In the last week, we've seen the regime led 'democratic' government get away again with breaking the rules to suit itself.
The classic example was the case of the Tui Cakau being disciplined for 'swearing' at the Speaker of the House at a public meeting in Makoi.
The Privileges Committee heard an audio recording provided by Communications Fiji Limited and proceeded to recommended that the Tui Cakau be suspended from Parliament for two years.
Ratu Naiqama asked the Speaker Dr Jiko Luveni to allow the recording to be played in Parliament yesterday, to show that his words were not directed at the Speaker of the House.
"When
we listen you don’t only make judgments from the first part of the
speech. You need to take the full context of what transpired in that
meeting – and only then Madam Speaker would one be able to get the full
picture of where I was coming from and what was said at that meeting."
Predictably, Dr Jiko Luveni ruled that the recording would not be played in Parliament.
Question: what's wrong with this picture? Answer: multiple examples of conflicts of interest.
1. Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, the principal complainant who moved the motion for Parliament to discipline the Tui Cakau and said he had an audio recording of the incident, is a member of the Privileges Committee.
2. Dr Jiko Luveni's deputy, Ruveni Nadalo, is also a member of the Privileges Committee.
3. Dr Jiko Luveni, the subkect of the complaint, makes the decision for the recording not to be played in Parliament.
Khaiyum insists Ratu Naiqama committed contempt. His argument was:
"....it is also contempt when you actually make scurrilous comments about judges. That is also contempt, not because they have not followed any orders but because they make comments about the institution which is represented by the judge."
"It is exactly the same situation in this, where you actually do not necessarily have orders, but where comments have been made about the Speaker which is the representative of the Legislature. So, contempt is not simply a question of not following orders, contempt is the respect for the very institution that we are talking about, Madam Speaker. It is quite clear, it is clear as daylight."
There are many many examples of the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand and leaders of the world being criticised, sworn at and belittled, but have people been penalised for this?
No, because in a real democracy, this is what you call 'freedom of speech'.
Another example of the Bainimarama government's unfairness is the case of the 7000 submissions for the new Fiji flag by SODELPA youth.
On May 1 when the Fiji Flag committee said they had received 1430 submissions, SODELPA youth responded asking "Where are the 7000 entries we submitted?"
This question was ignored until last week, 19 days later, wehn Khaiyum told Parliament that they had received the 7000 submissions from SODELPA youth.
So why weren't the SODELPA youth entries added to the total number of entries the Fiji Flag committee received?
Let's all stop pretending everything is well in Fiji.
The Khaiyum and Bainimarama regime have been blinding the people of Fiji for years; first via decrees to stop people fighting them, then by installing their own people in positions of power and finally with freebies such as rubbish bins and promise of free milk.
But Parliament is a farce.
It pretends to follow the laws, quoting this and that while establishing sham committees to show accountability.
At the end of the day, guess who gets their way in the pretence of democracy?
This Bainimarama (the puppet) and Khaiyum (the real leader) government were thugs before they were elected and remain thugs, despite their efforts to be 'clean'.
The so-called Parliament will continue to trot out sanitised rulings but in reality it is as false as Bainimarama and Khaiyum.
God bless Fiji.
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Anon 1.22
Sounds like you know what your talking about and your thinking is right. Needles to say that FF'S economic policy is NOT working. Resorting to illegal trades and black markets are something the current govt will succumb to if revenue is unhealthy. It's not new...Colombia and Venezuela are examples.
What's happening to them now?
Top hierarchy are richer, ordinary are murdering each other for survival. Unemployment rate is skyrocketing.
Let's hope this ruling party will not lead us on that path.
@3,28pm........
" looking for cash injections from Aus EU , NZ and US of course to fund their whims."
Yes Fiji Government needs all the help it can get. We're developing country and we also rely on foreign aid and foreign investments.Our central bank also needs to boost foreign reserves such as US dollar,euro and british pounds so that we can protect the value of our Fijian dollar currency and also help pay off foreign debt.The more we can put in the system the more we can put out of it in order to get results such as creation of jobs,savings,consumptions,growth in economy,trade etc etc.
Thank you 1.04.
phenomenal!
1.04 has hit the nail in place that is why we always have internal problems.Especially military this gang that's masking itself seem to only serve their own interest.
Vili Rakoro
Your response and feedback to the posting on June 3 @3.19pm is long overdue.
Is the description almost correct or not? Maybe the academic achievement part has gone into your head and that's why you're silent.
Remember your silence had potrayed to us an image that anon 3.19's description of you is either true or party true.
Josateki Daulako
Your assertion that the Indian fore fathers who came to Fiji chose to because it was a better option is as usual wrong and ignorant.
They did not have a choice. They were forced to come hence the term slavery. The only choice they had was whether to go back or stayed in Fiji. And since by then they had been in Fiji for years most chose to stay.
