While the nation’s attention is focused on the daily escalating cases of Covid infection assailing us, the cane farmer has been fighting a quiet battle for survival against low cane prices and ever rising costs of cultivation, harvest and delivery. …
With Fiji facing its worst economic crisis ever, a lot of attention has focused on growth issues, in particular claims by the Fiji First government of its 9 years of unprecedented growth. It exposed the government to a spate of…
On the anniversary of Fiji’s first coup, 14 May 1987, Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry reflects on the the price the nation paid for the racist coup which took place one month after the first Labour Government of Dr. Timoci Bavadra…
Such deals tantamount to land speculation, as in the Raiwaqa case where a lease was acquired on highly favorable terms and five years later sold for a hefty $19million. Last week the Chinese Ambassador Qian Bo spoke of the need…
Submissions to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights Bills 50 and 52 of 2020 Mr Chairman, before I look at the proposed Bills I wish to make a few general observations. You and I well know…