Bainimarama to address nation. The PM is expected to address the nation on Wednesday with a new "road map." According to State media, the address at the Trade Winds Convention Centre in Lami on Wednesday morning will focus on Fiji’s “strategic framework for change”.
Micro-Credit. The Reserve Bank is encouraging local banks to provide micro-financingthat would help small business, old and new. Fiji Live. Click here.
Tax evasion? Documents were seized from the supermarket chain RB Patel last week by Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption, with its widened powers, to check on possible tax evasion. Fiji Times.Click here.
The PM has warned Methodist Church leaders to stop misleading the people by saying its conference will go ahead in August. He also cautioned parents against their children being used in an August march. FijiVillage. Click here.
Minimum wages non-compliance only $100.The new minimum wage awards start today but Government still needs to fix a provision that sets the fine for failing to comply at a mere $100! Fiji Master Builders Association President and owner of Raghwan Construction, Vijay Raghwan said the increases are long overdue. He said most construction companies will not have a problem since they are already paying above the wage rate. Fiji Village. Click here.
Educational help for poor Indo-Fijians. Help for The Auckland-based International Congress of Fiji Indians has collected $F100,000 for distribution to poor children in Fiji to pursue their education.The organisation, comprising Indo-Fijians in Auckland, Brisbane and Sydney, was established in 2000 after the George Speight-led coup to look after the growing generation to achieve educational standards and look after themselves and their families. Daily Post. Click here.
Trade with New Zealand. Pacific Island Trade Commissioner to NZ Chris Cocker, told a Nadi workshop on Pacific Island Agricultural Trade Opportunities with NZ, the Pacific was worth $1.2 billion to NZ, and Fiji represented 90 per cent of the Pacific share in the NZ market. Most exports to NZ were fruit and vegetables targeted at NZ's large Pacific island population. For the record, NZ exports to Fiji are worth four times more than Fiji's exports to NZ. There are no sanctions on trade. Fiji Sun. Click here.
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