Fiji Travel News

The following statement was issued today in Suva after the conclusion of an International Monetary Fund staff mission to Fiji: "A team led by Mr.

"You can borrow the navy," said the Prime Minister, just before he died. Well, to be honest, Tuvalu doesn't really have a navy.

Police patrol the streets of Suva as part of the community crime-free program. THE police force is aiming for a crime-free Fiji next year as part of ambitious plans to revitalise community policing.

Carol Knabe is a retired educator living in Nelson, Wis., with her husband, Jerry.

But who wants to be a farmer these days? Many of the children aspire to white collar jobs.

Fiji's self-appointed Prime Minister said New Zealand's Deputy High Commissioner was expelled from the Pacific nation as a message to "leave us alone". Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama said New Zealand had to "stop this bullying". "If you bully people there'll be some retaliation," he told TV One's Sunday programme.

Macuata is the central area of development in Vanua Levu. Also there is a large Fiji Indian population connected with the sugar industry and Labasa town.

TODAY's celebration will be a trial for next year's 25th anniversary for ex-servicemen. About 1000 ex-servicemen from the Western Division will remember their fallen comrades today before going on an excursion on Thursday.

Australia and New Zealand showed no signs of the diplomatic row with Fiji today as their governments' representatives turned up with other dignitaries at the Fiji Remembrance Day service in Suva.

MISS South Pacific Pageant contestant Merewalesi Nailatikau hopes to do her best while representing Fiji in the contest.

James Batley was expelled along with New Zealand's envoy last week by Commodore Frank Bainimarama.

ON HIS WAY: Fiji's acting head of mission, Kuliniasi Savou, arrives at the high commission in Wellington.

New Zealand head of mission Todd Cleaver wore a traditional sulu - a wrap-around garment like a skirt worn by both men and women in Fiji - to Nadi International Airport for his precipitate departure from the islands.

One last time ... Sireli Ledua holds his son, Taniela, 1, before the team departed the Peninsula International Hotel in Suva on their way to Nadi yesterday.

New Zealand's Acting High Commissioner Todd Cleaver is expected back home from Fiji sometime on Thursday, as the diplomatic crisis deepens.

FIJI'S acting president Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has been sworn in as head of state of the military-ruled Pacific nation.

AN academic from Canberra's Australian National University has been taken into custody in Fiji, the university says.

The government is expected to expel the head of the Fiji high commission after both New Zealand and Australian envoys where expelled from Fiji.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully tonight confirmed that New Zealand's Acting Head of Mission in Fiji has been ordered out of the country by the interim government of Commodore Frank Bainimarama.

The Government is now considering what action to take in response to Fiji's expulsion of acting New Zealand Deputy High Commissioner Todd Cleaver yesterday.