culture
It’s Fijian Language Week and the theme is ‘Vakamareqeta na Vosa Vakaviti – Nurture and sustain the Fijian language.’ Aotearoa New Zealand has a diaspora of almost 20,000 Fijians; the majority residing in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Language revitalisation has become crucial with statistics showing just 11 percent of Fijians born in New Zealand are able […]
Tamagotchi are officially back in fashion. What’s even better? They now come with brand new features including Wi-Fi and more functionality. My 9-year-old self is screaming. Tamagotchi sales have more than doubled between 2022 and 2023, thanks to Gen Z discovering them for the first time while us Millennials yearn to get in touch with […]
A New Zealand charity working with homeless people in Auckland unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. The Auckland City Mission said that on Wednesday […]
Miley Cyrus rose to fame on “Hannah Montana” and is now the youngest person to be named a Disney Legend. It was an emotional moment for the teary eyed award winner who accepted the honor to a standing ovation from a crowd of 12,000 on Sunday at the D23 fan expo, […]
You might know Khelif from her 46 second bout with Italian boxer, Angela Carini. This was an emotional fight for Khelif as it stirred up quite a commotion followed by days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender exploded into a larger clash […]
With the eyes of the Pacific firmly on Hawaii and the 13th FestPac as it is colloquially known, students from the Davuilevu Methodist Lay Training put our traditional culture front and centre as they performed for an appreciative crowd
Violet Langan is a Brisbane pastor who also moved to Australia from Fiji and helps households struggling to afford bills and food explained that groceries have become quite expensive even for this the employed. “It’s just too expensive for things that have risen in costs, the basics. You don’t get much out of $100,” she […]
Pastors Meli and Evelyn Tamanisau lead PAL workers in to in cooking and giving out food. They said that the number of people coming for meals has grown. The pastors started cooking meals before the COVID pandemic, when Mr Tamanisau was working at Sun Pork, and the […]
“Eda sa qaqa”, the harmonies of five Fijian PALM workers filled the air of a warm and spice-scented kitchen. A tune well known to those back home and means “We have overcome”. While others spent Saturdays making the most of […]
From performing at family weddings and get togethers to gracing the world stage. This is a story of a young girl whose passion for performing arts made all her dreams come true. Bernadette Kaulotu Suiqa hails from Nadakuni, Naitasiri with maternal links to Nukubalavu, Savusavu. The 28-year-old is currently a dance teacher in El Paso, […]
