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Commission to have seminar without RFMF

The Constitution Commission is having a public seminar tonight based on the theme “The military in transition”, however, the RFMF will not be present in the seminar. When questioned by Fijivillage, Commissio

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IDC final decision expected today

The Fiji Football Association Board of Control will meet at 11am today to make the decision on the Ba verses Suva Courts IDC final. There are reports that the Fiji FA has written to FIFA for advice. When contacted, Fi

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Have reserve seats – Rajendra Chaudhry

Suspended lawyer Rajendra Chaudhry has proposed in his constitution submission that there should be reserved seats in the general elections for the itaukei, Indians and general electors. Chaudhry has told the Professor

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Marist marks 75th anniversary celebration

Marist Brothers High School the first multi-racial school in Fiji is marking their 75th anniversary celebration with a march from Marist Suva Street to Flagstaff in the next hour. Reminiscing his schooling years Devlin

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Fiji defends title

Fiji has defeated New Zealand 32-14 in the Cup final of the 2012 Gold Coast Sevens to successfully defend the title won last year and claim the first Cup of the new HSBC Sevens World Series. In a repeat of the final

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IDC final called off, no winner declared yet

The Courts IDC final between Suva and Ba has been called off with no winner declared. This comes after Suva’s Waisake Navunigasau scored two minutes away from the end of the second extra spell and the Ba players p

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Fiji-NZ final

Fiji is on track to retaining their Gold Coast sevens title after beating South Africa 21-10 in the semifinals and they will meet New Zealand in the final. This will be a repeat of last year’s final which Fiji won

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Fiji to face-off South Africa in semis

Fiji will play South Africa in the first semifinal of the Gold Coast 7s at 5:58pm after beating Samoa 19-7. The Digicel Fiji 7s team put up a courageous defensive game against Samoa in the quarter finals. Samoa threw

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Suva-Ba final

Suva will now play Ba in the Courts IDC final at 4:30pm in Govind Park. The capital city side defeated Lautoka 1-0 after super substitute Cedric Dutt scored in the 18th minute of the second half. Dutt said that he saw

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Fiji to meet Samoa in quarters

The Digicel Sevens team will now meet neighbors Samoa at 2:20pm today in the quarter finals of the Gold Coast sevens after Fiji lost their last pool game to hosts Australia 15-14 last night. The Aussie Thunderbolts scor

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Suva retains Farebrother trophy

The Fiji Bitter Suva team have managed to retain the Farebrother Sullivan Trophy after coming back in the second half to beat Lautoka 19-16. Lautoka was leading at first half with a penalty form Rawaqa at the fifth

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Bau yavusa wants all citizens to be called Fijians

All citizens of this country should be called Fijians. This was mentioned in the submission to the Constitution Commission at the Parliamentary Complex yesterday by the Yavusa Kubuna of Bau which consists of the thr

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2 major bridges closed as it could collapse any time

The two major bridges in Suva and Vatuwaqa will need to be closed indefinitely for urgent repairs as it could collapse anytime. This is according to Fiji Roads Authority Manager Change Mike Rudge as the Stinson Parade

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Closure of Gordon and Chaudhry

The Independent Legal Services Commission has ordered the closure of Gordon and Chaudhry law firm which was operated by Ronald Rajesh Gordon and Rajendra Chaudhry. Legal Services Commissioner Justice Paul Madigan said t

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Morale high at Air Pacific

Air Pacific CEO and Managing Director, Dave Pflieger said morale at the airline company is high as they move towards the name change to Fiji Airways next year. Pflieger said with the name change and the new A330s ne

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Fiji Airways new look aircraft unveiled

The long awaited new Fijian design aircraft for Fiji Airways was finally unveiled last night. Air Pacific, hosted a world premier event at Village Six Cinemas to introduce the new features of its brand-new Airbus A3

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Now is the time to press forward-President

Now is the time to press forward and open the doors of opportunity so that we can rebuild a Fiji that is non racial, culturally vibrant and united, well governed, inclusive and truly democratic. These were the words of

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