January 2011 Blog Posts (14)

Mauri BANABAN VOICE members,

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FijiVillage.com - Publish date/time: 18/01/2011 [07:19]

Fiji citizens can now apply for seasonal work in the United States after Fiji was included in a newly revised list of eligible nations by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

AFP news agency reports that in total, 53 countries are eligible this year for the temporary guest worker visas, called H 2A and H 2B.

Most of the other newcomer countries on the list were in Oceania which includes Fiji, Kiribati,…

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…