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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 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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By LEONE CABENATABUA THE VOICE OF AUSTRALIA How come Mick Beddoes gets so much time on the Australian Foreign Affairs Ministry-funded Radio Australia Pacific Beat programme? Mr Beddoes has never had any significant public support. In the 2006 elections his United Peoples Party got just 0.84 per cent of the vote. Yet if you listened [...]

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OPINION By Rajendra Prasad, Auckland (Rajendra Prasad’s grandparents were Girmitiyas who went to Fiji in the ship Sangola II in 1908. He is the author of Tears in Paradise – Suffering and Struggles of Indians in Fiji 1879-2004, and former Town Clerk of Ba, now resident in Auckland, New Zealand.) When a teacher asked a [...]

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By Leone Cabenatabua TRUE COLOUR Members of a prominent political party are currently doing a research on the background of its leader before their next big meeting. Dickie Bird said this is where a series of questions will be asked to the leader as they try to find out his true motive of joining them [...]

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By LEONE CABENATABUA CHANGE OF TUNE The emergence of a former senior military officer in a political party has caused a stir among its committee members. Dickie Bird said questions are being raised especially when the person in question had not supported the party’s stand since 2006. Members of this political party are all geared [...]

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