THIS IS A JOKE, NO HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PENSIONERS, NO RIGHT OF APPEAL, A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT STOLEN AND FRANK IS BRAGGING IN GENEVA. 

http://fijivillage.com/news/We-have-delivered-the-biggest-human-right-of-all-for-the-people-of-Fiji—PM-s25k9r/

Decree 51 of 25-11-2011
FIJI NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND TRANSITION DECREE 2011

(DECREE NO. 51)

(3) No court, tribunal or any other adjudicating body has jurisdiction or power to accept, hear, determine or in any other way entertain any challenge by any person to, or to grant any remedy or relief to any person in respect of:

(a) the validity or effect of the relevant provisions or of any regulations made under or for the purpose of any of the relevant provisions;

(b) the validity or effect of any transfer, assignment or disposition made under or for the purposes of any of the relevant provisions;

or (c) any loss or damage suffered by any person because of anything done in compliance or purported compliance with, or to give effect to, any of the relevant provisions.

(4) Where any relevant proceeding, claim, challenge, application or dispute of any form whatsoever is brought before any court, tribunal, commission or any other adjudicating body, the presiding judicial officer, without hearing or in any way determining the proceeding or the application, shall immediately transfer the proceeding or the application to the Chief Registrar of the High Court for the termination of the proceeding or the application, and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the Chief Registrar of the High Court.

40% of mahogany logs left in the field after harvest

40% of mahogany logs are left in the field after the harvest.

Ministry of Fisheries and Forests Principal Utilisation Officer, Semi Dranibaka said the Ministry is assessing the Nukurua Plantation in Tailevu and other plantations throughout Fiji to find ways of reducing the amount of mahogany logs which cannot be milled.

Dranibaka said the logs which cannot be milled are left in the field.

He said after the research on the waste mahogany logs, it has been established that 30% of the waste logs can be utilised.

He said the Fisheries and Forestry industry is planning to utilise these logs by selling them to local companies who make furniture.

Gwynn Watkins would turn in his grave….

http://fijivillage.com/news-feature/Speaker-rules-AG-did-not-mislead-Parliament-2k59rs/

IN the Bainimarama Government’s campaign to “spread democracy in Fiji”, the Fijian Elections Office has also been required to supervise elections of union officials.

The justification has been that some trade union officials have not been fully transparent and accountable to the union members, whose fees paid for their allegedly high salaries.

But why is the Bainimarama Government not democratising the most important “legally enforced union”, the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF)?

In contrast to unions with a few hundred or thousand members at the most, FNPF has more than 200,000 members, with accumulated funds amounting to more than the assets of all the banks combined.

With not a single one of whose board members are elected by the members, this is the most important institution that should be democratised, next to Parliament.

Given that it is unlikely to happen through parliament, there has to be a movement for democratising FNPF (MFDF) outside of parliament.

National elections

and true democracy

In the run-up to the September 2014 elections, the Bainimarama Government often announced voters were about to enjoy the “most democratic” elections ever, for the government of their choice, rigorously supervised by the Fijian Elections Office.

Indeed, the more discerning citizen has already seen the real “power of democracy” at work under the Bainimarama Government, which two years before the elections, realised they had better serve the voters, if they wanted to return as government.

The Fiji Bureau of Statistics data on Gross Domestic Product, employment and incomes all indicate the economy largely stagnated from the 2006 coup until 2011. Continue reading →

Hated by some adored by many
Go to the following link for full details of his funeral

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/11351639/The-death-of-Winston-Churchill-was-the-day-the-Empire-died.html