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Wednesday 19 January 2011

Army Engineers, MSG Meeting, Ageing Population, Student Loans in Arrears

N0047. ARMY TO UNDERTAKE MAJOR CIVIC PROJECTS. Army engineers  will use the heavy  machinary recently arrived from China to speed up rural development projects already in the pipeline. The shipment of equipment, valued at $4.1m, includes four excavators, five dump trucks, three bulldozers, two vibratory rollers, a pneumatic roller, two motor graders, two wheel loaders, two loader/diggers, a water truck, a pick-up and a truck with a crane. This is the first time the RFMF has had the equipment to undertake major construction work.

N0048. MSG TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT. Fiji will host the Melanesian Spearhead Group meeting this year, and PM Bainimarama says Fiji will take the chairmanship role very seriously to ensure that Melanesian countries are acknowledged and treated with respect in the region and beyond. The meeting is expected to be held in Suva in late March.

N0049. FIJI'S AGEING POPULATION
. Although a young population by development country standards, Fiji’s population is ageing with relatively fewer births, and more people moving into the older 60 years plus age group.  In anticipation of this continuing trend Ministry of Social Welfare, Women & Poverty Alleviation and the Inter-Agency Working Committee (IAWC) are working on a National Policy Framework for the Elderly that will reflect the changing needs of the elderly.

The Policy will be based on the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and related implementation strategies such as the Shanghai Implementation Strategy, Macao Programme of Action, and adapted to Fiji’s circumstances and conditions, following consultations with all stakeholders and service providers.  The Plan will be incorporated into all major development of the socioeconomic sectors.

N0050. STUDENTS OWE $18 MILLION.  Some $18m loans to students from 2001 to 2010 have not yet http://www.fijilive.com/news/2011/01/18/29839.Fijilive been repaid to the PSC. Permanent Secretary Parmesh Chand has urged students who have completed their students to keep in constant contact with the PSC so that arrangements for repayment can be facilitated. The sustainability of the Student Loan Scheme is dependent on the rate of recovery of arrears.

The PSC has, however, recovered $3.079m  which exceeded their target of $2.5m (2011, No:0115/PSC. The different focus of the Fiji Live heading $18 Million Yet to Recover:PSC  contrasts with the PSC release heading PSC Surpasses Loan Recovery Target.

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Don't hold your breath said...

Croz
Don't get yourself too excited about bainimarama's supposed 'leadership'of the MSG. The MSG is now more likely to go the way of the Natadola communique - one puff and into the ether...The self appointed sugar minister would be better providing 'leadership' to the collapsing sugar industry - now producing about 1/2 of what it was under the democratic legitimate Qarase multi-party government.

Grey Power said...

@ Grey Power......

The first thing that needs to be urgently done in Fiji is to ensure that no insurance company is allowed to operate and profit while still denying health cover to anyone aged 60 years and above. This is a denial of human rights to freedom of choice and decent health care. In the US and other countries it is noted that President Obama made a point of health cover having to apply to the elderly and to those with pre-existing conditions. The premiums will reflect this higher risk but cover should be available and, it ought to receive a tax allowance (because those who cover themselves are not a drain on the public health system).

sara'ssista said...

NOo48, with respect until they disagree with this regime.

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Btw..I can't wait for the spirited defense of the military regimes appointment of the the dictators daughter to a prominent government sports position. No doubt Croz will have her resume at hand and vigorously defend this action as nothing out of the ordinary and certainly not corrupt or wreaking of nepotism. This is a paid role ? No doubt she would have applied like anyone else, or not. Was it advertised?

Engineering said...

#NO0047, Sorry but you are misled on this being the first time The RFMF engineers have had proper equipment to carry out works.

In the 1990's Australia gifted the RFMF quality Caterpillar equipment and trucks. a few pieces of this machinery are in running order since they were not used much. I check recently most had very low running hours. The will be a mad rush come the next govt.auction at the Camp.

Having the gear to do the works means very little without the knowhow to use/maintain the equipment.

I still run a truck and pickup I purchased from the rfmf auction a few years back which were writen off by the Govt survey board.

Cobra said...

Sexism and Ageism are the denial of fundamental human rights: that is self-evident but when combined with racism the comprehension is overwhelming that injustice is being done. So why are the insurance companies and their agents and brokers within Fiji allowed to do just this? Is Fiji not a signatory to the relevant United Nations Conventions against such fundamental discrimination? Without further ado, the Commerce Commission and the Commissioner for Insurance should get to work on this closely with Government. Fiji is being held to ransom by unjust and at times disgraceful practices within the insurance industry. It is also noteworthy that local businessmen have invested in insurance companies and they have had the audacity to write their own policies with apparent impunity - certainly with little oversight. All these practices need the light of a sunny Fiji Day! Urgently and without demur. Development and full human rights are being impeded and these same businessmen are making huge profits. Do they sleep at night? And where do they do this sleeping?

Crosbie Walsh said...

@ Engineering .. Thanks for the correction. I should have said the RFMF has not had heavy equipment for some time. Whether your prediction on maintenance is true, we'll have to wait and see if things have improved or not.

@ Saras'sista ... I missed this on FB's daughter, Please provide details and say why she should not have been appointed.

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@ Croz and Saras'sista ....the need for justification and explanation.

Quite right, Croz. Keep them up to it. Full explanation and justification through evidence is required, Saras'sista, each and every time a finger is pointed. You fail badly on this necessary requirement in argument and it is time you were brought to book!

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