We have set up a direct DONATIONS fundraising page and Ken will be leaving for Fiji to try and get across to Rabi as soon as he gets his emergency passport through.

If you can help him please contact us.

He will be looking at taking in emergeny food and assessing the situation as soon as possible.

Have just heard that Fiji military and navy will try to send in assessment team to the northern region which is great but as we know with experience from the past, Rabi seems…

Ken's Fiji passport just expired today. He is being sworn in as an Australian citizen on 31st this month. He has rushed off this morning to Australian Immigration office to try and get an emergency passport to travel back to Fiji.

He needs to get over to Rabi as soon as possible so he can assess the situation and get some much needed help for the island and some emergency supplies in.

We are thinking that due to the widespread damage through out the northern region that he…

Posted 45 minutes ago A powerful cyclone is battering Fiji's northern islands, damaging homes and crops as thousands of people flee to evacuation centres. Fiji's Meteorological Service says Cyclone Tomas is classified as a category-four cyclone - the second-most destructive on a five-point scale - and is packing winds averaging up to 175 kilometres per hour. There are no early reports of casualties, although reports said one woman drowned over the weekend in stormy seas. The cyclone is…

Ken just spoke with Uea at Tabiang village and he has 5 houses nearby destroyed by Cyclone Tomas. They are all moving out now to higher ground at Rabi High School.

Binati around at Tabwewa says all the food trees are gone now but house was still holding. As we have advised him that the Cyclone is still coming at them and will get worse he is now preparing the rooms inside the house to protect them all if the roof goes. They are turning over the beds and making barriers to protect…

Friday, March 12, 2010 FIJI TIMES ONLINE

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This is the path that Tropical Cyclone Tomas is expected to take over the weekend

Update: 5:30PM Fiji is now on official cyclone alert as Tropical Cyclone Tomas bears down on the…

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA 26 Feb 2010 A study by the New Zealand Parliamentarians' Group on Population and Development has found that five women die each day in Pacific Island countries due to pregnancy or childbirth-related causes. Researchers heard submissions from around 17 organisations and individuals and found that high rates of teenage pregnancy and a shortage of midwives…

Hi we have just done a major upgrade on our old banaban.com website to intergrate all our new Banaban sites together and more importantly cross-link information and historical data etc. If you find errors or missing links please forward the problem through to stacey@banaban.com so I can fix it. The old Banaban site has been going since 1993 so it is a very large site so with loads of historical and archived information. We now have included fundraising…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Sat 13 February 2010

Being a monopoly player for a long while, Vodafone in many ways is leading the telecommunication industry in the provision of services.It has the largest retail chain -- some opening until 9pm -- a fully fledged customer care centre, it offers vehicle tracking, web top up, e-shop, and a "live agent chat" service through which any of their customers can contact Vodafone agents via internet chat.…