The Ministry of Finance will step in to ensure affected teachers receive their outstanding salaries, with the Government saying the situation should never have reached this point.

The Centre for Democracy and Dialogue says Fiji should not criminalise legitimate election research.

National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad is warning that the Hindi language could gradually disappear in Fiji if younger generations do not learn to read and write it.

A 23-year-old unemployed man of Natabua Housing in Lautoka will appear at the Lautoka Magistrates Court today charged with identity theft and obtaining a financial advantage by deception.

Resident Magistrate Yogesh Prasad blasted the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption this morning for introducing a new witness and additional documents in the case against former Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad.

Concerns over the privacy and sovereignty of Fijians’ biometric and travel data are mounting under the proposed Ocean of Peace or Veitacini Treaty.

The Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission is currently holding its truth-telling process for Fijians in New Zealand and Australia.

Fiji is strengthening how it measures and monitors greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector as it works to meet its national climate commitments.

Fiji’s growing reliance on Australian technology and expertise is raising questions over whether the country has the capacity to manage and sustain its own border security systems.

Questions are being raised over whether sensitive government data under the proposed Fiji-Australia Vuvale Union and Ocean of Peace Alliance treaties could eventually be stored in Australia.

Deaths linked to rheumatic heart disease in Fiji are rising, with the latest review showing an increase from about 60 to 71 deaths a year.

Former inmates should not continue to be punished by society after completing their prison sentences, with rejection and discrimination creating what President Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu describes as a “second prison”.