By FONUA TALEI The Minister for Health Dr Neil Sharma is urging people to learn to listen, do the right thing, and take responsibility of their health. He issued the statement in an interview with the Fiji Sun on Friday saying the biggest issue was getting people to change their attitude. “The social determinants of [...]
Continue reading …By SITERI SAUVAKACOLO Three men were rushed to the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva early yesterday morning after sustaining injuries in a brawl. Totogo Police Station Commanding Officer Assistant Superintendent Tevita Waqabaca said the brawl happened at Rodwell Road around 5am to 6am. As a result of the brawl, the glass windows of [...]
Continue reading …By SITERI SAUVAKACOLO The three Ghana nationals who had pleaded guilty to illegal use of personal information from credit cards will be sentenced on Friday July 13. Marvin Opoku Agyemang, Boakye Vincent Kwame, and Isaac Velison appeared before Magistrate Yohan Liyanage on Friday at the Suva Magistrates Court. They have been further remanded. The three [...]
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By RACHNA LAL and ELLEN STOLZ High interest has been shown by people over the last two days during the Housing Authority’s open site exhibition to view residential lots at Tacirua East Stage 2B, in Suva. Housing Authority spokesperson, Dwain Qalovaki, said they had over 200 families who came to view the 81 [...]
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Source: Campaign Asia-Pacific Hong Kong: Korean giant Samsung has come out as the No. 1 brand in the Campaign Asia-Pacific 2012 Top 1000 Asia-Pacific Brands report, co-produced with global information and insights provider Nielsen. Rounding out the top five are Apple, Sony, Nestlé and Panasonic, in that order. The top-of-mind study, in its ninth year, [...]
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By ADRIAN HUGHES Westpac General Manager Westpac general manager, Adrian Hughes’, Financial Fitness release is published in the Fiji Sun monthly. One of the certainties of life is that at some stage, you’ll need to pay for a product or service you’ve received. One of our goals at Westpac is to make banking easier. [...]
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By ELLEN STOLZ Customers of Home Finance Company (HFC) Limited will now be able to call HFC offices via mobile phone and get charged the mobile rate instead of the landline rate. This launch was a bid to enhance their customer service delivery to mobile users; Home Finance Company (HFC) Limited has launched their mobile [...]
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By ELLEN STOLZ Home Finance Company (HFC) Limited has completed upgrades, amounting up to $50,000, of the Colonial War Memorial (CWM) Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The six weeks project covered five rooms. The new ward was handed over to the Minister for Heath, Dr Neil Sharma on Friday by the staff of HFC who [...]
Continue reading …Rajend Naidu Sydney Dr Susan Merrell the Australian journalist with a Phd in political science who has covered the Julian Moti trial quite extensively tells us in her article (Fiji Sun 3/7) that “ Mr Moti’s lawyers are yet to receive a reply ( to a request) from either the Australian Government Solicitor’s Office or [...]
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Giving voice to our young
July 8, 2012 No CommentThe voice of our young people needs to be heard to help build a better Fiji for all Fijians, now and in the future. And for their voice to be heard, they should participate in the electronic voter registration (EVR) which has started. Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama and his Government came into power in [...]
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