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...

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...