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Chief Magistrate Usaia Ratuvili will make a decision on the bail of the 45 men allegedly involved in the Nabua brawl on Monday. The Chief Magistrate says Police need to provide evidence why the accused are a threat
Nadi Chamber of Commerce President Doctor Ram Raju says the reopening of restaurants and other businesses will certainly generate much needed economic activities and more importantly provide employment to all their staf
McDonalds is planning to go ahead with their Nakasi branch and bun factory in the future. This has been confirmed by the Operations Manager Damon Gregg who says all of McDonalds plans in Fiji has been slowed down
1,961 people have upgraded their voter cards since this Monday which includes 204 new registrations. Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem says the new registrations are encouraging considering students are at h
99 people were fined for failing to wear a mask in public between Sunday and Tuesday. A total of 119 Public Health Infringement Notices were issued by the Fiji Police Force during the three days. 12 bookings
There have been 13 more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients. Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says these deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors. He says the doctors h
Fiji has 55 new cases of COVID-19 for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.. There are now 2,864 active cases. Fiji has recorded a total of 51,328 cases since the first case was reported in March 202
The Health Ministry has confirmed nine COVID-19 deaths from 17th July to 3rd October 2021. Eight COVID-19 deaths are from the Central Division and one is from the Western Division. Permanent Secretary for Heal
A total of 594,242 adults in Fiji have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 478,535 have received their second doses. This means 96.1% of adults have received at least one dose and 77.4% are now fu
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says from next week, their COVID-19 updates will be provided on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Doctor Fong says the report will be in the form of a dashboard and publ
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum virtually participated at the High-Level Blue Pacific to Glasgow Forum today. The Forum was organized by the 45th Vice President of the Uni
The Indian government will be providing more than NZ$569,000 assistance for the six projects proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration. This is after a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed
Freesoul Limited who have been found guilty of two counts of undertaking unauthorized developments in Malolo will now be sentenced in the High Court. The State had filed an application for the matter to be transfer
Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama says the politicians that are now talking about iTaukei rights of the landowners had ignored the landowners in the past and did not have the political will to improve their well-being.
Irimaia Rokosawa has been appointed as the Acting Chief Executive Officer of LTA by the LTA Board. Rokosawa has been with LTA since 2017 when he joined as General Manager Finance and Administration. He was promoted
Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama says as mentioned by the Supervisor of Elections, the green voter card needs to be upgraded to a blue voter card, which will require a birth certificate. In a statement titled the
People’s Alliance Leader Sitiveni Rabuka says a lot has been said about the changes in laws affecting the general elections and a lot of it has caused a lot of worries, and he says when you look at the actual requirem
The Housing Authority of Fiji has extended its COVID-19 Debt Relief Assistance till 31st December 2021 which will be done on a case by case basis. As at 31 August 2021, the Authority has deferred repayment in mortg
21,062 children aged between 15 to 17 years in Fiji have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The Health Ministry says they will be tracking their vaccine coverage rates once they have firmed up their 1
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand will begin to move away from a zero-Covid strategy toward living with the virus becoming, the latest country to abandon its elimination attempts in the face o