These fellow Fijian of Indian extraction are great entrepreneurs and bloody hard working.You lot try to deny it all you want which is the root of your ignorance.
You expect them to do the hard yards yet you rip the benefits. If it was not for them Fiji's economy and way of life would still be the equivalent of other Pacific Islands countries like PNG or Samoa.
Just look at your comments. All filled with spiteful baseless accusations. Whenever any I taukei like myself chooses not to be ignorant, just like clockwork comes the accusations of perhaps I am an Indian, I must work for Bainimarama or Khaiyum.
How freaking pathetic. Do you not think that perhaps we the children of the coups are tired of your bullshit. We have grown up listening to your generation around the grog bowl talking alot of crap.
We are tired of your generation treating our mothers and sisters like second class citizens. And treating us your male kids like idiots who don't know how to make decisions.
We are freaking more academic than you lot. We have travelled out of Fiji for study and work where we exposed ourselves to others way of life. We are not ignorant nor stupid.
Give you an example. You lot can Google it to verify because I unlike you lot do get facts to back up my comments. One Fijian guy who was in the British Army for over 12 years after leaving was told to leave the UK.
There were a few articles on it. I read the comments section of one of them just to see what the British people think. Fair enough there were some who disagreed with the decision and welcomed him to stay.
However what caught my eye was the comments of those who didn't. They were exactly like you Sodelpa lot. They were ignorant, spiteful and just full of racism and hate.
There also video interview of him. He sounded devastated and just really down. You can sense he had lost all hope and was on the verge of breaking down. Thank God the non ignorant British types helped him with petition and finally he got his green card.
That whole episode taught me about compassion. If the British public who were sympathetic to him a foreign blood than why can't we do the same here. Let that be a lesson for you Josateki and Sodelpa.
Whatever action we do to our fellow Fijian of Indian extraction will also be done to our brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, niece, uncle and aunt abroad.
You do know people have jobs and a life outside of these blog. Late reply could mean that maybe they have a life rather than being silence.
Starting to think you lot just come on here to read my comments and in fact look forward to me being wrong or something.
Hope I'm wrong but if that's the case then God help you. You have stooped so low to the point where now you take satisfaction in attacking one of your own I taukei son just because of his political inveiglement.
Vili
Were you on Rabuka's side in 1987 and 1990?
We're you With George Speights coup of 2000?
We're you with Frank since 2006?
Thanks Vili. I'm placing a tick on this one.
Now you sound sensible and positive.
Maybe Anon 3.19pm of June 3's descriptive perception of you is kicking in.
@Vili Roko -I like what you HAVE to say but I don't agree with SUPPORT FOR BAINIMARAMA AND KHAIYUM.
I despise both Fiji First and SODELPA equally.
There was revelations recently in NZ of Fijian players abused in every game. The players who were hurled this abuses said that we pray that no one has to go through such abuses. Those resorting to such tactics should put themselves in the abused persons shoes and imagine how you would feel if you are at the receiving end of such slurs. These Fijian players may have at a point in time abused an Indian, Chinese etc while they were in Fiji. Today, someone else is doing the same to them and they are crying and praying for better days. Life has it own way of teaching us lessons. A lot of people rejoiced the 87 & 2000 coup. They are today condemning the 2006 coup. The people who were crying in 87 & 2000 are rejoicing the 2006. There is lessons for all. The simple lesson is a coup is a coup and it can never be good for anyone. Coups only bring suffering to human kind. Stop rejoicing and supporting coups. Cherish human kind over my kind and your kind. If you can't do that, you don't belong to the human race.
So true anon 9:39pm. Matthew 7:12-do to others what you would have them do to you...some seem to forget this. If a needles prick is hurting you, it is definitely going to hurt others as we are all humans. I don't know when we turned from humans to satans but humanity is no longer present in Fiji. May the good lord grant us all wisdom and light to heaven. Amen
I have mentioned it already, we are the children of the coups. Our generation had to endure all these coups, listening to the older generation preaching about various ways and governments.
It was hideous to witness the ignorance and pure hatred dished out. The first 3 coups it was always the Indians faults. What we heard or should I say forced down our throat and what we actually saw are worlds apart.
Bainimarama's coup was also undemocratic and wrong however his was not about blaming and hating the Indians. And infact had Qarase did the right thing and indict those responsible for the transgressions carried out in 2000 coup then the 2006 coup probably would not have happened.
In saying that Bainimarama eventhough was wrong, was the best option out of the rest. Yes he could improve on certain areas but overall his government is way better in terms of providing stability and opportunities equally for all Fijian regardless of ethnicity.
So do not patronise us the children of the coups, we have gone through it. We did not make any decisions. Now though, we are educated and are starting to filter through the system where we are influencing decisions and affecting changes.
The best option for Fiji is to let Bainimarama continue until eventually our generation takes over the baton. We cannot go back to the old generation Sodelpa nationalist types.
