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'Poor Will Pay The Price,' Says Chaudhry
Monday, 19 March 2001, 10:20 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Poor and the disadvantaged people will pay the price for the "illegal, unconstitutional and unlawful" decision of Fiji authorities, says "dismissed" elected Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry. More >>
Qarase Back As Caretaker PM
Friday, 16 March 2001, 9:39 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Unelected banker Laisenia Qarase was today appointed caretaker prime minister to lead Fiji to general elections later this year as critics described the president's controversial efforts to resolve the country's political impasse as illegal, local ... More >>
FIJI: Coalition backs Baba
Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 10:19 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Elected members of the Fiji people's coalition government have backed deposed deputy prime minister Dr Tupeni Baba and a government of national unity as the best way forward to solve the country's political vacuum, the Sun reports. More >>
Fijian analyst says Fiji lacks clear leader
Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 7:32 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
A leading Pacific affairs analyst says political instability will continue in Fiji - as long as a serious "leadership vacuum" exists. Teresia Teaiwa, senior lecturer in Pacific Affairs at Victoria University in Wellington says those with aspirations ... More >>
Chaudhry beats off challenges
Tuesday, 6 March 2001, 9:15 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Fiji's ousted Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has beaten public challenges with the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) caucus today confirming his leadership despite calls for his removal, Pacnews reports. More >>
Fiji Times condemned over 'security threat' report
Tuesday, 6 March 2001, 9:13 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch). - Fiji's ousted elected Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and the military forces spokesman have condemned a Fiji Times newspaper report claiming that Chaudhry was a "threat to national security" if he returned as prime minister, ... More >>
Chaudhry ready to work with 'clean' govt
Monday, 5 March 2001, 11:05 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Ousted Fiji prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry says he will not be part of any government which may include people allegedly involved in the May 19 attempted coup, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Fiji Media welcome court ruling
Monday, 5 March 2001, 7:53 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Fiji's three daily newspapers today cautiously welcomed the historic Appeal Court ruling upholding the 1997 multiracial constitution, but the illegal regime signalled that it would not immediately resign. More >>
FIJI: Coalition calls for convening of Parliament
Monday, 5 March 2001, 7:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): The deposed elected coalition government in Fiji has appealed to acting President Ratu Josefa Iloilo to call an urgent sitting of Parliament following last week's historic Court of Appeal ruling, Pacnews reports. More >>
Chiefs To Decide Rabuka's Fate
Sunday, 4 March 2001, 12:06 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The fate of Fiji's 1987 coup leader and former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka as chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs will be decided when the council meets at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks on Thursday, the Sun reports. More >>
Siwatibau calls for good governance
Friday, 2 March 2001, 3:28 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): The new vice-chancellor for the University of the South Pacific, Savenaca Siwatibau, met students on his first day at work today and told them that good governance was vital for the success of the university. More >>
Mixed Reactions From Suva Public
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 7:43 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): The Fiji Court of Appeal triggered mixed reactions from the public in the capital of Suva today. While many were optimistic, others felt Fiji was still not out of troubled waters yet. More >>
Judgement Hailed - Uncertainty Follows
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 7:12 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Constitutional lawyers, political scientists and analysts today hailed the Fiji Court of Appeal's judgement upholding the 1997 constitution as the country's supreme law, but the country was plunged into uncertainly about the future. More >>
Republic of Fiji and AG vs Chandrika Prasad
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 6:42 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
1 March 2001 THE JUDGEMENT SUMMARY: Republic of Fiji and Attorney General vs Chandrika Prasad More >>
Fiji’s High court judges tipped to resign
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 3:05 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Three High Court judges will reportedly resign if the Fiji Court of Appeal rules tomorrow that the 1999 multiracial Constitution has been abrogated, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Early election looms – Fiji
Tuesday, 27 February 2001, 2:30 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Watch for the Fiji Islands to go to the polls within the next few months, perhaps as early as April, reports the Daily Post. But all will depend on how the Court of Appeal validates the legitimacy of interim regime Prime Minister ... More >>
Fiji Sun challenges media 'interpretations'
Tuesday, 27 February 2001, 2:17 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's newest daily newspaper, the Sun, has challenged some of its rivals over "interpretations" of media freedom in the wake of allegations of suppression of information by broadcast news media during the Court of Appeal ... More >>
New Caledonian Radio & TV Still Paralysed
Friday, 23 February 2001, 1:52 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
NOUMEA, February 20 (Oceania Flash/SPC) - A union blockade of New Caledonia's radio and television RFO station is still causing the French territory to be left without its two television and one radio channels, daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes ... More >>
Fiji Police force TV to delay 'forum'
Friday, 23 February 2001, 1:50 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): Police threats to arrest media people and personalities involved in a "leaders forum" current affairs programme for broadcast by Fiji Television have forced the country's sole station to postpone the item, media reports say. More >>
The man behind the constitutional case
Wednesday, 21 February 2001, 8:55 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius/Fiji Sun): The respondent in Fiji's constitutional case, Muainaweni farmer Chandrika Prasad, feels confident he will attain another victory when the Fiji Court of Appeal finally makes a ruling on Justice Anthony Gates' decision to ... More >>
