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A Weblog on the culture and customs of FIJIANS as the indigenous people of the FIJI ISLANDSSDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.comBlogger466125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-76129382183500902692012-11-23T02:26:00.002-08:002012-12-02T04:38:37.170-08:00Fijian Customs and Culture EBook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Throughout this book the term <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fijian</b> refers to the indigenous people
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">For any one wishing to gain a
general understanding of Fijian Culture and Customs, it can be a challenge
finding useful information or guide as what to learn in order to be able to
conduct oneself when amongst the people of Fiji.</span></b></h4>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">As a Fijian, I know I have
always been keen to have an accessible handbook from which I could quickly
glean and learn the basics about my Fijian culture, especially those elements
that form part of everyday life. </span></b></h4>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In my work, I have often been approached to
provide advice, deliver language lessons and presentation on Fijian culture or
translate Fijian materials. I have been fortunate to have learned and lived my
culture all these years and am now keen to share it with those wishing to gain
some basic understanding.</span></b></h4>
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<li><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">to
show you how to get started in developing a basic and general understanding of
key aspects of Fijian culture and customs. It is not intended as a
comprehensive guide but enough to be able to gain an appreciation of its
importance and significance to Fijians.</span></b></li>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In this book I have attempted
to bring together and summarised materials that are contained in various
publications into one to serve as a guide and handbook.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">It is my hope that with the
topics covered in this book, those of you interested in learning and
understanding Fijian culture and customs will at least have access to material
that would come in handy and useful. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Topics covered include the following:</span></b></span></div>
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<li> <b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I Cavucavu ni Vosa Vakaviti - Pronunciation</span> </b></li>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Vula Vakaviti - Fijian Calendar</span> </b></li>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Na I Vosavosa Vakaviti – Fijian Idioms and Proverbs</span> </b></li>
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SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-49287131135182722392011-01-26T19:48:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:09.930-08:00No plans for Rewa Bridge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">by Verenaisi Raicola</span></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - Thursday, January 27, 2011</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><img height="424" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTnuEROQnp0f-pOA2Rn-bPV58FNCfkoUDVjl0UPvJaD4epk5KO3" width="640" /></div><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">THE Ministry of Works maintains they have not made any plans regarding the old Rewa Bridge.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Suggestions to build a flea market on it have not progressed although the historical landmark was still sturdy.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The structure that had survived cyclones, hurricanes and floods since it opened on June 12, 1937 was no longer used for cars but remained a fishing base for people at night and an exercise spot by early morning joggers and walkers.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ministry of Works spokeswoman Sainiana Waqainabete said the ministry had not planned out what they would do with the bridge.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"There has been no decision made by the ministry and the future of the bridge remains unknown at this stage," she said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Fiji Procurement Office had placed an advertisement calling for tenders to dismantle the old Rewa Bridge in one of the dailies at the beginning of the year.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Waqainabete said earlier there were many factors to consider like the need for an environmental impact study on the removal of the bridge.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Plans to convert the bridge into a flea market concept were earlier pursued by the Nausori Town Council.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In July last year, the Ministry of Works had set aside $1m for the dismantling of the bridge.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The ministry said earlier the project would be carried out by the United Kingdom Company Roughton International but nothing was finalised.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Public Works Department bridge engineer John Luveniyali in 2008 estimated the annual cost of maintaining the bridge at around $300,000.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He said apart from the cost, the Government would have to consider if it was worth maintaining the aging structure.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mr Luveniyali said materials from the bridge could be used to construct a similar infrastructure in rural areas.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Water and sewerage lines run under the bridge.</div></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-17414426853648496032011-01-26T19:44:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:09.957-08:00Village Bylaws Debate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><b>by Verenaisi Raicola</b></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Fiji Times - Thursday, January 27, 2011</b></span></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="related" style="float: right; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 200px;"><div id="storyPic" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; 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Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">+ Enlarge this image</span></a></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">A village sign at Lami Village advises that women are not allowed to wear pants and men are not allowed to wear hats, stemming from the proposed village bylaws. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU</div></div></div><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Roko Tui Ba Ratu Sireli Vesikula said while some villagers supported the draft village bylaws proposed by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs, he cautioned them not to apply the penalties as they had not been legalised.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Ratu Sireli has however suggested that all disciplinary issues villagers presently faced or had to deal with should be referred to police.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Ratu Sireli said some villagers agreed to promote the draft village bylaws to encourage discipline in some areas of village life that seemed to be deteriorating.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"I am telling the villagers to be careful because they have no authority to apply the penalties," he said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Ratu Sireli said what was important was for villagers to improve on their behavior.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"Things like being drunk and disorderly, turning the volume of music high and wearing nonrespectable clothes in the village needed to be discouraged," he said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Ratu Sireli said overall, there is a need for some form of order in village settings.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">He said homes in some villages were constructed too close to one another.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The proposed draft village bylaws states that there should be a space of 12 metres between homes. All homes should contain a sleeping space, bathroom, toilet and a kitchen.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The law also prohibits smoking in any village public places.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Police spokesman Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri said the village bylaws was not law so the village elders and turaga-ni-koro were prohibited from exercising it.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">He said the turaga-ni-koro who were 'disciplining' villagers were effectively commiting assault.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">They have been charged and will face the full brunt of the law, Inspector Sokomuri said.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></span><br /><div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">State halt of bylaws good</span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - Thursday, January 27, 2011</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">THE Citizens Constitutional Forum (CCF) welcomes the suspension of the proposed village bylaws by the state.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">CCF chief executive officer Reverend Akuila Yabaki said they were informed at a meeting by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs last week that Cabinet had decided to suspend the implementation of village bylaws pending further wider consultation with stakeholders.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"This government move will receive wide support from civil society organisations (CSOs, particularly because the village bylaws was incompatible with United Nations Conventions on Human Rights which Fiji has ratified," Mr Yabaki said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In a letter signed by Mr Yabaki and addressed to deputy permanent secretary Indigenous Affairs Department Colonel Apakuki Kurusiga last year, CCF shared its fears and reservations about the draft bylaws.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mr Yabaki said some villages, according to media reports, had already embarked on the implemention of the said bylaws; offenders of the bylaws are actually punished.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"CCF believes that the goal of national unity compels us to move away from racial or communal approaches."</div></div></div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.1em;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; float: right; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-49256035992257953652011-01-23T14:45:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:09.976-08:00Ana Does Fiji Proud in NZ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;">Kelera Serelini</span></span></h1><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - Saturday, January 22, 2011</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="related" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 200px;"><div id="storyPic" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="right" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/164359.