It has been proven three times in 3 coups before 2006 to be non effective.
Well said mate. Great post. Big thumps up.
Can i just add my 2 bits to this debate about FF and the Indians etc. The overwhelming majority of the Indian people in this country and i mean Indian irrespective of religion (many forget that Hinduism, islam and Christianity are faiths and not race definitions)voted for FF not because they cant see the BS that Frank and ASk are engaged in but simply because they want stability. I am a social worker and travel the country regularly talking to people from all works of life and most if not all KAIDIA are planning a slow exit out of Fiji. They are educating their children who migrate first and then get their parents out. Contrary to ascertains made by the like of Josateki that Indians from Fiji are bad migrants they are in fact regarded as the most productive in all countries they have migrated to quickly assimilating and contributing to the country they live in.I am talking based on National surveys done in both Australia and NZ. You know the funny thing is Josateki and others like him the kaidia know they are not wanted in Fiji now they finally get it and they are just wanting to leave Fiji. The stats are saying that for every Indian that is leaving 5 Chinese are coming. Look around see how many Chinese are buying up property that the Indians are selling. I am telling you a lot. I am just wondering who you going to blame after all the kaidia are gone for your economic failures as a race. 50 years from now the racist lot in Fiji will finally realize that while the Indians are not perfect as a race (no race is for that matter) in so far as migrants go the kaiviti were better off with the Kaidia rather than any other race who would have settled here.
Vili
And what makes you think that the 2006 coup is effective than the other 3 ?
Itaukei us racist?what about the days when indo Fijians were racist to us by only allowing indians only to work for them?or calling us lazy jungliee and other stereotypical slurs?Then to say we are not educated when infact we were disadvantaged to having an education in the old days?why tell us to stay in the village when a person has the right to choose where to live whether in the city or villages or small towns?Why discriminate us on income example itaukei has same job as indo-Fijians such as cane cutter but itaukei get $1 an hour and indo-Fijian gets $3 an hour?indo-Fijians get land lease ask for cheap price $1000 makes $20,000 profit but demands even cheaper price $700 shitty government approves it?Someone said on here economic imbalance and that's true many want economic justice and equality.Don't scapegoat
Hey people don't be stupid-this site has been taken over by the bhai&khai administration? it is no loger free!!!
Not only Kaidia going abroad every race including the Fijian is moving offshore to seek a better life.of course fellow kaidia going to work hard overseas because like every immigrant community in every country works hard abroad.Whether it's joining a foreign army,office job,electricians,engineering,security,railway,nursing,business or even cherry picking in the hot sun or even to the point bromming the street they will all work hard as an immigrant to live and enjoy the opportunity of employment.Something they couldn't get back in their countries.
Yes,quite true and the macafaka Vili Rainisona is one of their
janor- can you imagine how they make sure that everything he writes
no matter how controversial is printed but any other poster that opposed vili or his lackies. Becareful guys?
I wonder if anyone else noticed but Vili looks like an Indian, looks like a woman, talks and walks like a woman, shaves his legs and arms, but fucking ugly. I guess that's why he is going through HRT at the moment.
I don't think he's Fijian at all, so that means his mother was fucking around with an Indian. No wonder Vili is confused with life and what's happening around him. He let's out his frustrations in here, he pretends to know something but in fact his postings were dictated to him by another male stroking his anal cavity. Vili you're an embarrassment to your father and your extended family.
Stop abusing Vili Roko, he does talk sense, except I wish that one day he will understand that neither SODELPA NOR FIIFIRST is better than one another. At least he doesn't talk of hatred like others.
Have you guys heard of divide and rule, all Indians and I-taukei keep hating one another coz the future is bright for the Chinese and muslims. You all spill hatred while they will rule you all.
SODELPA THUGS WILL DISPUTE THIS BUT READ THIS BELOW.
The latest edition of the Bank's Pacific Quarterly says economic growth in Fiji continues to climb higher, with at least 4% growth expected this year and good results projected for 2016 and 2017.
If this is achieved it will be the first time Fiji has posted such consistently strong growth since it gained independence in 1970.
The reason why the economy is not picking up is simple : vucesa fever. Look at those healthy mid-twenties Fijians begging in town (they are opportunistic, waiting for some target to come in, otherwise they play billiard or smoke weed) Do you see many hard working young Fijians working the land? No. Even young Indians now don't want to work in the field : either they work hard and want to migrate, or...in many cases, they just do like...Fijians! Unbelievable...
As for politicians, I know corrupt people from all parties, all walks of lifes. What you see at the top is illustrative of what is at the bottom. Fiji will need a new generation of leaders, of course.... but I don't see how the new generation will be any different from the previous one.
Common sense dictates one thing : stop talking, start working. How hard is it to grow ginger for the export market and bring foreign exchange in the country? How hard is it to grow dalo, spices, pawpaws, etc?!?!?
