Fijian Parliament was dissolved in December 2006 following the military coup, and there have been no Parliamentary sessions since then. Commodore Frank Bainimarama took power in Fiji in a coup in 2006 and has said elections will not be held until 2014. He and his allies have suspended the constitution, detained opponents, delayed elections, suppressed freedom […]
Yes, this is one of those “random thought” days. I had a very lovely conversation this afternoon with a Hindu, a Muslim and a Christian lady. I was walking home and these three ladies had left their worship houses. The Muslim lady was coming back from the noon prayer at the same time when the Christian […]
“Over a period of about 40 years, 62,000 Islanders were brought to Queensland from Melanesia, mainly from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, to provide cheap labor for the burgeoning sugar industry. A small number of laborers came from the Polynesian and Micronesian islands such as Samoa, Kiribati and Tuvalu. During this time Fiji also conducted […]
