The government will continue to promote Fiji as a premier surfing destination while ensuring that there is equitable compensation for the landowners for the use of their resources.

In his address at the Macuata Provincial Council meeting yesterday, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka emphasized the need to create a strategic plan for development to help address rural to urban drift in the country.

The United States of America’s partnership model is for countries in the Pacific to be economically independent.

In a move to fortify the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector and bolster the nursing domain, the Higher Education Commission of Fiji has disbursed a substantial grant of $103.596 million.

The Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development is looking forward to scaling up the Seafarers Entrepreneurial Assistance (SEA) program.

Gospel music lovers in the country can expect a two nights of worship, and motivational messages this weekend in Suva with the Planetshakers band from Australia.

A 28-year-old driver who is alleged to have caused the death of a 60-year-old woman along Nina Street in Suva last week will appear in the Suva Magistrates Court today.

Police have arrested one of the two prisoners who escaped from the Suva High Court earlier this week.

Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Siromi Turaga met with nightclub owners, managers and officers from the Fiji Police Force yesterday.

Fiji can now increase the possibility to detect and test future pandemic and disease outbreak as Fiji National University opened a new Serology Laboratory in Tamavua yesterday.

The lead investigator in the University of the South Pacific investigation, Reshmi Dass, lied under oath.

The body a four-year-old boy who was swept away while trying to cross a creek with a relative in Sakoca has been found.