The Fiji Cancer Society continues to receive assistance from businesses for their fight against one of the main NCDs in the country.

Multilateral development banks have issued a joint statement at COP29 in Baku outlining financial support and other measures for countries to achieve ambitious climate outcomes.

Two Fijian women are currently part of the top United Nations Security and Safety Services team at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Fiji Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences is seeking clarification from the Ministries of Health on why approved overtime payments will only be available for six months.

The Police Force has reported a significant 42 percent increase in drug-related offenses this year, with marijuana emerging as the most commonly involved substance, followed by methamphetamine and cocaine.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Biman Prasad, co-hosted the “High-Level Session on International and Regional Cooperation for Climate Mobility.”

Fiji’s remittances have risen since 2022, with total private flows up by 15.4 percent $871m in the year to June, before surging to $1,095m in 2023 and to $1,231bn in 2024.

Pacific Leaders and youth called on the world to commit to funding for the Pacific-led, owned and managed initiative, the Pacific Resilience Facility.

The second meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs for this year will be held today at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva.

The United Nations Development Program gas emphasized the transformative impact of its parametric micro-insurance initiative, an essential component of the 2021 Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Program.

Two Fijian Defense Force officers have joined their French counterparts aboard the naval vessel D’Entrecasteaux to observe a fishery policing patrol in the coming week in the Pacific region.

A power outage is currently affecting the Western Division and some parts of the Central Division