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The big one on the front page of The Fiji Times’ edition for Wednesday, May 11, is on our poverty rate.
While Attorney-General and Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed- Khaiyum says extreme poverty is almost non-existent in Fiji, Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre co-ordinator Shamima Ali said in some households infants were being fed rice or cassava water because their families could not afford to buy milk.
She was part of a media conference with FRIEND Fiji director Sashi Kiran where they said it was difficult to digest that Fiji’s poverty rate had decreased because the problems on the ground suggested otherwise.
They expressed serious concerns about a recent World Bank report which revised Fiji’s poverty level down to 24.1 per cent from 29.9 per cent.
They questioned the changes made by the World bank — eight months after the 2019-2020 Housing Income and Expenditure Survey was released by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics. Read this story in The Fiji Times.
HEADLINES
Here are some headlines that made The Fiji Times for Wednesday.
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- THE Ministry of Health and Medical Services recorded 26 new COVID-19 cases over a period of four days ending 8am on Monday.
- Health Ministry permanent secretary Dr James Fong says as of May 9 a total of 125,418 individuals had received booster doses.
- THE mortuary at the Vunisea Hospital in Kadavu has ceased operations because of mechanical breakdowns.
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- NO ONE was forced out of Fiji, People’s Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka said yesterday as he refuted statements made by Government members recently, both inside and outside Parliament.
- Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry says he is shocked to hear Education Minister Premila Kumar saying Fiji-Indians have no connections with India and only go there as tourists.
- TWELVE new provisional candidates for People’s Alliance have been announced by the party to contest the 2022 General Elections.
- WE Unite Fiji party is focused on all Fijians, party general secretary Sokoveti Mawalu said as she refuted claims made by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama at the Nadroga Navosa Provincial Council meeting last week that the party wanted to divide people and communities.
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- EVERY political party contesting elections should come up with policies or code of conduct for online campaigning and actively educate its supporters and agents not to engage in online violence against women candidates.
- AUTHORITIES in Fiji had notified the US government that the Amadea had arrived in Fiji on April 12, court documents filed in the District Court of Columbia said.
- POLICE are looking for the driver of a vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident in Rakiraki on Sunday morning.
- THE High Court will deliver its decision on the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) appeal against the sentence of Simione Tugi on Friday June 3.
MORE INSIDE
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