Cessna 172
Dorsami Naidu , Nadi
The investigation into the fatal crash of the Cessna 172 is quite curious.
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On the day of the crash the weather reports which were being broadcast through the news and social media said that it was very bad. The reports were obtained from the Nadi weather office.
Yet the Civil Aviation Authority personnel thought it right to allow a training aircraft to take to the air. I just wonder who was the pilot, the trainee or the trainer or was the aircraft fitted for dual control?
Was this a case of total negligence where two lives were lost? Will anyone be made to answer for what happened or will it suffer the same fate as the two deceased?
Graduates
Epeli Rabua , Suva
Yesterday, we read about the graduations at three of Fiji’s universities.
I congratulate all of the graduates for taking the time to finish their tertiary education and earning a university degree, diploma or certificate to enhance their work place earnings.
However, recently the quality of those attaining their degrees, diplomas or certificates actually mirror the results of our younger children in primary and secondary schools where basic skills in English, simple math and basic common sense are lacking to a degree unheard of before in Fiji. But like we always say, it can only happen in Fiji.
Numerous organisations and work places take on these graduates and disregard the basic career tenet of competency.
The employers employ these graduates at a level with high salaries and positions and then ask others who are competent in the job but with no tertiary qualifications and with lower salaries to teach them the work.
Some, who have basic common sense and have earned their graduation acknowledgements, catch on fast and can work unassisted in one or two weeks.
And then you have those who lack common sense, were spoon fed in tertiary school and after a year, are still trying to basically understand what they are doing and their bosses asking their other staff with lower salaries to continue to teach these so-called graduates their jobs.
It is a dilemma for work places in Fiji as they try to employ these graduates.
And although a workplace might be brimming with staff who are on paper a sophisticated bunch with two or three degrees each and a masters degree to boot in a large company dealing with a larger customer base, they usually have a lot of their customers leaving due to the incompetency of these overqualified graduates.
Marist 7s
Amenatave Yaconisau , Delainavesi
I congratulate the Marist Sevens Rugby management running the show for the 42nd time.
What is dubbed as the oldest and biggest sevens rugby tournament in our country has got a new international paradigm shift now by bringing in other countries.
It remains the hunting ground for our sevens rugby team and is ever more competitive. Good luck!
Dirty game
Hassan Ali , Lautoka
If politics is a dirty game, I wonder why politicians engage in it. Don't they know?
Without politics democracy will be better off and people more satisfied as Governments can be more caring.
I feel the provision of an ideal administration should be the focus of all governments. In an ideal administration not a single individual is left out without care and attention. Everybody is satisfied. This is a real possibility now with new technologies available to make it happen. Leaders of nations should look into this.
Christian virtue
Wise Muavono , Lautoka
The greatest Christian virtue is humility.
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