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I was at the edge of my seat as I watched the Fiji Airways Fijiana side take on the Western Samoa ladies at the Oceania Rugby Championship Women’s 7s. The first 4 minutes had our ladies leading 14-0 and it was looking good as the Western Samoa ladies weren’t able to find their footing. Our […]
So we all have that one family story that never gets old and is passed on like an heirloom from one generation to the next. Here’s mine, an aunt of mine married a man from Naitasiri. After their wedding ceremony, she officially moved to Naitairi to carry our her duties. Their first Sunday lunch, my […]
Over 360 entries from across the Pacific. 360 plus talented Pacific artists vying for the Pacific Break title. And at the end of it all, Fijian rapper Peni Roqara better known as Ju Ben stood the tallest. Ju Ben, who at one point worked in the sugarcane industry, won for his song Sema Mai. With […]
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We so often hear about the negative aspects of social media that it can be easy to forget that it can also be used for good. As a tool to garner support at a grassroots level, nothing else comes close in terms of effectiveness. This was the case when X user @Vive_Fj (pictured above […]
It was the moment like no other. Winston “The Real Deal” Hill who has been working on his craft and honing his skills came out firing to defeat Dylan Archer and claim the PBC Oceania Regional Super Welterweight title after a TKO. In a match titled The Battled of the Pacific both fighters wowed the […]
With the Pacific Games beginning shortly, we felt it was fitting to cast our minds back to the first time the nations of the region came together in Suva for the first South Pacific Games (as it was called then) in 1963. Specifically we’d like to talk about one person who was too young […]
Meet Sera Volavola the 25-year-old who will represent Fiji in Vietnam at the Miss Earth 2023 pageant on 22nd December 2023. Miss EARTH Fiji is currently a Marketing & Sales representative while she studies a degree in Chemistry and Food Technology. Those close to Sera have described her as intelligent, witty, kind, cool and down […]
Tackling the streets with the “Sleep Rough’ challenge, Lifeline Fiji coined this idea to address the intersectional issues between mental health and homelessness. This was done in collaboration with mental health partners including the Vodafone ATH Foundation. Around 30 people joined the challenge to sleep in the streets of Suva from the evening of 9th […]
The islands of the Pacific are the smallest emitters of carbon dioxide in the world but the effects on us are the greatest. According to Tiana Miller, the pictures below tell a very, very powerful story of how climate change affects us and will affect our children even more. This is what she posted on […]