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 102, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Iliseva Ravoka, Ana Waqairawaqa (centre) and Reverend Kalivati Ravoka"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img alt="Iliseva Ravoka, Ana Waqairawaqa (centre) and Reverend Kalivati Ravoka" src="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/164359thumbm.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Iliseva Ravoka, Ana Waqairawaqa (centre) and Reverend Kalivati Ravoka</span></div></div></div><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There was no sweet sailing for Ana Waqairawaqa during her journey as a nurse. But she fought all odds and has now done well for herself.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Waqairawaqa is the lone Fijian nursing lecturer at the Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Her career, she said, was carved from an early age when she left home to pursue her education.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I guess leaving home at an early age has taught me a lot about being independent," she said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I feel great being a Fijian woman and the only Pacific Island lecturer on the whole campus.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The students have a lot of respect for me even though some of them are quite older than me. The staff are very supportive and I don't feel being the only different one.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Waqairawaqa is originally from Nabalabala Village, Tokaimalo, Ra and attended Tokaimalo District School and later pursuing secondary education at Ballantine Memorial School, Suva.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">She graduated from the Fiji School of Nursing, Tamavua in 1987 and had worked at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital for 13 years before migrating to New Zealand in 2000.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Waqairawaqa then joined Lakes District Health Board, Rotorua Public Hospital from 2000 to 2008 before joining Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua in May, 2008 as a Bachelor of Nursing Lecturer.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Life then was a bit tough trying to settle into Kiwi lifestyle and at the same time face reality of culture shock," she said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The hospital staff and the few Fijian family here are very supportive in helping my family to settle.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Life has been challenging for me, having my daughter in 2002 and beginning my post-graduate studies in 2003 as part-time student and a permanent shift staff. It's being quite a rough road to success when I have to juggle work, family and studies.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I just thank God Almighty for what I have achieved and where I am today. If it wasn't for Him, I don't think I would be able to achieve anything and most importantly the breath of life. I resigned from the hospital in 2008 and accepted this job as a Bachelor of Nursing lecturer here at the school of nursing.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I like the working hours and it works out well for my daughter who is still at primary school.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"My two boys are both working and very independent."</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Despite the challenges, Ms Waqairawaqa holds the nursing profession close to her heart.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Nursing is a caring profession and if someone does not possess that caring attitude in herself, she is not fit to be a nurse.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I still do casual shifts at the hospital during school holidays, because I love to help sick people and to see them get better and be independent.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">" It gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I have helped someone who needed my help when they were sick, I do believe in holistic nursing so you do not only cure the physical being but spiritual and psychological as well. Commitment is also a major aspect of the nursing profession.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Her advice to young individuals is to put God first in everything they do and there will be no problem.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"If you let Him guide He will also provide there is no question about that.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"My work hours now are quite flexible with my daughter attending primary school it works out well for both of us, I must admit I did struggle during my first year of study but if you have a goal to achieve then you need to sacrifice in some areas."</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">She said it was because of her parent's commitment towards her education and upbringing that got her to the lifestyle that she lives today.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Waqairawaqa said family support is integral and is grateful to have had people like Reverend Kalivati Ravoka (Talatala qase Suvavou) and her aunt Iliseva Ravoka, cousin Inosi Colavanua and her late aunt Ana Colavanua as he mentor.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I left home at the age of 6 to attend primary school I had to stay with my aunt (mum's older sister) because she lives closer to the school, I used to feel homesick all the time. We had to walk to school and crossed rivers.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"My parents worked so hard to get me to where I am today with my four siblings, I am the eldest child so my parents' expectations were so high and seeing them working so hard to cater for the five of us encourages me to move forward and achieve something in life.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Both my parents have passed away in 2007 and I would like to dedicate this article to them, " she said.</div></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-56710063256605360932011-01-23T14:29:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:09.994-08:00Fiji's Veikoso (Mr Fiji) Holidays at Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><img class="pageimg" name="I2" src="http://www.fijisun.com.fj/news_admin/UploadFolder/990-1.gif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">Life in Suva with George ‘Fiji’ Veikoso</span></b></span></a><a href="" style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">Fiji Sun News - 23 January 2011</span></b></span></a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">George ‘Fiji’ Veikoso is a household name in Fiji and other parts of the world that play his music. The Buretu, Nakelo, Tailevu man believes that without the Lord’s hand getting in the way of all things he has faced, he would not have been the showbiz personality that has been widely acclaimed.</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“I was born here and my family stayed at Derrick Street or Raiwaqa makawa (old), which meant the early pioneers of the housing settlement,” Veikoso said during his interview.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Veikoso said he was told that he was such a healthy baby and was drinking so much milk they had to do away with the standard baby milk bottle. Then they fitted the teat straight onto the bottles of milk that were bought from a nearby retail shop.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">This led to his first trauma when he thought that anything in bottles irrespective of size, shape or colour is to relieve his hunger.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Then his family moved to live outside Raiwaqa, which is just a few blocks away from the former Tradewinds Hotel now known as Hotel Novotel Suva Lami Bay.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">They lived there for a couple of years before moving to Samabula East just a few blocks up from the former Bajpai’s Supermarket.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“I started primary education from Class One to Class Four at Assemblies of God Primary School and continued on at Saint Agnes Primary School from Classes Five to Six,” Veikoso recalled.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“I would call in at the residence of uncle Paul Williams who would occasionally have a get together with Tomasi Mawi and Sakiusa Bulicokocoko.”</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">These men were renowned musicians.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“I would fake being sick just to stay in and listen to them practice and talk and the talks they gave me had an impact on my life.”</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">They also told him to take a sound, put them into his heart and make it his.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“This was the defining moment of my life,” he said.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">When he was 12 years old, during the school holidays, he would be selling papers on the streets and at the Suva bus stand.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">This ended on the day he was really hungry and used all the money from the papers sold on meat pies and sausage rolls.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“During these times I experienced that unforgettable moment when we were going around in Suva and with my other three companions sharing a half loaf of bread.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“Those were probably the silliest of moments also but being around with my friends was everything to me.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“I was bored of school but continued with my secondary school education at Indian College until my family moved to the United States of America in 1985.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“Dad was the first Fijian officer in the US Air Force and it was a long road but very rewarding since we now have the best of opportunities.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“I only sang in church and later would accompany Sosiceni Tamani, the ‘Sunshine Man’,” Veikoso added.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">One day his mother turned up where they were practicing and demanded that the family will serve the Lord only and he was included in that package.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“She would beat the daylights out of me and Ratu would yell do not let him live so we won’t have any grandchild.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“Things did not turn out right for him and the bad boy was sent back to Fiji,” he said.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">By this time he had established that his life was music and music was his life.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">In 1986 his mum called and reminded him that he would only come back to the US if he would behave.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">He made his first recording a month later and toured around the country promoting his album.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Apart from music I love to watch rugby and anything authentic like a Bula shirt would be a good wear on any occasion for me.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“I have a nightlife character and in my past times I make recordings and write music.”