People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Fiji's interim government is expecting a visit from representatives of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this week. The officials expected in the country by Friday will meet with Fiji's interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama. The representatives will discuss with the Fiji interim government proposals put forward in their last meeting in Istanbul, to see whether...
Fijilive (Free subscription) | yesterday
... who is attending the Remembrance Day celebration in the Northern Division.Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama did not attend the service as he has left for a two week tour of Rome and Brussels.His wreath was laid by brother-in-law, Navy Commander Francis Kean.In his speech, Capt Natuva called on the ex-servicemen to support the military-led Government. “A soldier remains one...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
... administration to move quickly to restore democracy. On November 3, self-appointed Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced that the heads of the Australian and New Zealand missions in Fiji would be expelled, triggering tit-for-tat expulsions from Wellington and Canberra. Fiji was suspended from the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum in May and from the Commonwealth in September over...
Fijilive (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Fiji’s Prime Minister has promised incentives for the country’s exporters and to introduce further “enablers” in the national budget for 2010 he will deliver in two weeks.Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama admits that these objectives have been stated previously by past governments, although there has not been much “real” progress.He said this was due to existing “barriers”, which his Government...
Fijilive (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Fiji’s Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has used the annual gathering of business executives at the Exporter of the Year Awards to tell recalcitrant neighbours Australia and New Zealand that all is well between them and Fiji at the business level.“We need to view and indeed separate the political from trade, tourism and the economy,” Bainimarama said to applause from...
Fijilive (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Fiji’s Land Forces Commander Colonel Pita Driti was part of the musical preliminaries tonight at the annual Prime Minister’s Exporter of the Year Awards in Sigatoka.Driti, who is the military’s second-in-command to Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, Fiji’s Prime Minister, showed off his guitar skills with local band Overtime led by musical great Tom Mawi.Driti is due to leave for a six-month...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
While the New Zealand High Commission Office in Suva, Fiji is closed for business on Wednesday, the Australians are awaiting a word from Canberra before any decision on their diplomat is confirmed. This followed a directive from the Fiji government on Tuesday night to expel Australia and New Zealand envoys within 24 hours from 06:00 p.m. Fiji time on Tuesday. Fiji Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Fiji's acting president Ratu Epeli Nailatikau was sworn in as head of state of the military-ruled Pacific nation on Thursday.Nailatikau, a former army commander credited with guiding self-appointed Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama through his military career, was appointed as acting president after Ratu Josefa Iloilo retired at the end of July.President Nailatikau had been appointed...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Nailatikau, a former army commander credited with guiding self-appointed Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama through his military career, was appointed as acting president after Ratu Josefa Iloilo retired at the end of July.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Wellington - New Zealand and Australia on Wednesday ordered Fiji's top diplomats to leave in a tit-for-tat response to the expulsions of their envoys by the island nation's military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama the previous day. T...
Fijilive (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Australia will not impose economic or trade sanctions on Fiji, says Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.He issued the clarification as Australia ordered the expulsion of Fiji’s acting High Commissioner to Canberra, Kamlesh Arya. Smith said Canberra had been forced to take proportionate action against Fiji after Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama gave Australia's high commissioner...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... the 16-member Pacific Islands Forum has already been suspended. Fiji's military ruler Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama told senior diplomats from New Zealand and Australia to leave the country within 24 hours Tuesday evening, accusing them of waging a negative campaign against his government. The military strongman, who said his Pacific island neighbourswere 'engaged in a dishonest and...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... to leave New Zealand," McCully said.The move followed the announcement by Fiji's military leader Voreqe Bainimarama that he was expelling the Australian and New Zealand envoys because of allegations over their treatment of Fijian judges wanting to travel to the two countries.
Fijilive (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... in Canberra, Kamlesh Arya, has also been called back home.Fiji Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama triggered the chain of events late yesterday when he announced the expulsion of the heads of missions of its two neighbours.The action is a full-scale retaliation for what Bainimarama said was a “consolidated effort to attack Fiji’s independent judiciary”.In New Zealand’s...
