Parliament

Good news for staff of the Education Ministry as a performance pay increase will be paid out before the end of this financial year.

The livestream of the parliament sitting on Facebook has been terminated indefinitely.

The operational and financial management practices at the Office of the President has significantly improved.

Thousands of people living along coastlines will now be able to get real-time information on possible storm surges.

The government has invested around $9.5million on ground water development projects and has drilled 213 boreholes.

Parliament has unanimously voted to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear weapons.

An amendment to the Employment Relations Act passed in Parliament last night, requires employers to prove that they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terminating employees.

The rehabilitation of some schools which were damaged by the Tropical Cyclone Winston four years ago is still pending.

Despite the recent mass job losses and devastated tourism sector in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, foreign reserves are holding steady.

A parliamentary debate on amendments to the Legal Practitioners Act turned towards the judiciary for a brief moment this afternoon.

The Ministry of Agriculture has embarked on developing organic fertilizers and supplying it to farmers.

Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete confirms that the Ministry has recruited an expatriate nephrologist to lead the operational component of the Dialysis Centres in Fiji.