</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Today, Veikoso is still strongly connected to his country especially to his roots.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">He is a frequent traveller of our national Air Pacific that services the Nadi-Honolulu route as he now resides in Hawaii.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Veikoso is currently spending his holidays here.</a></span><br /></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-81302360784938270532011-01-23T13:56:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.013-08:00Dictator Reduces Chiefs' Entitlement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Chiefs, villagers to get Equal Portions</span></span></h1><h1 style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Serelisoni Moceica</span></b></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, January 24, 2011</b></span></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Landowning unit heads and chiefs will from now on, receive the same amount of lease money as the rest of the landowning unit members.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is according to a new lease distribution formula by the Native Land Trust Board (NLTB).</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NLTB general manager Alipate Qetaki confirmed the introduction of the new lease formula.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"All lease monies by way of rent and premiums, received or held by NLTB, must be distributed equally between all, including chiefs and all other living members of each landowning units," Mr Qetaki said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The move was in response to a directive issued in a letter by the Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama who is also the NLTB board's chairman.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The letter to the board members stressed the importance of the board's compliance to government decisions.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commodore Bainimarama directed the application of the new formula on all lease money starting from January 1 (this year).</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Payments under the formula would be processed from next week.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Approximately 90 per cent of total land area in Fiji is native land of which 24 per cent is administered by the NLTB.</span></div></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-24144389439106919052011-01-20T17:34:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.030-08:00Inoke Tabualevu Passes On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.fijisun.com.fj/main_page/view.asp?id=51809">FIJI SUN NEWS - 21 JANUARY 2011</a></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fijisun.com.fj/news_admin/UploadFolder/263-21.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="pageimg" height="289" name="I2" src="http://www.fijisun.com.fj/news_admin/UploadFolder/263-21.gif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: justify;" width="320" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"></span></a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The church service for the late <b>Inoke Vakataraisulu Tabualevu</b> was held at the Yarawa Wesley Circuit in Suva yesterday.</a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br />Tabualevu was well known for his commitment to sports, he was a civil servant and a matanivanua fot the Tui Cakau.<br /><br />Tabualevu’s son Radrodro Tabualevu said his dad was a father who often challenged his sons.<br /><br />“In a Fijian tradition, it is very important to a father to develop and groom his son well so he is prepared for challenges in life. I’m happy to say that my father brought me up that way”.<br /><br />Representing Queen Victoria School (QVS) old scholars Minister for Education, Youth and Sports Filipe Bole emotionally shared his friendship story with Tabualevu at QVS.<br /><br />“Inoke was a close and a true friend and I feel deep privilege and honour to share with you the life of a true friend.<br /><br />“Tabualevu, we were born in the same year 1936 but 19 days difference, we attended the same school which was QVS for six years, we had the same dormitory we both belong to the same house, which was Bau House,” said Bole.<br />“We were assistants in our dining room, we were both part of the student council, Inoke was the Head Boy and I was a prefect, we played rugby, cricket, hockey and athletics together. We always take part together in our school house competition that we have every year, Tabualevu was always a captain for our rugby side, cricket side and athletics he was a star sportsman of Vulinitu,” Bole added.<br /><br />Bole then portrayed a story when Dr Tukaha Mua approached him one night in their dormitory to ask Inoke if there could be changes made to the positions as captain.<br /><br />“One night when we were in our dorms Dr Tukaha Mua approached me and said it in Fijian o Tabualevu sa kavetani tu ga e kavetani na rakavi, kavetani na kirikiti, e head boy , o koya sa liu tu ga, vacava mo lai tukuna vua me veisau mada, me sa kavetani o iko na rakavi o au na kirikiti ( Tabualevu is always captain, he’s captaining the rugby team, the cricket team, his our head boy how about if you could go and ask him to change you be the rugby captain and I be for cricket).<br /><br />“I went to Tabualevu I told him and he agreed to it so I was the captain for rugby and Dr. Mua for cricket, for our cricket team we were thrashed by the Verata team which was a great team.<br /><br />Former Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka speaking on behalf of Fiji Rugby Union said Tabualevu was one who gave his full commitment and he’s best when he did something.<br /><br />“ He loved the sport if we try to find out a player and coach, I was one player who toured England in 1970 this was the tour that the England Rugby Union tagged it as the tour of 1971 even though it took place in 1970,” said Rabuka.<br /><br />“He was great man and coach, he knew the players and he knew what to get out of the players, Queen Elizabeth Barrack was our main training spot, we were pushed, pushed and pushed during training, he was a great leader who loved what he always do,” added Rabuka.<br /><br />Speaking on behalf of the family and vanua Ratu Tu’uakitau Cokanauto said Tabualevu was a great mentor.<br /><br />“Tabualevu does not only know sports but he teaches sports as well. When he speaks his words touches the heart of the players, he always remind the players when you are learning something it should reach the highest level, his words were always be Fiji should be number one not two or three, Fiji should lead,” said Ratu Tu’akitau said.<br /><br /></a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“We acknowledge him for everything he has done for Fiji.” Tabualevu will be buried today in his village in Somosomo, Taveuni.</a></span></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-63446551461982027122011-01-07T16:02:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.046-08:00Chinese Company Leased Native Land for Bauxite Mining<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Live News -07 January 2011 </span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first set of native lands to be deposited into the land bank has been leased to a Chinese company, Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bainimarama said the sets of land earmarked for Bauxite mining in Vanua Levu will go to Xinfa Aurum Exploration (Fiji) Ltd.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“These sets of land at Nawailevu and Natuvu in Bua are earmarked for Bauxite mining which will be undertaken by the Chinese investor, Aurum Explorations (Fiji) Ltd,” said Commodore Bainimarama.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the significance of the designation of the first set of these native lands is the utilisation of many idle lands.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The significance of the activation of the Land Bank is that many of our idle lands could now be leased through the Land Use Decree 2010 and be made productive for the betterment of the landowners, investors and the country as a whole,” he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also Acting Permanent Secretary for Lands and Mineral Resources Filimone Kau added the company can start preliminary work like building a campsite etc access, bridges, and infrastructure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kau said the company, however, cannot start mining until they are issued a mining lease which will be given to them around November.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“This is a good beginning for the Ministry in facilitating investment for the betterment of the nation as a whole,” Kau added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also thanked Aurum Explorations (Fiji) Ltd and landowners of the two sets of land.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I wish to thank the landowners and the people of Naiwailevu and Natuvu in Bua for their faith and trust in Government in supporting the Land Reform initiative and the Look North policy.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>By Repeka Nasiko</b></div></span>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-10238385702614369172011-01-06T20:08:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.063-08:00Tui Tavua dies<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;">by Sera Whippy</span></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - Friday, January 07, 2011</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">THE chiefly village of Tavua has lost a chief who was due to be traditionally installed as Tui Tavua this year.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fiji Police spokesman Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri confirmed that Ratu Totivi Kama Bokini died during the festive season.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ratu Totivi had been named as the rightful holder of the Tui Tavua title by the Native Lands Commission chairman, Ratu Viliame Tagivetaua.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This was after a dispute by claimant, Vereti Naruku also of the chiefly tokatoka Nadula, mataqali Tilivasewa of yavusa Bila in Tavua. Ratu Totivi was the younger brother of the late Tui Tavua Ratu Ovini Bokini, who died on January 15, 2009.</div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-71592266173251143982010-12-22T19:26:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.077-08:00Court Dismisses Suvavou Claim<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Posted on Fiji Sun News - 23 December 2010</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-64746039277599889702010-12-10T16:54:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.096-08:00Hydro site to Power Entire Buca bay<img class="pageimg" name="I2" src="http://www.fijisun.com.fj/news_admin/UploadFolder/935-1.gif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: justify;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="" style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b>Fiji Sun News - 11 December 2010</b></span></span></a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">A new hydro power generation site has been identified in Buca Bay not far from the site where a $10 million hydroelectric power plant is currently being constructed.