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September 25, 2020
By Sheldon Chanel in Suva Fiji’s Suva foreshore has been under “enormous” pressure from decades of destructive practices with little to no public awareness about the various afflictions, says prominent academic professor Vijay Naidu. The problems have been exacerbated by no sustained public awareness campaign, absence of environmental issues in Pacific news media coverage and ... <a title="Fiji academic calls for more action to reverse Suva foreshore pollution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/fiji-academic-calls-for-more-action-to-reverse-suva-foreshore-pollution/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji academic calls for more action to reverse Suva foreshore pollution">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2020
COMMENT: By Ziena Jalil Diversity was in the spotlight last week. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori were embraced throughout organisations and homes. We also had the annual Diversity Awards NZ celebrating the organisations championing diversity and inclusion in workplaces. Tellingly, most award recipients talked about ensuring our workplaces ... <a title="Ziena Jalil: Why ticking the diversity boxes keeps missing the mark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/23/ziena-jalil-why-ticking-the-diversity-boxes-keeps-missing-the-mark/" aria-label="Read more about Ziena Jalil: Why ticking the diversity boxes keeps missing the mark">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis Stung by successive Grubsheet articles revealing how the military wants changes to the Fiji government and also revealing the name of his designated successor, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has made an astonishing personal attack on me on the front page of the government-controlled Fiji Sun newspaper today and in the government-controlled ... <a title="Graham Davis: Why Bainimarama has slammed me in the Fiji ‘state’ media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/20/graham-davis-why-bainimarama-has-slammed-me-in-the-fiji-state-media/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Why Bainimarama has slammed me in the Fiji ‘state’ media">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific Journalist A Fijian psychologist is calling on people in Fiji to work together to tackle issues associated with mental health amid the covid-19 pandemic. Addressing a prayer vigil to remember the victims of suicide in Suva, Dr Selina Kuruleca said people must assist one another and reach out to those ... <a title="Call for unity over mental health in Fiji amid covid-19 virus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/call-for-unity-over-mental-health-in-fiji-amid-covid-19-virus-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Call for unity over mental health in Fiji amid covid-19 virus pandemic">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist New Zealand health authorities have reported a surge in the number of people returning to the country from India who have tested positive for the covid-19 coronavirus. It comes at the same time India has overtaken Brazil to become the second worst-covid hit country. In the last fortnight, 26 ... <a title="NZ reports surge in positive covid-19 cases returning from India" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/nz-reports-surge-in-positive-covid-19-cases-returning-from-india/" aria-label="Read more about NZ reports surge in positive covid-19 cases returning from India">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
By Lena Reece in Suva The University of the South Pacific Council has terminated the investigation into allegations of material misconduct against USP vice-chancellor and president Professor Pal Ahluwalia. A media release from the university stated the council had considered the decision by the special executive committee, viewed all the evidence against the vice-chancellor, and ... <a title="USP Council terminates investigation into academic chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/usp-council-terminates-investigation-into-academic-chief/" aria-label="Read more about USP Council terminates investigation into academic chief">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Centre A New Zealand youth MP Shaneel Lal is speaking out against education policies that exclude some Pacific Island people from Pasifika programmes and scholarships as unfair. Lal, who is eighth generation Indo-Fijian, applied for a Pasifika scholarship at the University of Otago only to be told he had ... <a title="Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/01/youth-mp-speaks-out-against-unfair-pacific-criteria-in-nz-education-system/" aria-label="Read more about Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education system">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Plans for spending NZ$5.3 on construction of the Fiji Prime Minister’s new office should be diverted to people affected by the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, civil society groups say. The groups, which form the Civil Society Organisation Alliance for Covid-19 Humanitarian Response, said requests they had received for assistance from families prompted them ... <a title="Fiji government urged to reconsider NZ$5.3 million office for PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/fiji-government-urged-to-reconsider-nz5-3-million-office-for-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government urged to reconsider NZ$5.3 million office for PM">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre “Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Does anyone remember Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmentalist who caused a worldwide climate change stir – particularly among the neoliberal believers – but was ... <a title="How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/how-covid-19-has-undermined-climate-change-initiatives-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2020
By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without community transmission of covid-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65 ... <a title="100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/08/100-days-without-covid-19-how-nz-got-rid-of-a-globally-spreading-virus/" aria-label="Read more about 100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The safe reopening of entry points into six Pacific Islands countries amid the covid-19 pandemic is being discussed at a meeting in Fiji this week. The virtual roundtable is being convened by the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank with representatives from Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Fiji. ... <a title="Pacific launches talks about how to reopen amid covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/05/pacific-launches-talks-about-how-to-reopen-amid-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific launches talks about how to reopen amid covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2020
By Talebula Kate in Suva Eighteen people were arrested in Fiji last night for breach of the covid pandemic curfew restrictions from 11pm yesterday to 4am. Acting Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said the Eastern division recorded seven reports, West recording six cases, South – four cases and one case in the Northern division. “Of the ... <a title="Fiji police arrest 18 people for breach of covid curfew" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/26/fiji-police-arrest-18-people-for-breach-of-covid-curfew/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji police arrest 18 people for breach of covid curfew">Read more</a>
