Remember Your Role as Regulators
LITIA MATHEWSELL nadi Pacific Islands Inclusion Working Group (PIWG) chair Gane Simbe yesterday reminded bankers and financial policy makers to set out clear regulations for service providers. The 12th...
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Salary Pay Rise: FBC
Riyaz Sayed-KhaiyumMore than 95 per cent received increases averaging 5 per cent – 20 per cent. FIJI BRAODCASTING CORPORATION SUVA The Fiji Broadcasting Corporation awarded a pay increase this month to...
View ArticleADB Looks at Fiji Return
The Asian Development Bank says the 2014 elections in Fiji will also change the bank’s engagement with Fiji. RACHNA LAL sYDNEY, AUSTRALIA ADB country economist for Nauru Solomon Islands and Vanuatu,...
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Big Growth in Building
The graph indicates the findings from the 2013 December quarter survey. The quarterly construction survey covers work carried out by registered Private Building and Civil Works Contractors. FIJI BUREAU...
View ArticleSold Out! Tourism Expo Shines
TOURISM FIJI Nadi Tourism Fiji has been overwhelmed with interest in the first Fijian Tourism Expo (FTE), with the event now sold out for exhibitors. The new exhibition complex at the Sheraton Fiji...
View ArticlePayments Decree Soon
Litia Mathewsell Nadi The Payments Systems Decree will soon be finalised, says Reserve Bank of Fiji Governor Barry Whiteside. He announced this in Nadi yesterday while opening the Alliance for...
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Terraces Now Solar-powered
System will generate all-day electricity that will significantly cut costs The Terraces Apartment Resort Denarau is Fiji’s first solar powered resort. Photo: LITIA MATHEWSELL.LITIA MATHEWSELL NADI The...
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More Formal Trade says Ali
Shaheen Ali. Photo: Paulini RatulailaiMARAIA VULA Suva The Ministry of Industry and Trade says a more formal trade arrangement between Fiji and New Caledonia should be introduced to facilitate trade...
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Airline Pilot Grounded
Airbus A330 touched down hard last week in sydney, Stefan pichler explains JYOTI PRATIBHA NADI Fiji Airways has launched a full investigation into a hard landing of one of its flights to Sydney last...
View ArticleINDUSTRY Sugar Reforms to Strengthen Management of Harvest, Transport
Increased role for FSC to bring better returns for farmers: PM JYOTI PRATIBHA nadi Major reforms to improve harvesting and transporting sugarcane were confirmed yesterday by the Prime Minister as the...
View ArticleOur mission and mandate is help FRA be successful
RANOBA BAOA suva, newsroom Three years ago, a United States-headquarted company known mainly for its sewage and water management projects globally was awarded a $25 million five-year contract by...
View ArticleAGRiulture PM Opens Agri Body Office
JYOTI PRATIBHA LAUTOKA The The Fiji Crop & Livestock Council has launched new services to be able to reach and assist more farmers. Prime Minister Rear Admiral (Retired) Voreqe Bainimarama...
View ArticleBRED Bank adds Renminbi Currency
RANOBA BAOA SUVA BRED Bank (Fiji) Limited will soon deal with the Chinese Yuan trading system as of April 1. This is the 18th currency the bank trades with. Chief executive Satish Deb said this is an...
View ArticleTrading 19 Licences Approved for Fijian-Made
MARAIA VULA SUVA The Ministry of Industry and Trade has this year given 19 new licences for the use the Fijian-Made Crafted logo. Permanent Secretary for Industry and Trade Shaheen Ali said: “Since the...
View Articleunion Singh to decide
Amended laws warn of imprisonment, fine for public officers ROSI DOVIVERATA suva Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions (FICTU) general secretary, Attar Singh was on the road to Nadi last Friday evening...
View ArticleLights off, resort
sheik dean nadi Guests and staff of the Radisson Blu Resort Fiji at Denarau Island last night marked Earth Hour. General manager said Gerard Knight this voluntary movement was marked at all Radisson...
View ArticleCELEBRATION Muani celebrates with Commander
zafiya shamim suva Major Isoa Loanakadavu, of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces has praised his cousin the Commander, Brigadier-General Mosese Tikoitoga. “I was not surprised by military Commander...
View ArticleIndepth analysis Nauru in the news again! writer evaluates the island’s...
Dr TK Jayaraman The smallest republic in the world (area: 8 square miles; and population: 10,000), once lauded as the Kuwait of the Pacific with the highest per capita income, but as of today one of...
View ArticleTourism Tanoa Waterfront Set to Open Wing
MARAIA VULA suva The Tanoa Waterfront Hotel in Lautoka will officially open its New Executive Wing tomorrow, raising the level of accommodation in the Sugar City. The new wing comprises 20 executive...
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analysis And the Best Airport Is…
Singapore Changi Airport was named the world’s best airport for the second year in a row at the World Airport Awards in Barcelona, Spain. Changi also won the award for best airport leisure.CNN United...
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