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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated 28 May 2012, 17:27 AEST
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NZ Radio International Posted at 23:12 on 21 May, 2012 UTC
The publisher and editor of the Kiribati Independent newspaper believes the government’s move to stop its publications is politically motivated.
Taberannang Korauaba says the Kiribati Independent received instructions from the Ministry of Communications on Friday to cease publications until it has been registered.
Mr Korauaba says the paper received a similar instruction in March, and after filing…
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Fiji Times Online Salaseini Vosamana Saturday, May 12, 2012
Fiji Roads Authority spokesman Iliesa Sokia said Pacific Building Solutions was in the final stages of completing the jetty.
"Ninety per cent of the work has been completed and we expect to finish up everything next month," Mr Sokia…
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Serelisoni Moceica Friday, April 27, 2012
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Minister for Social Welfare, Women Dr Jiko Luveni, second from right, looks at some of the displayed…
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March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiji News | Posted by: newsroom By LOSIRENE CHAND
Officials from the Prime Minister’s Office visited Rabi Island last week…
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Fiji Times Online Salaseini Vosamana Tuesday, March 20, 2012
IT'S a blessing for 103 disadvantaged children on Rabi Island who received educational assistance from the Banaban Child Welfare early this year.
The organisation has in the past assisted orphans, children whose parents are paralysed or handicapped, and victims of violence and abuse. Welfare secretary Terikano Takesau said the help was in the form of stationery, school fees and…
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TRAVELLING to Savusavu to buy ice will be a thing of the past for fishermen on Rabi Island in Vanua Levu after the Fisheries Department started work on a new ice plant in the area.
The plant is expected to be opened next month.
Principal fisheries officer northern Gerald Billings said the plant would greatly assist fishermen because they would not…
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The President of Kiribati is considering buying land in Fiji for those forced to move because of sea level rise.
A spokesman at Anote Tong’s office in Kiribati says the President has been in Fiji recently and a decision is likely in about two weeks time once cabinet has considered the concept.
Fiji TV reports that a local agent has pointed at 2,000 hectares of freehold land on Vanua Leva for the Kiribati government to…
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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…
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Fiji Times Onlin Tevita Tuiwavu Saturday, February 18, 2012
THE Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation is stepping up plans to help women's groups to develop poultry and virgin coconut oil projects.
Minister Dr Jiko Luveni said the establishment of the projects would result in the economic empowerment of the women and enable them to walk out of poverty.
Dr Luveni said the ministry recognised the economic contributions and potential of…
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Fiji Times Online Serelisoni Moceica Friday, February 17, 2012
TEN poultry and 10 virgin coconut oil projects are being targeted by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation at a total cost of $70,000 for the year.
In a statement yesterday, the ministry revealed the projects were part of the Livelihood Program designed for women's groups across the country.
The budgetary allocation has been increased by the government for this year's…
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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…
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