Tag: Fiji coups
Fiji elections: ‘Smooth transition’ vital for both country and Pacific, says...
NZ Pacific
A Pacific media academic says Fiji is still not a fully-fledged democracy and is recovering from the impacts of the 2006 coup --...
Fiji’s dilemma – how its military has become so deeply mired...
ANALYSIS: By Sadhana Sen and Stephen Howes
The last time the Australian Labor Party came to power (in 2007), Australia was imposing sanctions against Fiji...
Will Fiji’s 2022 hotly contested elections further cement democracy?
ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Singh of the University of the South Pacific
In Fiji’s politically charged context, national elections are historically a risky period. Since the...
Prasad accuses FijiFirst of ‘political gimmick’ in highlighting 1987 coup
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
Opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has questioned the motive of the FijiFirst government to continuously highlight the...
History repeats in Fiji?: Police chief warns of election ‘instability’
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Fiji’s police chief Sitiveni Qiliho looks to have dug out an old playbook that was used over a...
Professor Brij Lal: A champion of democracy and Fiji’s finest scholar
OBITUARY: By Professor Biman Prasad
Brij Vilash Lal, banished from the land of his birth by the Bainimarama government in November 2009 for championing democracy...
Wadan Narsey: Between a rock and a not so hard place...
ANALYSIS: By Wadan Narsey in Suva
The opinion polls about voting intentions for Fiji's 2022 General Election suggests that voters face the horrible challenge of...
Graham Davis: In the stars? It’s in the polls, Rabuka’s final...
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis
"So many detractors were saying, 'no you won’t get it, the Supervisor of Elections won’t allow it'. I said, 'well let...
Rabuka makes move – former Fiji PM registers proposed ‘People’s Alliance’
By Litia Cava in Suva
Former Fiji opposition leader Sitiveni Rabuka has submitted his application to register his newly proposed political party -- the "People's...
‘My torturers carry a heavy burden in their hearts’, says Fiji...
COMMENTARY: By Pita Waqavonovono in Suva
I thank The Fiji Times for covering this story. I also thank Archbishop Peter Chong for providing a space...
Former USP academic and author of Fiji coup books Robbie Robertson...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Retired politics professor and historian Robert "Robbie" Robertson, 69, co-author of the book Shattered Coups about the 1987 coups led by...
Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion
By David Robie in Auckland
Bananas, balaclavas and banners … these were stock-in-trade for human rights activists of the New Zealand-based Coalition for Democracy in...
Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional...
REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne
The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific...
Rabuka’s exit may spell ‘beginning of end’ for Fiji’s SODELPA
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
The writing is on the wall for Fiji's main opposition party, says New Zealand-based Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva.
His...
Fiji Day – birth of a magazine and reflections for the...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A new Fiji magazine published by a New Zealand-based media collective made its debut this weekend to mark Fiji's 50th Independence...
Fiji 33 years after the first fateful coup – a failed...
COMMENT: Nik Naidu reflects on the 33rd anniversary of the original - first of four - coups in his homeland of Fiji.
Today is the...
NZ journalists arrested in Fiji now free but no new era...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Dominic O'Sullivan
It is not unusual for Fiji to intimidate and imprison journalists.
Journalists provide checks on government, parliament and business, which threatens...
Rabuka acquitted on assets charge, free to contest 2018 general election
By Litia Cava in Suva
Former Prime Minister and Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) leader Sitiveni Rabuka is now sure to contest the 2018 general...
‘I was coerced into the 1987 coup,’ admits Sitiveni Rabuka
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Asia-Pacific Report
A repentant Sitiveni Rabuka, the Fiji military strongman who sparked off the country's "coup culture" in 1987, admits he...
Fiji stabilises, growth positive but still a big question over military...
As Fiji lurches towards stability and democracy, the military’s overwhelming presence is a reminder of what once was, and could happen again, as the...
Sedition, coup-era media law and nerves keep lid on Fiji press
With the date for this year’s second Fiji general election since the 2006 coup yet to be announced, one of the questions is will...
Fiji’s anti-corruption investigators charge Rabuka over ‘anomalies’
By RNZ Pacific
The leader of Fiji's main opposition party, Sitiveni Rabuka, was today charged by anti-corruption investigators, apparently over "anomalies" in his financial declarations.
The...