It is easy to be cynical. but before posting trash, show me pictures of your plantation. hes the government is corrupt, like all the governements before. I have heard FIRST account stories about even a famous ex prime minister.... his wife sent over 10M overseas apparently.... story coming from an American economist who knew him well.... Really, let's get real here : politicians = rot because your average human = rot. Simple as that.
Sad humanity.
@Maichod - June 6, 2015 at 8:34 PM
Where did you get the 4% from?
Only last week The Reserve Bank released this,
Confidence in economic growth
Geraldine Panapasa
Saturday, May 30, 2015
"The Reserve Bank of Fiji, in its latest release on the economic review, noted that economic growth projected for this year has been revised to 3.8 per cent from an earlier 3.7 per cent," she said.
"Inflation was tagged at 2.4 per cent, while liquidity dropped to $607million.
"The review also noted that the Fiji dollar rose against the Australian, New Zealand dollars and the yen."
MAICHOD, 3.8% is not 4%.
MAICHOD, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT INFLATION OF 2.4% MEANS ?
IT MEANS YOUR SUPERMARKET SHOPPING WILL COST MORE AGAIN NEXT MONTH.
HAH DEKNA YARRR!
AND ALSO I KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT THE REAL KUA NI RERE, so please dont come play stupid games here.
How about you and Vili Raikoro go and lick each others ghannnnn.
WE KNOW THE ECONOMY IS FARKED.
WE KNOW FSC HAS BEEN OPERATING INSOLVENT FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS.
WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE 46,000 UNEMPLOYED YOUNG PEOPLE LOOKING FOR JOBS.
WE'VE BEEN HEARING ALL THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT THE ECONOMY IS NOW BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE FROM BAINIMARAMA FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS.
SO YOU GO MAICHOD GO TELL HIM TO STOP THE FARKING BULLSHIT
BECAUSE WE ARE NOT DUMB IDIOTS LIKE YOU, believing everything coming out of his arse. Sorry "mouth".
In responce to Anon June 2 @12.28 and those who call God a myth and bible a book of fable.
An email exerpt.
In Florida, an atheist became incensed over the preparation for Easter and Passover holidays and decided to contact the local ACLU about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to Christians and Jews with all their holidays while the atheists had no holiday to celebrate.
The ACLU jumped on the opportunity to once again pick up the cause of the godless and assigned their sharpest attorneys to the case. The case was brought before a wise judge who after listening to the long, passionate presentation of the ACLU lawyers, promptly banged his gavel and declared, "Case dismissed!"
The lead ACLU lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling and said, "Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? Surely the Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances. And the Jews — why in addition to Passover they have Yom Kippur and Hanukkah . . . and yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday!"
The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said "Obviously your client is too confused to know about, or for that matter, even celebrate the atheists' holiday!"
The ACLU lawyer pompously said: "We are aware of no such holiday for atheists. Just when might that be, Your Honor?"
The judge said, "Well, it comes every year on exactly the same date — April 1st!"
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."— Psalm 14:1, Psalm 53:1
HOORAY FOR THIS JUDGE
This is firmly supported and thanks for telling the truth my good friend.
Let me add a little. The Fiji $ is weakening and its going now to its 4th month. That tells me something is not going right. .....hehehe " kua ni rere" gauna qo me sa yacamu o "kalamu"
TRANSGENDER SEX CHANGE AND CONFUSION INCREASING BY THE DAY = ACCEPTANCE TO A LIE
June 5, 2015
Mlive.com reports:
A Midland County woman’s gym membership was canceled after she refused to stop telling fellow gym members “a man” was using the woman’s locker room.
Yvette Cormier said the incident occurred Saturday, Feb. 28, when she entered the women’s locker room at the Planet Fitness location at 701 Joe Mann Boulevard in Midland.
“I was blocked, because a man was standing there,” Cormier said. “It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?”
Cormier said an employee at the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman.
After taking her complaints to Planet Fitness’ corporate office, Cormier said she was told that the gym was a “no judgement zone” and they would not tell the individual in question to stay out of the women’s locker room. The person has not been identified…
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@ Anonymous June 7,2015 at 9:59 AM.
Yes, we're getting to that stage where a man and a woman cannot be identified by his or her looks alone. Security people will have check under the underwear to find out the gender of a person.
11.07
Yes. To add...we are coming to the point where everyone is required to wear nothing in public. That way no security check is required since everyone will either be identified with Adam or Eve NOT Adam or Steve.
Reserve Bank information in BainiKai hands, controlled by their thugs. Same about FIRCA, FICAC, FNPF , Judicial Department, FSC, Fiji Airways, All ports, Customs, I'mmigration. They feeding lies to all. Who checks where money goes, what and who is coming in the country. Who gets citizenship, how much bribe these two taking from Chinese to get them to do logging, mining, business. Who checks. Only their thugs. We Fijians just happy with token free stuff which in reality isn't free. Wake up, get ride of all these thugs before they sell our souls.
