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Constitution Commissioner admits lack of response
Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 10:02 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
The regime's Constitutional Review Commissioner, Jo Singh has admitted that the representatives of a vast majority of the people of Fiji have not made their submissions to the CRC. More >>
Fiji Rice Industry collapsing
Monday, 12 February 2001, 12:20 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
Today's Sunday Times reports that rice farmers are now no longer planting rice because the state owned Rewa Rice company is not paying them a price which can sustain the industry. It says that farmers were paid $400 per tonne of rice, then the price fell ... More >>
Regime's Minister embarrassed by Samanunu delay
Monday, 12 February 2001, 12:04 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
The regime's interim Foreign Affairs minister is embarrassed by the delay in the decision on Adi Samanunu Talakuli Cakobau. More >>
Fiji laid off employee angry at Qarse
Monday, 12 February 2001, 12:02 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
"I am angry at Qarase" - says laid off employee Workers are now increasingly expressing their frustrations at the Qarase regime for their fate. Over 18 thousand workers lost their jobs after the terrorists struck Fiji's Parliament. Thousands others suffered ... More >>
Samanunu Case Delayed further
Friday, 9 February 2001, 11:50 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
The case involving the involvement of Fiji's Ambassador to Malaysia, Adi Samanunu Talakuli Cakobau, with terrorists in Fiji has been delayed. The People's Coalition Government was tipped of the attempt to delay the case over two weeks ago. More >>
Tourism industry wants democracy
Friday, 9 February 2001, 11:48 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
Today's Fiji Sun quoted the General Secretary of the National Union of Hotel and Catering Workers, Timoci Naivaluwaqa as saying that the workers in the industry suffered significantly through redundancies, forced pay-cuts and reduced working hours. He ... More >>
Fiji Regime attacks independent journalists
Thursday, 8 February 2001, 12:55 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
A Pacific Media Watch news story article states that three prominent "Australian and New Zealand journalists have been attacked by Fiji's interim regime and sympathetic news media, embarrassed by the country's poor post-coup international image." More >>
Fate of Fiji Economy in military's hands
Thursday, 8 February 2001, 12:52 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
Fiji lost hundreds of million of dollars of investment which that was poised to revitalise the Fiji economy just as the failed May 2000 coup struck, states the Kontiki Fund Ltd's last quarter report of 2000. More >>
Ethnic Fijians lost respect for law
Thursday, 8 February 2001, 12:51 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
A Fiji Sun article today reports on Rabuno's comments to the Fiji Law Society's call for respect for rule of law. Rabuno's comments come only a day after the Fijian Political Parties Forum stated that it respected the rule of law and that it will not lead ... More >>
Fiji regime fumes over Australian TV report
Thursday, 8 February 2001, 12:48 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
The regime is fuming over the production and screening of a documentary on evicted farmers by the SBS TV of Australia. The documentary showed the process of eviction of tenant farmers from land and their fate thereafter. It concluded that the farmers ... More >>
Two attacks on cabbies per day
Wednesday, 7 February 2001, 11:05 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
Fiji police has reported that on average two taxi drivers are attacked per day. Today's Fiji Times revealed the Police statistics and stated that taxi drivers are now forming vigilante groups to defend themselves. More >>
Racism has destroyed the sugar industry
Wednesday, 7 February 2001, 11:03 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
Racism in Fiji has destroyed the Fiji sugar industry, says a former FSC employee. More >>
Extreme Poverty in Fiji
Monday, 5 February 2001, 12:44 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
A University of the South Pacific academic says that 42% of Fiji's population suffers from extreme poverty. More >>
Regime admits its plan is not implementable
Monday, 5 February 2001, 12:43 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
In a statement made to today's Sunday Times, the regime's Education Minister stated: "It is obvious that we will not be able to fund even half of the projects that have been proposed." More >>
The Evicted are landless, penniless and voiceless
Monday, 5 February 2001, 12:40 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
Farmers evicted in Fiji are now "landless, penniless and worst of all voiceless". This is the message contained in a special SBS program on evicted farmers in Fiji. More >>
Another terrorist discharged
Sunday, 4 February 2001, 11:21 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
The Chief Magistrate Salesi Temo has discharged terrorist-cum-mutineer Kanito Matanigasau yesterday because the prosecution did not show up in the court. More >>
Fiji Academic says NLTB exploits tenants
Sunday, 4 February 2001, 11:14 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
In an article published in today's Daily Post, Dr. Reddy stated that the NLTB had devised numerous mechanisms to extract money from tenant farmers. More >>
Tarakinikini rejected by UN
Sunday, 4 February 2001, 11:12 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
The UN has rejected Lt. Col. Filipo Tarakinikini's high-profiler application for a UN secondment for a year. More >>
Race-inspired rapes rising
Friday, 2 February 2001, 11:47 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
According to a report in today's Fiji Times, the Women's Crisis centre says that "inter-racial rapes" and abuse of women has become more frequent now. Centre's Shamima Ali was quoted as saying: "The recent spread of violence could be attributed to the ... More >>
Indigenous rights claim exposed as fraudulent
Friday, 2 February 2001, 11:33 am | Fiji Peoples Coalition Government
The claim of the SVT and a collection of splinter political groups that it is championing indigenous rights and the chiefly system has been exposed as a disguise for power grab. More >>
