Oceania Fiji The retirement age for specialized expert positions has been extended from 60 to 62 by the government, seen as a strategic approach to maintaining skills and addressing professional shortages
Oceania Fiji The Minister of Sugar has made his intention known in Parliament and to sugar industry stakeholders that sugar production will increase to 1,8 million tons in 2024 and 2 million tons by 2025
Oceania Fiji Fijians will be able to apply for a new permanent resident visa program offered by the Australian government, a project aimed at increasing Australia's permanent immigration from the Pacific
Oceania Fiji 2.000 Fiji Sugar Corporation employees will receive a 5% pay raise, company CEO Bhan Pratap Singh announced
Oceania Fiji The government will provide new harvesting machines to hillside sugarcane farms; Sugar Minister Charan Jeath Singh will leave for China next week to organize the delivery of the machinery
Oceania Fiji The Science Department of the University of Fiji has received a grant under the ERASMUS+ programme that will allow students and staff to travel to Palermo, Italy, for an exchange programme from this year until 2026
Oceania Fiji The government has granted Vodafone Fiji a non-commercial 5G licence to operate; Vodafone Fiji will undertake testing with end users in the 5G pilot network before a full commercial licence is issued later this year
Oceania Fiji The term 'Micro' will be included, from 1 August, in the name of the Ministry that will be known as the 'Ministry of Commerce, Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Communications', given the growing importance of this category
Oceania Fiji The newly built hospital in Rotuma was officially handed over to the Ministry of Health by the military forces of the Republic of Fiji and is now ready to serve the public
Oceania Fiji Over 10.000 Fijian coffee farmers in the Viti Levu highlands will benefit from a US$25.000 grant that the Indonesian government handed over to Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Oceania Fiji A Fijian academic challenged the Pacific region's media and politicians on their coverage of the climate crisis, asking whether the discriminatory style of reporting is a case of climate injustice
Oceania Fiji The Fiji Police Fraud Investigation Unit has received numerous reports of MPAiSA accounts being hacked by unknown persons in recent months; head of the anti-crime unit says victims are often people who may not be familiar with modern technology
Oceania Fiji David Group Fiji's casino project manager, Sandeep Singh, said the $2 billion casino project would be detached from the local community, as Fijians will not be allowed in, to prevent the local community from being exposed to gambling