11 Thursday Aug 2011
Posted in Letters to FNPF
Dear Mr Kodagoda and Associates
Further to my earlier emails that you have acknowledged ( but not answered the points that I have raised ) there are further matters that I wish to bring to your attention.
The first of these is to your advertisement in the Fiji Times of 16 July 2011 entitled “FNPF CLARIFIES PENSION REFORM”. I previously drew your attention to this in my email of 27 July 2011.
10 Wednesday Aug 2011
Posted in Grey Power Editor, Letters
It is important for men to remember that as women grow older, it
becomes harder for them to maintain the same quality of housekeeping
as when they were younger. When you notice this, try not to yell at
them. Some are oversensitive, and there’s nothing worse than an
oversensitive woman.
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09 Tuesday Aug 2011
Posted in Letters
Why are the FNPF and Attorney General so afraid of a group of aged pensioners who have decided to make a stand with regard to their human rights and for what is rightfully and legally theirs – a pension until they die, and why are they saying that it has a political angle – or is there something more sinister here, that the FNPF members have not been made aware of?
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09 Tuesday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports, Grey Power Editor
In 1991, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Principles for Older Persons to provide a broader framework for action on ageing. The Principles are framed as 18 entitlements that older persons “should have.” They are organized into five areas relating to the status of the older person: Independence; participation; care; self-fulfillment; and dignity.
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08 Monday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports
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07 Sunday Aug 2011
Posted in Letters
FNPF CEO Aisake Taito and his management team continue to demand that his generation should not support the pensioners of today. He conveniently disregards the fact that it was the pensioners of today that were the very people who were paying 70% of the personal taxes received by the governments when he was an infant and later when he and others of his age were receiving their education. We the older generation subsidised the needs of the younger generation.
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07 Sunday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports, Grey Power Editor
06 Saturday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports
05 Friday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports
Adapted for Fijipensioners Grey Power from UK Treasury Report
Lord Hutton of Furness’ proposals for comprehensive, long-term structural reform of public service pension schemes.
The final report of the Independent Public Services Pension Commission follows a comprehensive nine-month review. It sets out a number of detailed recommendations to the Government on how public service pensions can be made sustainable and affordable in the future, while providing an adequate level of retirement income.
The main recommendation of the report is that existing final salary public service pension schemes should be replaced by new schemes, where an employee’s pension entitlement is still linked to their salary (a “defined benefit scheme”) but is related to their career average earnings, with appropriate adjustments in earlier years so that benefits maintain their value.
03 Wednesday Aug 2011
Posted in Grey Power Editor
When the Qarase govt was working on its Media Bill I made both written and oral submissions. I was appalled that our government would even consider curtailing our freedom of speech – a fundamental human right.
Indeed, John and I were among the earliest members of the Yellow Ribbon Movement which was set up to protest against the racist and discriminatory Bills being proposed at that time – and proudly wore our yellow ribbons and drove about with a yellow flag fluttering from our vehicle.
Therefore, when Commander Voreqe Bainimarama ousted Qarase and his government in December 2006, (having warned repeatedly that he would ‘clean up’ government if Qarase did not do so) promising to ensure the equality of all races in every way possible: to initiate a fair and equitable voting system: and to bring about a fair and equal Constitution – although slightly uneasy, I decided that I had to support him.
Improvements were made, especially in respect of our long-neglected grass-root citizens. But almost imperceptibly, many of those freedoms precious to any democratic peoples began to be eroded.
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