@June 5, 2015 at 4:00 Pm Vinaka bro/sis, I Agree with you and can I just elaborate on the situation you mention in Colombia....
There is an ongoing conflict between the government and communist oriented guerrillas (called F.A.R.C. and E.L.N. for their Spanish acronyms).From my understanding of the situation is that the interest that are at stake in this conflict are multiple and very complex, this is because the duration of the conflict that can be dated from the 1960’s (if we ignore the violence which is the bipartisan violence between Liberals and conservatives from 1946 to 1958, and definitely is a direct cause for today’s Colombian armed conflict) and it is mainly to do with improving living conditions for those who are disadvantaged economically and to obtain legal rights over ancestral land. However efforts have been in vain, the structural violence is the traditional inequality suffered by them at the hands of the State, transnational companies and drug lords. The main interest were at the beginning land and social justice for the guerrillas (being at the time FARC,ELN, EPL, M-19, ERP, movimiento armado quintin Lame, between others).
Now the Colombian government main interests were to maintain the status quo of the upper class and social control by whom is in leadership. Fast forward to the 1980s then new actors appear for government and change the interests in getting dirty with the country’s economy which brought in the drug trafficking. The drug traffickers and paramilitary groups emerged, whose main objectives were to conduct drug business, control land as strategic corridors for the traffic and for the cultivation, secondly was achieving their goal of protection of land from the guerrillas. These drug cartels used to work for the upper class landowners and multinationals (more specific megaprojects, mining exploitation).
The guerrillas raided in the cartel and anti-guerrilla paramilitary drug business as a way to capitalize their armed fight against the government along with the kidnapping and the extortion committed against them. It seems both government and the guerrillas see violence is the main mean to defend their interest? Although a negotiation is being handled in Cuba between one of the guerrillas group FARC and the government, a bilateral ceasefire was breached after more than 5 months, and attacks and counterattacks were brought back to Colombia’s reality.
Nonviolent solutions have tried to be enforced, such as political solution like the creation of the union patriotic(patriotic union) by the guerrillas, which turned into a political genocide conducted by the state and (or should I say through)anti guerrilla paramilitary groups, killing two candidates for President, 7 Congressmen, 13 deputies, 11 mayors, 69 councillors and more than 3,000 leaders and grassroots activists, more than 1,000 missing people, more than 20 attacks on the UP’s(patriotic union) headquarters, more than 15 Massacres, without mention attacks on freedom of the Press, and thousands of people displaced and tortured. The Colombian government has considered their act of violence as legitimate and justified (When in fact major violations of Human rights and/or international laws have been violated).
On the other hand when Guerrillas retaliate with revenge attacks they are considered terrorism; this shows how a vicious cycle of violence has permeated the society. The cultural violence is evident; and the world brushes aside large scale murders committed against the guerrillas and its people it fights for (economically disadvantaged and discriminated human beings). Some foreign media have place huge propaganda that the guerrillas are the main cause of Colombia’s drug conflicts, mass killings, corruption and crime (I see this as a big lie). Foreign journalists do not understand that these uniform guerrillas are deprived of their human rights, stripped off their land which their ancestors inhabited for 500 or more years, discriminated economically and racially, psychologically tormented and oppressed. . Also structural violence can be reflected on the idea that the conflict was something that only occurred in the rural part of Colombia (which is most of the country) and that the capital cities were exempt of the DISCOMFORT that a conflict like this could bring to them (besides surely there has to be displaced people begging on the traffic lights and large amount of indigenous people losing their culture, land, economically and racially discriminated, human rights violations, kidnapped and tortured and oppressed while annoyingly the perfectly upper class Caucasian people from the cities live a happy life style).
11.07..let me add.
Security personnel involved in checking under the underwear will have to undergo a vigorous sex control training program. This is to educate them on self control and how to react decently while doing their tasks.
ITS FUNNY HOW THE OPPOSITION IS FIGHTING FOR THE FLAG, WHEN THEY WERE RULIGN UNDER QARASE GOVERNMENT, THEY DIDNT GIVE A SHI# ABOUT MINORITY, THEY WERE CHANGING FIJI TO CHRISTIAN STATE, THE MINORITIES WERE ILL-TREATED,MAYEB ITS KARMA THAT HAS COME BACK O BITE THEIR BACKS, GUD ON THEM. BCOZ, A FELLOW I-TAUKEI TOGETHER WITH KHAIYUM IS NOW RUINING FIJI RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM AND THEY ARE HELPLESS, HAD THEY NOT BEEN SO ARROGANT AND BEEN FAIR LEADERS, 2006 WOULDNT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE, BAINIMARAM CAME TO DO CLEANUP BUT GREED OVERPOWERED HIM AND NOW HE IS SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF FIJI, ITS ALL BECAUSE OF QARASE AND HIS HATRED FOR MINORITIES. QARASE AND RO-KPA SHOULD BE SKINNED ALONG WITH BAINIMARAMA AND KHAIYUM.
