Commodore Frank Bainimarama

Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has already publicly endorsed the bid for his country where rugby 7s is a national obsession, with the men's team among the heavyweights on the world series sevens circuit. They won the first rugby sevens Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games in 2016 and are ...

Fiji's worst affected cyclone victims will qualify for $FJ 7000 or about US$3448 in relief assistance. Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama has announced a new package for people hard hit by recent back to back cyclones and flooding. He announced the Cyclone Assistance Relief Effort for Fiji package or ...

Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has already publicly endorsed the bid for his country where rugby sevens is a national obsession, with the men's team among the heavyweights on the world series sevens circuit. They won the first rugby sevens Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games in 2016 and are ...

As China lavishes Pacific leaders with infrastructure projects and state receptions, The Australian can disclose Australia has failed to roll out the red carpet to key regional allies, including Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama. The Department of Prime ...

It comes a week after Cyclone Josie caused widespread flooding and left five people dead with Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama blaming climate change and warning Fiji had entered a “frightening new era.” National Disaster Management Office director Anare Leweniqila told Radio New Zealand the ...

Fiji's prime minister has said the Pacific island nation is in "a fight for survival" as climate change brings "almost constant" deadly cyclones. Frank Bainimarama said Fiji had entered a "frightening new era" of extreme weather that needed to be confronted. His comments came after Cyclone Josie caused ...

More than 1,000 people remained in evacuation centres this week as the storm moved away. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, also known as Frank Bainimarama, said climate change was causing extreme weather events to become more severe and occur more often. advertisement. Unable to play ...

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama Links Climate Change To Fatal Cyclone. Cyclone Josie caused severe flooding in the South Pacific nation and the death toll from the storm had risen to five. World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: April 03, 2018 11:00 IST. Share. EMAIL. PRINT. COMMENTS. Fiji's Prime Minister ...

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has led a team of officials to the areas that were hit by Cyclone Josie. The group travelled to parts of Ba and Rakiraki that were affected by torrential rain and flooding caused over the weekend. Mr Bainimarama spoke with locals and commended the communities for ...

Suva (Fiji) (AFP) - Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama on Tuesday blamed climate change for a deadly cyclone over the weekend, saying his South Pacific nation had entered a "frightening new era". Cyclone Josie caused severe flooding when it passed Fiji's main island Viti Levu, with Bainimarama ...

Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama has stressed sugar will remain central to Fiji's economy. Sugar cane trucks in Fiji's western division. Photo: RNZ / Alex Perrottet. He was speaking in Lautoka at the handover of 30 new tractors to the Fiji Sugar Corporation. Mr Bainimarama said increased government ...

Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23), Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, president of the conference, named Brown special adviser for states and regions. When President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord, hundreds of sub-federal governments—including ...

It also comes as New Zealand looks to mend the thorny political relationship with the government of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, the former military commander who took control in the coup of 2006 - the country's third. After the coup and the abrogation of the constitution in 2009, many military ties ...

Fiji's prime minister and attorney general have filed lawsuits in the High Court, accusing a politician and a prominent lawyer of defamation. The Fiji Sun reported that Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum had filed lawsuits against Sodelpa MP Ratu Isoa Tikoca and lawyer, Aman Ravindra-Singh, ...

To celebrate the launch of this important year, Fiji's prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, nominated large sections of Fiji's Great Sea Reef as a Ramsar site to protect it from a range of threats, including industry. Ramsar, the Convention on Wetlands, is an intergovernmental treaty that “provides the framework ...

In exclusive interviews with Climate Home News, insiders said this eventually led to her deposal, with prime minister Frank Bainimarama taking the consultants' side. They raised concerns that Fiji ceding control to unaccountable professionals jeopardised a critical year of climate talks. “In the world of [UN ...

He said Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama breached MSG procedure by forcing the other four full members to accept Indonesia as part of the sub-regional grouping, whose full members are Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and FLNKS Kanaks movement of New Caledonia.