Fiji: National Priorities

Editor,

All the money - every single cent of it - meant for the new constitution making enterprise should now be diverted to help the thousands of people whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by the latest devastating floods that have hit Fiji . (yahoo!7 news 1/4).

For a small island country with less then one million people who have historically lived together fairly harmoniously there was never the need to expand so much of the national resources in framing a "perfect" new constitution.

We have more reasons to keep our valuable scarse resources handy for our rainy days - like the present ones overwhelming our country and its people.

There is a definite need to reorientate our national priority to suit our real needs - and not politically imagined ones.

Yours sincerely,

Rajend naidu

Sydney

ENDS

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