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GOVERNMENT and the community of Rotuma have invested a lot in infrastructure where new industrial and residential buildings have been constructed.

THE Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment has trained at least 347 teachers from 197 rural agricultural-based schools in the country on issues of child labour.

I'm going to take you on a journey. You might not come back as exhilarated as I did.

LAW enforcement agencies and International Criminal Police Organisation investigators are able to travel without visas when assisting transnational cases or urgent deployments.

Fiji's AFL Aussie rule team after a training session at the Albert Park in Suva yesterday.

AusAID minister counsellor-Pacific John Davidson speaks to media personnel during a press conference at the Australian High Commission in Tamavua, Suva yesterday.

FIJI has been at the forefront of sugar research from the early 1900s and has pioneered equipment and research that has been developed into normal use at sugar research institutes around the world today.

LAUNCHING one of the first international sugarcane breeding workshops in the lead up to hosting the 43rd session of the International Sugar Council next month shows that Fiji and the council are firmly committed to advancing the cause of the global industry.

THE FIJIAN LABOUR MINISTRY has still not issued a statement on an agreement between a recruitment agency and individuals in Papua New Guinea to hire 800 Fijians to work in that country.

WHEN he was 21 years old, Manoa Rasigatale formed a musical group called Maroc 5 that toured the nation and gained legendary status in the '60s. Jumping into adoring crowds, duck-walking across the stage and swinging the microphone around like a machine gun, Maroc 5 gave Manoa Rasigatale his first real taste of live performance.

LEARNING to be a productive individual of society while earning a living is a core focus of the Fiji Corrections Service as it continues to offer reformed prisoners a new start at life.

Hundreds of people were at Nadi Airport to welcome the arrival of the second Fiji Airways A330 named Namuka-I-Lau. While welcoming the new aircraft Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama said the new fleet of A330 is a key in bringing millions of visitors to our shores in the coming years.

Update: 3:49PM THE atmosphere at the Air Pacific headquarters in Nadi is electric as the national carriers second brand new Airbus A330 touches down.

This was highlighted during the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus strategy workshop in Suva last week.

Participants tour Colo-i-Suva park to mark World Biodiversity Day and the launch of the Department of Environment's National Environment Celebrations campaign yesterday.

Nadi remains winless in the league and tournaments since the 2002 IDC, which came during Goundar's last term as president.

Lisa Purmodh , Craig Calhourn, on her left, Fiji jazz legend Tom Mawi with local musicians from the West.

Update: 3:45PM INTERNATIONAL technical and consultancy services company, OPS Atlas, will soon open a Pacific division in Fiji to be called OPS Pacific.

LIFE has become a little easier for 70-year-old Ram Charan after receiving a wheelchair from the Fiji Spinal Injury Association, in partnership with Action for Children and The Aged Trust Fiji under the Vodafone World of Difference Program.

IT is known for long that most Fijians of Indian descent descend from the immigrants shipped to Fiji from India under the universally condemned indentured labour scheme.