Social Democratic Liberal Party leader Ro Teimumu Kepa has made a public statement that they will revoke all current decrees if they form a government after the coming general election.

Fiji Pensioners believe that Frank will get a lot more support if he revokes, the illegal, immoral, obscene and unnecessary FNPF decree NOW.

Matthew 18:6
“If anyone causes one of these little ones–those who believe in me–to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Whilst Frank has done a great, in fact unforgivable disservice to the FNPF pensioners of Fiji, (which will be reflected in the forthcoming election) he has taken unique steps forward in respect of education of children who are the future of our nation.

However he should not rest on his laurels, since other nations including America and Asia appreciate the importance of pre schooling and are taking appropriate action.

The following is from Singapore MOE: Continue reading →

Fiji Labour Party Leader, Mahendra Chaudhry has clarified that the FLP, National Federation Party and Social Democratic and Liberal Party have agreed in principle to a post election alliance .

The major alternative at the moment is Frank and his present power grabbing Minister for Most Things.

There is a clear and present danger that voters will suffocate from the stench of cronyism in the voting booths.

THE COMMODORE

There was an immediate cross-party negative reaction to the 2006 coup in Fiji, civilised as it was by world standards. One would gather that the government toppled was wise, dispassionate, committed to the development of Fiji, even-handed and honest. Sadly, none of this was true. The Commodore’s demands were demands that should have been made by Fiji’s donor nations and backed up with threats of withdrawal of aid years ago. His chief demands were that the Qarase government sack and prosecute ministers involved in the George Speight coup which the Commodore had thwarted; that the government tackle the massive conventional corruption endemic in the public sector; and that the government abandon the new-style corruption identified in the editorial in this Journal in November 2006 whereby the government taxes the parts of the population it does not like and hands out public money to its cronies and to buy support. In Fiji this had an additional racial element. Hardworking Indians who are thwarted at every turn by Fiji’s bizarre landholding system were then being taxed and the money dished out to indigenous Fijians who appear to believe that they have a right to maintain a lifestyle that does not generate wealth and be supported by their own Indian population, or New Zealand or Australia or China or somebody. The Bainimarama government is now embarked on long-overdue fiscal and land reform without which all aid to Fiji is simply money thrown down a black hole.

The purpose of a constitution is to control and limit government. It follows from this that one of the potential threats to a constitution comes from the government of the day which may not want to be limited. “Elected government good, military coup bad” is a facile analysis. Despite what Jennings and other socialists believe, it is clear that elections are not sufficient to keep a government within bounds, especially when a voting majority reckons it can benefit by penalising a minority. It follows from this that it must, in the extreme, be the duty of the armed forces to overthrow an elected government which is threatening the constitution. This idea is expressed in New Zealand by the oath of allegiance not to the government of the day but to the Queen. The Crown today means not so much the person of the Sovereign as a set of values higher than those of the government of the day. New Zealand Police and Defence Forces appear not to understand this.

Source: NZ Law Journal 2007

Massey University’s new migrants director Professor Shaista Shameem says  New Zealand First leader Winston Peters risks serious harm to new migrant communities in New Zealand with his speech on immigration yesterday.

“Mr Peters does not realise just how much distress he is causing the new migrant communities in New Zealand when he takes to the podium to make the kinds of remarks he made in his state of the nation address in Auckland,” Professor Shameem says.

“Such speeches have the effect of encouraging and facilitating outright racism against new migrants in New Zealand and cause serious harm to the safety and security of minority groups who have made their home here. 

“Before launching his anti-immigration missiles, Mr Peters should take a moment to consider how his words can make migrant children suffer as targets of racial violence in the playground and classrooms. He should also consider how his speeches have the effect of causing direct and indirect discrimination in the workplace. Many employers, fuelled by the words of an accomplished politician such as Mr Peters, make life very difficult for their new migrant workers through exploitation, humiliation and abuse. 

“Immigration to New Zealand does not benefit only migrants, as Mr Peters alleges. While many of them face tough challenges at first, most end up making a better life for themselves and their families and, in the process, help make New Zealand more cosmopolitan and vibrant. We all know that new migrants contribute to expanding the cultural capital of New Zealand.

“Mr Peters should also realise that his speeches against immigration have the inevitable effect of causing harm to the already vulnerable members of migrant groups. Women and children of minority populations in particular are not in a position to protect themselves from being targets of racial hatred caused by the thoughtless and dangerous comments that Mr Peters often lets loose on the general public.

“Mr Peters may well have a point or two to make about past and present governments’ migration policies; however, he should try to make those points without encouraging entrenchment of existing ethnic prejudices in our society.”

Source: 
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=62A9E325-EC47-9243-3F9B-84AA17C2D5B1

The Strategist – The Australian Strategic Policy Institute Blog      –     21 Feb 2014

Reader response: Fiji and Australia rapprochement

By Anthony Bergin

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 →

Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Minister for Industry and Trade

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

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.

https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/election-issue-for-voters-management-of-fnpf-21-feb-2104/

REMEMBER THIS WHEN YOU VOTE

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

Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has once again assured the members of Fiji National Provident Fund that their savings are secure.

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.