PNC :: Fiji TImes: 6 Fijian Firms Plan Trade Mission to Guam
Monday, January 18, 2010
Guam - Six Fiji companies have expressed an interest in joining 25 New Zealand companies on a trade mission to Guam.
The Fiji Times reports that the mission, organized by the New Zealand Pacific Business Council, will take place in eight weeks.
Read the Fiji Times Article
http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=137741
The paper quotes Council Chairman Gilbert Ullrich as saying that the mission was organized for New Zealand companies to explore business investment opportunities in Guam.
"This will also be good for the Fiji companies so they can also explore business opportunities there, especially when the population in Guam is expected to increase by thousands," he said, referring to plans to relocate 8000 US Marines from Okinawa in Japan to Guam.
This move is expected to provide a multi-billion dollar opportunity for skilled workers in the Pacific.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Pacific passport idea a focus at Auckland Polynesian meeting
Posted at 08:18 on 09 September, 2009 UTC
Creating passports for Pacific people travelling within the region is one of the aims of a group of Pacific leaders meeting in Auckland to discuss a single Government for the Polynesian Triangle.
This is a primary goal of the about 60 chiefs, or Ariki, and other leaders from Tahiti, Hawaii, Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji who are meeting with their New Zealand counterparts.
The gathering at Whaiora Marae in Auckland is looking at how to unite Pacific people in a single indigenous Polynesian government.
A spokesperson at the event, Matt Seymor says current governance, like the issuing of passports, has taken away the natural cultural ties of Pacific people in the region.
“Settler’s law and colonialism have taken away their whakapapa. As like in New Zealand their right to come down on to Maui’s fish. As you have Samoans and Tongans who have to go through passport clearance to enter into New Zealand.”
Matt Seymor.
Creating passports for Pacific people travelling within the region is one of the aims of a group of Pacific leaders meeting in Auckland to discuss a single Government for the Polynesian Triangle.
This is a primary goal of the about 60 chiefs, or Ariki, and other leaders from Tahiti, Hawaii, Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji who are meeting with their New Zealand counterparts.
The gathering at Whaiora Marae in Auckland is looking at how to unite Pacific people in a single indigenous Polynesian government.
A spokesperson at the event, Matt Seymor says current governance, like the issuing of passports, has taken away the natural cultural ties of Pacific people in the region.
“Settler’s law and colonialism have taken away their whakapapa. As like in New Zealand their right to come down on to Maui’s fish. As you have Samoans and Tongans who have to go through passport clearance to enter into New Zealand.”
Matt Seymor.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Fiji Military Spending
RECENT OVER-EXPENDITURE REPORT IS NOTHING NEW: LEWENI
11/28/08
www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=16140
SUVA (RF Online/Pacific Media Watch): Military spokesman Major Neumi Leweni says the recent hype in the media about the over-expenditure of Fiji’s military in 2007 is nothing new.
The military made the headlines recently after it was discovered it spent $45.6 million more than its 2007 budgetary allocation.
This discovery was accompanied by criticism from many who demanded an explanation for the enormous overspending.
Both Major Leweni and then Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry told FBCL News the reason for the over-expenditure was because of the need to take on extra manpower following reports of a possible external military intervention.
As to the many criticisms that the military and the finance ministry have copped in the last few days, Leweni had this to say.
“As you can see, the criticism did not only start when the budget came out. You will note that it is from the same people. People who have been against the military and the interim government from day one. So these people will always be out there to pick on issues to try and discredit the interim government and the RFMF. And just lately, after having listened to articles that have come out, a lot of people fail to realise the amount of money that have been brought in by peacekeepers. And unfortunately people have always looked at the negative side of it.”
The military allocation for 2007 was $80.7 million.
Its total expenditure was $126.28 million, exceeding their allocation by $40.6 million.
11/28/08
www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=16140
SUVA (RF Online/Pacific Media Watch): Military spokesman Major Neumi Leweni says the recent hype in the media about the over-expenditure of Fiji’s military in 2007 is nothing new.
The military made the headlines recently after it was discovered it spent $45.6 million more than its 2007 budgetary allocation.
This discovery was accompanied by criticism from many who demanded an explanation for the enormous overspending.
Both Major Leweni and then Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry told FBCL News the reason for the over-expenditure was because of the need to take on extra manpower following reports of a possible external military intervention.
As to the many criticisms that the military and the finance ministry have copped in the last few days, Leweni had this to say.
“As you can see, the criticism did not only start when the budget came out. You will note that it is from the same people. People who have been against the military and the interim government from day one. So these people will always be out there to pick on issues to try and discredit the interim government and the RFMF. And just lately, after having listened to articles that have come out, a lot of people fail to realise the amount of money that have been brought in by peacekeepers. And unfortunately people have always looked at the negative side of it.”
The military allocation for 2007 was $80.7 million.
Its total expenditure was $126.28 million, exceeding their allocation by $40.6 million.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Fiji Government Yields to Bottled Water Company Pressure
Fiji government yields to bottled water company pressure
By Chris Bolwig on Jul 26, 2008 in International, Society comments(0)
A proposed tax on bottled water in Fiji has been scrapped following pressure by an industry lobby group on the island.
By Chris Bolwig on Jul 26, 2008 in International, Society comments(0)
A proposed tax on bottled water in Fiji has been scrapped following pressure by an industry lobby group on the island.
The interim Fijian government repealed its 20 cents per litre tax on bottled water following the factory closure of Fiji Water, the last of the bottled water companies to stop operations after the cabinet introduced the new taxation system.
Bottled water companies on the South Pacific island have welcomed the move. According to Fiji One News, the Fiji Bottled Water Institute, which represents nine companies, has said that consultations need to be held first on any future tax proposals before they are implemented.
Industry spokesman Jay Dayal said, “We are very pleased that at least the prime minister and attorney general intervened in the matter and resolved the whole issue. And now the bottlers will get together with the government and work out a form of compensation that is suitable to the government for the resource that we are extracting.”
Last year bottled water exports from Fiji counted for around $130 million, in an industry employing more than 700 people.
However, conservationists have pointed to the growing environmental costs associated with bottling water in Fiji. Typically plastic bottles are transported from China and then sent around the world to consumers in the United States and Europe.
A BBC Panorama documentary released earlier this year also highlighted the fact that a third of Fijians are still living without access to clean water. It showed that people were falling ill and dying of typhoid and other diseases related to contaminated water.
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