59 articles tagged "budget-debate-2020-2021"
SODELPA MP, Mikaele Leawere says it is deplorable and sickening to see sick people living in shocking hospital conditions and families looking for bodies of their loved ones to bury. While opposing the 2021/2022 Na
The Public Rental Board has requested for the grant subsidy which assists financially disadvantaged tenants to continue in the 2021-2022 National Budget. They made the request in their budget submission to the Mini
Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum confirms over 140 hotels and properties have decided to work with Fiji Airways to come up with government’s Tourism Recovery Package. Government has allocated $60 million
Governor and Chairman of the Reserve Bank of Fiji Board, Ariff Ali says targeted changes to the tax regime, increased allocations to critical social and economic sectors along with the provision of unemployment benefits
Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says bank interest rates will eventually go down as other factors will come into play, and the government cannot intervene in the market. Sayed-Khaiyum says as term deposit
Parliament has passed the 2020/2021 National Budget. The bill for an Act to appropriate a sum of $3, 211,019,121 for the ordinary services of Government for the year ending 31st July 2021 has been enacted by parlia
Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says you cannot increase taxes and cut civil servants’ pay if people are hurting, and a 10 percent civil service salary cut would have resulted in about $120 million being tak
Minister for Education, Rosy Akbar has highlighted in parliament that there has been misuse of subsidized bus cards and boats that have been provided for students. Akbar says what they have found that on many occasion
Minister for Housing, Premila Kumar confirms they are undertaking a job evaluation exercise and also looking at staffing needs at the Housing Authority of Fiji. While speaking in parliament, Kumar says they want to
Fiji contributes over or close to 80 percent of the total grant funding that all other Pacific island countries give to the University of the South Pacific. This has been highlighted by the Minister for Economy Aiy
“R†or requisition which is appearing in the 2020-2021 National Budget next to budgetary allocations is a check-off system and it brings in the best form of accountability. Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Kha
Minister for Health Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete has confirmed that government was able to send two children who needed immediate medical treatment to New Zealand as money has been allocated for that. Waqainabete highli
Minister for Health Dr. Ifereimi Waqainabete has stressed that people who have returned from abroad can be given permission to quarantine in their own homes if they are deemed unfit to stay in a government designated qu
Minister for Education Rosy Akbar says they will not be able to commit anything on providing lunches in schools for now because they do not have funding for that and also do not have an actual study report which indicat
Minister for Lands and Infrastructure, Jone Usamate has called on SODELPA MP, Ratu Suliano Matanitobua to stop talking about things like unfinished business relating to the Qoliqoli Bill and the Land Claims Tribunal Bil
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says there is a lot of difference between the role of the Film Censorship Board and SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula’s suggestion that the board is not doing it’s job as more children are
SODELPA MP Adi Litia Qionibaravi’s motion to increase Turaga-ni-Koro Allowance from $1.43 million to $2.86 million in the 2020-2021 National Budget has been defeated. While moving the motion, Qionibaravi says Tur
Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the Prime Minister will travel overseas if there is a vaccine and if there is a need. This has been highlighted by Sayed-Khaiyum after NFP Leader Biman Prasad asked if
FijiFirst MP Vijendra Prakash says the FijiFirst government will fight tooth and nail to keep the sovereignty and dignity of the country intact. Prakash says the commitment of government has always been to put the
FijiFirst MP, Rohit Sharma says there were numerous rumours with negative connotations about the recent budget prior to the announcement of the budget that was spreading faster than COVID-19. .resp-container {
