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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad says the coalition government has managed to bring down our debt to GDP ratio from almost 90 percent in 2022, to below 80 percent at the end of this
Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration, Pio Tikoduadua has stated that major policy changes to Police leadership and doctrine are coming. He has posted on X for people to stay tuned for updates. 📢 Major
As concerns continue to be raised by many people in the country on the way and the timing of the approval of the motion in parliament which included salary and benefit increases, the Chair of the Parliamentary Emolument
National Federation Party General Secretary, Kamal Iyer has today released a statement saying Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya’s outburst in a recent statement against NFP Leader and De
After a lapse of 10 years, the Fiji Indigenous Business Council has returned and while opening the Fiji Indigenous Council Workshop, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka urged the Council to be innovative and come up with id
Rooster Poultry has achieved a significant milestone following the inauguration of its $13 million upgraded processing plant facility in Navau, Ba. While speaking during the inauguration Prime Minister Sitiveni Rab
National Federation Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Biman Prasad says he does not know what Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka means by taking action against NFP. Professor Prasad has made the comme
If we grow at a rate of 4 to 5 percent, it is going to take us at least 10 years to bring debt to GDP ratio down to about 55 or 60 percent. Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Biman Prasad stated this in reply to a qu
Vanua Levu is on the brink of a new era, marked by unprecedented development, with services and facilities available for the people to access, the imperative for innovation has never been greater. Deputy Prime Mini
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Professor Biman Prasad says pay for him was never an issue when he got into politics and left his job at the USP. This comes as he will now get a salary based on the
Minister for Employment Agni Deo Singh says Hindi and Vosa Vakaviti languages will be taught in all primary schools, and it may take a bit of time as teachers need to be trained and be in schools. Singh highlighted
Work is in progress to safely repatriate 12 Fijians stranded in New Caledonia as soon as possible. In a statement, the Government says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is closely monitoring the unfolding of the eve
People of Wailevu and surrounding areas in Labasa now have easier access to a health facility after the opening of the Wailevu Medical Centre this morning. Owner and manager, Navin Chandra says they opened the hea
Students of Ratu Latianara College were over the moon after the Minister for Education and his team visited the school and handed over school items, that will assist the students with their education. The studen
With the increasing number of drugs cases and cases of some drug users even raping their mother and sister, the Minister of Home Affairs Pio Tikoduadua says this is an issue of national security. Tikoduadua says th
Following Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's reference to former Prime Minister and Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry as a selfish and weak-hearted leader, Chaudhry says Rabuka forgets that in recent times, he ha
President Ratu Wiliame Maivalili Katonivere has commended the founder of Starlink, Elon Musk, for creating opportunities for wider bandwidth connectivity and high-speed internet connections in remote and rural areas of
As calls are now being made to control the use of Pseudoephedrine for the production of hard drugs like methamphetamine in Fiji, Minister for Health, Doctor Atonio Lalabalavu says it needs to come through a wider consul
The Department of Immigration will no longer accept walk-in customers for passport services from this Friday due to the ongoing demand for passports and the stock of blank passports running low. The department say
About $341,835 will be spent by the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection on renovations to move the elderly from Ba Mission Hospital to Matanikila House, the renovations will be done under the Ministry of P
