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Suva, Fiji — Fiji has detected the XBB.1.5 variant of COVID-19. Due to this, the Health Ministry states it is ready to review some public health border measures The sub-variant also known as Kraken is an offshoot of the globally dominant Omicron COVID variant and is thought to be shown in cold-like...
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Apia, SAMOA — Samoa police are puzzled as to how a Samoan woman in her 20s managed to pass through immigration and airport security get on a Fiji Airways aircraft, hide in the lavatory, and make her way to Fiji. This happened on Christmas weekend. The woman was caught sleeping in the lavatory by...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hiring nurses from Fiji and the Philippines, instead of neighboring Samoa has raised a lot of eyebrows. During a press conference at the ceremony to welcome nurses from Fiji, LBJ Hospital CEO, Moefaauo Bll Emmsley explained that a review of the curriculum used at the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICA SAMOA — Shifting production of Vailima from Samoa to Fiji will benefit local suppliers of Vailima Beer, says GHC Reid Manager Cherith Lober, while at the same time …” It is too early to comment on production costs.” In an email to Samoa News, Ms Lober says that discussions are...
Pacific Minister Aupito William Sio
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Pacific Minister Aupito William Sio is set to travel to Fiji tomorrow, while Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta is under increased pressure over Pacific relationships. Sio, who is also associate foreign affairs minister, will travel to Fiji from tomorrow to meet with Pacific...
Jerry Tuwai demonstrates a key element to Fiji 7s years of success... the ability to offload with support, anytime, no matter how well the opponent is defending you.  Manu Samoa's Indiha Saofui-Huta made a perfect form tackle on Tuwai, but Fiji carried on with great support.  Fiji beat Samoa...
Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Suva, FIJI — Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the nation's prison laws allow the chief of the Corrections Services to let serving inmates participate in sporting activities. Mr Sayed-Khaiyum confirmed this in parliament after opposition MP Lenora Qereqeretabua asked for the policy...
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Nadi, FIJI — The Tropical Disturbance TD03F was expected to become a low by midnight Saturday and attain a category 1 cyclone status by midday Sunday (local time). In a threat map issued by the Nadi weather office, the category one cyclone will have an effect on the whole of Fiji's main island Viti...
Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva
Suva, FIJI — A three-month-old baby has died of Covid-19 in Fiji. The infant's death brings the country's death toll from the virus to 695. n its latest update on 19 November, the government also confirmed 10 new cases, taking the number of active cases to 333. By August, it was thought about 10...
Sala Moesha Crichton-Ropati and Penrith winger Brian To'o
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA — Brisbane fashion designer Vaeluaga Luse Iuli got the call to make the dress on Thursday and by Monday night it was on the red carpet of NRL's Dally M awards. The client was Sala Moesha Crichton-Ropati, partner of Penrith winger Brian To'o, and she wanted a dress that...

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