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FIJI: Coalition threatens to take Speight to court
Monday, 28 August 2000, 8:43 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's deposed elected People's Coalition government will take rebel leader George Speight and his group to court if they walk away free men over the treason charges, reports the Fiji Sun. More >>
FIJI: US clarifies stand over Fiji crisis
Monday, 28 August 2000, 8:39 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The United States government has suspended more than $1 million in security and other assistance to Fiji, cancelled a number of ship visits to Suva and banned more than 130 people from entering the US because it did not support the hostage-taking ... More >>
FIJI: New intelligence unit planned
Monday, 28 August 2000, 8:38 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A new intelligence unit will soon be established by Fiji's interim administration, says the interim Home Affairs Minister Ratu Talemo Ratakele. More >>
USP student leader fined $150 for 'manhandling'
Monday, 28 August 2000, 8:27 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: University of the South Pacific authorities today fined student leader Veresi Bainivualiku $150 for "manhandling" an Indo-Fijian student More >>
FIJI: USP students deny campus 'terror'
Friday, 25 August 2000, 2:06 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The University of the South Pacific Students Association yesterday categorically denied recent media reports saying the Laucala campus was no longer safe. More >>
Solomons: Archbishop Condemns 'Lawlessness'
Friday, 25 August 2000, 9:24 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Islands: The Archbishop of the Catholic Church in the Solomon Islands, Archbishop Adrian Smith, has condemned the culprits of the general “lawlessness” in the country’s capital, Honiara. More >>
MEF Seizes Humanitarian Supplies
Friday, 25 August 2000, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Islands: Armed militiamen of the Malaita Eagle Force have held up a Solomon Airlines flight bound for Southeast Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and stolen all the cargo, including humanitarian supplies. More >>
Fiji Times Chief Editor Given Work Permit
Friday, 25 August 2000, 9:22 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): Fiji's military-backed interim government has granted a work permit to the expatriate editor-in-chief of the newspaper suspected by the deposed elected government as having mounted a campaign against it, according to local news reports. More >>
Dear Mister Police Chief
Thursday, 24 August 2000, 11:59 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's Police Commissioner Isikia Savua was today likened by a newspaper to a Phantom or a Batman in his fight against the country's crime, then entered rebel George Speight and "the worst crime of the millennium". More >>
Ah Koy Threatens To Sue Bune And The Fiji Sun
Thursday, 24 August 2000, 11:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The wealthy Ah Koy family has threatened legal action against The Fiji Sun and the former Agriculture Minister in the deposed elected People's Coalition government, Poseci Bune, for statements he made on Radio New Zealand, the Fiji Sun reports. More >>
AIJ Condemns Raid On Sudent Magazine Arena
Thursday, 24 August 2000, 10:55 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
YOGYAKARTA: The Yogyakarta Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) condemned the violence committed against activists and the office of the university student magazine "Arena", Dema, Sena, and the Islamic Religious Endeavor Corps (Kordiska) ... More >>
Protest march called over ban on student leader
Thursday, 24 August 2000, 8:22 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The Fijian Students Association has called for a protest march on the University of the South Pacific's main Laucala campus next week. More >>
Vice-President Takes Over In Student Crisis
Thursday, 24 August 2000, 12:42 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: University of the South Pacific student vice-president Mele Apisai has taken over acting leadership of the student body following the controversial barring of the student president from entering campus. More >>
Daily Post Calls For 'Truth' At USP
Wednesday, 23 August 2000, 5:03 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's Daily Post today called for the "truth" about the University of the South Pacific in the wake of allegations of racial threats and ethnic cleansing on the Suva-based Laucala campus. More >>
Solomons: New Police Chief Appointed
Wednesday, 23 August 2000, 9:53 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Islands: The Solomon Islands’ government has appointed a new police commissioner to replace the expatriate holder of the post. More >>
Fiji: Terror On Campus
Wednesday, 23 August 2000, 9:52 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Indo-Fijian students and staff of the University of the South Pacific have demanded that security be stepped up at the Laucala campus in the Fiji islands capital of Suva. More >>
Fiji: Police Eye Journalists In Labasa Probe
Wednesday, 23 August 2000, 9:50 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji Islands police will investigate two journalists based in the northern town of Labasa and businessmen in the wake of the insurrection which has embroiled the Pacific country in the past three months, the Fiji Sun reports. More >>
Fijian leaders failed their people: Adi Kuini
Wednesday, 23 August 2000, 9:27 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Indigenous Fijians have been deprived of a luxurious life by by their own people, says ousted Deputy Prime Minister and Fijian Affairs Minister Adi Kuini Vuikaba Speed. More >>
New Magistrate Takes Over Rebel Case
Friday, 18 August 2000, 8:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A new magistrate with about three months' experience on the bench in the Fiji Islands, Laisa Laveti, will now preside over the case against coup leader George Speight and 12 other alleged plotters. More >>
Bune Implicates Politicians In Fiji Rebellion
Friday, 18 August 2000, 8:34 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's deposed Agriculture, Fisheries and Lands Minister Poseci Bune today implicated several political personalities as players in the May insurrection and claimed that George Speight was not the real rebel leader. More >>
