Archive [ 2018 January 4 ]

Awesome Time In Fiji: Ioane
SPORTS

Awesome Time In Fiji: Ioane

All Blacks winger Rieko Ioane returned to Auckland yesterday after a five-day vacation in Fiji. Ioane, who was in th...

NO PROSECUTIONS FOR VOICING POLITICAL DISSENT IN FIJI
NEWS

NO PROSECUTIONS FOR VOICING POLITICAL DISSENT IN FIJI

STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS, MR CHRISTOPHER PRYDE   In an article published on the Radio N...

Letters To The Editor, January 4th  2018
Letters

Letters To The Editor, January 4th 2018

ATS saga Sameer Kasim, Vancouver, Canada Unlike government departments anywhere generally marked by sloth and red-ta...

LETTER OF THE MONTH
Letters

LETTER OF THE MONTH

Fake news I was appalled about how people reacted to a video posted recently on social media concerning our Muslim b...

EDITORIAL: Solve The ATS Strike The Legal Way. It Is The Only Way Ahead
Opinion

EDITORIAL: Solve The ATS Strike The Legal Way. It Is The Only Way Ahead

This is the third week of the strike by workers of Air Terminal Services (ATS) in Nadi. And, despite the exhaustive ...

Bus Driver Acquitted After Prosecution Failed To Produce Witnesses
SUNCITY

Bus Driver Acquitted After Prosecution Failed To Produce Witnesses

A 47-year-old Navua bus driver was acquitted in the Suva Magistrates Court after the state prosecution failed to pro...

Two Charged With Harbouring  Escapee Dutt Denied Bail
NEWS

Two Charged With Harbouring Escapee Dutt Denied Bail

Two men charged with the alleged harbouring escapee Deshwar Kishore Dutt were refused bail at the Nadi Magistrates C...

MP Singh On  Assault Charge
NATION

MP Singh On Assault Charge

Member of Parliament and businessman, Balmindra Singh, 46, appeared at the Suva Magistrates Court yesterday. He is c...

Man In Labasa hospital
NEWS

Man In Labasa hospital

A report was referred to Police from the Labasa Hospital where they reported a case of serious assault. This was con...

Kumar Charged With Criminal Trespassing, Indecent Assault And Criminal Intimidation
NATION

Kumar Charged With Criminal Trespassing, Indecent Assault And Criminal Intimidation

A man has been charged by Police on three counts of criminal trespassing, indecent assault and criminal intimidation...

Short Take: DAYLIGHT SAVING Ends Jan 14th
NEWS

Short Take: DAYLIGHT SAVING Ends Jan 14th

Daylight saving ends on  Sunday, January 14, 2018. It will end at 3.00am on Sunday January 14, 2018.          ...

Taxi Permit  Freeze  Lifted
NEWS

Taxi Permit Freeze Lifted

The freeze on taxi permits was lifted on January 1, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) confirmed yesterday. The lift...

Non-Sexual Violence Offences Statistics For December 2017: 24 People Charged
NEWS

Non-Sexual Violence Offences Statistics For December 2017: 24 People Charged

ODPP Serious Crime (Non-Sexual Violence Offences) Statistics – December 2017 The following data is authorised for ...

Critical Stock Level Needs Drastic Action: Koroilavesau
NEWS

Critical Stock Level Needs Drastic Action: Koroilavesau

“Our investors’ funds totaling millions of Fijian dollars given to the general public needs to also be recovered...

New Zone Open Taxi Base  Operations Now In Progress
NEWS

New Zone Open Taxi Base Operations Now In Progress

Taxi operators are happy with the new zone open taxi base operations. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) have confir...

Votualevu Mandir Installs CCTV Cameras, Burglar Bars
NEWS

Votualevu Mandir Installs CCTV Cameras, Burglar Bars

“We have invested in CCTV cameras, we have put up burglar grills, we have repainted and replaced all our dieties t...

Court suspends sentence  of break-in duo
NATION

Court suspends sentence of break-in duo

Suva Magistrate Jioji Boseiwaqa yesterday suspended the sentences of two men who broke into the Raiwai Community Hal...

Reddy Helps Babasiga Lions
SPORTS

Reddy Helps Babasiga Lions

Former Labasa coach Bal Sanju Reddy is assisting the Babasiga Lions for the Pillay’s Garments Champion vs Champion...

Alleged Marital Rape Recorded In December 2017
NATION

Alleged Marital Rape Recorded In December 2017

There were four alleged incidents where the victim and the accused are related. One alleged incident of marital rape...

Bua Horse Race In June
SPORTS

Bua Horse Race In June

The Bua Horse Racing Association first race is set for June. The race track in Lekutu, Bua is being upgraded. “We ...

Parents Urged To Be Vigiliant: Police Issue Warning
NATION

Parents Urged To Be Vigiliant: Police Issue Warning

Police: Those splashing water on cars will be arrested Despite repeated requests Police continue to receive reports ...

Arrest Wanted man surrenders himself
NATION

Arrest Wanted man surrenders himself

Daniel Amitesh Chand who was wanted for questioning in relation to a case where he is alleged to have obtained up to...

Ba, Lautoka Primed For O-League
SPORTS

Ba, Lautoka Primed For O-League

ANASILINI RATUVA, Suva Fiji Football chief executive Mohammed Yusuf believes the two districts Ba and Lautoka are pr...

Nair A Good Coach: Yusuf
SPORTS

Nair A Good Coach: Yusuf

The Fiji Football Association president Rajesh Patel, board members and the whole football fraternity is mourning th...

Fijian Woman Receives Queen’s Medal in 2018 Honours
NATION

Fijian Woman Receives Queen’s Medal in 2018 Honours

She assisted in the newly immigrated families from Fiji settle into life in New Zealand, often providing food, cloth...

Minister For Waterways Reddy  Visits Drains, Irrigation, Floodgates
NEWS

Minister For Waterways Reddy Visits Drains, Irrigation, Floodgates

The newly appointed Minister for Waterways, Mahendra Reddy, began his new year by visiting all irrigation, drainage,...

Let’s Not Waste Votes, Urges Chaudhry
NEWS

Let’s Not Waste Votes, Urges Chaudhry

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry said it was only he and former United People’s Party leader Mick Beddoe...

Chaudhry Takes Swipe At Govt AND Opposition
NEWS

Chaudhry Takes Swipe At Govt AND Opposition

The leader of a party which failed to win a seat in Parliament in the last elections has criticised all the parties ...

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