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SIREN CALL: Bainimarama should FIX failed Tsunami Sirens at home before embarking around the world to campaign for climate change!!!!!

5/1/2017

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Failed tsunami sirens point to late alert:  The late dissemination of the tsunami alert by Fiji's Mineral Resource Department yesterday led to the failure of tsunami sirens being activated, says National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) acting director Sunia Ratulevu: Fiji Times

Dear [Fijileaks] Editor:
"Both Vodafone and Digicel have the capacity to send SMS broadcasts during emergencies. The process to get the message to the masses is a fairly simple one and requires no great mind...
Given that it is Fiji, they will probably setup a working committee for a few years before coming to some very inconclusive and irrelevant conclusions"

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Fijileaks to Frank Bainimarama: WHY can't you PROTECT Kulukulu in Sigatoka from voracious Chinese who are dredging the marine life and livelihood out of Kulukulu communities? WALK THE CLIMATE TALK!

"As many of you know, Fiji has been given the honour by the global community to be President of COP-23 – the United Nations climate negotiations to reduce carbon emissions and arrest the global warming that is triggering extreme weather events like Winston and causing the seas to rise. As your Prime Minister, I will be guiding the deliberations of almost 200 countries as we gather in Bonn, Germany, in November..Tonight, I want to explain to each and every one of you the importance of this mission and why I will be spending so much of my time this year on COP-23 to make it the success that it must be for the sake of every person on the planet. And to explain why it is also crucial that we make a resounding success of the World Oceans Summit – which Fiji is cohosting with Sweden in New York in June. First of all, I see it as my overriding responsibility as the leader of our nation to secure the future of the Fijian people. To protect our environment, our land and seas, not only for the sake of every Fijian today but for the generations to come. Nothing is more important than this. Because if we can’t defend ourselves against extreme weather events and the rising seas; if we can’t protect our seas and our marine resources, then all our efforts to develop our nation will be jeopardised. Everything depends on our ability to get the world to sit up and take notice of the unprecedented threat we currently face to our way of life." Frank Bainimarama's New Year Message

 A Chinese company is accused of DREDGING the life out of Kulukulu
"Heaps of baby fish lay DEAD along the shore line....waiting for the high tide to wash them away.... Dredging is on 24/7...and only pauses for 2 hrs in a day; Sleepless nights from the disturbing noise. It's so sad..nature built us a beautiful beach and it took them just one day to
take it away from us."

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4 Comments
Pip!... Pip!
5/1/2017 05:31:41 pm

When Bainimarama embarks on the world climate stage, the world leaders would know how his sirens had failed.

Thank God for no Tsunami !!!

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Shannon
5/1/2017 07:11:55 pm

Dear Editor,

Mr. Ratulevu's comments only seek to further show the rather large gaps in the incident response plan the NDMO is using [do they have an incident response plan/document?].

Why is there no secondary option in their response plan? If the warning system/siren failed, shouldn't the NDMO have asked the radio and television stations to do an emergency broadcast as well as utilising the MSP's to broadcast messages? These channels would have guaranteed 99.9999% of the population was aware of what was happening.

Simply pushing the blame on to the technology only makes this worse because it then raises queries about whether or not routine testing and simulations of the technology along with the entire incident response plan were being done as it should normally be done. I can understand the age old saying of "if it aint broke, don't fix it" but in this case it was a glaring example of something being broken simply because no one bothered to check it.

Incident response plans should be simulated at least bi-annually so as to ensure that when it needs to be put into practice, it works like a well oiled machine.

Mr. Ratulevu is simply passing the buck.

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Pyotr Velikiy
6/1/2017 04:34:54 am

The Fiji First government has installed hundreds of Sirens and flashing lights...in Black Prado's ,so that FFP minions can commute from home to work without interference from the idiot population.
The PM has around 5 or 6 of these Prado in various colours and private number plates with blue flashing lights.
SO NOW EVERYONE WANTS SIRENS? Tsunami? What's that? Anything to do with global warming? If the answer is no than no SIRENS for you stupid population.
It's only for us FFP and friends and relatives and girlfriends....inside heavy tinted windows.
GWAAN YOU BLERRY SIREN MONGERS!!

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maropito
6/1/2017 06:00:04 am

If the siren is fixed bai kai will not get the AID to fill their pocket and the hardware companies, Manu Bhai and vinod patels pocket.

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