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Digging Deeper Into Fiji Airways
Fiji Airways Chief Executive Andre Viljoen deserves a rap on the knuckles for his comment that the airline does not respond to political statements, says Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry. He must not forget that the people of Fiji are the majority shareholders of the...
Spotlight On Fiji’s Compromised Parliament
Speaker Ratu Epeli Nailatikau shocked the nation by declaring in Parliament that the deportation of USP’s Vice Chancellor Prof Pal Ahluwalia last week, and the brutal manner in which it was executed, was not a matter of national concern. The deportation caused...
Fiji’s Perilous Debt Sink-Hole
For the first time in Fiji’s history our national debt level has exceeded the GDP. It is time to ask where the borrowed billions are going :Mahendra Chaudhry, Leader Fiji Labour Party . It had become quite clear even before the Covid pandemic struck, that government...
A Look At Proposed Legislative Changes To The Electoral Process
Submissions to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights Bills 50 and 52 of 2020 Mr Chairman, before I look at the proposed Bills I wish to make a few general observations. You and I well know that this consultation process is just for...
The Case For Cane Growers
While the nation’s attention is focused on the daily escalating cases of Covid infection assailing us, the cane farmer has been fighting a quiet battle for survival against low cane prices and ever rising costs of cultivation, harvest and delivery. For decades...
No Case For An Increase In Domestic Price Of Sugar: FLP Tells FCCC
Fiji Labour Party submission to the Fijian Competition and Commerce Commission on FSC’s application for 100% increase in the price of sugar sold on the domestic market: Sugar is a basic food item used in every household. It has been under price control for many years...
Worries Over The 2022 General Elections
Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry looks at recent worrying developments including questionable changes to the electoral legislation in relation to the upcoming 2022 general elections. Are we really going to have free and fair elections in 2022? This is the question...
Putting The Record Straight
Former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry corrects some mis-conceptions regarding his term as prime minister in 1999/2000 in an opinion piece by academic Prof Wadan Narsey published in the Fiji Times Saturday 6 November 2021. Mahendra Chaudhry’s reply to Prof Narsey...
Fighting Together To Win
In this paper former Prime Minister and Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry argues the need for Fiji’s badly splintered opposition to fight the 2022 general elections as a united front to salvage the nation from the mess its current leaders have created. The chances of a...