@ Anonymous 7:41 AM.
Yes. Security officers who are to be trained to control their appetites when checking under the underwear should be undergo rigorous tests for homosexual tendencies as well. Those who have these tendencies should not be permitted to attend those even of the same gender.
A few weeks ago, I cautioned readers of The Fiji Times ("Lies and statistics", May 9, 2015), about implausible statistics thrown at them by people in power.
Last week, Fiji Sugar Corporation executive chairman Abdul Khan was reported by the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (28 May 2015) as telling the annual general meeting of FSC in Lautoka that FSC has recorded $1.8 million profit for 2012, $6.2m for 2013 and $6.9m for last year.
The public would have been reassured by the 2014 annual report which stated 'The company's profitability has been maintained now for three years thus giving the financial market confidence in the company and the industry". Until you read the 2014 annual report stating that the profit for 2014 was $6.9m "after writing back a portion of the impairment loss".
Khan and the PS Sugar, Parmesh Chand, also made other statements that should have given taxpayers nightmares. However, there have been no Letters to the Editor, or statements of concern by prominent accountants or auditors or accounting academics.
So I painfully draw the attention of the thinking public to the serious dangers of uncritically accepting press releases on FSC profitability.
Read a few more lines in the FSC accounts and you find the trading results are not real profits at all but actually "operating losses", and that FSC's net equity has been negative for the past four years. Its debts exceed its assets. Most of us, if we become overwhelmed by debt, are declared bankrupt.
This should be of great concern to Fiji taxpayers (who through government own 68 per cent of FSC shares), and to the statutory bodies, local companies and individuals who own the rest of the shares.
Taxpayers in general should also worry about government guarantees given to the financial institutions who have lent huge amounts to FSC.
Real operating profits?
The FSC annual reports give the Trading Profit/(Loss), before extraordinary items, for the past four years as follows (rounded off to millions):
2011 ($32m) (operating loss)
2012 ($14m) (operating loss)
2013 ($10m) (operating loss)
2014 ($5m) (operating loss)
A pity Abdul Khan did not want to talk about the slightly good news that the operating losses had been reducing, but then he would have had to acknowledge the losses. But how exactly did the above operating losses magically become "profits"?
The 2010
'Impairment Loss'
In 2010, the FSC accounts showed an "Impairment Loss" of a massive $173m.This was the accounting profession's sensible way of telling FSC shareholders that:p the huge loan taken from the Exim Bank of India for the Mill Upgrade Program, and other loans, had not worked as expected, and added far more to liabilities than assets;p In 2010, total liabilities exceeded the total assets by $64m ie shareholders net equity was negative $64m; and :p FSC was technically insolvent, and were it not receiving continuing government handouts, private shareholders could technically file for FSC's "bankruptcy" to protect whatever little financial interest they could retrieve.
Reversal of
Impairment Loss
But, since then, consultants have apparently advised FSC about improvements in the mills' performance and future earning prospects.
FSC has therefore, for each of the past three years, "reversed" some of the "impairment losses", which when added to the operating losses, resulted in the positive "profits" of $1.8m, $6.2m, and $6.9m for the past three years, as focused upon by the executive chairman.But this is an accounting result produced merely by reversing the 2010 "impairment loss" which should not have occurred in the first place. The reality is that FSC has recorded large operating losses for the past four years.The accounts show FSC shareholders' equity has been negative $99m for 2012, negative $93m for 2013, and negative $86m for 2014. ie FSC has been insolvent for the past three years.
The South Pacific Stock Exchange delisted FSC in 2011, and stopped trading its shares. This was to ensure members of the public were protected from trading in shares whose value was very unclear.
So it is surprising the 2014 annual report states (page 2) that "The corporation's shares are listed and traded on the South Pacific Stock Exchange Limited". Surely not?
There is more bad news.
Why is SODELPA not asking its supporters to utilise the land? SODELPA when in government confiscated the land for the indian tenants. What has happened to the lands now? Full of jungle. This resulted in the decline cane production. Go and plant things SODELPA.
1.22 and 1.35. Good.
Thanks for these factual reporting.
I Would encourage c45 administrators to look more into the FSC backyard and present it's findings here for c45 bloggers.
4.29 ...I know you're one of the FF sapo and not the real Prof. Did he do anything that your unhappy with.
I'll try to send an email to your Gmail ac with some pictures of my rod for you to keep as trophy. Take it and show it to your mother and sister and of course your daughter and wife...but be careful your wife may locate my email and contact me.
Ok you sob! !
