The Jet Volume 4 Number 10

Dr Satish passes awayBy RINIKA PRAKASH

PATAN medical team lead-er Ms Damyenti Chandra has dedicated this year’s clinic to Late Dr Satish Prasad who had volun-teered with the overseas medical team on their re-cent visit to Fiji.

Dr Prasad who actively participated in the week-long clinic in Fiji passed away after returning to his home in Australia.

“He was our angel,” said Ms Chandra. While volun-teering with us he helped so many people with love harmony and peace.

“He also paid tuition for poor kids near Koro-vuto Village. We are hon-oured to have met him and worked with him and we will miss him.”

After an internship and initial training in Obstet-rics & Gynaecology in Fiji he joined the Fellow-ship training program of the RANZCOG at Liver-pool Hospital in Sydney in 1996.

He subsequently worked at various hospitals in Syd-ney, Fiji, Auckland New Zealand and Canberra.

In 2003, he commenced private practice in O & G at the Mater Hospital in Rockhampton and joined the Rockhampton Monash IV0F team in 2004.

Late Dr Prasad gradu-ated from the Fiji School of Medicine in 1989.

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By ANAND SINGH

THE National Golf Asso-ciation of Fiji has named a strong three-member team to fly Fiji’s flag at the 2012 World Amateur Teams Championship in Turkey in October.

The trio, Vikrant Chandra who is a lawyer, Olaf Al-len Junior is the director of Grid Security Services and Anuresh Chandra is a firefighter were selected on merit as they are the best ranked amateur golf players in the country.

Roneel Prakash was also named in the team as a non-travelling reserve.

President of Fiji Ratu Epeli Nailatikau who was the chief guest during the Coastal Rental Cars-sponsored Nadi Open gave his best wishes to the team.

The high chief of Fiji also presented the Nadi Open trophy to winner Vikrant.

Meanwhile, Nadi-based hotelier Mark Hinton will manage the trio.

The Nadi-based hote-lier said the national team member’s selec-tion into the squad was based on merit as it took 12-months to select the

best amateur players af-ter the final trials.

“These are the best amateur players in the country as their records speak for itself. So we are hoping for the best results and I know the boys will make

the nation proud.”Hinton said the national

squad members would march into the camp for practising at the Natad-ola Bay Championship course.

“The national squad mem-bers will head into the

camp and start practising at the Natadola course under the watchful eyes of coach Jose Calleja,” Hinton said.

He added, “the team will fly out on September 29, making a transit through Hong Kong and then to

Istanbul and travel to Antalya where the tour-nament will be held. We will return on October 24.”

Hinton said Fiji would be the only South Pacific country participating in this year’s WATC.

Turkey ... on trios menu

Turkey here we come ... National Fiji reps Anuresh Chandra, left, Vikrant Chandra, the President of Fiji Ratu Epeli Nailatikau with team manager, Mark Hinton and Alof Allen Jnr at the Coastal Rental Cars-sponsored Nadi Open. Inset: Roneel Prakash is the non-travelling reserve. Picture: SHALENDRA PRASAD

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Sumeet to sing bolly beatsFIJI born velvet voice,

Sumeet Tappoo who is a renowned devotional

and classical singer is the latest rising star in playback singing for movies in Bolly-wood.

Sumeet started performing on stage at the age of eight and recorded his first album titled “Sumeet sings Mukesh” at the tender age of eleven.

Sumeet learnt music under the guidance of music legend, Anup Jalota.

Pawon Promotions a Syd-ney based Promotions Com-pany proudly presents to the people of Fiji, India’s bright-est young talent, Sumeet Tap-poo, venture into Bollywood fray.

Sumeet from his humble beginnings in Fiji, starting his singing career with bhajans and gazhals is set to take Fiji by storm with his versatile talents of modern romantic songs.

Fiji audience in its recent doom and gloom with natural disasters and poor economic climate have not had the privilege of excellent entertain-ment.

