The Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama, has spoken of waging a "battle of ideas" to win next year's election in Fiji after all three major established parties - Labour, the National Federation Party, and SODELPA, the former SDL - were cleared to register as political entities to contest the poll. Commodore Bainimarama restated his intention to form … [Read more...] about # THE “BATTLE OF IDEAS” BEGINS
# THE PACIFIC AXIS SHIFTS
There’s elation in Fijian Government circles over the highly successful outcome of this week’s visit to Papua New Guinea by the Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama, at the head of the biggest Fijian trade and investment mission ever to visit another country. The original aims of the visit were ambitious enough – to lay more of the … [Read more...] about # THE PACIFIC AXIS SHIFTS
# YET ANOTHER “TRAVERSTY” OF THE TRUTH
There are increasing signs of desperation among the anti-government forces in Fiji as the country moves closer to the introduction of a brand of democracy that they are desperately trying to prevent - a non-racial model of one person, one vote, one value. That sense of desperation has reached fever pitch with the publication of the new Draft … [Read more...] about # YET ANOTHER “TRAVERSTY” OF THE TRUTH
# FIJI AIRWAYS – A PICTORIAL ESSAY
# FIJI’S OTHER LOOK NORTH POLICY
The Fijian Government’s Look North policy in global affairs is well known – the change of axis forced on it by the uncompromising stance of its neighbours, Australia and New Zealand, in the wake of Voreqe Bainimarama’s 2006 takeover. What’s not widely appreciated is that the Government is also pursuing a Look North policy of a different kind – a … [Read more...] about # FIJI’S OTHER LOOK NORTH POLICY
# TACKLING A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE
Few people with access to the Internet can have failed to be shocked and distressed at the extraordinary video that emerged this week of two recaptured Fijian prison escapees being ill-treated by their captors. The clip that has appeared on local television is a sanitised version of the original, which at the time of writing has been viewed almost … [Read more...] about # TACKLING A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE