Freebies or what?

TELS payment

INSTEAD of repaying the TELS, the recipients, on completion of their studies, should just stay and work in the country, for the number of years of their scholarship.

This is to be the repayment for the assistance, they were given by the government, instead of the current loan repayment system.

Of course, under a written and signed agreement.

EDWARD BLAKELOCK

Pacific Harbour

Assistance for students

IT is so nice of this new Government to give this $200 per child help. To me it is the same as giving someone a fish. I know it is just the beginning.

Please strengthen our dollar or bring food prices down.

Please new Governmen,t send somebody to Malau, Labasa and see if the biggest timber and veneer mill on Vanua Levu can be re-opened.

SUKHA SINGH

Labasa

WISE of Lautoka quickly jumps up and concludes that “a percentage of the $200 per child back to school initiative will be spent on grog, cigarettes and alcohol”.

What

are you complaining about Wise? The People’s Government said it’s freebies but when the Government you supported did the same before election you didn’t complain.

You see the timing of the freebies, one before election and one just before school.

Wise you decide which one will be better used. By the way do you have any children in school?

If not then, don’t complain. GEOFFREY CHAND

Lautoka

Spending power

MOSESE Bulitavu should know the spending done by the FijiFirst government was so enormous that there were limited funds in the coffers for the new Government to work on, so they have provided what could be afforded for the time being.

And the free fares and free school fares are part of the incentive provided by the new Coalition Government even though implemented by the previous government but it has been re-introduced by the new Government.

Bulitavu you can’t expect everything to be free nowadays, at least the parents could contribute to their children’s education somehow or the other.

TOMASI BOGINISO

Sydney, Australia