Infrastructure investment

MANY financial illiterates have commented in recent days about the government’s plans to build a highway across Viti Levu from the West to Suva and other such projects. Investing in infrastructure is the most valuable long-term benefit to any economy and for the benefit of future generations. Our descendants will appreciate these investments. These people appear to be concerned only about the here and now.

I am not sure which “world” the villagers and people in the interior of Viti Levu live in (I have never had the chance to go there), but a highway across their villages will slowly bring them up to par with the Third World standard like the rest of the country!

In other words, the highway will certainly improve their lives. So instead of being concerned only about their selfish selves and their hospital treatment and potholes, they should be thinking about others who are less fortunate. Reminds me of people who were calling for Fiji Airways’ planes to be returned during the height of COVID because it was a “bad investment”. And now Fiji Airways is the key driver of Fiji’s recovery. The hypocrites dash to Sydney in these same planes and I want these people to stay away from Sydney. I have said many times, the main problem in Fiji are the selfserving people, (and there are just too many of them) and they appear to deliberately go out of their way to be dopeys. I believe changing the government only will not solve any of Fiji’s problems.

JAN NISSAR

NSW, Australia

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