MEMBERS of the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji who have dreams of exchanging vows on a white sandy beach or a beautiful scenery outside of a church or chapel should think twice. This, after the head of the Catholic Church in Fiji Archbishop Peter Loy Chong publicly condemned weddings that took place outside of a…
“Say YES to Jesus and NO to drugs for forever”. That was the slogan thought up by a group of 52 marijuana users who publicly renounced their drug addiction at an Adventist evangelistic meeting in Papua New Guinea in January. The program, held at Gumanch in the Dei District of the Western Highlands Province, attracted…
George Tafoa was the first one to begin to pursue a translation of the New Testament (NT) into Kwaio. He felt that it was very important for his people to have God’s Word in their own language and began to pray that God would open the doors for that to happen. In 2002, Tafoa…
Dear Editor – Thanks for giving me the opportunity. I have been trying to raise my personal concern about the Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (SIEA) services through this medium for sometime. So thanks for this offer. This is related to the continuous power outage experienced in Honiara. Although power was able to be restored now,…
CRICKET Fiji has named 26 players in their senior men’s high performance squad in preparation for this year’s East Asia Pacific Twenty 20 tournament. Nine of the players are overseas-based and the local players are required to attend a fitness test at Albert Park on Friday. High performance manager Joe Rika said the overseas players…
Waitakere United are in danger of missing the ASB Premiership top-four playoffs for the first time in the competition’s history after they were beaten 2-1 by Hawke’s Bay United at Bluewater Stadium on Sunday. It was the champions’ fifth loss of the season and leaves them sitting in fifth place, four points behind Hawke’s Bay,…
Vodafone Fiji 7s team coach, Ben Ryan, will be present at the 2014 Vodafone Ratu Meli 7s on February 21-22 at Ratu Meli Memorial School in Nacula, Yasawa. The chairman of the organising committee, Manasa Takala, says Ryan’s presence would boost the performance of players in the island. “This is a big boost for us…
It was joy for the Samuela Drudru-captained Suva side and a heartbreak for Alvin Avinesh-led Lautoka in the battle of the cities at Churchill Park yesterday. Lautoka started with a bang with a lot of constructive soccer coming from the midfield areas. But this was not fully executed due to the tight and properly organised…
More Fiji rugby league players are being contracted to the Cook Islands for semi-professional competitions. They are also expected to get hefty pay cheques with an average $NZ12,000 ($FJ19,000) for a five-month contract in Rarotonga. This week, three more Fijians leave for the Cook Islands. Fiji National Rugby League (FNRL) assistant national coach, Jo Dakuitoga,…
VODAFONE national 7s skipper Osea Kolinisau said the team did not play its natural game resulting in their semi-final loss in Wellington last weekend. He said the boys finally got their rhythm and later bounced back to beat England for the third spot. Kolinisau said defence was also another area that let his team down…