Comment on Savea's Editorial
Looking at the past Investment rush
You are right Savea. Things don’t go the way they ought to go in Samoa. In fact it is the same situation all over the world. What we think makes sense in our circumstances to solve our local problems do not fit the “formula”or the current economic wisdom that surfaced since the Fall of the Berlin Wall and accelerated in the nineties- about the time of the Samoa Foreign Investment Bill.
It is almost as if ‘looking at the past’ is not part of the “formula” whilst the CCCS plans for a bank, the government’s plan for a casino, it’s land registration act, the road switch, water plans, energy plans, communication plans and dictated crops are all designs that fit the “formula”.
With so much fertile undeveloped land, you’d think that is a major part of the answer to unemployment through developing export oriented diversified crop farming.
By the way those beautiful green tipolo(lemons) are very expensive here so I reckon add that to the list. But I agree to cross taro and ta’amu out then our people don’t have to eat pisupo lololo (the killer!) Yum!
Ma le fa’aaloalo. Meripa Weir.
(Samoa Observer 27/06/10)
You are right Savea. Things don’t go the way they ought to go in Samoa. In fact it is the same situation all over the world. What we think makes sense in our circumstances to solve our local problems do not fit the “formula”or the current economic wisdom that surfaced since the Fall of the Berlin Wall and accelerated in the nineties- about the time of the Samoa Foreign Investment Bill.
It is almost as if ‘looking at the past’ is not part of the “formula” whilst the CCCS plans for a bank, the government’s plan for a casino, it’s land registration act, the road switch, water plans, energy plans, communication plans and dictated crops are all designs that fit the “formula”.
With so much fertile undeveloped land, you’d think that is a major part of the answer to unemployment through developing export oriented diversified crop farming.
By the way those beautiful green tipolo(lemons) are very expensive here so I reckon add that to the list. But I agree to cross taro and ta’amu out then our people don’t have to eat pisupo lololo (the killer!) Yum!
Ma le fa’aaloalo. Meripa Weir.
(Samoa Observer 27/06/10)
posted by Meripa Weir at 6:39 PM
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