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Fiji’s Dr Prasad unveils $4.8b budget as deficit widens
Asia Pacific Report
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June 30, 2025
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The Fiji government is spending big on this year’s budget. The country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Biman Prasad, unveiled a FJ$4.8 billion (about NZ$3.5 billion) spending package,...
Fiji gov't launches initiatives to boost affordable housing
Xinhua News Agency
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SUVA, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Fiji's Ministry of Housing has launched three initiatives aimed at boosting affordable housing in Fiji. The three initiatives are the Housing Authority Model Homes, the Village Housing Loan Scheme, and the further...
Fiji Budget 25/26: Government delivers deficit budget
Islands Business
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June 29, 2025
The government has announced a drop in the VAT rate from 15% to 12.5% for the new financial year, effective from 1 August 2025. This reduction in VAT is expected to deliver estimated savings of around $250 million for all Fijians. In addition, the...
Panache, THSA sign strategic service agreement at AHICE Fiji
Hotel Management
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July 2, 2025
Independent hotel operator Panache Hotel Group (PHG) has partnered with THSA Hotel Advisors on a strategic service agreement, signed at AHICE Fiji Islands Investment in Tourism Summit last week. The collaboration brings together operational...
Fijian government unveils US$2b budget as deficit widens
RNZ
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June 29, 2025
Biman Prasad says that his government has guided the country to a better economic position than where he found it. Photo: RNZ Pacific/Kelvin Anthony The Fijian government is spending big on this year's budget. The country's Deputy Prime Minister...
Collaborators by Omission: Fiji Media’s Complicity in Illegal Appointment of Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. When future generations ask HOW this was allowed to fester in plain sight - the watchdogs chose to SLEEP
Fiji Leaks
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July 2, 2025
Let us be specific. Not a single mainstream media outlet investigated the highly questionable appointment of Barbara Malimali as Acting Commissioner of FICAC. None asked what qualified her. None reported that she had been barred from practising in...
Conflict sends oil prices soaring, Fiji feels the pinch
FBC News
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July 2, 2025
[Photo Credit: Reuters] The Reserve Bank of Fiji, in its June 2025 Economic Review, warns that persistent global tensions are weakening recovery efforts in vulnerable economies like Fiji. The review highlights how negotiations between major...
Filming incentives
The Fiji Times
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July 7, 2025
Competitive incentives is a major challenge faced by Fiji’s film commission at present to continue to attract international productions to the country. And Film Fiji chief executive officer Jone Robertson said if the incentive remained the same,...
‘People want him back’: Sayed-Khaiyum says Bainimarama could stand in 2026
Pacific News Service
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Convicted former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama could contest the general election next year, his right-hand man claims. Bainimarama, who originally seized power in a military revolt in 2006, now wants his corruption conviction quashed by...
TWR appoints next president and CEO: energy and innovation for a new era
Evangelical Focus
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July 2, 2025
Early in 2005, a “godly, attuned woman” in Phoenix, Arizona, told Andy Schick that she believed he would be married within the year. Schick thought, “Oh no,” since it hadn’t crossed his mind that he might marry someone he hadn’t even met yet. “And...
‘Love Island’ Dumps Contestant Cierra Ortega After Posts Using Racial Slur Surface
Rolling Stone
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July 7, 2025
The 25-year-old is no longer in the villa, but has not yet returned home and her parents have pleaded for "compassion, for patience, for basic human decency" from the show's intense fanbase Love Island Season Seven bombshell Cierra Ortega has been...
New aerobridge – One of six boarding tunnels installed and operational in Nadi
The Fiji Times
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July 7, 2025
FIJI Airports has successfully operated the first new aerobridge at the Nadi International Airport – part of a $10.4million contract with Australian company RATE Australia for six new passenger boarding tunnels in Nadi. The new aerobridge marks...
Fiji: 2025/2026 National Budget—A Socially Responsive Budget
Scoop
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27 June The Consumer Council of Fiji welcomes the 2025/2026 National Budget as a timely and decisive response to the financial strain felt by thousands of consumers across the country. This morning’s Budget announcement can be seen delivering a...
EFL $2bn CAPEX
The Fiji Times
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July 7, 2025
ENERGY Fiji Limited (EFL) is looking to spend $2billion in its capital expenditure on projects it will undertake in the next four to five years. EFL chief executive officer Fatiaki Gibson revealed this while presenting on Energy Security and...
80-acre farm – Fiji Water parent company to set up commercial farm
The Fiji Times
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July 1, 2025
FIJI Water’s parent company, The Wonderful Company is set to transform Fiji’s agricultural landscape with a 80-acre commercial farming pilot project in Vanua Levu. “We brought our agronomists here on at least three different trips, we’ve looked at...
Winners unveiled for LAGI 2025 Fiji competition for clean energy and water landscapes
Bustler
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June 25, 2025
The winners have been announced for the LAGI 2025 Fiji design challenge. The competition called for clean energy and water solutions to be based in Fiji’s Marou Village. Two winners were selected from 205 submissions, which organizers described as...
Fiji Celebrates Clean Water And Safe Sanitation In Healthcare Facilities
Scoop
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Nayavuira, Fiji, 25 June 2025 – More than 30,000 people in the Ra Province, Western Division, including around 9,100 children, will now be able to access nine healthcare facilities with cleaner, safer and climate resilient water, sanitation, and...
PNG WOMEN’S NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM HEADS OFF TO FIJI
PNG Haus Bung
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July 1, 2025
The Papua New Guinea women’s national football team departed for Fiji this morning at 10am to compete in the 2025 Oceania Women’s Nations Cup, set from July 4–19. Returning as reigning champions after their 2022 title win, the team is focused and...
PSH launches first-ever local pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Nadi
Fijivillage
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Great news for the people as Fiji’s first local pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, Pratima Pharmaceutical Industries, named in honour of the mother of Pacific Specialist Healthcare Hospitals Founder and CEO Parvish Kumar marks a groundbreaking...
Sewabu: Carry the soul of Fiji
The Fiji Times
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July 1, 2025
Donning the white jumper with reverence for the illustrious history behind it is the message driven by former national flanker Koli Sewabu for the FIJI Water Flying Fijians this week. The team will face the Wallabies in their first July Test in...