</a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a></span><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The hydroelectric plant is scheduled to be commissioned before Christmas this year.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">A few hundred metres away from the Buca Hydro Power House is a new hydro site, powerful enough to generate 1MW power capacity.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Negotiations are expected to take place soon with the Buca Hydro Project financier TEMSAN, a Turkish Government-owned hydroelectric company which is funding the Buca Bay project.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">TEMSAN is a unique Turkish company with a successful 32 years in the production, establishment, operation and maintenance services of energy installations with the two factories in Ankara and Diyarbakr.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The ministry and relevant local stakeholders, including the Government, are likely to submit a report seeking the development of the new site.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The Minister for Works, Transport and Public Utilities, Colonel Timoci Lesi Natuva, inspected the Buca Hydro Power Project last week and was told by the Department of Energy Department officials about the new hydro site.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“We will probably write to the Turkish Government to see if it can facilitate the developmet of the new site,” he said.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">“Right now this new one which they have financed is almost completed because this new site I have been told is a very viable site that is capable of producing 1MG, which can supply electricity to all the villages along the Buca Bay peninsula.”</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">It is estimated the new site can be developed for $10 million, according to Turkish engineers working at the Buca Hydro power project.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Department of Energy officials have revealed that the 1MG capacity will further increase power supply around Buca Bay peninsula and the grid can be extended to the Natewa west coast areas and down to Nakobo and Bagasau, which is about 60 kilometres from the hydro site.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The Fiji Electricity Authority is currently extending its Savusavu grid along the Buca Bay Road to Bagasau and if the new hydro site in Buca is further developed and materialised most coastal areas along the main Buca Bay road will be powered and more commercial activities could open up in the area.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The ministry has also signed a contract with a Chinese company for road upgrading works along the main Buca Bay Road.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Meanwhile, Department of Energy officials are working tirelessly to complete the Buca Hydro power project.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The heavy downpour experienced along the area several weeks ago has slowed construction work.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">However, the Department wants to commission the hydro power project before Christmas and the focus is geared towards that.</a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Minister Natuva has been impressed with the works being carried out, considering the geographic location of the site and the continuous heavy down power in the past six weeks. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;"></span></a><a href="" style="color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"></a><br /><div style="display: inline !important;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The power house is completed and is waiting for the 100 penstock pipes left to be connected to complete the final phase of pipe works that will link the powerhouse and the actual hydro dam.</a></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"></a></span><br /><div style="display: inline !important;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a></div><br />A total of 400 penstock pipes have so far been connected and engineers working at the site are optimistic that the connection will be completed this week.<br /><br /><br />The hydro dam, once completed, will have the capacity to supply 25KW power to Buca and Tukavesi villages and the Kanakana area.<br /><br /><br />Engineers have completed the installation of a 11kv transmission line with completed step up and step down transformers already installed.<br /><br /><br />The installation of low voltage overhead lines through villages is in progress while the house wiring work and power house construction are complete.<br /><br /><br />At the dam site proper the clearing and structure profile has been completed with rock drilling almost completed before the commencement of the steel structure construction.<br /><br /><br />A specially-designed carting machine is the only means of transporting dam materials at the site since no other normal vehicle is capable of reaching the site because of the harsh terrain and location.<br /><br /><br />The Chairman of the Buca Village Development Committee, Iowane Naiveli, said there was huge enthusiasm in the area, especially along Buca Bay, following the construction of the new hydro dam.<br /><br /><br />He said other villagers nearby as well as tourist operators and estate owners who will benefit from cheaper electricity under the project.<br /><br /><br />Mr Naiveli said this has been a 15-year project and the people of the two villagers are looking forward to its commissioning.<br /><br /><br />He thanked the current Government for finally bringing power to their doorsteps.<br /><br /><br /><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, is expected to commission the new Buca Bay Hydro Electric Project.</a></span></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-52807455719495226772010-12-10T16:32:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.117-08:00Village By-laws on Hold<div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;">by Timoci Vula</span></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Saturday, December 11, 2010</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TQLGhKtjzvI/AAAAAAAAC94/8H48nfPkYuA/s1600/Fijian+village.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TQLGhKtjzvI/AAAAAAAAC94/8H48nfPkYuA/s320/Fijian+village.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VILLAGE by-laws proposed by the Government to arrest criminal activities in rural areas will take some time before provisions are fully implemented.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tailevu Provincial Council chairman Joseva Seruilagilagi made this comment after the two-day provincial council meeting yesterday saying for the province at least, it could be another year before villages would fully act under those by-laws.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He reasoned at present, the department of i-Taukei Affairs was in consultation with the Human Rights Commission, the Citizens Constitutional Forum and other relevant human rights and constitutional organisations to gather its views on those proposed village by-laws.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It will take some time because right now, we need to get their (human rights and constitutional organisations) views because Fiji has signed up on a number of conventions and we need to ensure that that does not clash with the by-laws," Mr Seruilagilagi said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The proposed by-laws for all villages in Fiji were prompted by the noted increases in disorderly conducts and criminal activities in villages.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At its earlier provincial council meeting in May early this year, it was discussed that the department of i-Taukei Affairs had also seen the difficulty of villages in formalising village laws, thus the proposed by-laws to speed up this process.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The provincial council's report stated that after the Government received and analysed submissions from all villages, it would then be discussed by the ministry and Cabinet before the by-laws are approved, gazetted and distributed to the villages as law.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Seruilagilagi said this would take some time but it would greatly assist in law and order in villages.</span></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-83895476798357937132010-12-06T14:42:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.136-08:00Promoting Fijian and Rotuman<div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">by Mary Rauto</span></b></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - Tuesday, December 07, 2010</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="related" style="float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 200px;"><div id="storyPic" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="right" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/161386.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 102, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #336699; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Geraghty speaking at a workshop funded by the Fijians Trust Fund Board at Laucala Bay Secondary school. Picture: ATU RASEA"><img alt="Paul Geraghty speaking at a workshop funded by the Fijians Trust Fund Board at Laucala Bay Secondary school. Picture: ATU RASEA" src="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/161386thumbm.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="200" />+ Enlarge this image</a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paul Geraghty speaking at a workshop funded by the Fijians Trust Fund Board at Laucala Bay Secondary school. Picture: ATU RASEA</div></div></div><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE lack of creative writing and productions in vernacular has prompted a workshop aimed at promoting the use of Fijian and Rotuman in mediums that are not popular.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of the Fijian Language Development Program, four workshops were held simultaneously over five days at the Laucala Bay Secondary School in Suva.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Organised by Fijians Trust Fund Board, the project officer, Unaisi Manulevu, said three workshops were aimed at creative writing, namely short stories and life writing, theatre and script writing, performance, poetry and song writing, while the fourth workshop was on learning the techniques of translation.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One of the reasons for the workshops was the lack of creative writing in the Fijian and Rotuman languages.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There are a lot done in English but not many in Fijian and Rotuman.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We would like to incorporate Fijian and Rotuman in creative writing and create a platform where these publications can be marketable and up to standard," she said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms Manulevu said they were overwhelmed at the number of applications they received.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We put out advertisements on the workshop," she said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"People applied to be part of the workshop and applications closed on December 1 when a shortlist was prepared.