Articles Tagged: political

Bloggers, SV agrees and supports Dr. Brij Lal?s view that Sir Paul Reeves remains independent, so he can be objective when collating his recommendations on Fiji. We have gone down this road previously with the 1997 Constitution assaulted by Vore in 2001, when he tried to abrogate it and now with the unelected NCCBF and illegal junta trying to insert amendments without Parliament. SV hopes that Sir Paul Reeves will stay true to his comments and ensure democracy is restored to Fiji ASAP and more

Since the 2006 coup, I have tried to chronicle the rapidly changing world of blogs in Fiji as they start up, shut down, climb to great heights, and then fall out of the spotlight. My comments even garnered some unwanted attention from the Human Rights Commission Director who, paradoxically for a human rights officer, seemed to be arguing against freedom of speech. While the interim government

Former New Zealand Governor-General Sir Paul Reeves has been involved in trying to resolve Fiji's messy political situation.

Despite the lifting of Fiji's outlook to stable by an international rating system, the political situation on the ground among continue to weigh on the island country's credit rating.

Class Struggle Special Issue October 2007 Workers Answer to State Terror State uses Terrorism Suppression Act On Monday 15 October the NZ state sent 200 armed police to apply the Terrorism Suppression Act (2002) against a handful of Maori nationalists, including the well known Tuhoe activist, Tame Iti, as well as a small number of anarchist

India has a lesson to learn from even the coup-hit Fiji, which has advertised to include in the to-be-formed cabinet only competent and taintless applicants. Why can?t India too have a stringent

Two cases of football and politics getting awkwardly mixed up with one another have hit the news recently ... have been extremely strained since last year's military coup in Fiji. FIFA have made, I feel, the right decision ... . First, the case of the aborted New Zealand v. Fiji World Cup qualifier in Auckland. Although

Posted in The Football Tragic ( 42 links from 16 sites)

India has a lesson to learn from even the coup-hit Fiji, which has advertised to include in the to-be-formed cabinet only competent and taintless applicants. Why can?t India too have a stringent

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Fiji needs the help of the international community to become a nation with a truly democratic, non-racial and equitable governing system, its interim Prime Minister told the General Assembly today, defending his decision to launch a coup last year and promising to stage free and fair elections as soon as possible.