Pawon Promotions promises you the glitz and glamour of a full-on Bolly-wood show with world-class musicians.

Accompanying Sumeet will be Jas-mine Kapadia, a female singer who has captured the hearts of many in India.

Sumeet and Jasmine will take you down memory lane in yesteryears in an action packed thriller extravaganza of romantic music as “Celebration of Bol-lywood”.

Star of the show will be Sumeet Tap-poo who is churning up the sea of tal-ents in Mumbai and making Fiji proud

on the world scene.His melodious voice and romantic

offerings will enthrall young and old music lovers and be testimony as to why Sumeet’s debut pop album ‘Meri Deewangi’ released by Bollywood Film Giant Eros International was in the Top Ten Chart for just under 40 weeks.

Sumeet’s transition into playback singing for movies and Bollywood show has been exceptional and extraor-dinary. You should take time out to en-joy the romantic music with soothing ballads from the latest Bollywood mov-ies.

Sumeet, a relatively newcomer in playback singing has already recorded a romantic duet with Indian singing-diva Sunidhi Chauhan for a blockbuster

movie to be released in 2013.“Pawon Promotions are

very privileged to have re-ceived such support from all stakeholders especially our media partners, Fiji Times, Radio Navtarang, Radio Sar-gam, The Jet Newspaper and Vodafone and together with sponsors’ tremendous support to enable us to present this world-class entertainment to you at subsidized prices,” offered Raj Bachu of Pawon Promotions.

Ticket prices start at a great value price of $10 and are now on sale from following outlets:

Suva – Vodafone shops, Tappoo City Nausori – Voda-fone shops, Tappoo store, Si-gatoka – Tappoo store, Nadi – Vodafone shops, SVC, Tap-poo store, Budget Pharmacy – Nadi Town, Denarau, Na-maka; DSM Centre, Events Planner 2 Lodhia St, Anita Jewellers, Devia Bookshop, Kamlesh Sweets, Nana’s

Indian Cuisine, Lautoka – Vodafone shops, Tilak High School, Thakorlal Pharmacy, Chauhan Pharmacy, Chan-dulal Pharmacy, HyperChem Pharma-cy, Ba – Ba Book Centre, Bhika Bhai & Co.

Opening concert is on Friday 28 Sep-tember at the National Gymnasium in Suva, Saturday 29 September at Tilak High School Auditorium in Lautoka and the final concert on Sunday 30 Sep-tember at Shri Vivekanand College Au-ditorium.

For further inquires please contact Aunindra Raj Bachu on 61 418 402 126 or email: [email protected].

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Friends lose an AngelFIJI has lost an angel in Doctor Satish Prasad

who passed away peacefully at his home in Jessie Street, Rockhampton, Australia on August 23rd after returning from a medical clinic from Fiji.

His kindness and friendly nature will be missed by his relatives and close friends.

The 49-year-old helped many individuals with his professional expertise in medical field as he actively participated in a week-long clinic when he recently visited Fiji with the PATAN medical team.

According to PATAN team leader Ms Damy-enti Chandra, Dr Satish was like an ‘angel’ to them.

“He was our angel,” said Ms Chandra. While volunteering with PATAN medical team,

he helped many people with love harmony and peace.

He also cared for poor and helped those in need. He even paid tuition fee for a kid in Korovuto Village who wanted to study but could not because of financial difficulties.

Dr Satish also helped many others in need and was loved by many for his kind nature.

He graduated from Fiji School of Medicine in 1989. After an internship and initial training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Fiji he joined the Fellowship training program of the RAN-ZCOG at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney in 1996. Qualifications: MBBS, Dip. Obstetrics, FRANZCOG.

He subsequently worked at various hospitals in Sydney, Fiji, Auckland New Zealand and Canberra. In 2003, he commenced private practice in O & G at the Mater Hospital in Rockhampton and joined the Rockhampton Monash IVF team in 2004.

