From The Crowd

A day for our seniors

Each year on October 1, people across the world mark UN International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) to raise awareness of opportunities and challenges faced by ageing populations, and to mobilise the wider community to...

30th September

Opinion | Global financial system … The impact on Fiji and Pacific islands

The Asian Development Bank-Asian Think Tank Development Pacific Island Economies forum is timely because Fiji and the countries of the Blue Pacific are beginning to show their restlessness at the pace of reform of the global financial architecture, of which the ADB is a part. This forum is also timely because as I speak, Fiji’s...

FEATURE | Bullying, body shaming: Counselling makes woman mentally strong

BULLYING and body shaming may not be a common occurrence in schools in Fiji but they are known to happen. Some students are able to either fight off the bullies or tell their teachers, parents or someone else about them. But, there are others who tend to keep things bottled up thus resulting in them...

OPINION | Across the divide: school experiences – Part 5

THE last article in this series on Crossing the Divide focused on the reunion at Holy Cross College that I had the good fortune of attending on the chiefly island of Taveuni in August this year. There were many snippets in that article that I could not expand on because of the space constraints involved...

Power in cooperation

AT the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) summit in Jakarta, President of Indonesia Joko Widodo pleaded with the world’s big powers to “strengthen cooperation, not sharpen rivalries”. “I don’t know how many words of peace and stability we utter at every meeting… peace and stability are key to achieving prosperity,” he said at...

29th September

Our ocean, our home

The new chapter of the law of the sea, which opened in June with the adoption of the Agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) is now ready to be written. Today, it officially opens for signature and what a delight that the first country...

28th September

Pacific climate warrior | Calls fuel industry out

Pacific youth climate champion Suluafi Brianna Fruean has likened her first time in the United Nations building to primary school. “It was my first time being in the (UN) General Assembly space,” Suluafi said. “I sat there and I was watching everyone and it kind of reminded me of a mock UN we did when...

What’s happening today!

Bula vinaka everyone. Here is another edition of some basic information you may need to know for today. First, here is your weather forecast for today: Weather A trough of low pressure remains slow moving over the Associated cloud and rain are expected to affect most parts of the group till later today. Occasional rain,...

27th September

Cyber security in Fiji

Defence forces from around the world are in a sudden rush to buy long-range strike missiles. Japan flagged a need for them in its recent National Security Strategy. The US is upping production of its long-range precision strike arsenal. Australia has announced a plan to build its own. The Missile Age, as some have dubbed...