FjrealityCheck

Cunningham Stage 4 residents: Someone asked me to bring this into public attention regarding people living in Stage 4 and nearby areas who are wondering why they do not have a power supply.

This is to highlight the issue of mataqali land and why EFL does not provide electricity to some areas in Stage 4. The reason is that EFL has paid the mataqali to install poles and wires to supply electricity from Stage 1 to Stage 4. However, in some locations where the poles are installed, nearby houses cannot be connected directly because high-voltage lines close to homes can pose a serious fire risk.

The solution is that EFL needs to construct a separate power line from a farther distance to safely supply electricity to those areas.

This explanation is for those who have been questioning why some parts of Cunningham Stage 4 do not have electricity.

When they give wrong place for bus that creates traffic. Given taxi rank base infront where private cars and lorry parks 🙄 who’s idea was this to change😒

Let’s educate some drivers here. Au sa kerekere bimbi sara, driving on the road and giving the indicator to enter a junction, you people shall be aware at the distance you should give the indicator not just when you’re about to reach the junction. This is the major issue right now and that’s how accidents are being caused. 30 meters before entering a junction you shall give the indicator.
Don’t act dumb on the road and fight back when you don’t know road rules and act so innocent when accident is caused blaming the driver at the back. ✌🏻

THIS IS THE MESSAGE TO THE LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY
First of all the check points the officers are putting to book the drivers with white lights for the fog lamps of the vehicles.
Where is the notice given on the fb page to the public that you people will be issuing fines to the public huh ? And what are you officers trying to say about the colored lights are not supposed to be installed in cars ? How is it harming the public and how is the public gets confused ? Are you trying to tell me green blue lights are signs of different colored theme ? Green for monster red for bull ? How is the public confused ? If putting accessories are illegal and importing such goods shall be illegal. You people are informing the drivers not to put this and that lights then what about the bus and the big trucks that contains different color on the trailer ? How does it become legal when public pays at LTA for access ???? Why is the government vehicle having blue ring lights on their car or van ??? Let me tell you one thing. Tell the road authority to fix those black big pot holes before giving the drivers fine for bright lights.

MHCC
Bus bay and taxi rank stand.
Can I ask the council whose idea was it to shift the taxi rank infront right where ximi is opened ??? The bus can’t even fit in the bay lane and stands on the main lane causing so much traffic and that traffic is not just around the corner
It’s causing from flea market area because the bus don’t move straight away.
Please give a second thought eh kerekere bimbi sara
The taxi rank stand was supposed to be the bus lane and bus bay was supposed to be taxi stand because taxis are not as big as the bus and they’re able to fit in the bay. Eh please use your 6 sense 🙄✌🏻

I want to ask Minister Tuisawau and the Land Transport Authority, what exactly is wrong with the open rank-base system?

How many taxi jobs are actually available in rural areas? Looking at the condition of interior roads, I don’t think many taxi drivers would risk damaging their expensive vehicle parts and constantly paying for maintenance. Secondly, no driver would prefer taking a customer from the city to a rural area and then returning empty to the base, especially when fuel prices are already so high.

The cost of fuel and basic goods is already increasing, yet instead of helping drivers, you are changing laws that will make life even more difficult for taxi operators. Also, who is going to stop “pari” people from continuing this work? How will you differentiate between a private car and someone illegally picking up customers on the road?

Instead of making things harder for taxi drivers, why not legalize pari operators in rural areas within a regulated time zone system?

Taxi drivers have already said they are willing to pay the municipal council base fees if the zoning system is improved properly. For example, Suva Rural, Suva Zone, and Suva City Council could operate under one payment system, and the same could apply for Nasinu and Nausori councils. If this system is implemented properly, there will be fewer conflicts and operations will run more smoothly.

Also consider the traffic situation. If a taxi picks up a passenger from MHCC and drops them in Lami, it can take a very long time because of traffic. By the time the driver returns to the base, peak hours may already be over. Can you answer how that benefits drivers?

The open rank-base system should remain.

Go and learn from overseas systems on how rank-base operations are managed effectively. For example, if I take a customer from MHCC to USP, I should be allowed to base my taxi at the USP rank-base instead of driving all the way back unnecessarily. This saves both time and fuel consumption.

So why are you planning to make life more difficult for taxi drivers?

Whereby Cunningham stage 1 is still waiting for the EFL to give them power and depending on generator which makes their life more harder. Living at the center of an urban area and still at this point of time, people depend on generators which consumes fuel. This page is for public to give their views and to bring up the issues into light.

People’s voice speaks up now!! 👏

“GIVE US A CHAIR” is what a senior cashier at a supermarket shared with me. And today, her voice has been echoed in our Parliament 🇫🇯

Walk into any supermarket in Suva, Nadi, Lautoka or Labasa and you will see them. Young women and mothers standing rigid behind a till for 8, 10, sometimes 12 hours a day. No stool. No relief. No small kindness from the employer who counts the day's takings every evening.

We are quietly building a generation of Fijian workers who will spend their later years living with varicose veins, swollen joints and chronic back pain. Who is to bear the medical cost behind all these years of hard labor? Is the question I ask.

None of this was ever inevitable. All of it was always preventable.

I believe a chair/stool is not a luxury. It is occupational health. A worker who is allowed to sit when there is no customer is a worker who can still walk without pain at sixty.

Every supermarket, every retail chain, every pharmacy and every bank in this country can afford a stool behind the counter. What they cannot afford is to keep treating the human beings who run their tills as if their bodies do not matter. Dignity at work begins with the smallest, most human gestures, and a chair is one of them.