TODAY’S THOUGHT

our pens, for our purses, for our efforts! Let us put our shoulders to the wheel and heave together for the general good.”

I’m a firm believer in fairness; honesty too. As an avid reader of your paper for some decades now, I submit that The Fiji Times has indeed remained true to its original goals of “maintaining the liberty of the press and the rights of all men”.

I further submit that you have done more. You have not remained close to shore; you are no longer a “little boat”. You have ventured afar and beyond the boundaries of your small beginnings.

Paraphrasing your first editorial — I firmly believe that — “The Fiji Times is now a public good; a practical, useful and honest medium for the support of honour, truth and right”.

So today, having checked your bearings, I again wish you well. May you continue to give us a newspaper “that holds true to the ideals of good journalism!”

So today, 16 years after our basic freedoms were selectively removed, I congratulate The Fiji Times once again. I’m reminded of the indelible and historic words of the late Martin Luther King Jr, when he said in Indianapolis in 1958: “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we’re free at last!”

I submit that those words are equally fitting in Fiji today.

KINIVILIAME KETECA

Nausori

GO a whole day without checking on social media. RAJESHNI KUMAR

Nadi

FIRST, I will lose weight and gradually quit smoking.

PAULA NATADRA Matavatucou, Tailevu

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and

the truth.

— BUDDHA