Tag: Sitiveni Rabuka
Fiji’s political ‘power game’ – Ratuva says how rival MoU pact...
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Forming post-election alliances through formal agreement is an effective way of drawing in a broader and more culturally diverse group...
Fiji’s Biman Prasad calls out ‘dire straits’ Bainimarama government
By Venkat Raman in Auckland
Fiji's National Federation Party leader and Member of Parliament Dr Biman Prasad is confident that the incumbent Voreqe Bainimarama government...
Prasad confident ‘fed up’ Fijians will make a change in this...
By David Robie in Auckland
Opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad is confident there will be a change of government in Fiji this...
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...
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...
‘No need to agitate’, warns Rabuka against instability over Fiji lands...
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
Violence can only hinder Fiji’s safe passage leading up to next year's next general election, says former prime minister Sitiveni...
Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police...
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva
Reports that Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has pulled the plug on Fiji's draft Police Bill 2020 has raised more questions...
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...
Court clears Rabuka for Fiji election – FICAC appeal dismissed
By Sri Krishnamurthi in Suva
In a dramatic afternoon, more than 1000 people sang Fijian songs of jubilation as Chief-Justice Anthony Gates dismissed the appeal...
Fiji’s Rabuka not troubled over new police summons as election looms
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji political party leader Sitiveni Rabuka says he is not worried about being called in by police for questioning today.
Rabuka, leader of...
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...
SODELPA’s Rabuka confident of winning power in Fiji election
By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre
Fiji's Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) leader Sitiveni Rabuka is confident of winning government benches in the...
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...
Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’
BOOKS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth "coup...
Rabuka’s message to 1987 Fiji coup victims: ‘To you I say,...
By Litia Cava in Suva
Social Democratic Liberal Party leader and former military coup maker Sitiveni Rabuka says the rioting and assault on some Fijians...
Southern Cross: PNG election security, Fiji coups, Manus Island shooting, and...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie speaks to Radio 95bFM's The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson about security operations...
Post-coup Rabuka crackdown as seen from Fiji Times editor’s ‘hot seat’
REVIEW: By Shailendra Singh
A Fiji Diary: Reminiscences and Reflections of a Newsman is a selection of revised and updated writings by Vijendra Kumar, a...