Growing gap between the rich and poor
By DR TK JAYARAMAN The Report on the growing divide between rich and poor by a 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based in Paris surprised many. The surprise is not in regard to the finding: austerity measures under the supply side economics hypothesis in the wake of the world economic crisis [...]
By : LEONE CABENATABUA HUSH, HUSH It’s all kept silent. Dickie Bird said executives of one of our financial institutions are keeping it very quiet as to how they approved a $200,000 loan to a company that did not exist. Dickie Bird pointed out executives somewhat failed to thoroughly vet the application, which led to [...]
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By LEONE CABENATABUA LAU QUESTION What is Lakeba Tikina Limited? This is the question many Lauans are asking as they only know the existence of the Lakeba Tikina Council. Dickie Bird said if that is the case then who are the people behind the Lakeba Tikina Limited now in the spotlight? The name has been [...]
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By Leone cabenatabua ON BOARD Today marks the arrival of Air Pacific’s second Fiji Airways Airbus A330 aircraft. This plane is named ‘Island of Namuka-i-Lau’, which is the home island of the designer of the airline’s Masi motif Makereta Matemosi. Dickie Bird said she and her family were flown to Los Angeles last week by [...]
Continue reading …By Leone cabenatabua MISSING MONEY Gremlins were at work in Walu Bay this week. This was when over a thousand dollars in cash went missing from the counter of one of the shipping companies there. There was lots of finger pointing. Dickie Bird said the money was to be used to pay off the crew [...]
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By LEONE CABENATABUA BIG WELCOME Look for a display of masi of various prints at the Nadi International Airport, to greet the arrival of Air Pacific’s second Fiji Airways Airbus 330 aircraft on Thursday. Dickie Bird said the people of Namuka-i-Lau have been working on the masi for months for the arrival of the aircraft [...]
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OPINION By KELVIN DAVIS (Kelvin Davis is the director or Greymouse, a cloud service-provider that supplies high quality, time-bound and cost-efficient services through its own facility in Fiji.) Despite being a young company in the very competitive market of messaging, Viber has not only managed to hit its 200 million user mark, but more. It [...]
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By: LEONE CABENATABUA DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE LIES The anti-Government types lurking on the Internet seem to be getting even more desperate than usual. The Facebook page Kacivaka na Dina’s lies have been further exposed by Amnesty International and the International Court of Justice. Kacivaka na Dina claimed that investigators would be coming to Fiji to [...]
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