Tourism industry farewells giant
By JESSAN DOTON A veritable who’s who of Fiji’s tourism industry converged on Musket Cove Resort to farewell a giant of the industry – Dick Smith. Mr Smith, who died earlier this week, built and developed Musket Cove from the ground up and saw a future only he could envision. In his final days an [...]
By JYOTI PRATIBHA Former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase will be sentenced on Friday morning in the case abuse of office and discharge of duty, for which he was convicted yesterday. A former Vice President, a former Opposition Leader and a former President of the Methodist Church in Fiji were character witnesses for Qarase in the [...]
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By ANASILINI RATUVA The Fiji Secondary Schools Rugby Association (FSSRA) on Monday has ruled in favour of a protest filed by the Nasinu Secondary School (NSS) Under-18 rugby team. In its ruling they ordered a quarterfinal rematch between Lelean Memorial School and NSS on Saturday at Prince Charles Park in Nadi. NSS filed a protest [...]
Continue reading …By ANASILINI RATUVA The failure of Nasinu Secondary School to get their principal to sign their protest gave Lelean Memorial School the ground to argue their case. This left the Fiji Secondary Schools Rugby Association (FSSRA) executives no other alternative on Monday night but to order a rematch. FSSRA vice-president development Samisoni Baikeitoga said LMS [...]
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By JESSAN DOTON The Services 7s 2012 will be launched on Friday at the Fiji Navy Base in Walu Bay, Suva. The Services 7s is a fundraising initiative by the Fiji Naval Association for the welfare of their senior members. Twenty teams (four teams of the Fiji Army, four of the Fiji Police, four of [...]
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By LITIA MATTHEWSELL The Tongan women’s rugby 7s team sees New Zealand as a threat in their pool and not the Fijianas. Speaking to SUNsports yesterday, coach Eva Masi said, they were looking forward to their battle against the Kiwis at Churchill Park in Lautoka on Friday. “We are ready for them,” Masi said. “New [...]
Continue reading …By LEONE CABENATABUA Upcoming Fijian winger Marika Koroibete was rushed into the Wests Tigers NRL first grade line-up on Monday night. Injury woes forced Tigers coach Tim Sheens to field the 19-year-old speedster who has scored 13 tries in the NRL Toyota Cup (Under-20) competition. It was a bad start for Koroibete as they were [...]
Continue reading …By ANASILINI RATUVA It will be a David and Goliath battle as Assemblies of God High School takes on Coke Zero Deans Trophy defending champions Queen Victoria School in the semifinal at Prince Charles Park in Nadi on Saturday. Maintaining possession and allowing continuity on the field will be some areas the Under-18 AGHS team [...]
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By JYOTI PRATIBHA The High Court in Suva yesterday convicted former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase for corruption related charges. Judge Justice Priyantha Fernando agreed with the assessors and convicted Qarase of six counts of abuse of office and three counts of discharge of duty with respect to property in which he has a private interest. [...]
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By ARISHMA DEVI The number of registered voters is now more than half way; almost reaching Government’s target of registering 600,000 Fijians. As the electronic voter registration began for the fifth week, the total registration across EVR centres stands at 305,631. This includes the total newly registered voters on Monday at 11,619. Meanwhile, EVR’s centres [...]
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