June 7 ,9.59am anon
The fact that our planet is getting old and history kept repeating itself we must understand that the shadows of Sodom and Gomorrah are hovering above us today. Something that started small had grown large overtime to cause the obliteration of the 2 cities .
Today the act of a tiny portion( LGBT) in our society is big enough to change the cause of the world.
Terrorism fares in this fold also.
What Planet gym had done was (1)trying not to violate the right of that human and save their ass from breaking the law(2) because it's a commercial entity, losing a customer is against the facility's goal (3) protect its image from the public (4) be seen as non discriminatory.
I wouldn't blame Planet gym entirely for this event.
5.14pm
Correction
Josateki...your second sentence should read" SODELPA when in......from the Indian tenants. ...
You sounded like a half educated Indian
Anon 5.20am and 5.25 am
Thanks for updating us with your piece.
Let we forget that these were the American countries(Venezuela, Columbia, Cuba) that have adopted communism govt from Russia, and China They turned their backs on the EEC, now EU, and the US severing their trade relationship.
Isn't this what our ruling party is doing in their "Look East policy"...to bring in Russia, China ,India etc and turn away from those that had helped Fiji tremendously in its development and progress. For years since Independence and with leaders, Rt Mara, Bavadra, Rabuka, Chaudry, Qarase, billions of dollars had been pouring in as aides and donations from the EU, US, AUS, NZ, JPN.
Today our govt needs someone to steer the ship to stay on course. Certainly not Frank or Khaiyum.
Josataki @5.14
Bro the land is lying vacant 'cause these bloody indos dont want to work it.
You dont expect me to go and do the work, do you?
Fiji is cursed because of Baimagasona, Aiyarse and Vili Cavuka.
Josateki Daulako says to Vili Rakoro...Vinaka Vili Baghwan...your obviously an Indian attempting to impersonate a Fijian bloody coward like all Indians are, well not all but you mainly...lol.
Bro, since you claim to be son of a coup or son of a gun, you understand very little of your Indian ancestors who came to Fiji.
Your ancestors areh Vili...had a choice. They were not slaves. They were what is termed INDENTURED LABOURERS. Indentured means a deed or agreement and labourer means a person performing unskilled manual work for wages.
So Vili, your ancestors had a choice. They signed an agreement to work as coolies in the sugar cane farms created by CSR or white men, who forcefully took over Fiji.
If your ancestor did not have a choice areh Vili, he must be one dumb ass motherfucker who got on the boat because he was too stupid to realise what he was doing but hey, look your the product of it all.
These Indians made this choice to leave their country thousands of miles across the ocean and to sail to Fiji because there was no other better choice than shovelling shit and eating smelly garlic spicy crap all day.
They worked hard alright because the white men treated them like coolies. Now before you jump thinking coolie is a racist word like all you FF racist bastards think, all coolie means is an unskilled native labourer in India. In Fiji its short for KULINA.
By being hard working Kuli's they helped their colonial masters fill their pockets.
Your ancestor Kuli Vili, was offered a parcel of land to have with his roti parcel and hey, decided to stay here in Fiji. Good on him.
I see that your reading articles from London and commented upon a Fijian being racially victimised. Well areh Vili, welcome to the real world. That's the way it is. Just like in India where Indians think that they are Shiva and Brahmins chosen ones and everyone else looks strange like hanuman with the trunk of a nose and the monkey fellow.
Racism and Nationalism will always exist whether you like it or not. It keeps people honest about themselves.
If Indians in India are racist against other races and the same with other countries, whats the diff with Fiji. Unfortunately it is a natural trait for humans to do so. If Indians want to remain in Fiji, good. We can work with them but if they want to work against us...well
Josateki Daulako says to Indians...Khaiyum has duped you all into thinking that the coup is to drive Fijians against Fijians. Everything Hindoo will slowly fall...watch over the next few years. The Muslim will not relent anymore. Not after what happened with Sidiq Koya and Jai Ram Reddy. Bend over to Frank but Khaiyum is the one doing the rooting from behind. For us Fijians, we are not particularly worried because Muslims make up 15% of our population and therefore minority.
Vili Kulina Vutusona, you have been exposed big time. Shame on you cavuka.
Politics aside.
The informal sector,more particularly, the tourism-related woodcarvers, handicrafts, weavers,masi makers groups are silently have to bear with the political situation here.Tourists are not buying our stuff from January '15. Why,we do not know.Question, is the departure tax too high???? Are there additional taxation and fees for handicrafts??Is this the way Khaiyum planning to eradicate/abolish/exterminate whatever all that is engrained in our Fijian culture and traditions and skills.There has to be an answer.
Or, are the tourist suspecting,more like believing that there will be another imminent upheaval.
The silence is deafening.
Josateki Daulako
Look mate do not embarrass yourself. Indentured labour was the term that replaced slavery. Just before those Indians were sent to work on the sugar cane plantations, slavery was allegedly abolished.
