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Minister for Women, Social Welfare, and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Jiko Luveni, recently met with 10 trainee Fijian women at the Barefoot College in Rajasthan, India. The women from Cakaudrove, Macuata, Bua, and Ba are undergoing a six-month solar engineering training programme at the college. The training is a ministry project aimed at empowering women to [...]

By ARIETA VAKASUKAWAQA The Land Transport Authority (LTA) warns that people to refrain from asking for money and selling food at busy intersections, roundabouts and under traffic lights. This is an everyday practice along the Kings Road between Suva and Nausori. The warning came after people were noticed holding cans and stopping vehicles at busy [...]

By ARIETA VAKASUKAWAQA Fallen power  lines from a leaning power post at the road side near Nasese Foreshore could put the public lives at risk, Suva City Council workers fear. A council worker who wished to remain unanimous said they had known about the fallen power line but nothing had been done until it was [...]

By SHRATIKA NAIDU Vunivau Temple Road zone one is the third crime prevention committee in Labasa to launch a community watch zone programme. The chief guest at the Saturday’s launch was Macuata provincial administrator, Joseva Rokonai. He said the community watch zones had been set up mostly in red zone areas to challenge the communities [...]

By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS in     RIO DE JANEIRO Four Pacific Islands countries – Fiji, Kiribati, Palau and Samoa – have declared their support for the new Global Partnership for Oceans (GPO), whose aim is to restore the world’s oceans to health productivity. In addition, four regional organisations based in the Pacific have also thrown [...]

By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS         in Rio de Janeiro Fiji and other Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) in Rio de Janeiro are pushing for special recognition of their ‘unique and particular vulnerabilities’. The ‘special case’ of SIDS is reflected in three paragraphs of the draft text now negotiated by 190 countries at the [...]

By SHRATIKA NAIDU Lily Saint John, a Form Five student of All Saints Secondary School in Labasa won the World Donor Day oratory contest at Labasa during the weekend. She competed against representatives from nine schools at the Seaqaqa Police Station bure. Her theme was ‘Every blood donor is a hero’. “This year we should [...]