Jyoti
Pratibha
Dengue strikes
even the
best
Mosquito-borne dengue fever does not discriminate as it continues to strike across the region.
Even the man acknowledged as the PM’s hardest working and most effective minister has apparently been laid low in recent days.
Reluctantly though.
He was, we hear, trying to work through despite it.
WHAT NEXT FOR TAVOLA?
An interesting question. The new and fast emerging Pacific Islands Development Forum Secretariat is up and running in Suva.
The PM has the same time dismissed the relevance of the older Pacific Islands Forum, which also has a secretariat in Suva.
The question? Will some still push for former Qarase Government Foreign Minister Kaliopate Tavola to succeed departing Samoan Tuiloma Neroni Slade as Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General?
A Fijian heading a body which Fiji no longer supports? Try to work that one out.
POWER TO AJAY RANIGA
Talk about driving the talk. Sunergise Fiji boss Ajay Raniga is continuing to show the way through solar power.
Mr Raniga has brought in a fully electric Nissan Leaf car for his personal use.
This car has zero emissions. Mr Raniga is creating a solar charging station at home to power it.
Soon he will be able to say: “My car is being powered by the sun.”
HE SAID IT
Auckland University of Technology Pacific Media Centre director David Robie has again criticised New Zealand mainstream media reporting on Fiji.
He said they treated the Bainimarama Government like a “pariah”.
But, he said, the Qarase Government it displaced was “actually an extremist and corrupt ethno-nationalist regime masquerading as democratic”.
Wondering if those comments will get a run on RNZI? Don’t hold your breath.
Professor Robie was speaking in Auckland at the launch of his new book “Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific”.
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