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The three-party Coalition Government can hold itself together despite differing views because members listen to each other and decisions were people-centered.
Speaking to The Fiji Times five days away from Government’s first year in office, Finance Minister and National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad said discussions were held openly and “no one was fearful”.
“We have a consultative approach,” he said, while admitting the parties did not necessarily see eye to eye on everything.
“I may or may not see eye to eye with everything that happens within Government, but the fact is that a coalition government can also be very good.
“I think what I have seen over the last 11 to 12 months is that because we are a three-party coalition, sometimes things may be a bit slow but what comes out at the end of the day, is a good outcome for the people.”
That’s the big news on the front page of The Fiji Times for Tuesday, December 19.
Headlines
Here are some headlines inside:
- 170 members of the Fiji Local Government Officers Association at the Lautoka City Council are getting a five percent Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) from January 1.
- SUSPENDED Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho was taken in for questioning by investigators at the Criminal Investigations Department in Suva.
- SOME big names in the local music scene will get on the stage at the Suva Civic Centre foreshore this week.
- FORMER Member of Parliament and SODELPA general secretary Adi Litia Qionibaravi has withdrawn her application to appeal charges of corruption made against her while she was an Opposition MP.
- THE Suva High Court has ruled a woman who is about to receive $11 million in a Deed of Settlement can hire new lawyers to finalise the settlement.
- A FORMER civil servant who raped a young woman inside a government office in Nadi in 2019 has been jailed for nine years by the Lautoka High Court.