However the practised was very much still being practiced. Promising them riches only to find out when they arrived that it was all hokum is pretty much slavery.
If you are trying to say the working conditions and treatments of those indentured labourers were better then you need to venture back into history and educate yourself better before you continue to embarrass yourself.
As I have said your generation try to paint me and my generation as either Bainimarama's employees or we are Indians. You simply cannot accept that I taukeis of my generation or the children of the coups do not agree with your backward ignorant view.
Need I remind you in the election we voted Bainimarama in showing you lot our disagreement. You can deny it all you want but come next election if you are still behaving ignorantly and abusively we will vote you out again and the election after that will be the beginning of our generation leadership.
You and your likes belong in the dust bin of history now. Nakoro sara lai tei na tavioka. Leave the running of the country to us.
Josateki Daulako says to Vili Rakoro...well it took you a while to respond to my blog...did you have to run a thorough research to realise that what I said to you is true with Indentured Labourers and the fact that the Indentured Labourers who chose to come to Fiji, the choice was a much better choice than they had living in their country where extreme poverty was a part of their life.
The conditions they had to adhere to when working in Fiji was no better than they had in India, where they served their Lords and worked for nothing.
The saviour of the Indians was AD Patel and others who came to Fiji to free them from their bonds of labour and fight for their rights and taught them how to live.
You see the difference between an Indian and a Fijian is that a Fijian did not need to slab under any conditions nor work for a living. We had our resources, our land and seas and rivers that provided. We were never hungry like the indentured labourers who came to Fiji with their hungry bellies and sickness riddled bodies and ganja that is now prevalent in our society.
You talk about changes of your generation. Every Fijian generation have had to make adaptation to changes that is foreign to them. Your ancestors that is if you are a Fijian and I know that you are not, have had to put up with the various foreigners who seem to think they know best how our people should live our lives.
Our social and communal structures, rich heritage, tradition and culture has been put on the back burner and we today live like second class citizens in the country of our forefathers. I can go on and on but you do not have the mental capacity to understand and realise these things as you only think about the now and you can see the past and history that has shaped our future.
You think we deny the coup is wrong. Every coup as I said to you from Rabuka to Speight to your lick arse Frank is wrong. We have realised that and we move forward wanting to correct that. We will not stand alongside Rabuka, Speight or Frank and ignorantly accept their treasonous action. If you ask me, Rabuka and Frank should be in the same cell as Speight and the keys thrown away.
Yes Vili, you may have voted for Frank but its not your vote that won Frank the election. Its Frank and Khaiyum's ability to dupe the Indians like you into believing that they were acting upon the best interests of the Indians that made 90% of Indians vote for your beloved Frank and him winning the election. The vote amongst us the itaukei was split with a slight majority voting for SODELPA but I assure you, I did not vote for SODELPA.
I will tell you again Areh Vili because I know your an Indian, Khaiyum have fucked you Hindoos over and today, every Indian in Fiji and overseas, believe that Frank is their vendetta and will protect them with his army. The truth is hard for you to behold but Hindoos today do not have equal representation in politics as much as they had in the past. The decline will continue and this will result in more and more Hindoos living Fiji and they will be replaced by muslims and Chinese. Do we care, it makes no difference to us because both are still vulagi and Frank is still a Fijian and as long as a Fijian is a PM, who gives a shit even though he is a hell of a dumb one to throw in. Hell if Hindoos got rid of Khaiyum, we will be shaking hands and dancing with Hindoos on the street, that is how much dislike there is for Khaiyum.
Now though you think I and the likes of me belong in the dust of history, you might be surprised that I may possibly be younger than you but have a clearer understanding of the events of the past that is shaping our furture. I have my vei tavioka Vili but you permeate the City of Suva with your smell and bullshit and your lazy arse so send your sorry body back to nakoro, and hopefully you will learn how to be a Fijian. Better still, jump on the next boat to India. Leonidas is ready to sail.
Josateki Daulako
Beggars belief to actually compartmentalise your ignorance. First you assume that I am an Indian and now you are operating as if I am.
You actually refuse to accept the reality that I taukei of my generation simply do not conform to your generation backwards idiom. As for your laughable assertion that my reasoning for late reply is due to research of some sort.
Please some of us actually are academic and have important jobs which is actually affecting changes. We do not talk the talk like you lot in here, we actually walk the walk.
It is rather sad how you assume all sorts from me being Indian, replying to your comments anonymously etc etc. At this point I am even handling you with a touch of empathy, I have tone down my grammar to suite your understanding and I have eased back on quoting my evidences.
Basically I am feeding you a bone. So think about that for a moment mate.
Vili Rakoro's real name is ....wait for ...it1!!!! starts with the 4th letter and ends with music. Work that out!! He is an educated beneficiary of the current mob so he s done a bit of learning
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