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By RACHNA LAL Air Pacific continues to fly high. The national carrier has been ranked the fifth ‘Best Airline in the Australia Pacific Region.’ This was announced during the prestigious 2012 Skytrax World Airline Awards held at the Farnborough Air Show in the United Kingdom last week. The awards are the most prestigious accolades for [...]

By JYOTI PRATIBHA An invitation has been extended for Fiji to be the chief guest during the International Trade Show in Noumea, New Caledonia. The French Ambassador to Fiji, Gilles Montagnier, revealed this during the Bastille Day celebrations on Saturday night at the Fiji Museum in Suva. “If Fiji responds positively, the Embassy of France [...]

By FONUA TALEI The Fiji Police Force is warning members of the public to refrain from taking the law into their own hands. This is after an electronic voter registration (EVR) team serving in the Serua area was chased from a village last week. Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro said the team went to conduct registration [...]

By Leone cabenatabua Dickie Bird flew in with news of this landlord at Lawedua Lane in Samabula. The landlord could not pay the electricity bill and his poor tenants had to suffer as they were without power since last week on Tuesday even though they were up to date with their rent payments. The landlord [...]

By Leone cabenatabua A sporting body has been summoned by the sports minister to meet him today. Dickie Bird said this is for the body to explain to him the decision they had made earlier.

By Leone cabenatabua The big Heilala Festival in Tonga starts on July 21. During the week-long festival the Indian Cultural Centre, High Commission of India, dancers from here have been invited to perform. The 10-member group is led by Shobna Chanel.

By Leone cabenatabua Our Airline – Nauru’s national airline, that is – is again looking north. Which could again mean a flight from Fiji via Nauru up into the islands of the North Pacific. In the past the Nauruans operated a popular island-hopping flight that went from Nadi, to Nauru, Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia), [...]

By FONUA TALEI Senior officers of the Fiji Corrections Service (FCS) were yesterday informed that the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) encouraged efficient allocation of Governments’ limited resources. They were told that it was crucial in bridging Government ministries and department budgets and policies enclosed in the Roadmap for Democracy Sustainable and Socio-economic Development and [...]