Sugar Industry Minister Tomasi Tunabuna has expressed disappointment over constant complaints from sugarcane farmers and stakeholders, stressing that the government is not seeing significant returns from the sector.

Naqali Flats on Serea Road in Sawani is among the flood-affected areas as heavy rain continues to disrupt roads and crossings across the Central Division.

Drainage maintenance funding has not been reinstated since a one-off allocation in 2018.

Fiji is taking stock of its biodiversity conservation efforts as consultations for the country’s Seventh National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity continue in the Northern Division.

Almost all of the world’s children are exposed to at least one climate hazard, with as many as 1.8 billion put in danger ​by droughts and 1.2 billion by extreme heat, the United ‌Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report.