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We initially wanted 20 people per class but because of the growing interest we had to increase the numbers.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Board's Senior Culture and Heritage specialist, Dr Apolonia Tamata, said in performance and poetry, the aim was to encourage young people to take an interest in poetry but through the Fijian and Rotuman languages.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Translations can be tricky, especially if you have not had the proper training," she said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Some Fijian books, especially for schools, are boring because they are translated from English.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Two novels in schools are translated and one is from King Solomon's Mines.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Although some themes are universal, some are not related to Fiji and out of our country."</span></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-23246224388211458952010-12-06T14:39:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.161-08:00Mali Island Reclaims Coastline<div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><b>by Maneesha Karan</b></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Fiji Times - Tuesday, December 07, 2010</b></span></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MORE than 1200 mangroves were planted along the seashore of Mali Island this week to restore the habitat of marine creatures.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ligaulevu villagers and members of the Fisheries and Forests Department came together to plant mangroves under the Plant a Million Trees campaign and to celebrate World Fisheries Day.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The theme for World Fisheries Day was "Healthy Habitat - Plant Mangroves". Divisional Forestry Officer Eliki Senivasa said planting trees helped restore degraded coastal areas.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The seashore has been affected because of the collection of firewood and small development within the island," he said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"These are minor but signicant damage because it is affecting our marine ecosystem.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There is an urgent need to protect our fish habitat.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What I gather is 70 per cent of fish in the Suva market are from the north. Fishing has become a major revenue generator for people here, and it is only through protecting and restoring fish habitat that people will be able to invest in fishing."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Senivasa said it was important for individuals to continue similar efforts.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This activity by the government department has triggered village interest and we hope they continue planting mangroves along the seashore because mangroves provide a habitat for marine life," he said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Fishing has become the livelihood of many people and mangrove is the main link towards establishing successful fish production."</span></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-56636743264632255812010-12-01T16:12:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.183-08:00Protect Marine Life says Tui Macuata<img class="pageimg" name="I2" src="http://www.fijisun.com.fj/news_admin/UploadFolder/788-4.gif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">FIJI SUN NEWS - 02 December 2010</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Fiji is rich in marine biodiversity and we must act to protect and manage sustainably this gift of nature for our future generations to enjoy the same, says the Tui Macuata Ratu Aisea Katonivere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Ratu Aisea made the plea yesterday at the first commemoration event of the International World Fisheries Day in Fiji.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The two-day celebrations, held in Labasa, opened with a march through the Labasa Town by civil servants, students and supporters - waving a banner high that read ‘Save our Habitat - Plant Mangroves’.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Ratu Aisea, who is an advocate for conservation, called on the people in Vanua Levu to adopt sustainable management strategies to protect the environment, especially the sea resources.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I for one am an advocate of the ‘ridge to reef” concept and applaud the Government, in particular the Ministry of Fisheries and Forests, for their commitment to improve the sustainable management of the connectivity of land and marine resources,” Ratu Aisea said.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Macuata paramount chief said having the celebrations for the first time was a timely one, given the intense involvement of local communities, civil society and Government partners to reduce threat to inshore fish stocks.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“We need to collectively step up to ensure that our current needs are met and our future generations inherit a bountiful and healthy fisheries resources,” the chief said.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The theme for the World Day Commemoration in Fiji: ‘Healthy Habitat, Plant Mangroves’ encompasses a concept now advocated globally and nationally.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the ridge to reef or the ecosystem-based management approach to sustainable natural resources use.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Ratu Aisea said the approach augurs well with the Ministry’s plant-one-million-tree campaign.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“As island communities of small land masses in vast bodies of water, out subsistence and economic way of life is driven by the ocean environment,” Ratu Aisea said.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Our marine, freshwater and land systems are seamlessly connected.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In the past two years, Macuata and Cakaudrove provinces hosted a joint campaign with the slogan ‘I love my tabu area’.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This initiative has sparked an attitude and behavioural change in the people towards protecting their marine resources either in the tabu area or outside for their livelihoods.</div></span>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-18993740289486127022010-12-01T16:05:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.201-08:00Villagers harvest beche-de-mer<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by Ioane Burese</span></span></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - December 02, 2010</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="related" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 200px;"><div id="storyPic" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="right" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/161079.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 102, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Peni Loloma of Natuvu village holding a curry fish ready to be cooked and dried. Picture: Ministry of Information"><img alt="Peni Loloma of Natuvu village holding a curry fish ready to be cooked and dried. Picture: Ministry of Information" src="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/161079thumbm.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">+ Enlarge this image</span></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Peni Loloma of Natuvu village holding a curry fish ready to be cooked and dried. Picture: Ministry of Information</div></div></div><div class="intro" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">VILLAGERS of Natuvu in Wailevu, Cakaudrove, are enjoying the fruits of their labour with an initial harvest of 177 kilograms of sea cucumber curry fish or beche-de-mer earning them $13,000.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">According to the Information Ministry, the Dairo Fisheries project also benefited from a traditional fishing ban that resulted in an abundance of different species of beche-de-mer. The first harvest and drying of curry fish took 13 days and was sold to Gold Hold Company in Labasa at $80 per kg.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Savusavu fisheries officer Joji Vakawaletabua said the village elders initiated the project after placing a traditional ban on their fishing areas since September 2008.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mr Vakawaletabua said the Fisheries Department provided the advice on the project and employed six village representatives. Village headman Tuisavusavu Vola said after 18 months, elders on the advice by fisheries officers, lifted the ban.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"They aim to harvest a total of 300 kilos of curry fish before the traditional fishing ban resumes," Mr Vakawaletabua said.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The $13,000 gained from the first harvest will be divided into three categories ù $7000 for the building of an evacuation centre, $3000 for education and $3000 for the village bank account. At the moment they are harvesting the other 127 kilos."</div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-1821746739992822502010-12-01T16:00:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.218-08:00Pearl production doubles<div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">by Maneesha Karan</span></span></span></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - December 02, 2010</span></span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Raviravi pearl techinician Adi Dionani Salaivuna seeds oysters for observers"><img alt="Raviravi pearl techinician Adi Dionani Salaivuna seeds oysters for observers" src="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/161054thumbm.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="200" />+ Enlarge this image</a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Raviravi pearl techinician Adi Dionani Salaivuna seeds oysters for observers</div></div></div><div class="intro" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">PEARL production has doubled for Navatudua Investment Limited in the past three years says pearl technician Adi Dionani Salaivanua.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Raviravi pearl farm located about 125 kilometres away from Labasa town, seeded about 500 oysters in 2008 and currently seeds more than 1000 per annum.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The team was part of the showcase at the World Fisheries Day celebrations in Labasa yesterday.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Salaivanua said village members at the farm have had successful productions ever since they started marketing the pearls.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We used to sell oysters to Pearls Fiji for $4 a kilo. This carried on for one and a half years then we decided to take on the challenge ourselves. Now we sell it to tourists that come to Nukubati Island Resort and sometimes wholesale pearls to jewelers from abroad. The prices range from $50 and $500 depending on the grade of pearls."</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company purchased its only set of seeding tools for $7000 three years ago and look forward to a new and advanced set of seeding tools.