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National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad says they have always condemned the use of the word visitors to describe non indigenous Fijians in the past and will continue to condemn that whether it is from P
As the Coca-Cola Games is set to start from Thursday, police operations in partnership with stakeholders will be beefed up to ensure an incident free event. Chief Operations Officer ACP Abdul Khan says as more peo
A man from Davuilevu passed away following an accident near the junction of Nasinu Road, along the Kings Highway at around 7pm yesterday. Police say the man was driving towards Valelevu with two other passengers a
Former SODELPA MP Ratu Suliano Matanitobua will be sentenced today. Ratu Suliano has been found guilty of a count each of Giving False Information to a Public Servant and Obtaining Financial Advantage. He fal
A man is in police custody after he allegedly stole $30 from a shop in Valelevu this afternoon. Police say the man was intoxicated. They say the intervention of three men who witnessed the incident led to the
Two houses were destroyed in a fire in Sabeto last night. Police say the cause of the fire is still unknown as investigations are continuing. No one was injured during the incident. We are trying to get m
Minister for Education Premila Kumar says children have been telling teachers they are not bringing lunch to school because their parents were asleep when they left home as they were having some drinks or grog. Sh
As investigations continue into the circumstances that led to the violent incident where a group of youths allegedly went armed in a vehicle and caused trouble with some youths of Raiwai in Suva this morning, the Fiji P
Canberra Airport has been evacuated and planes have been grounded after a gunman fired shots near the check-in security screening area of the terminal. ACT police has taken the man into custody and while a firearm
The Fiji Police Force is stepping up its momentum on the war on drugs as teams have been deployed to a number of maritime islands following leads on the cultivation of marijuana in new areas. This follows a case wh
Minister for Education Premila Kumar has stressed that boats and outboard engines given to schools are not for community use. She highlighted this while handing over fibreglass boats and outboard engines to Ravitak
30 families in Valeni village, Cakaudrove will now have access to electricity after they received home solar systems. While handing over the solar systems, Minister for Infrastructure Jone Usamate says the Governme
An 18-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly stoned several vehicles along Milverton Road, yesterday afternoon. Efforts by members of the community, K9, and Police Special Response Unit officers resulted
The death of a 42-year-old man of Saweni Beach, Lautoka has been classified as alleged suicide. The man was earlier reported missing. Police say his body was found about 1km from his house.
A 45-year-old farmer of Nabiti Village, Dreketi lost his three-bedroom house in a fire yesterday afternoon. Nobody was at home when the incident occurred. The cause of the fire is yet to be established.
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says for people to win political offices, they must not get into racism, provincialism, and gender disparity. While speaking during the International Youth Day celebrations at t
An Italian man has been rescued from a collapsed tunnel near the Vatican, and police suspect he could have been burrowing his way into a bank. He is now recovering in hospital after firefighters spent eight hours d
Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says there is not a single Fijian doctor who can carry out open heart surgery in Fiji and we need to ask why this is happening. Sayed-Khaiyum says more importantly, we need
One-year-old Lavenia Nabure who was diagnosed with congenital heart condition has been given the gift of life after a successful heart surgery at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children's Hospital. Her mother, Lilly
The Fiji National University will embark on engineering projects in the areas of finance, health, automation of transportation and maritime systems, tsunami alert systems and automatic flood monitoring systems through a
