New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has some simple advice on how to deal with the head of Fiji's self-declared military government, Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama."We should pray a lot, a prayer with patience,"...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The military government of Fiji continues to have problems with Australia and New Zealand, the regional powers strongly opposed to the government's origins in a coup, blind to the Melanesian/Indo-Fijian ethnic division though it claims to be. Frank Bainimarama, the self-appointed military leader who has ruled Fiji since the December 2006 coup, yesterday issued a 24-hour order for the ambassadors of...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Universal international condemnation has been shrugged off by Fiji's military regime and pledges for a return to democracy dishonoured. It is clear, however, that Commodore Frank Bainimarama is irked by the travel ban imposed by New...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Government is now considering what action to take in response to Fiji's expulsion of acting New Zealand Deputy High Commissioner Todd Cleaver yesterday.Interim head of Fiji's government Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
New Zealand's top diplomat in Fiji, Todd Cleaver, is about to be expelled by Fiji in the third such expulsion since military commander Frank Bainimarama took over the country in 2006.The Australian High Commissioner was also given...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Fiji has ordered New Zealand and Australia envoys to return home within 24 hours, accusing them of interfering in its internal affairs.Fiji was plunged into crisis in April after the president reappointed coup leader Frank Bainimarama...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Fiji’s military leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama has used an address to the United Nations to defend the 2006 military coup in which he came to power. The Commodore said the coup, where he seized political control from a democratically-elected government, was necessary due to the previous administration’s use of terror as a political weapon. “There have been [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Fiji's coup leader and self-appointed Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, has complained to other nations that his country's troops have been barred from joining any new United Nations peacekeeping force.He darkly hinted that his...
The Age (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Frank Bainimarama has shrugged off Australia's call for the United Nations to stop hiring Fijian peacekeepers.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
[JURIST] The Commonwealth of Nations on Tuesday suspended the island nation of Fiji from its organization because it failed to meet the September 1 deadline for reinstating a constitutional democracy and opening a national dialogue following its December 2006 military coup. Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said that a letter received from Fiji's military leader Commodore Josaia Voreqe...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
[JURIST] The government of Fiji is seeking foreign judges to replace judicial officers whose appointments were revoked after an April suspension of the country's constitution, according to a Sunday report from Sri Lanka's Sunday Times. Fijian Chief Justice Anthony Gates interviewed candidates in Colombo, Sri Lanka, last week and met with the Sri Lankan Chief Justice Asoka de Silva and Attorney General...
The Age (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Fiji's military ruler Frank Bainimarama lied when he pledged to take his troubled country to the polls in 2014, the head of the Pacific Islands Forum says.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama outlined the plan to create a new constitution that will take the country to its next scheduled elections in September 2014.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama told an audience his government will soon begin work on the country’s new constitution and a “road map” to elections set to take place in 2014. He didn’t provide a timetable, or framework, but it is the first signs of the country gaining a new political and social code since April, when the President annulled the country’s...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
The Government does not want the Black Caps touring Zimbabwe, but has no problem with the Junior All Blacks heading to Fiji. The team will play three games in Fiji this month when Commodore Frank Bainimarama's military regime hosts...
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