Fiji Airways is in serious trouble, there is no doubt about that. The government loan guarantee of $455m will not get it out of the woods: Mahendra Chaudhry The question is: are its current circumstances wholly attributable to the COVID-19…
The Reserve Bank’s recently released monthly Economic Review for April shows an alarming picture of economic contraction well before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is bound to get much worse. The April review provides data on a…
Twenty years after the 2000 coup which deposed the Labour-led government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry on 19 May 2000, a lot of questions still remain unanswered, and the real conspirators have yet to be brought to justice. Also at…
In the past 2 months or so world and media attention has been dominated by reports on the spread of the COVID-19 virus and efforts to contain it, almost to the exclusion of other news. It is time, however, for…
Is there a future for the sugar industry under the Bainimarama government? How much longer before the eventual collapse? These are the oft-asked questions bothering those who have been witnessing the slow but sure strangulation of this once premier industry….