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Written By : Source: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION. Address by Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama to the United Nations General Assembly in New York yesterday. Ni sa bula vinaka and warm greetings to you all from the Government and people of Fiji. May I take this opportunity Mr President, to congratulate you on your election to [...]

Written By : DR ROBIN TAYLOR. (Dr. Robin Taylor, is the Curriculum Director of a primary and early secondary school called the Multiple Intelligence School (www.intelligencefiji.org), email: robin@intelligencefiji.org.) The language? – nope. Both countries have names that start with ‘Fi’? – yes. A love of cross country skiing? – err, no! However, I would like [...]

Written By : SOURCE: BBC. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is at the centre of the phone hacking scandal engulfing British politics. But how did the press baron go from inheriting an evening newspaper in a sleepy Australian city to becoming a global media titan? By the middle of the 1960s Rupert Murdoch (pictured) was on [...]

Written By : KARAM RAMRAKHA. (Karam C Ramrakha, Fiji MP 1966-1982, President of Fiji Law Society 1970 and 1974 and President of Fiji Teachers Union 1974-1982, recalls how a Hindu lawyer put the Christian bible to good use) Readers will be amused to know that I pine for my Fijian Bible purchased in 1956. It [...]

Written By : PATRICIA BORNS THE BOSTON GLOBE. To travel 7500 miles for a five-star, air-conditioned villa on the beach would have been to miss the heart of Fiji. That was not what I had in mind as I travelled with a 50-pound suitcase of medical supplies from the East Coast to Fiji’s Nadi International [...]

Written By : Mark (Bakchos) Mullins . By Mark (Bakchos) Mullins Mark (Bakchos) Mullins is an Indigenous Australian, human right philosopher and activist of Wiradjuri descent. He blocks at http://blakandblack.com. As we approach end-game in the long running Moti Saga, now is the appropriate time to take pause and reflect on the political machinations that [...]

Written By : RAJEND PRASAD . (Rajendra Prasad is the author of Tears in Paradise – Suffering and Struggles of Indians in Fiji 1879-2004. He is a former Ba Town Clerk) Fiji is blessed with rich agricultural land, good climate and a rich pool of great farmers. However, the land has not been put to [...]

Written By : THE CHINA POST. In the world of visas, foreign aid, diplomacy and other pressing international issues, the last thing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) needs is a sex-related scandal. Sadly, the latest headline-making news on foreign relations is just that: From the unsavory elements of rumored extramarital affairs and intra-ministry intrigue [...]

Written By : ALLEN LOCKINGTON. An extraordinary thing happened at the Farmers Carnival in Lautoka . A friend sent his 23-year-old grandson with their seven-year-old grandson to the carnival and the little boy wanted to have a ride on the merry-go-round. The boys are not related. While the little boy was taking his ride the [...]

Written By : Thakur Ranjit Singh. Auckland-based Thakur Ranjit Singh is a political commentator and has been through Rabuka and Speight’s coups in 1987 and 2000 respectively. During the latter, he was the publisher of Fiji’s Daily Post newspaper. He was Auckland University of Technology/ Pacific Islands Media Association (AUT/PIMA) Pasifika postgraduate scholar in 2009/10. [...]