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Rules, What Rules ?, the AG Rules in Kingdom Khaiyum

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Sleight of Financial Hand: Aiyaz Khaiyum directs Secretary-General to Parliament to pay parties $15,000 per MP – in four years the FFP would pocket net surplus of $1.2million of taxpayers funds

Fijileaks understands that Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum has torn up the rules governing the employment of staff for the political party offices in Parliament. He has now directed the Secretary-General to Parliament to pay $15,000 per member to the political parties.

The upshot of such arbitrary decision means that $480,000 will go to FFP, $225,000 to Sodelpa and $45,000 to NFP.

All rules governing staffing and conduct under civil service rules has been hurled out of the window and parties can hire any one they want and the plan is to let parties keep the surplus.

In four years FFP will have received $1.9 of taxpayers funds. The party has less cost of operating their office [only 2 staff  for 12 backbenchers) and the rest are Minsters and Assistant Ministers].

The FFP will net a surplus of $1.2 million.

Fijileaks Editor: STOP PRESS – See Letter below to Mick Beddoes that supports our contention; NFP has also received similar revocation letters for its parliamentary staff. While accusing Khaiyum of trying to render Opposition ineffective, NFP leader Biman Prasad says the S-G’s action is ILLEGAL!

Who is Scandalising the Fiji Judiciary ??

12 Monday Jan 2015

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ASK Bala

SHIRLEY PARK: As Local Government Minister Bala continues to hide in the ‘bushes’ from the LAW, Lautoka residents  converged on park on Saturday 10th January for “FAMILY DAY”

Its 2015 and the Chief Justice of Fiji can’t find a magistrate or even a special magistrate to hear Bala’s death by dangerous driving case!

Letter to the Editor, Fiji Times, re Shirley Park

“Your assumption Mr Mohammed Abid  (Sacramento US) that  the Lautoka ratepayers are probably barking up the wrong tree and not getting a reply to Shirley Park because “the current Minister may be the one who made the deal” may be closer to the truth than what most would like to put down in print. That version of events is an open secret here and is why I, who put that petition together and the Lautoka Residents and Ratepayers Association persist in wanting answers and  knowing that proper procedure has been followed in giving away one third of a park that has value and meaning to the people of Lautoka.“

Maude Elbourne
Lautoka

Slim Down NOW

22 Saturday Nov 2014

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The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as smoking or armed conflict and greater than both alcoholism and climate change, research has suggested.

The McKinsey Global Institute said it cost £1.3tn, or 2.8% of annual economic activity – it cost the UK £47bn.

Some 2.1bn people – about 30% of the world’s population – were overweight or obese, the researchers added.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30122015