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The village members help with the cleaning of oysters, drilling, harvesting and the deployment of spat collectors. These attract baby oysters called spat," she said.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">She said they plan to extend the farm.It takes about 18 months to prepare oysters for harvest.</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We also plan to extend our farm and buy more oysters from villagers popularly collected from the reefs in Galoa and Macuatawai."</div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">According to Ms Salaivanua it takes about 18 months to prepare oysters for harvest.</div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-45550282945517321622010-12-01T15:57:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.244-08:00Bua Chief Enforces Spanking<div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">by Serafina Silaitoga</span></span></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - Thursday, December 02, 2010</span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TPbgzVxkdKI/AAAAAAAAC7w/0HmfCzwRLTs/s1600/Fijian_chiefs+bure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TPbgzVxkdKI/AAAAAAAAC7w/0HmfCzwRLTs/s320/Fijian_chiefs+bure.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="intro" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A NORTHERN chief believes enforcement of corporal punishment will help fight criminal activities.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tui Wainunu, Ratu Orisi Baleitavea said his district in Bua would enforce corporal punishment of spanking on his villagers found guilty of any crime.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said the Fijian way of living was different from the western world and its laws.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TPbg3mdyMjI/AAAAAAAAC70/mHZmCE091UI/s1600/Men%2527s+Meke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TPbg3mdyMjI/AAAAAAAAC70/mHZmCE091UI/s1600/Men%2527s+Meke.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Corporal punishment like spanking works well for my district because it creates this boundary for my people and makes them realise how serious the village elders are about discipline," he said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It was always used in Wainunu during my young days and it worked well. We will continue to enforce it."</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said whenever there was laxity of the spanking law by village elders, he noticed the younger generation would step out of bounds and misbehave.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"When we relax spanking and corporal punishment, the younger generation always have this boldness to do whatever they please which results in hurting others," he said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"That is what we don't want so in promoting respect for others, corporal punishment will be enforced in our district."</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said corporal punishment was a better alternative than evicting villagers from their homes because of drug dealings.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In August, Visoqo Village in Namuka in Macuata launched a village law to punish any villager found cultivating marijuana by spanking.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The law was launched in conjunction with the youth program that aims to stop youths from engaging in criminal activities, including drug-related issues.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Visoqo village spokesman Jone Waisele, the village accepted the rule.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visoqo youths earlier presented their i soro to Tui Namuka, Uate Saviri, asking for forgiveness for the wrongs of the past.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They vowed not to participate in drug cultivation in Namuka or entertain other criminal activities. According to the Visoqo village law, anyone found guilty would be spanked three times.</span></div></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-31444357802058400452010-11-28T13:22:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.264-08:00Official Bad Mouths NLTB in Favour of Illegal Land Use Bank<div id="storyHeader" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Land Use Bank challenges landowners</h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Times - Monday, November 29, 2010</span></b></span></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="intro" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE introduction of the Land Use Bank proposed by the Government is expected to draw the attention of landowners.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A presentation made by the Land Use Bank official Eroni Tokailagi at the Nadroga/Navosa Provincial Council meeting where council members were challened to choose who was to administer their land.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The official said the Native Land Trust Board legislature doesn't give the landowners the full benefit of their resources.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Tokailagi said existing laws were considered cumbersome and hindered the development of economy as a whole.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The standard of living for landowners have not changed since the founding of NLTB in 1940s," he said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Vast amount of land in Fiji are lying idle and not fully used to gain the maximum returns thus contributing to the poor economic performance over the years."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Tokailagi said the new land bank would allow the landowners to receive maximum returns of their land.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He told council members that apart from their lease payout there would be an additional 4 per cent paid to landowners.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the new system, rentals would be charged on 10 per cent UCV (Unimproved Capital Value) compared to the current 6 per cent adopted by NLTB.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This new service will make sure that the landowners will benefit more in terms of getting maximum returns of their land."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; 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border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">by Paula Tagivetaua</span></b></span></h1><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FIJI TIMES - Friday, November 26, 2010</span></span></b></div></div><div id="storyContent" style="border-left-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3em; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="related" style="color: #444444; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 200px;"><div id="storyPic" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="right" style="font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/160637.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 102, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #336699; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Villagers and elders of Nakorokula in their new community hall."><img alt="Villagers and elders of Nakorokula in their new community hall." src="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/160637thumbm.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ Enlarge this image</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Villagers and elders of Nakorokula in their new community hall.</span></div></div></div><div class="intro" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE village of Nakorokula in the tikina of Wai in Nadroga is fighting a lone battle to save their qoliqoli.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sad thing about it is that they are determined to protect their qoliqoli from people who are their kin in the other villages in the tikina of Wai in Nadroga including Lomawai, Kubuna and Tau by the coast and Bavu inland.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These people are related in one way or another but it seems the dollar sign and promises of wealth by hotel developers and their agents have clouded the minds of some yavusa heads.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was invited to Nakorokula with Monifa Fiu of WWF.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They wanted Monifa to explain to them what was WWF's stand and WWF could do to help their cause. They invited me because they knew I was from the media.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The invitation was done mainly by Apisai Botevou, a man from Daku in Tailevu who had grown roots at Nakorokula and called it home.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monifa explained to the villagers gathered in their new community hall that WWF could not stop the hotel developer with his hotel project or the government if it had given the go-ahead to the developer.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What we can do is support your concerns over your qoliqoli with a letter stating how such development will destroy your qoliqoli forever," she said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Men and women gathered in the hall that night including a small kid.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt for them because their plight connected to one which almost destroyed our qoliqoli at Nasarawaqa in Lekeutu, Bua years ago.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my case, we went against the idea for a wharf to be built at Sasake near Nasarawaqa.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our argument was that our qoliqoli would be destroyed for ever and if we had no qoliqoli, we would not have a place of feeding for our future generations.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Against promises that electricity would be connected to our villages and the main road tarsealed, we remained adamant that we did not want the wharf built at Sasake and the wharf was built at Wairiki near Nabouwalu.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we were about to enter the community hall at Nakorokula, I noticed that a board with the name Nakorotubu House was nailed to the main enrance.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was funny because Nakorotubu was in Ra and Nadroga and Ra are tauvu.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How come?</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made a point of asking and they said the foreman in charge of the builders who built the hall was from Nakorotubu.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"After the hall was built, he got the board, wrote Nakorotubu on it and nailed it to the front.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Take it down and rename your hall," I told them as a tau of Ra people but on second thought, we are all traditionally related and better to have a name of a relative than of someone not related.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could feel that the concern from the elders came from the heart.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Everyone knows that when there is a function for the tikina o Wai, they always tells us Nakorokula, your contribution to the function is the fish to feed the guests and the people at the function which is normally held at Lomawai," said one elder.