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Constitution Case Uproar
Tuesday, 14 November 2000, 2:40 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The controversial Fiji Islands civil case challenging the legality of the abrogation of the 1997 multiracial constitution is again causing an uproar within the legal fraternity, reports the Daily Post. More >>
Journalists Charged For 'Associating With Rebels'
Tuesday, 14 November 2000, 10:16 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): Two Fiji Islands journalists based in the northern town of Labasa have been arrested and charged for unlawful assembly and unlawful use of a motor vehicle over the seizure of a military barracks by rebel soldiers, according to media reports. More >>
Calls for military to clean up 'rogue elements'
Tuesday, 14 November 2000, 9:07 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's most influential daily newspaper today bitterly condemned the military over a weekend incident in which soldiers are alleged to have confronted police at gunpoint over rebels who had surrendered. More >>
FIJI: Police charge two Fiji journalists
Tuesday, 14 November 2000, 9:05 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews): Police in Fiji have charged two journalists in controversial circumstances concerning their coverage of the mutiny of soldiers during May at an army base in northern Fiji, reports Pacnews. More >>
Four People Shot Dead In Western Solomons
Monday, 13 November 2000, 11:41 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Is (WP): Four people were shot dead today in an early morning raid at the capital town of the Western Solomons. More >>
Fiji Television Defies Minister Over Fight Date
Monday, 13 November 2000, 9:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji Television is defying a directive by the military installed interim administration to provide live broadcast coverage on today's title defence by world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis against Pacific challenger David Tua on the free-to-air ... More >>
Human Rights Body Eyes Violation Allegations
Monday, 13 November 2000, 9:47 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The Fiji Human Rights Commission has confirmed that it has the powers to investigate the Fiji Military Forces for alleged violations, according to the Fiji Sun. More >>
Commander's Children Whisked To Safety Amid Unrest
Friday, 10 November 2000, 11:19 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama's two children were whisked away from school yesterday by army bodyguards and the armed forces denied any 48-hour curfew amid rumours of major civil unrest in the capital. More >>
New Zealand rejects trade delegation
Friday, 10 November 2000, 9:43 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The New Zealand government has reportedly declined hospitality to a Fiji trade and investment delegation which was planning to visit NZ. More >>
Another Threat Of Uprising From Qarase
Friday, 10 November 2000, 9:41 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Interim regime Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase has again threatened Fiji with violence much worse than that around 19 May if democracy was restored in Fiji. More >>
Indigenous Fijians United In Disliking Indians
Friday, 10 November 2000, 9:40 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama says that the only thing which united the indigenous Fijians is their dislike for Indians. More >>
Rabuka Started Giving Orders, Says Commander
Friday, 10 November 2000, 9:37 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Military Commander, Frank Bainimarama says at the height of the loyalist military assault against the rebel soldiers, former army commander Maj. Gen. Started giving orders against his orders. More >>
Government Wants To Prosecute 'Saboteurs' Of Fiji
Friday, 10 November 2000, 9:35 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews): Legislation aimed at prosecuting those who campaign for trade and economic sanctions against Fiji is expected to be ready in this Pacific island nation next week, reports PACNEWS. More >>
Human Rights Group Calls For Human Rights In Fiji
Thursday, 9 November 2000, 3:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews): The human rights group, Amnesty International is calling on its friends to issue an urgent appeal for the respect of human rights in Fiji in light of last Thursday's foiled takeover of the military headquarters in the capital Suva by a ... More >>
Radio Fiji Contract Tender Will Lay Workers Off
Thursday, 9 November 2000, 3:34 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Redundancies are imminent at the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation should the Fiji Government give its public broadcasting contract to a new operator, the Fiji Sun reports. More >>
Fiji Times Warns Against Dictatorship
Thursday, 9 November 2000, 10:02 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Gagging orders against Fiji military suspects based on hearsay allegations were today condemned by the Fiji Times which warned army authorities against turning the country into a dictatorship. More >>
Metu@ Internet Project Enters New Phase
Wednesday, 8 November 2000, 4:07 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PAPE'ETE (OFO): An ambitious Internet dissemination project code-named "metu@" will enter its second year of existence with a three-day forum focusing on how French Polynesia can evolve with the input of new information technologies, RFO radio reports. More >>
Military Controls Movement Of Suspect Colonels
Wednesday, 8 November 2000, 10:50 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: News media have reported two senior Fiji military officers are under house arrest but one, a high-flying colonel, denies this and the military have now said the men are held under "restricted movement". More >>
Fiji High Court Avoids Constitutional Questions
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 9:32 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The highest court in Fiji has declined to be drawn into the debate of the validity of the abrogation of the country's supreme law, the 1997 Constitution, Pacnews reports. More >>
Wansolwara Issue On The Pacific Media
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 4:15 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Agence France Presse correspondent Michael Field has blasted the "ineffectual" South Pacific Forum leadership in the wake of last month's ban on him, reporters have examined the finances of Fiji's recently evicted media industry training institute, ... More >>
