1,116 articles tagged "parliament"
Acting Minister for Economy and Minister for Commerce and Trade Faiyaz Koya says they would not have achieved the near-decade of consecutive economic growth with unqualified people. While speaking on the Examinatio
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
Minister for Health, Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete has told National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad to come to parliament with evidence and not to talk out of thin air after Prasad claimed that he has ana
SODELPA MP Aseri Radrodro has raised concerns about the number of State-Owned Entities that the Auditor General previously used to audit that are now opting to be audited by private firms and reports not coming to parli
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 Health, Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete confirms that they are in the process of purchasing a boiler for the CWM Hospital and he is yet to see any evidence suggesting an increase in infections because one of th
Minister for Health, Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete says they are looking at other means to provide dialysis services for chronic patients outside Suva after the opening of the Fiji National Kidney Dialysis Centre in Nader
Acting Attorney General and Minister for Economy Faiyaz Koya will not make any comments on why the retracted Draft Police Bill and Draft Market Regulations were not drafted and vetted by the Solicitor General’s Office
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
The Acting Minister for Economy, Faiyaz Koya says offshore borrowing has cushioned the substantial impact on foreign reserves without which it would have led to a possible devaluation of the Fijian dollar and significan
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
563 people died while at work from 2008 to 31st December 2018 and their families have been paid a total of $13.296 million by the Ministry of Employment. This has been confirmed by the Minister for Employment, Par
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
The Freedom Alliance Party has recommended that a provision should be made for a political party to bring a certain number of qualified people to Parliament even if they have not contested the elections. Party lead
The Freedom Alliance Party has recommended that people with dual citizenship should be allowed to contest the general elections. According to the law if a person with a dual citizenship wants to contest the electio
Dialogue Fiji has recommended the government should go into caretaker mode and be referred to in the media and elsewhere as a caretaker administration after the dissolution of parliament. The non-governmental organ
