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Joined February 2008
Cabinet approves redeployment of $78M within current budget, includes $10M for Aspen #Fiji #FijiNews.
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Cabinet yesterday gave the greenlit for redeployment of funds within the 2024-2025 Budget, tota;lling $78,556,185. Budget redeployment are reallocating funds within an approved national budget to […]
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The 2025 FMF Bula Festival contestants were hosted to a lunch by staff of Sails Fiji at Port Denarau today as the contestants continue to make their stops at popular venues around the Jet Set Town during the week kind festival. 🎥 BALJEET SINGH
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#FijiTimesNews | “Although the issuance of a water lease is outside the legal jurisdiction of TLTB, FEA has been faithfully paying water royalty from 2006 until now,” landowner, Jope Masiyaka. #Fiji #FijiNews
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Landowners of Monasavu Hydro Dam have received $5.1 million in annual rental payments over the last 20 years.
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#FijiTimesNews | “Just last week, we buried three teachers,” FTA general secretary Paula Manumanunitoga. #Fiji #FijiNews
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The Fijian Teachers Association (FTA) has raised alarm over the growing physical and mental toll on teachers claiming some have collapsed and died while on duty, while others are being sent overseas...
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#FijiTimesNews | “Generally speaking, as an observation from a teacher’s point of view, parents have been neglecting their student’s upbringing, especially iTaukei parents,” Paula Manumanunitoga. #Fiji #FijiNews
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The breakdown of parental responsibility in some iTaukei families is hurting student discipline and performance, a teachers' union leader says.
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#FijiTimesNews | “Students give you faces, student can spit at you, student can give you the middle finger,” Fijian Teachers Association general secretary Paula Manumanunitoga. #Fiji #FijiNews
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Teachers are facing alarming levels of abuse from students due to the ban on corporal punishment, says Fijian Teachers Association general secretary Paula Manumanunitoga.
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#FijiTimesNews | Dismissed Commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption, Barbara Malimali crossed the first hurdle yesterday in her High Court case against the President and Prime Minister challenging her termination. #Fiji #FijiNews
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Dismissed Commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption, Barbara Malimali crossed the first hurdle yesterday in her High Court case against the President and Prime Minister...
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#FijiTimesNews | One of the three men contesting the DNA evidence linking them to the van in which Afroz Khan was allegedly held hostage and killed has filed his grounds for voir dire. #Fiji #FijiNews
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One of the three men contesting the DNA evidence linking them to the van in which Afroz Khan was allegedly held hostage and killed has filed his grounds for voir dire.
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#FijiTimesNews | “Disagreements over financial matters within a marriage do not justify or excuse the conduct in question,” Magistrate Talei Kean. #Fiji #FijiNews
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A fire truck driver has been acquitted of careless driving after the prosecution failed to prove his identity beyond reasonable doubt.
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#FijiTimesNews | “So, we have a blood bank and as such, if there is a shortage of blood, then we go for blood drive,” Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu. #Fiji #FijiNews
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Fiji's blood bank supply depends heavily on public donations and Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu is calling on eligible Fijians, especially universal donors, to step forward when shortages...
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#FijiTimesNews | “Family planning plays a critical role in reducing unintended pregnancies and the complications that may arise from it,” United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia-Pacific Regional Hub managing director Sumita Benerjee. #Fiji #FijiNews
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Family planning is not a luxury, it's a lifesaving, cost-cutting, and community-empowering necessity, says United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia-Pacific Regional Hub managing director Sumita...
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#FijiTimesNews | “So, it’s not just about women, it’s about the men as well,” United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia-Pacific Regional Hub managing director Sumita Benerjee. #Fiji #FijiNews
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Men play a vital role as partners in family planning, says United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia-Pacific Regional Hub managing director Sumita Benerjee.
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#FijiTimesNews | “But look, it’s a policy, it’s a start, but nevertheless the next thing is to implement the policy,” Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu. #Fiji #FijiNews
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Fiji has become the first country in the Pacific to launch a national Family Planning Policy, a move Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu says is key to curbing teenage pregnancies and improving...
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#FijiTimesNews | “There are certain fi elds within the Ministry of Health that we do not have a good number of professionals serving in them," Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu. #Fiji #FijiNews
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The Health Ministry is working to fi x a shortage of specialists in critical areas like endoscopy, with a focus on long-term capacity building, says Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu.
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