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the plans to build the new hotel, they are saying they will make a marina by clearing much of the coral reef around the area.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"They can build a hotel in tikina o Wai but they have to build it inland."</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They cited the example of the failed hotel project near the Seashell @ Momi resort - the Marriot which was now black and rusty from exposure to the elements and had become "nodra i mocemoce na belo" as they said - a roost for herons and seabirds. With the Marriot, the developer had to build out to sea and the villagers of Nakorokula said the seafront around the Marriot was now devoid of marine life.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They said the hall we were in that night was a goodwill from the owners of the Marriot.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They had promised all the vilages in tikina o Wai a new community hall each in return for them to build the Marriot on their land.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We were lucky in a way that they had built only two halls when the government stopped the hotel project," the elder said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nakorokula people said the other villages in tikina o Wai had been given money by the new hotel developer which had kind of bound them to give their qoliqoli to be turned into a hotel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only Nakorokula refused the monetary advance from the hotel developer.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"That is why we are fighting this case until we win.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no other way because we have seen what development on qoliqoli have caused and we do not want our sons and daughters to be eating tinned fish from the shop when they can always go to sea and catch fish from our qoliqoli which was given to us by God.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We know that once our qoliqoli is destroyed it will never come back, not in a lifetime."</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such words spoken from the heart is full of emotion and the villagers of Nakorokula have vowed to go to the highest level with their petition and concern if they have to, to save their qoliqoli.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They asked me how I could help them and I told my dreu the best I could do was highlight their plight.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told them they could follow the traditional path and take their case to the the minister of land who was their vasu from the village of Kubuna.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nakorokula people came from Kubuna a long time ago. 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border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">FIJI SUN NEWS - 24 NOVEMBER 2010</span></span></span></b></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Sanasana Village in Sigatoka hosted the one-year celebration of their partnership with Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) and the Native Land Trust Board on Saturday last week.</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a></span><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">The event marked a milestone achievement with relevant stakeholders.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">It also marked a new reality in the lives of the people of Sanasana Village, which is where the InterContinental Resort is located.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Sanasana Village Landowners' representative and consultant Moape Nagata said the landowners were thankful for the efforts of the Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama and the Government in understanding the grassroots people and landowner issues of the past.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">He said the constructive approach was now bringing about changes to a new reality.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Mr Nagata said they were also thankful to FNPF chief executive Aisake Taito for the fund's support and understanding for Sanasana landowners in bringing about a new partnership in a cordial and mutual way.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">FNPF is the developer and financier of the InterContinental Hotel.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">"We like to thank the Fijian Affairs Board for their understanding in the indigenous peoples' grievances and support for progress to a new height of success," Mr Nagata said.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">"This is an important event that marks a new relationship in business endeavours from ten years of chaos to one year of success."</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">Assistant consultant for Sanasana landowners Usala Draunimasi said it was a celebration of the relationship that the landowners had with the Government and the Fiji National Provident Fund.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;">"For ten years the landowners of Sanasana Village had difficulties with regards to ownersship issues of land and now they have finally received compensation for the land they own," he said.</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><br /><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The new agreement states that landowners can also contribute to any issues with regards to the sale of land within Intercontinental Fiji Golf Resort and Spa and the surrounding area."</span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=8056543655251664572" style="color: black; 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He won the NZ Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest on Sunday at New Plymouth with his " diving="" experience"="" first="" last)="" my="" scuba="" speech"="" src="http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/160417thumbm.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ Enlarge this image</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 0.6em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fiji-born Viane Amato Ali with his award at New Zealand. He won the NZ Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest on Sunday at New Plymouth with his "My First (and last) Scuba Diving Experience" speech</span></div></div></div><div class="intro" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A FIJI-born national now living in New Zealand has created history by scooping the first prize in a national public speaking contest in New Plymouth.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viane Amato Ali won the New Zealand Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest in New Plymouth on Sunday.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He beat six other contestants with his "My First (and last) Scuba Diving Experience" speech.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Toastmasters governor Myrna Contreras said Viane joined Toastmasters in 2009 with the (then North Shore Council) Takapuna-based Taka-Talkers Club and won the club, area and divisional competitions to qualify for the nationals this year.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It is the first time a Pacific Islander has won the nationals and in such a short time," she said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"His speech was based on his scuba diving lesson at Yadua Taba in Bua during his stint as the Director for the National Trust for Fiji and was well received by contest judges and most especially the audience."</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viane migrated to New Zealand in 2004 and works as an Area Spatial Planner for the newly created Auckland Council and is based in Takapuna on the North Shore.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It has been an uncertain and traumatic period for Auckland Council workers but it is important to remain positive and create humor in our day-to-day lives," Viane said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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name="I2" src="http://www.fijisun.com.fj/news_admin/UploadFolder/905-1.gif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Sun News - 21 November 2010</span></span></b></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></span></b></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Ratu Jone’s unique pearls</span></span></b></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><br /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They say that starting a business is like having a baby; it’s easy to conceive but hard to deliver.</span></span></a></span><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At least that appears to be the case with pearl farmer Ratu Jone Maivalili of Wailevu in Cakaudrove.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On the other hand, his neighbour Justin Hunter, a cultured pearl farmer himself, has overcome labour pains and is now reaping the fruits of his hard labour through perseverance, consistency, determination and hard work.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The two, although rivals in the business field, are still the best of friends.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In fact they are working hand-in-hand helping each other to preserve the uniqueness of Fiji’s pearl industry</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">With both men operating from the serene waters of Savusavu Bay, their tale of friendship is as unique as the cultured pearls they produce.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">During a recent visit by the Mainstreaming of Rural Development Innovations (MORDI) Programme to his pearl farm on the coast of Vatulele, Ratu Jone spoke of his struggles as the lone i-Taukei pearl farmer.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I have been struggling on my own for nine years and Mr Hunter has given me great support and the needed boost to continue,” he said.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Mr Hunter has got the capital to operate while I on the other hand had to make use of the little I have to continue in this business.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It’s a business but for us, but it’s also more than that; we’re working together to develop the pearling industry for the country.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ratu Jone is the younger brother of the Tui Wailevu Ratu Kinijioji Maivalili.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He was a former military officer with the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and later worked for Air Fiji as a pilot.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Today, Ratu Jone said he would never trade his status as a pearl farmer for any other career in the world.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As the first i-Taukei pearl farmer, Ratu Jone had to start from scratch.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That includes researching for information in order to find suitable buyers for these cultured pearls.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“In the beginning, it is all about yourself and how you want to advance in this business,” he explained.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“For me, it took seven to eight years to at least get the basics right.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ratu Jone financed his own training and research programmes.