FEA records $75.3m net profit
Fiji Electricity Authority chairman, Nizam-ud-Dean in discussion with the Attorney-General and Minister for Public Enterprises, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum at the announcements of FEA financials yesterday....
View ArticleElectricity authority reveals big plans
Fiji Electricity Authority chief executive, Hasmukh Patel. By RACHNA LAL and RANOBA BAOA The Fiji Electricity Authority has highlighted some exciting plans in terms of refurbishments for its existing...
View ArticleJoint identity card to be issued from Monday
Source: FIJI REVENUE AND CUSTOMS AUTHORITY The Fiji National Provident Fund and the Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority will issue their Joint Identity Card to members of the public from Monday, next...
View ArticleWakaya Group brings new luxury aircraft
The Wakaya Group of Companies new 11-seater luxurious Cessna Grand Caravan EX. By RACHNA LAL The Wakaya Group of Companies has acquired and introduced a brand new top-of-the-line luxury aircraft in...
View ArticleShip loading tower upgrade for big chip vessels
The MV Crystal docked at the Tropik Wood Industries Limited’s port in Lautoka yesterday. It will be carrying 50,000 tonnes of wood chips from both Lautoka and Wairiki worth $5.5 million. It is the...
View ArticlePacific Sun leases new aircraft
By RACHNA LAL National carrier Pacific Sun will lease a brand new ATR 72-600 aircraft as it steps up its expansion plans. Growth in domestic and regional traffic has driven Pacific Sun, a Fiji Airways’...
View ArticleScholarship to study accounting
95 year-old Daisy Houng Lee, one of the eldest member of the Houng Lee family (front) with Rod Houng Lee and senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jenny Seeto (middle) while announcing the...
View ArticlePacific Sun expects big new turboprop by April
ATR 72-600: WINGS OF HOPE By RACHNA LAL Growth in domestic and regional traffic has led Fiji Airways’ subsidiary, Pacific Sun, to lease a new aircraft. The ATR 72-600 will add to Pacific Sun’s fleet of...
View ArticleModernising traditional thatching (HARD TALK )
PETER SLACK - r Hobbies - travel, bush walking, golf, diving, rugby and reading r Ambition in life - To learn more about Fiji’s culture and traditional past and to learn to speak the French Language. r...
View ArticleDevelopment bank profits up
By RACHNA LAL The Fiji Development Bank recorded an operating profit of $2.86 million for the 2012 financial year ending June 30, 2012, up $0.41 million from 2011. Bank chairman, Robert Lyon, said the...
View ArticleGilmour’s Wakaya Perfection gets good reviews
Owner of Wakaya Group, David Gilmour at the Wakaya Club office yesterday. during an interview with the Fiji Sun Photo: RAMA By RACHNA LAL and RANOBA BAOA The Wakaya Perfection Organic Ginger, launched...
View ArticleDell hosts IT forum in Suva
By KAITLYN CHAMBERLIN The Dell Enterprise Forum 2013 took place at the Holiday Inn Suva last week. . The seminar was in conjunction with Office Products Graphic Equipment Limited, in order to inform...
View ArticleYouth business empowers: Volavola
Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation chief executive officer, Mereia Volavola (in red), and organisation staff with Hands On Harvest Enterprise staff/farmers last week. Photo: PACIFIC ISLANDS...
View ArticleJewellery making growing here
By FARISHA AHMED Jewellery making in Fiji is showing progress and setting the Fijian-made jewellery apart from others. A jewellery-making workshop program is being conducted by the Fiji Arts Council in...
View ArticleViti Mining granted licence on Vorovorobitu deposit site
The image shows what the company believes is high grade of manganese ore at the Vorovorobitu deposit on Nasaucoko. Photo: VITI MINING LIMITED By RANOBA BAOA Viti Mining Limited has been granted the...
View ArticleNew GPH 78% complete, set to open April
Fijian workers at the Grand Pacific Hotel site yesterday. Photo: RAMA By RANOBA BAOA Suva’s hotel scene is set to take a major step forward this coming April. That’s when the restored and redeveloped...
View ArticleKhan starts work on $2m mall in Cuvu
By LITIA MATHEWSELL Investment by Nadi businessman, Bobby Khan, continues in the Western Division. He has begun work on his new $2 million investment building a shopping mall complex in Cuvu, Nadroga....
View ArticleJoint card to remove fraud cases
By RANOBA BAOA One of the major benefits of the Fiji National Provident Fund and Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority joint card system is that it will enable to recognise identities of fraudsters and...
View ArticleMore inmates to help
By MAIKELI SERU More inmates of the Fiji Corrections Service had been deployed to help cut sugarcane during this crushing season. Corrections Service spokesperson Ana Tamani said 20 inmates from Suva...
View ArticleStrike vote
Government: We won’t let sugar industry collapse Union: 67.5% voted By JYOTI PRATIBHA The Bainimarama Government has stressed given the investment it has made in the sugar industry, it will not allow...
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