From the Editor-in-Chief’s desk: Your August 16 briefing

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The big one on the front page is about a young man’s death in Ra, and the Tui Namosi being sentenced to jail.

HEADLINES

Here are some more headlines.

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  • ECONOMY Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says Tertiary Education Loan Scheme (TELS) and Toppers scholarship recipients do not have to apply for government’s $180 inflation mitigation assistance because they are already “in the system”.
  • PARENTS with children who are not yet of school age can apply for government’s $180 inflation mitigation assistance, says Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.

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  •  LAMI residents have been told that no arms and ammunition will be kept at the proposed Maritime Essential Services Centre on Naimawi Street.
  • THE Fiji Teachers Confederation says the Ministry of Economy did not accommodate its submission to grant merit increments to teachers.

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  •  A MAN in his 20s died on Sunday following a motor vehicle accident along the Kings Road, near the junction of Nasinu Road on Sunday.
  •  THE High Court in Suva has ordered that $203,01 held in a bank for two convicted Cyprus nationals be forfeited to the State.

SPORTS

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  • FORMER senior boy’s shot-put record holder and Swire Shipping Fijian Drua player Kaliopasi Uluilakepa applauds the efforts showed by athletes who are preparing for the 2022 Coca-Cola Games that would run from this Thursday to Saturday at the HFC Bank Stadium in Laucala Bay.

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  • LONDON – Harry Kane headed in a last-gasp equaliser to earn Tottenham Hotspur a barely-deserved 2-2 draw in a feisty Premier League derby at Chelsea that ended with both managers being shown red cards after the final whistle yesterday.

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