correspondent in The Fiji Times dated 20/02/14.
Mr Nagataleka is stating that the FNPF board seriously regards its fiduciary duties to always act in the best interest of its members to ensure their retirement savings are secure.
To be able to successfully achieve this goal, FNPF must ensure that all of its members’ FNPF contributions deducted and paid in by employers throughout Fiji are verified and posted to members’ respective accounts.
Contributions that get posted over the members working life with interest would eventually become the calculation figure for pension, part pension or lump sum payment whichever members may choose to opt for at their retiring age.
Apparently this has not been the case for many years now.
Millions of dollars are being transferred to unidentified accounts each year commonly referred to as the “suspense account”. Continue reading
21 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Articles & Reports
ABOUT $710,000 is missing from 9200 microfinance savers accounts in four sectors around Fiji.
This is another classic case of mismanagement and it has occurred under a ministry controlled by Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum a man who has far too many ministries for the countries good.
Will FICAC (yet another ministry under Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum’s control) investigate this fiasco ?. Will Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum make good the losses from his multiple undeclared incomes?. Of course not, he is arranging for it to be made good from taxpayers funds. (taxpayers are people and companies who declare their incomes).
REMEMBER THIS WHEN YOU VOTE
21 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Articles & Reports
The article in the following link is one that every pensioner and every FNPF member should read before the elections. Forward the link to all your friends and family, do it today.
REMEMBER THIS WHEN YOU VOTE
19 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Articles & Reports
Choosing When To Go by Lee Kuan Yew
Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end come swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.
Some time back, I had an Advanced Medical Directive (AMD)) done which says that if I have to be fed by a tube, and it is unlikely that I would ever be able to recover and walk about, my doctors are to remove the tube and allow me to make a quick exit. I had it signed by a lawyer friend and a doctor.
If you do not sign one, they do everything possible to prevent the inevitable. I have seen this in so many cases. My brother-in-law on my wife’s side, Yong Nyuk Lin, had a tube. He was at home, and his wife was lying in bed, also in a poor shape. His mind was becoming blank. He is dead now. But they kept him going for a few years. What is the point of that? Quite often, the doctors and relatives of the patient believe they should keep life going. I do not agree. There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach. In such cases, one is little more than a body.
I am not given to making sense out of life — or coming up with some grand narrative on it —other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied
19 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Grey Power Editor
Who really cares Mick, certainly not Julie Bishop. you have been unhappy for the past seven years and changed nothing;
Take a HAPPY PILL and get over it
08 Saturday Feb 2014
07 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Articles & Reports
However he did not mention mention illegally breached contracts and monies that had been stolen from pensioners by decrees.
Nor did he mention the fact that the FNPF have done nothing to ensure that future Fiji pensioners will have sufficient monthly pension to provide security for their retirement.
The simple fact is that future inflation will outstrip pensions and this government has done nothing to counter this in the seven years they have held power.
REMEMBER THIS WHEN YOU VOTE.
REMEMBER ALSO THAT IT WAS THIS GOVERNMENT THAT TREATED YOUR GRAND PARENTS AND PARENTS WITH CONTEMPT BY DEPRIVING THEM OF THEIR BASIC CIVIL RIGHT OF SEEKING REDRESS THROUGH THE COURTS.
THE PEOPLE OF FIJI NEED A NEW GENERATION OF YOUNG INTELLIGENT LEADERS WITH COMPASSION, HONESTY AND INTEGRITY.
Fiji Pensioners 