Stacey King's Blog Posts Tagged 'rabi-island' (26)

Fiji TImes Online  Luke Rawalai  Sunday, April 14, 2013

 LUKE RAWALAI Friday, September 28, 2012

FOLLOWING the celebration of National Library Week in the Buca Bay area, the students, including those on the islands of Rabi and Kioa, now have access to a library centre. While opening the centre, roko tui Cakaudrove Ro Aca Mataitini lauded the Library Services of Fiji for having the insight to include such a service for students within Kama District.

“The onus is upon the community to make use of the service because the books are now…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Salaseini Vosamana Wednesday, February 22, 2012

CONSTRUCTION work at the Rabi jetty in Vanua Levu is expected to be completed by April.

Works Ministry spokesman Iliesa Sokia said those travelling to and from the island will soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief that the jetty was near completion.

"Construction work has started and we hope to complete the project some time in April," Mr Sokia said.

"The tender was issued to Pacific Building…

MICHAEL FIELD NZ Stuff.co.nz Last updated 07:32 08/02/2012

An overstayer whose family island was destroyed by phosphate mining has been refused refugee status in New Zealand despite claiming he faces abuse and torture in Fiji whose citizenship he holds.

Most of the phosphate taken from Banaba (formally Ocean Island) between the world wars ended up on New Zealand farms and its 703 people were forced by the British in 1945 to re-settle on Rabi Island in Fiji.

The British…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Salseini Vosamana     Sunday, October 02, 2011

Maneesha Karan Friday, August 19, 2011

EDUCATED youths without employment must invest in natural resources available in their villages instead of relying on the Government to provide them with jobs.

Minister for Women and Poverty Alleviation Dr Jiko Luveni made this comment during her visit to Rabi last week.

She said youths without jobs could use their studies to boost agricultural farming and fisheries in their respective villages.

"There are about 232,000…

Fiji Tiimes online Salaseini Vosamana     Sunday, July 03, 2011

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 Wednesday, December 08, 2010

MAINTAINING strong links with their history, the Banaban community will next week remember the arrival of their ancestors on the island of Rabi.

With an organised weeklong festival, the people of Rabi will hold traditional activities to remember their ancestors.

Islander Terikano Takesau said islanders from around the country and abroad have already arrived for the annual event. "It's a special day for us…

FIJI TIMES ONLINE Maneesha Karan Wednesday, November 24, 2010

More than 60 islanders have been involved in a workshop on herbal remedies, courtesty of Rakiraki Hospital. Rabi Council of Leaders official Mialere Simoteo said hospital staff staff have been teaching the people the types of treatment and the right foods for good health.

She said the villagers have also been informed about herbal medicine…

Biara Touakin 4.17pm Monday 13 Sept 2010

Another accident at Buakonikai. A council truck driven by Saiyasi from Buakonikai veered off the road and fell over the cliff…

Fiji Times Online Monday, August 30, 2010

COPRA Millers of Fiji Limited expects to make presentations to the Government for an increase in sea freight subsidy for the transportation of copra to the mill.

The company subsidises the cost of transporting copra to their mill in Savusavu, especially from islands in Lau or from where their agents are located buying copra.

Seventy per cent of copra received at the mill is through coco traders and agents while 30 per cent are…

Updated June 23, 2010 16:38:32 ABC Radio Pacific Beat

In Fiji today at 2.30 pm local time, nothing happened. Ordinarily, that wouldn't exactly make the news, but the nation had been told via a prophecy by a church minister in Nadi that Fiji would be struck by earthquakes and tsunamis today at that precise time.



Such was the level of concern by the government at the effect this was having that the head of the…

Word from Rabi is that everything has been postponed today in the wake of predictions by a Church Minister that natural disasters will befall Fiji today. Over the past weeks Banabans have been preparing emergency shelters on high ground and will spend the day in these camps in case…