No Construction at Thurston: So what was it all about?

Proposed site above and to the right of the Fiji Museum which is also
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It would be helpful if advocates and the media paused to obtain the relevant facts before blowing off steam.

It now seems, if this report is correct,  that the proposed site for the construction of the Indian Embassy on the Thurston Gardens car park is a proposal no more. Why? Because it never was. The site is outside the Gardens and was never, according to records, the site of an ancestral burial ground.

Ironies Buried in Thurston Garden. Has it been made into a Political Football?

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Fiji has been offered a multi-million dollar site in Dehli for its new embassy. Fiji is considering  offering a Thurston Garden site, worth about one million, to the Indians for their embassy. 

There are several ironies buried under the proposed leasing of the car park at Suva's Thurston Garden to build an Indian Embassy —and they are not all bones.

Interview with SODELPA Whip Lyda Tabuya

Fiji TV's Stanley Simpson (S@8) interviews Lynda Tabuya who merged her Peoples' Democratic Party with SODELPA for last year's election. She is now balances her tasks as a lawyer, mother of six with her work as the SODELPA whip. She explains why the merger, talks of SODELPA's different ideologies, her parliamentary priorities, and why she's prepared to to work with the FijiFirst Government on a number of issues.  If SODELPA wins the next election, I hope her "ideology" dominates SODELPA's policies.   44 minutes.


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https://youtu.be/mjZV6nenZo0