Sugar industry’s uncertain future
There is no way that Bainimarama will be able to salvage the country”s ailing sugar indusrty if he continues to pursue the political roadmap that his Regime has imposed on our country.
Bainimarama”s statement that there is a list of plans that have been there for the last 10 yrs to resurrect the industry is another blatant lie.
The only viable plan to reform the industry is the one prepared by the last multiparty government. That plan involves the upgrading of the four sugar mills, improvements on the farms to increase productivity and reforms in other areas such as transportation, irrigation and so on.
For the upgrading of the 4 sugar mills a loan of f$86m was secured from the Exim Bank of India. For farm improvements etc the SDL Govt secured a grant of f$350m from the European Union to be spent over a period of 7yrs.
The upgrading of the 4 sugar mills is on-going but very much behind schedule. The F$350m grant from the European Union has been withheld because of the stupid political path that the military dictatorship is taking.
We need a financial grant of F$350m urgently if our sugar industry is to survive. Can Bainimarama deliver on the funds required ? Definitely not ! Can Bainimarama implement fully the reforms now in progress ? Definitely not !!
Bainimarama cannot deliver because no country is willing to assist a military dictatorship. In addition the Regime cannot provide sufficient local resources to implement the necessary reforms.
The Regime”s recent decision to scrap the Sugar Cane Growers Council will only make matters worse. Bainimarama must learn that he cannot continue to eliminate our various democratic institutions for too long. These actions are catching up with him sooner rather than later.
The only way to resurrect the sugar industry is to return Fiji to parliamentary democracy. Such decision or action will also restore Fiji to some semblance of normality and progress.
Bainimarama please beware ! Your time is about to come to an end. Make some sensible decisions now before it is too late. Take away your pride and personal ego for your own sake and for the sake of our beloved Fiji.
sugarcanefarmer
Frank Bainimarama is an uneducated arse !
He knows nothing about anything or everything about nothing, depending how you would like to put it !
The people behind him, the shadowy figures that Andrew Hughes referred to, are using Frank to destroy Fiji’s economy, culture and Government so they can then dismantle the land ownership of the Indigenous population.
He is doing it now, he is succeeding as Fijians continue to sit and do nothing in retaliation.
I wish I was a Fijian living in Fiji, as I would have taken him on a long time ago.
lastpolarbear
August 20, 2009 at 1:39 am
Colonial Bank is going to PNG, Sugar is going to the doghouse. FNPF already drained. This is how they are going to ensure there is no more coups. Forget about that silly paper they are drawing up with funny words they will call Constitution. Heck they could not even follow the 1st Constitution. Even a class five student knows that a Constitution only mean something when obeyed.
talei2
August 20, 2009 at 5:17 am
Oh I get it
They are devising a constitution that gives power to the military commander OVERSEEING the affairs of all future governments
and that all future military commanders will remove any elected government that does not heed the commander’s wishes
And this constitution they say will take 9 to 15 years to draft
LAUGH OUT LOUD !
talei2
August 20, 2009 at 5:23 am
He is a dumbass and a desperado. He will not listen to any good advise but that of Peter Foster a con man because they had the same wavelength.
josycam
August 20, 2009 at 5:26 am