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Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong urges families to limit graveside services to 10 persons and to limit gatherings before or after the burial to 10 persons or less. Doctor Fong says activities surr
The Fiji CSO Alliance for COVID-19 Humanitarian Response says they are witnessing the trauma that many families and communities are facing with massive job losses, hunger, poor health and lack of access to essential nee
The Leader of National Federation Party Professor Biman Prasad is calling on the Speaker of Parliament to resume parliament sessions either in the same manner as this week or entirely virtual once the building is decont
SODELPA MP, Tanya Waqanika says the Government really needs to do more for the thousands of people who are really struggling to pay their rent and put food on the table on a daily basis. Waqanika says while the Gov
SODELPA parliamentarian, Viliame Gavoka says the Nadi Chamber of Commerce has said the struggling Nadi businesses have not received any kind of relief from EFL however Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong will make a national announcement on COVID-19 at 7pm tonight. Stay with Legend FM News for updates. We will have live coverage on our website, fijivillage.
If you visited R.B Patel Market Branch in Suva between 10am to 1pm on Thursday, 20th May or between 10am to 1pm on Friday 21st May 2021, please call the Ministry of Health on 158. The Health Ministry says this is
13 people have been arrested as they breached health restrictions to play touch rugby in Navoci Nadi yesterday while 7 people were found to have gathered in a church in Navua. 50 cases were recorded over the last
Minister for Local Government, Premila Kumar says the opposition should look around themselves before questioning where the money from the unprecedented growth is going to. She says the opposition have been questi
Fiji’s efforts to vaccinate 650,000 people with the COVID-19 vaccines received another major boost as Australia has provided another 20,000 AstraZeneca vaccines. Australia has pledged to provide Fiji with 1 milli
Kadavu House along Victoria Parade is sealed off. The Health Ministry seals off areas to conduct it’s investigations. Earlier this week the University of the South Pacific Residential Halls were closed as so
The Parliament sittings scheduled for today, Friday 28 May 2021, and Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2021 have been cancelled. In a statement, Speaker of Parliament Ratu Epeli Nailatikau confirms a secretariat staff
SODELPA MP Adi Litia Qionibaravi says the basic needs of our people must be the priority and the empty Fiji Airways aircrafts on the tarmac of Nadi Airport cannot feed hungry families. She says right now, given the
FRIEND Fiji has spent almost $500,000 to provide basic needs to the affected families in Nadi and Lautoka in the last 4 weeks but adds that most of the families who could live on their savings have run out of resources.
Minister for Commerce and Trade Faiyaz Koya says we must do anything and everything at all cost to protect our airlines. While supporting the motion to amend the Government guarantee period for Fiji Airways loans,
SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula says parliament does not have the capacity or the qualification to say yes or no to such an important decision like the motion which seeks to amend the government guarantee period to Fiji Airwa
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says if the members of opposition had it their way, they would have abandoned Fiji Airways, its employees and their families by now. While supporting the motion in parliament which
Good news for cane farmers as the fourth cane payment of $10.31 per tonne will be made tomorrow. The Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Sugar Yogesh Karan confirms the Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama had dis
The Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says they are reviewing their restrictions in the West and North and will be making more definitive announcements in the next few days. Dr. Fong says they h
16,148 people have received their first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine since the restart of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign within the Suva and Nausori Containment Zones on Monday. Permanent Secretary for Healt
