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Here are some headlines that made The Fiji Times’ edition for Wednesday, February 9.
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HEADLINES
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- DAYS of unrelenting downpour drenched the Western Division and created havoc for residents.
- THREE prominent Fijian lawyers have questioned the quality of legal advice given to Speaker of Parliament Ratu Epeli Nailatikau after he rejected a motion requesting that the late Professor Brij Lal’s family be allowed to bring his ashes to Fiji.
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- DEBATING the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism annual reports 2016/2017-2017/2018 was irrelevant because it did not comply with the financial management act, SODELPA MP Simione Rasova told Parliament yesterday.
- OPPOSITION MP and Public Accounts Committee member Aseri Radrodro has called the Office of the Auditor-General to investigate Government entities that are not following the Government’s new fiscal year.
- THE Prime Minister’s Office received 5178 complaints and issues between August 2018 and July 2019, the bulk of which were against the Ministry of Lands, iTaukei Lands Trust Board, Ministry of Employment & Productivity, Lands Transport Authority and Ministry of Infrastructure.
- THREE prominent Fijian lawyers have questioned a ruling by Speaker of Parliament Ratu Epeli Nailatikau on a motion requesting that the late Professor Brij Lal’s family be allowed to bring his ashes to Fiji.
- NATIONAL Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad yesterday questioned the credibility of the chairman of a Commission of Inquiry into the conduct, operations and performance of the Office of the Auditor General.
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- OPPOSITION MP Mitieli Bulaunauca told Parliament that there was a need to protect our coastline, rivers, streams and tanks or buffer zones.
- SODELPA MP Ro Filipe Tuisawau labelled Acting Prime Minister and Attorney General Aiyaz Khaiyum “lasulasu” and “jhooth” during a debate on the 2019 Fiji Development Bank annual report in Parliament this week.
- OUR economy was at risk of debt distress before the COVID-19 pandemic onslaught on the country according to a recent Asian Development Bank report.
- Acting Prime Minister and Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has accused the Opposition of undermining the Fijian economy “so Government can look bad” in their quest for political power.
- PEOPLE are willing to lend money to Fiji because of its sound economic policies, Minister for Industry, Trade and Tourism Faiyaz Koya told Parliament this week.
- POLICIES formulated by Government including the “No Jab, No Job” policy have allowed planes to arrive back in this country, hotels to open, businesses to work and people to go back overseas, says Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete.
PG 6
- Chaudhry on US Secretary of State visit.
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- FIJI Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) executive director Nalini Singh has expressed concern about the custodial sentence against child sex trafficker Simione Tugi .
- FIJI Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) executive director Nalini Singh is calling for harsher sentencing of sexual crimes against women and children.
- THREE men and three women were produced in the Suva Magistrates Court yesterday for allegedly falsifying documents in order to dishonestly obtain a gain from the Fiji National Provident Fund.
- IF you chose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 then you should live with the consequences of your choice.
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- THE non-communicable diseases (NCDS) crisis was there before COVID-19, was there during the height of COVID-19, and is still there.
SPORTS
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THE Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) is calling on local sporting bodies to continue to strictly adhere to COVID-19 restrictions in place.
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EYES filled up with tears inside the Wesley City Mission Church at Butt St in Suva yesterday morning as eulogies delivered during the memorial service described the personal, professional and rugby life of former Fiji rugby skipper Mosese Taga.