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He made frequent trips to Japan and at the same time mastered the Japanese language to be able to find a suitable buyer for his pearls.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“One needs to have a lot of money to market Fiji pearls to the world market.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I am just a farmer and right now I am selling at a wholesale level.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pointing at a grubby knapsack, Ratu Jone said, “This is what I used to transport my pearls across to the other side of the world.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He has clients all over Europe and Japan.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Making frequent trips to these countries has enabled him to sell his pearls.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“There is no other way,” he said.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It is not about contract-signing or anything like that.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Most of my clients operate on trust and a pearl farmer is able to build this trust by seeing their clients in person.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“And for me it is also about quality at farm level.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another challenge, Ratu Jone faced is that he has to foot the costs of bringing a pearl technician from overseas.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It is costly and for a farmer this will require a lot of sacrifice on your part to try and employ a pearl technician to come and inspect the pearls,” he said.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I have to pay close to $1000 a day for a technician.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Highly skilled technicians open the live pearl oysters carefully, and then surgically implant a small polished shell bead and piece of mantle tissue in each.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The shell bead serves as the nucleus around which the oyster secretes layer after layer of nacre, the crystalline substance that forms the pearl.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And Maivalili Pearls was set up on the basic information of pearling practiced by Mikimoto in Japan, about 100 years ago.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“A nucleus is imported from the Mississippi River in the USA and this is injected into the oyster to make pearls.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The end products are cultured pearls and the uniqueness of the pearls depends on the colours.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The sound of cultured pearls being produced on our shores takes our imagination to the lustrous jewels nestled in the oysters formed in the bottom of the ocean.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It is regarded as one of the most beautiful and magical gems of the ocean.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ratu Jone hopes that in years to come, Fiji pearls will be described as just that, “beautiful and magical” like no other pearls in the world.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Unlike Tahitian pearls, Fiji pearls are unique,” Ratu Jone said.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Their unique colour is an asset.</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It has a sort of rainbow colour and we hope to market the pearl in a way that we’re not exploiting its value.”</span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ratu Jone made his first pearl harvest in 2003 and hopes to carry out another early next year.</span></span></a><br /><div style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=5058595990909830097" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 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padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Sun News - 18 November 2010</span></b></span></span></a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TORtxgyaTMI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/nlOG5x3MAdg/s1600/Fijian+village.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TORtxgyaTMI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/nlOG5x3MAdg/s320/Fijian+village.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></a><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youths having sexual relationships with relatives have forced a village in Kubulau, Bua, to implement a village by-law.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is to put an end to the relationships and make it a complete taboo.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The issue was raised by Nakorovou Village headman, Elesio Salatabulevu during a recent visit made by the Mainstreaming of Rural Development Innovations (MORDI) Programme review team.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said now there were strict rules on kava and alcohol consumption within the village premises.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This village was well known for homebrew drinking and indecent activities among young people,” he said.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It was a challenging time for the village and youths were very disobedient to the calls of the village.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“They were having sexual relationships among close relatives and this was a worry to village elders.”</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Salatabulevu said with the MORDI implementing projects in the village, this had given a reason for the village to be stringent on how it runs its affairs.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MORDI implemented projects like water sanitation, bakery, and youth’s cattle farming project.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“With MORDI coming into our village, we have noticed changes,” Mr Salatabulevu said.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“These are new changes and the youths have completely given their time and efforts in ensuring that the projects are successful.”</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Salatabulevu said men and women had also supported the village in its income generating projects.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Head of the women’s group, Seserina Batima-tana, said the women plan to use their bread bakery as a source of income for the community.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The money we earn will help individual women set up their own businesses,” Mrs Batimatana said.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Some of us love to make handicrafts and the money we earn from the bakery can help us start selling our handicrafts at the market,” she said.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She said with MORDI’s training and empowerment the women had become more active in their families and in prioritising work to be carried out in the village.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The president of the village youth group, Iosefo Nabete said MORDI encouraged youths to work hard.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said members of the youth group were more involved now than before.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Right now our focus is to ensure that the cattle farm is looked after,” he said.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The farm will create work for the youths to earn money and move into other income generating activities.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It will take five years for us to reap the fruit of this project but it is better to start now than having to look back and not having anything to fall back on.</span></span></a><div style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="" style="color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Even some of the youths in towns and cities have left school and they will all come back to the village to try and make a life for themselves. Such projects set a foundation,” he said.</span></span></a></div>SDL Consultancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685339444434096404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802009701734174756.post-3276990505954741052010-11-09T18:56:00.000-08:002011-01-28T20:28:10.404-08:00Gift to Eastgate Family by Namena Chief<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Fiji Sun News - 10 November 2010</span></b></span></span></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TNoJzmC8h_I/AAAAAAAAC14/v-GAT19KD7c/s1600/Fijian+village.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4zsnkHbE22w/TNoJzmC8h_I/AAAAAAAAC14/v-GAT19KD7c/s320/Fijian+village.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Namena chief, Turaga na Tui Nawainovo Ratu Filimoni Verebalavu yesterday gave a piece of land to the Eastgate family to reaffirm their family ties. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"></a><br /><div style="display: inline !important;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The four acre land called Waileka had been traditionally given to the Eastgate family as a rest place for them.</span></span></a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: block; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal;"></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><div style="display: inline !important;"></div></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Eastgate family, led by Hartley and Tiko Eastgate, were at Namena Village yesterday to make traditional presentation called the “cara sala” to reaffirm their traditional ties with the people of Namena. Their great grandmother hailed from Namena village</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ratu Filimoni told the Fiji Sun at Namena yesterday that they were overwhelmed with the visit especially when the Eastgate family had revisited their Fijian traditional root. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"></a></span><br /><div style="display: inline !important;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said the land that he had offered them is just a token to reaffirm their traditional ties.</span></span></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"></a></span><br /><div style="display: inline !important;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“They’re now free to do whatever development they want on the piece of land for the members of the family to know they they’re part of Namena village,” Ratu Filimoni said. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"></a></span><br /><div style="display: inline !important;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31731070&postID=893513462942914748" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.7em Tahoma, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said the paper work would be done later but as of yesterday the land belonged to the Eastgate family.</span></span></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Eastgate family was accompanied by Bau chief Ratu Tu’akitau Cokanauto and the Tunitoga from Bau.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The connection between the Eastgate family with Ratu Cokanauto began years back when his late father Ratu Edward Tuivanuavou Cakobau attended Levuka Public School.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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