Fiji's Minister of Home Affairs braces himself against his critics. Is he sure he will win his seat in the next elections.
The showdown for the hearts and minds of voters is heating up in the wake of this controversial R.T.U Bill. Qarase is playing the race card and accussing the efforts of Fiji Law Society as Anti-Fijian. Qarase is losing it, big time. He is realistically grabbing at straws, politically speaking.
This interesting legal case between the state of Fiji Vs New Zealand Pacific Training Centre(NZPTC) raises the important issues of Governance. It is good that a clarification to the powers of the Exexcutive branch and the Parliament with regard to this V.A.T tax which has been severely bothersome and enslaves the low income earners and the poor. I agree with the plantiff's position: There can be No taxes without representation! That was the same cry during the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Fiji Military Comander continues his verbal assualt on the main master minds behind the R.T.U Bill: None other than the crooked Attorney General Mssr Qoroniasi Bale and Mssr Apisalome Tudreu both veteran civil servants and seriously past their use by date by decades.
They are the same old boy network who hamper social mobility by clogging up the system in Fiji with their despotic ideas.
Britain's efforts to reduce its foot print in the Pacific is drawing concern from Fiji's Foreign Minister who obviously thought this honeymoon would last forever. His reactions demonstrate Fiji Governments post-colonial mentality of over-reliance on tied Foreign Aid. His old school policies is counter produtive to Fiji's economical maturity which is still anchored to the pre-indistrial age.
One of the issue that has been rehashed so many times in Fiji public is the issue of calibre of the board of directors of state enterprises in Fiji, which is another joke in theory and field applications.
F.T Editorial Article is really putting heat on the S.D.L/C.A.M.V coalition. It also raises the concern of this artificial digital divide deliberatley kept in place, so that Fiji Government can sway opinions. The result: 9 provinces support this R.T.U Bill, yet most of urban dwelling ethnic Fijians reject this Bill outright. The question of the formulaic ratios of rural based electoral seats and urban based one in Fiji will be the next legal wrangle after this R.T.U Bill has been sorted out. It is an indication that Fiji is growing up as a community. Change is constant.
It is the cognitive dissonance that has chained the rural dwellers of Fiji to development obscurity.
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