Fiji Law Society President refuses to cooperate with military

Radio Australia, Pacific Beat – Reports of growing dissent inside Fiji are beginning to emerge, with local media reporting that the Secretary General of the nationalist Yanua Tako Lavo Party has been arrested. The Police have told Fiji TV he was in breach of Public Emergency Regulations, but Pacific Beat understands Iliesa Duvuloco was distributing [...]

Push to block Fiji from UN peacekeeping

Sydney Morning Herald – THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, says the United Nations should look at punishing Fiji’s military rulers by further limiting the involvement of its soldiers in peacekeeping forces – a move that would seriously damage the country’s economy.
Australia and New Zealand have been leading efforts to pressure Fiji’s interim government over its [...]

Think Outside The Box

The overwhelming disappointment at the UN’s failure to censure Fiji’s illegal government, through banning all peacekeeping missions, has struck a sour note for those who would see Fiji return to the path of democracy.
Are we being too narrow minded in seeking a solution? 
It appears to me that the prime instigators of this illegal regime are
a)     [...]

Samoa’s PM takes jab at Fiji’s Bainimarama

Samoa’s PM Sailele has earned his place in Fijian hearts as a hero of Pacific democracy.  His latest jibes are Vore are too beautiful to go unheralded.  

23 Apr 2009, 08:30 Apia, Samoa: Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has a peculiar take on the recent turn of political events in Fiji.


This is how Tuilaepa, who delights [...]

Fiji citizens ‘under financial pressure’ as prices rise

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/04/26/1245aab5bca0
Updated at 5:14pm on 26 April 2009
One of Fiji’s prominent politicians says financial burdens are putting immense pressure on the country’s people.
Fiji recently devalued its currency by 20% to stimulate the economy by encouraging with exports and tourism.
The country has been in turmoil since the president revoked the constitution and reinstated military leader Frank Bainimarama [...]

Blogs rule as Fiji regime cracks down on media

By David Brooks – Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:16PM EDT 
WELLINGTON (AFP) – Fijians keeping up with political developments since the media clampdown by Voreqe Bainimarama’s military regime this month are turning to a growing band of Internet blogs.
The latest political upheaval in the troubled South Pacific nation was triggered by the regime’s repeal of the [...]