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Improved water system to help women

Caption: Assistant Minister for Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management Hon. Jovesa Vocea with the women of Nawairabe Village following the commissioning of their new and improved Ecological Purification System (EPS). SUVA – The completion of the Nawairabe Ecological…

11 ECs receive solar lighting system

Caption: Paptea District School manager Mr. Harold Filipe at the school’s hall that was recently fitted with solar lighting in Rotuma. ROTUMA – Eleven community evacuation centres on the island of Rotuma have been boosted with the installation of solar…

Fiji to send a humanitarian response team to NZ

Caption: The Hon. Prime Minister Mr. Sitiveni Rabuka is being briefed by a joint team from the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), and the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) on the New Zealand deployment plan of the Government of…

New water project to address water woes for Navua community

Caption: Minister for Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management Hon. Sakiasi Ditoka with community members of Togoru in Navua after the commissioning of their water project last Friday. SUVA – “I am so grateful that the Government came in…

New road ends years of horseback rides to school for children

Caption: Mr. Iliaseri Natabadamu with other residents of Koroiveremo Settlement in the district of Nalaba in Ra at their newly upgraded community access road. The daily horseback rides for the 12 grandchildren of Mr. Iliaseri Natabadamu are now history with…

New road upgrade to address access struggles

Caption: Adi Vanioni holds her second child with a coconut basket that she uses to carry her eldest daughter when they walk from Natewa Village to Tagaqe Village. Adi Vanioni no longer has to trek up a river for three…

New road development makes up for lost family time for Ra community

Caption: Ms. Asena Ragia (first from left) with other women from Maniava Settlement in the district of Tokaimalo in Ra their newly upgraded community access road. Primary school children of Maniava Settlement in the district of Tokaimalo in the interior…

Namuriwai villagers get proper water source

Caption: Namuriwai villager Mr. Waisea Raruku and his wife, Ms. Anaseini Bete at the small river that they previously used to fetch water for daily consumption. For more than 50 years, villagers of Namuriwai in the district of Nakorotubu in…

Minister Ditoka visits new Rotuma Hospital

Caption: Minister for Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management Hon. Sakiasi Ditoka with engineers from the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) who had been engaged in the construction of the new Rotuma Hospital at Ahau, Rotuma. ROTUMA –…