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SODELPA MP Adi Litia Qionibaravi says their chiefs had given their approval for the use of their surplus land to be leased for the development of the nation and the onus is on government to ensure that the first people
Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Mereseini Vuniwaqa says the opposition should not think that they are the only voices that carry the dreams, voices and aspirations of the iTaukei. Vuniwaqa says
Minister for Infrastructure, Jone Usamate says the challenge for Water Authority of Fiji is that it is producing way over their built capacity that they were designed for but old pipes are being replaced and new project
Minister for Housing, Premila Kumar says the government’s First Home Ownership Grant is only for people who have their name on the title and the program does not cover villagers if they have vakavanua or tenancy at wi
Anyone organising or participating in pyramid schemes or gifting circles can be charged. This has been stressed by the Acting Attorney General and Minister for Commerce and Trade Faiyaz Koya after reports of Fijian
National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad says in 2015, the FijiFirst changed the formula for how political parties are funded in parliament and as a result millions of dollars of taxpayers money went into
Minister for Infrastructure Jone Usamate says they implemented the Open Merit Recruitment System to improve the quality of human resources in the country because there was an issue of cronyism before. While speakin
Minister for Defence, Inia Seruiratu says the Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces has taken responsibility to submit their 2014 and 2015 annual reports after SODELPA MP, Salote Radrodro raised the question
Lack of documentation has been identified as a major concern by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee in its examination of audit reports of government ministries and departments for the year ended 31st July 2016.
Minister for Disaster Management, Inia Seruiratu says they are in the process to install 26 more tsunami warning sirens in Viti Levu. While responding to SODELPA MP Jese Saukuru’s question on the effectiveness of
Minister for Women Children and Poverty Alleviation, Mereseini Vuniwaqa is requesting opposition members not to use issues brought to them by people who seek assistance for political football and bring those issues to t
Minister for Defence and National Disaster Management, Inia Seruiratu has called on the opposition to stop calling poverty assistance programs freebies or vote buying while SODELPA MP, Niko Nawaikula says he sees povert
National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad says all the policies that government was implementing to reduce the poverty rate from 2013 has not worked and government has failed to reduce poverty while Minis
The Viria water project in Rewa which will pump another 40 million litres of water into the water system for the Suva-Nausori corridor is already midway through completion. More than 300,000 Fijians will benefit fr
Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem is concerned with the grossly incorrect and inflammatory headline in The Fiji Times newspaper titled “Power to Fineâ€. Saneem says it has been suggested in the article th
46 people lost their lives in fire incidents from 2016 to 2020. This was highlighted by the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Community Development, Premila Kumar while giving a ministerial statement on th
Suva businesswoman, Riddhi Damodar says it was the most traumatic incident of her life when her home was broken into earlier this week and her family was assaulted. Damodar says on Monday night, 5 men broke into he
Minister for Defence Inia Seruiratu has assured the public that Police brutality cases are not being swept under the carpet and they are being addressed appropriately. A number of people had raised serious concern
Education Minister Rosy Akbar says it is high time the sport of boxing is introduced in schools. While speaking during the South Pacific Boxing Promotions event in Nadi yesterday, Akbar says this is not only for th
The Fiji Driving Schools Association has seen an increase in the number of young people coming in for training but once they receive their provisional license, attitude starts to change because of peer pressure. Ne
