Djokovic to be deported
WORLD tennis No.1 Novak Djokovic was told by Australian authorities that his visa had been refused and he was asked to leave Australia.
Djokovic had been given medical exemption to meet Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements so that he could defend his Australian Open title, but this prompted an incensed reaction from many around Australia.
While there was the thought he would be given special dispensation to participate in the Australian Open, the Australian Border Force stated that Djokovic’s visa had been refused and he had been asked to leave Australia.
A good lesson for all other border forces rules and regulations should not be bent to suit the elite and privileged few.
RAJNESH ISHWAR LINGAM
Nadawa, Nasinu
School classrooms
I BELIEVE most classrooms have only one ceiling fan which rotates the same air in the room.
The Minister for Education needs to be reminded that most schools have ventilation issues and schools don’t have airconditioning that the Minister for Education enjoys in Parliament or at home.
I have seen some schools on Vanua Levu are just a temporary structure and for the minister to say that our school classrooms are well ventilated, is wrong.
When was the last time the Minister for Education sat in a classroom the whole day.
I can recall the same minister visited the Nadi market and she was complaining about the Western heat.
Please have a heart for our future generation and start with installing more ceiling fans for our children in all schools. SHALENDRA REDDY
Nadi
Corruption watch
IT’S no joking matter when someone like the former governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji and Unity Party leader Savenaca Narube claims publicly that the Government of the day is not committed to stopping corruption in the country as the muscling of the Auditor-General’s Office via an unnecessary commission of inquiry demonstrates.
Again, it makes one wonder what the “clean up” coup was about?
And again, cry the beloved country.
RAJEND NAIDU
Sydney, Australian
Inquiry into the inquiry
I LAUGHED out loudly, when in The Fiji Times I read, the letter on 04/01 that stated boldly, that a commission of inquiry be appointed, to determine why there is, a commission of inquiry into the OAG. A kind of inquiry into the inquiry. That’s a really good one, to find out what’s happening truly and that may not really be such fun. EDWARD BLAKELOCK
Pacific Harbour
Water issues
IT seems like there is no end to water supply issues in Suva.
Poor water supply has now been an issue for some time causing stress to families.
One would think with COVID still around and the need for water for sanitation, priority would be given to restore water services.
Added to that, water supply from 12 midnight to eight in the morning doesn’t make any sense either.
We need the water issues sorted out immediately.
RONEEL CHAND
Kinoya, Nasinu
Those polls
HAPPY new year to all.
Time to start some vigorous discussions again. It’s all in good fun.
I refer to the polls in recent months which all seem to indicate that a slight majority of those polled support Fiji’s newest political party and its leader to form the next government.
Another way I read such polls is that the slight majority of those polled need to have their heads examined.
I mean, why would one support a party which has done absolutely nothing, which was only formed a few months ago, where no one knows who the candidates are, nor do they have any policies — to form a government. It does not make sense to me at all. I guess the poll participants think the same way as the leader of the new party — they are betting on hope, prayers, fasting, no policies and divine intervention. But then, to be fair, as my view is extreme and arrogant (as someone would say), I suggest the poll population may be a bit skewed and is not representative.
Those who think polls are a good indicator should look at the polls just before the Donald Trump, Scott Morrison, David Cameron elections, and the Brexit results were known.
The polls before these events were wildly out of kilter and totally wrong.
There are many other examples where polls were wrong.
Which gives me a slight glimmer of hope. We will just have to wait and see until after the elections.
But those who do support an unknown, untested, new political party where none of the candidates nor their policies are even known, need to have their heads examined.
Is that an unreasonable conclusion? Yes, yes, I know, but this is Fiji where anything is possible especially when a majority are all grog doped! So I should stay where I am.
Who says there is no freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of choice in Fiji?
JAN NISSAR
NSW, Australia