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Written By : Savenaca Vaka. Our young Fiji Sevens team enters the Wellington Sevens as underdogs compared to the much bigger and experienced Samoans in the same pool. The Fiji team should sit down and watch the movie Facing the Giants as part of their mental and spiritual preparation for the second leg of the [...]

Written By : Nick Wilson. Looking back at the past performance by our 7s rugby teams from 2007 right up to our last two tournaments in 2008, we could, and we should have won all of them – but for one failure by our 7′s reps, and that is the urge to individually star in [...]

Written By : Rajend Naidu. It’s not without reason that it’s said that wise men think alike. Here’s an example. Mahatma Gandhi warned the world to guard against greed when he said the world has enough for everyone’s need but not for everyone’s greed. Today, over half a century later, we read (in The Daily [...]

Written By : Jim Anthony, . Your correspondent Rajend Naidu (the same Rajend Naidu whose brother is Vijay Naidu, USP and who is Shamima Ali’s brother in law?) says that “many” in Fiji feel that [the Anthony report on the media in Fiji] was a waste of tax payers’ money. How “many” Mr Naidu and [...]

Written By : Allen Lockington. The world recession is deepening. Many European countries are considering getting rid of foreign workers and employing locals in their place. Isn’t this grossly unfair? If the local was lazy enough to live on benefits will he be able to produce if given a job? Every country must have something [...]

Written By : Lawrence Narayan. I refer to Sowane Sauturaga’s letter on mandatory rest quoting examples for poor performance from workers (FS 3/2). While most people have paid employment a great percentage of the world’s population remain unemployed. The global economic downturn has resulted in millions of people losing their jobs. In China alone, twenty [...]

Written By : Epeli Koroi. There is so much hype in the local media about our blood bank’s plea for blood donation. It is for a good cause so I decided to give blood. I was the bank reception at the CWM yesterday at around 11am to donate for the good of my fellow Fiji [...]

Written By : N Khan. It’s suprising that the Fiji Football council decided to sack Buzetti after such a short stint How does the Fiji FA expect a coach to win if he isn’t given time to prepare and develop a team? A classic example is Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United who started in [...]

Written By : Rahiem Buksh. Congratulations to Justice Daniel Goundar for giving a 14-year jail term to a rapist. It’s time that other lawyers and judges take this message on board. The tougher sentences should also be given to sex offenders and other criminals who take advantage of vulnerable and innocent victims. No time for [...]

Written By : Raymond Chandra. In her letter (FS 28/1), Prue Rouse was long on words and short on commonsense. Her feeble efforts to hide from truth behind her dictionary are quite understandable. In her never-ending chain of letters Rouse has invariably disparaged and condemned everything that we have in our beautiful Fiji. She has [...]