1,116 articles tagged "parliament"
Minister for Local Government, Premila Kumar says the Chief Executive Officers of Municipal Councils are appointed based on merit while National Federation Party MP, Lenora Qereqeretabua says they have received concerns
Minister for Youth and Sports, Parveen Bala says the government’s current priority is the health and safety of Fijians, and the Fiji National Sports Commission has always been given required funds and the opposition s
Prime Minister and Minister for Forestry, Voreqe Bainimarama has acknowledged the former Minister for Forestry, Osea Naiqamu for the work he has done to raise the bar in the forestry sector and also empowering resource
The Leader of the National Federation Party Professor Biman Prasad says the Sugar Cane Growers Council is now the Government’s council as Government decides what happens in the council and not the farmers, however the
Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation says the Auditor General is not entitled to question the merit of policy objectives of a government. While speaking on the Review of the Performance Audit Report
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says unfortunately the Review Report by the Auditor General’s Office on the Performance Audit of Preparedness of Sustainable Development Goals was done very prematurely and therefo
Prime Minister and Minister for Sugar, Voreqe Bainimarama says as much as the ministry had anticipated it could not reach the season target of 2 million tonnes of cane from 2012 to 2016. Bainimarama says the indust
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights, Alvick Maharaj says political parties should only provide disclosures and information to the Registrar of Political Parties and it s
Public Accounts Committee Chairman, Alvick Maharaj says the Office of the Auditor-General had issued unmodified opinions on 13 of the 15 financial statements audited for the various government entities for 2016/2017 whi
The Chairman of the Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights Alvick Maharaj has highlighted in Parliament that members of the public have commended and supported the Bill to Amend the Electoral Registration o
The Chairman of the Standing Committee on Justice, Law & Human Rights Alvick Maharaj has highlighted in Parliament that they have noted through submissions that there is a lack of knowledge regarding the general ele
Prime Minister and Minister for iTaukei Affairs, Voreqe Bainimarama says Members of the Opposition have an affection to falsely accuse the Government repeatedly of weakening iTaukei institutions however the audit report
Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the appointment of Professor Pal Ahluwalia as University of the South Pacific’s Vice-Chancellor is illegal. The Council of the University of the South Pacific resolved a
Minister for Education, Rosy Akbar says they will be launching a new program for students called “Learning Hub†next week. Akbar says this will be a free learning hub and they will be working with Telecom Fiji
National Federation Party President, Pio Tikoduadua says the Fijian Government has inflated the annual budget of Fiji Roads Authority, however the Minister for Infrastructure Jone Usamate says the budget is a plan and w
The Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission has embarked on a strategic partnership with organizations such as the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service, the Reserve Bank of Fiji, the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs, Fiji Com
1,000 farmers have been given a payment of $200 each through the Ministry of Agriculture’s ‘Cash for Cultivation Programme’ while the Ministry will register a further 3,000 farmers and begin making payments in abo
Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says they have recently found that the Office of the Auditor General wanted to table reports in parliament without taking into consideration the responses from the management of
Fiji Revenue and Customs Service financial FRCS will now be required to furnish the Minister for Economy with a report on its activities for the first half of each financial year by the end of March rather than the end
National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad says they didn’t blame Government through their press statement regarding the removal of last Friday’s parliamentary agenda after Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-
