Final Destination.

Landowners of Fiji have been perpetually dis-enfranchised by organizational in-efficiencies.

Stuck in Fiji Mud believes this trend will not change anytime soon, due to the lack of implementation within Fiji Government agencies.

The rumors of Fiji President retiring has now been compromised by the un-elected members of the Great Council of Chiefs.
It is yet another miserable example of an anachronism, attempting to justify their incompetence.
Here's letter to Fiji Times Editor that encapsulates the double- standards applied to indigenous issues, by the same Fiji Government that routinely reminds the world of it's hollow accomplishments.

Next leader

A MOTIVATOR, a man or woman of principle and convictions. One who sets goals and leads from the front to achieve them is a man or woman of vision.

Fiji right now is at the crossroads to make this choice. We have to choose one who will unite us all for the betterment of Fiji, someone who is identified with everybody.

Fiji needs one who can bring the best out of everyone. One who creates an environment where people excel in what they do.

Enough of a leader who relies on others to make decisions for him or her.

Enough of one who is just a spectator.

Enough of one who goes with the flow.

Enough of one who goes around trying to please everyone. Fiji needs a leader whose life and actions permeates different races, religion and culture to bring out the good in people.

One that all of Fiji, with its different ethnicity, will stand up and ask "what can I do for Fiji?" rather than "what can Fiji do for me?"

Choose well Fiji.

Save Tabualevu
Rakiraki

Foreshore development

I noted in the dailies last week an application for foreshore development in Volivoli, Ra. I quote "to complete and regularise the partly completed Marina and Channel in front of the applicant's property".

As this has been a frequent practice, I am just wondering if the State Act (Cap 132) Section 21 (2) allows for such "reclaim foreshore first and regularise later" practices.

To make it worse, these public notices in the dailies usually have very small letters that require a magnifying glass to read.

Has the Tui Navitilevu been consulted or is he expected to read the public notice in the dailies and to come running to the Director of Lands? Protocol wise, this is far out and insulting.

Furthermore Qoliqoli owners at the village level hardly read such public notices in the dailies let alone understand the legal write-ups.

With livelihood opportunity foregone from the reclamation of the qoliqoli, what financial equity status will the qoliqoli owners in Volivoli, Ra have from the Marina?

Even the Tui Suva is living in a squatter settlement near my Vatuwaqa home. Yet the reclamation of the Vatuwaqa industrial subdivision and the Rokobili container terminal is reaping profits for the developers while the poor qoliqoli owners are just living in shacks from these unfair system, not to mention the rubbish and the contamination of their qoliqoli.

The extent of the implementation of Queen Victoria's letter in 1881 to Governor DesVoux is yet to be experienced but as for now, there is continuous abuse of Qoliqoli owners' human rights.

We are owners by name only but in fact we have been ripped off. Frustration is really an understatement of our burning feelings at the moment.

I am wondering if Qoriniasi Bale's legal firm representation of developers and resorts is having a conflict of interest with his role as a A-G to legislate the Queens wish in her 1881 letter through the Qoliqoli Bill.

Jone Mavia
Suva.

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