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fijivillage.com date/time: 09/01/2011 [08:49]

Another five months is needed before the coconut industry is expected to stabilise.

That is the sentiment of the Agriculture Ministry Perrmanent Secretary Col Mason Smith as the industry records it’s all time highest mill gate price.

With the farmers expected to get over nine hundred dollars for every tonne of copra they bring to the Savusavu Copra Mill, the supply remains low.

However, Smith remains adamant that…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Serafina Silaitoga  Friday, January 07, 2011

PREPARING for the new school term, a group of women in the north have started selling handicraft items to help them cater for their children's education needs.

The women on Rabi island have flooded the market at Nuku village on the island to sell their products.

Terikano Takesau, executive committee member of the Banaban Women's Association said the association members had already started collecting money,…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Serafina Silaitoga Friday, January 07, 2011

PLANS are in progress to construct a small oil factory to cater for a women's group's project of making virgin coconut oil.

The Banaban Women's Association on Rabi island in the north which has already started producing virgin coconut oil from their homes, have already started working on plans for the factory.

Association executive Terikano Takesau said the women received orders from companies in Viti Levu and…

Kiribati currently has about 10-15,000 residents of Tuvalu nationality or descent, including the descendants of people from Kiribati and Tuvalu who married during colonial times, those who moved to be with relatives after the two regions each gained independence, and people with special skills-mainly sailors.

Those from Tuvalu have an active migrant community organization, Kirivalu. The following first-person report is the result of an interview recorded in…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Maika Rabaleilekutu Friday, December 31, 2010

POLICE have arrested the driver on Rabi Island who is believed to have caused an accident that injured 25 people on Tuesday afternoon.

Police spokesman Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri confirmed the driver was in police custody and had been questioned over the alleged incident.

He said a…

POLICE are looking for the driver of a truck believed to have caused an accident on Rabi Island.

Police spokesman Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri said the truck was carrying 30 passengers at the time of the accident on Tuesday…

FIJI SUN NEWSPAPER DAILY E NEWS caroliner@fijisun.com.fj 12/21/2010



Rabi Islanders are grateful to the Vodafone ATH Foundation for making a difference in the lives of many in their community.

The Banaban community have benefitted from the World of Difference programme that is helping in their children’s welfare and economic projects on the island.



Last week, the 65th…

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA PACIFIC BEAT Updated December 20, 2010 09:06:11



There hasn't been much news out of Rapa Nui since the violent clash between residents and the Chilean military earlier this month.



But as Hawaii Public Radio's Kayla Rosenfeld reports, one activist is still seeking justice for the people of his island, know to many as Easter Island.



Presenter: Kayla Rosenfeld.

Speaker: Santi Hitorangi, photo-journalist & activist.



Listen:…

ABC RADIO ONLINE Pacific Beat Updated December 20, 2010 09:06:12



Bollywood is coming to Fiji, bringing with it the promise of millions of dollars and three big budget movies.



Movies company representatives are already in Fiji scouting for locations, with production slated to begin early next year.



Presenter: Jasvin Lala

Speakers: Prem Raj, film director; Mohammed Jalal, executive producer; Florence Swamy, chief executive, Fiji Audio Visual Commission.…

ABC RADIO PACIFIC BEATUpdated December 17, 2010 09:00:51



Reaction from Niue to a possible change in New Zealand policy towards the island has been mixed.



The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee has just released a report on the country's relationship with the Pacific which calls for people in Tokelau, Niue and Cook Islands to get access to the same services as other New Zealand citizens.



It says small territories such as Tokelau and Niue are…

Written by Ranoba Baoa Wednesday, 15 December 2010 13:08

65 years ago, on the morning of 15th December 1945 a shipload of a suppressed passengers arrived on the shores of Rabi island. Oblivious to the weather conditions and what was ahead of them, the Banaban people of Kiribati were determined to start anew regardless of their circumstance.



Now 65 years on, the generations of those who arrived on Rabi island in Fiji commemorate this day as one of the most significant and…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Paula Tagivetaua Thursday, December 09, 2010



Sunia Koroi cuts a young coconut or bu for a customer in a waiting taxi. IF you go past Grantham Road toward the Raiwaqa market in Suva, you will see a group of boys selling bu or young coconut for their milk and soft succulent flesh every day, in the rain or sun.

One of the boys selling bu is Sunia…