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[File Photo] The Fiji Sugar Corporation’s debt continues to increase as operating costs remain high while cane and sugar production decline. Responding to questions from the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs regarding the company’s 2024 and 2025 financial reports, FSC Chief Financial Officer Anjesh Sharma stated that the debt level will continue to rise because the company cannot generate enough revenue to meet its operating costs. Although the government wrote off FSC’s $200 million debt, causing it to drop in the 2025 financial year, Sharma noted that the debt will climb back to around $310 million for the financial year…
The family were rushed to Tavua Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. [Photo: FILE] Four family members died this morning after their car veered off the road and landed in a river in Vatukoula. The victims – a 43-year-old man, his wife, their nine-year-old daughter, and his sister-in-law were returning from a family function in Ba when the driver lost control. They were rushed to Tavua Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. A fifth passenger escaped serious injury.Article continues after advertisement Police investigations continue. Source link
[Source: Fijian Drua/Facebook] Fresh off their first win of the Super W season, the McDonald’s Fijian Drua Women are already turning their attention to what coach Mike Legge expects will be another stern test against the Brumbies next week. The Drua produced a spirited second-half performance to overcome the Western Force 29-24 at Churchill Park in Lautoka, delighting their home supporters and reigniting their Super W campaign. However, Legge knows his side cannot afford to dwell on the result for too long. With the competition becoming increasingly competitive, the Drua coach believes every team now possesses the depth and quality…
[Source: AP] Let’s just say that the wedding band has never occupied the most exalted rung of the ladder in music. Playing “September” and “Celebration” is often what’s most required. As one member of the Bride and the Groove, the band at the center of John Carney’s new film, puts it: They’re not rock stars. They’re human jukeboxes. But in “Power Ballad,” a wedding band singer and pop star cross paths. For one night, all of the stratification of the music world falls away. “Power Ballad” starts like a fairy tale. Since 2007’s “Once,” the Irish writer-director has focused his…
[Source: Reuters] Sushila Devi sat sobbing on the floor of her house in Deoria, northern India after authorities told her that her husband was one of three sailors killed in a U.S. attack on a ship off Oman. “If he had told us about the dangers, I would have called him back,” she cried out as women from the family gathered round to console her. “The government should not allow people to go there.” India on Friday took the rare step of lodging a second protest with the U.S. over the strike that took place more than three months into…
“It was quite a heart attack game for us.” That was the verdict from McDonald’s Fijian Drua Women coach Mike Legge after his side produced a stirring second-half comeback to defeat the Western Force 29-24 in Round Two of the Super W competition at Churchill Park in Lautoka yesterday. Legge admits his side did not consistently stick to their structures throughout the 80 minutes, but he was full of praise for the resilience and determination shown by the players when they found themselves trailing on the scoreboard. “The girls showed some real resilience, even being behind on the scoreboard. They…
[Source: AP] What makes a memorable World Cup anthem? Is it a song that best reflects the host countries? Is it a global banger, incorporating multiple languages and genres? Or should it simply value a chant-along chorus above all? There’s an argument to make for each — or perhaps all. To get to the bottom of it ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, The Associated Press asked a few of the performers behind World Cup songs past and present. It’s a list that includes Shakira — who, alongside Afrobeats star Burna Boy, is responsible for the official 2026 FIFA…
[Source: AP] The knife-wielding serial killer known as Ghostface unwisely tries to stab Teyana Taylor in the opening scene of “Scary Movie” and it goes rather poorly. The dagger the psycho plunges into the famously fit actor’s abdomen bounces off, horribly bent. “I’m Teyana Taylor,” she announces. “My abs have abs.” Ghostface accepts the loss but then taunts the actor for having lost the best supporting Oscar this year. She accepts that but then smacks him across the face with what she did win — a Golden Globe. Thunk!Article continues after advertisement It’s a sequence that perfectly captures the Wayans…
These operations, the Ministry highlights, are making a real difference in disrupting illicit drug networks. [Photo: FILE] The government does not support calls to terminate the Joint Police Military Operations. In a statement, the Ministry of Policing has stated that the scale and sophistication of illicit drug trafficking and cultivation in Fiji require an all-of-nation response. These it says involves law enforcement agencies, relevant ministries, communities, civil society, faith-based organisations, the vanua, and the private sector. The Ministry stresses that the joint operations have delivered significant results.Article continues after advertisement It says that more than 74,000 marijuana plants have been…
People walk next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a street in Tehran, Iran [Source: Reuters] U.S. President Donald Trump and mediator Pakistan said on Saturday an initial deal to end the war in the Middle East would be signed on Sunday, although Iran denied the signing would take place so soon. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the two sides had agreed on a framework for a peace deal and that Islamabad was preparing for an electronic signing on Sunday, to be followed by technical-level talks next week. Trump also said in a social media post…