HIBISCUS TALKS

Lots of noise coming from naysayers on social media about the contestants participating in the Hibiscus Festival. Talk is cheap when you’re not the one actually on stage voicing issues that needed awareness. Kudos to our contestants for your efforts.

WOMEN POWER

Great to see a lot of initiatives that are driven towards the empowerment of women.

One such example is the fist ever is the three-day Women’s Parliament which was opened yesterday. To add to this is the Barefoot Solar Engineers Pacific Retraining where over 30 women participants are developing skills in solar engineering. #WomenPower

WOMEN TALK

Lots of chatter following the surprisingly disappointing performance of our women’s sevens team at the Rio Olympics.

Questions are being asked by those who believe the team should have done better.

They include whether the lineup and performance in Rio might have been different if the original head coach Iliesa Tanivula had been left in charge? That’s instead of the Englishman Chris Cracknell taking over the lead role and Tanivula being relegated to his assistant..

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