Articles Tagged: debate

Bloggers from Fiji and New Zealand are discussing an ongoing diplomatic row between their governments that intensified when New Zealand refused to grant visas to three family members of senior officials in Fiji's government who came to power in a coup in December 2006. When the son of a secretary who works for Fiji?s president was denied a visa to return to university in New Zealand this November, rumors started flying that Fiji was preparing to expel New Zealand?s High Commissioner. If that h

Since the Committee to Build a Better Fiji released a draft version August six of its 11-point plan to revamp the country?s ethnic-based electoral system and constitution, political parties and other institutions have been quietly debating the 75-page document. The so-called interim government of Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama, which came to power in a 2006 bloodless coup, said citizens of Fiji will have six weeks to comment on the plan, called the Fiji Draft People?s Charter for Change,

Guest blogger: Sanjay Ramesh, who teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney, is Senior Political Editor at the Sydney Fiji Times and Adjunct Fellow at the University of Fiji. Jon Fraenkel raises some important issues about Fiji. Most important, perhaps, is his message that there could never be any justification for overthrowing an elected government. However, the latest coup in Fiji was different from the previous coups, in that it was based on ?good governance? and multi-ethnic coll

The discord in Fiji's legal fraternity was today made apparent after two prominent lawyers lashed out at each out in a heated debate during day two of the Fiji law Society's annual convention in Nadi.