Dr Satish leaves behind wife Angila, children Aradhana and Aveechal.


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LOCAL NEWS

By RINIKA PRAKASH

MUTTU’S South Indian Cuisine reopened on Friday, August 17 after it got dam-aged badly in the March floods.

This was the second time the restaurant was badly damaged.

Muttu’s South Indian Cui-sine owner, Mr Anil Goun-dar said the 2009 floods badly affected his business

and the recent floods were worst.

“This is second major damage to our restaurant. It was a total write-off and took us close to four months to recover,” said Mr Goun-dar.

He says, “We do South In-dian style cooking, which is wood fired cooking and tra-ditional home style cooking. All the meat and most of the vegetables used are from

my farm. “We have introduced a

new variety to our meat. We are using local Boer goats in some dishes and this meat has an even better taste,” said Mr Goundar

With a seating capacity of 70 people and a meet-ing room with friendly staff members, it’s a delight to hop into Muttu’s South In-dian Cuisine for a superb south Indian meal.

Muttu’s back in business

Owner of the Muttu’s South Indian Cuisine Mr Anil Goundar with wife Manor, daugh-ters, Monisal, Megna and family member Richa Vandhana at their reopened restau-rant.

Picture: SHALENDRA PRASAD

By RINIKA PRAKASH

AUTHENTIC is the word that the Honorable Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainima-rama mentioned during his address at the rebranding of the Air Pacific at the Sheraton Resort.

“I understand that when Air Pacific was conducting con-sumer research to get ideas for this logo, one word kept com-ing up — ‘authentic’,” said PM Bainimarama.

“Authentic means that Fiji is more than palm trees and sandy beaches - even to tour-ists. The tourists, most of who come to Fiji for the beaches and palm trees — have recog-nised that the bula spirit is real, that we cherish our heritage, and that the Fijian experience is deep and multifaceted.

“Thanks to the contribu-tion of all Fijians, visitors to Fiji have an experience that is genuine, one in which they see our blend of cultures and tra-

ditions, as well as the natural beauty of the Fijians.

“Therefore, the incorpora-tion of the traditional Fijian art form — the masi — into the new logo is a wonderful choice.”

In fact, it now seems to have been the only choice. What

better could symbolise the unique blend of the past and the future, what better could symbolise the unique blend of our cultures and traditions, and what better could symbol-ise our commonality?” added Honorable PM.

According to Dave Pflieger,

chief executive officer Air Pa-cific the actual launch of Fiji Airways won’t be till next year.

“The reason is that when we begin the new air planes on the property and simultaneous to that we will be retiring the 747.

“The first 747 will go away in June and the second one will go away in November as well,” said Mr Pflieger.

“The entire team at Air Pa-cific deserves a round of ap-plause as they have worked hard for this also.

“This is something we think will help us succeed as a busi-ness and also what we want to do is growing the airline and fly to new destinations and all those things will be possible once we are done with fixing the airline and rebranding the airline.”

Mr. Pfleiger further added its Air Pacific’s perspective to give the country its airline back.

National carrier joins fight to save environment AIR Pacific and the Mamanuca Environment So-ciety (“MES”) have announced a new partnership aimed at funding the environmental organisa-tion’s core activities.

Air Pacific has already begun its $20,000 an-nual contributions to assist the Society’s efforts to preserve the environment and promote environ-mental awareness through school and community programs that will preserve the pristine natural beauty of the Mamanucas and surrounding is-lands.

“We all have a stake in preserving Fiji’s pristine beauty, and we are pleased to support the impor-tant work the Mamanuca Environment Society is doing in this regard.

“Throughout the Mamanucas and western VitiLevu, the organisation’s outstanding efforts extend from our beaches and oceans into island schools and communities,” said Mr Dave Pflieger, Air Pacific’s managing director and CEO.

Mr.Pflieger noted that in addition to raising much needed awareness on conservation, the MES does great work in helping clean up the is-lands as well as contribute and work on turtle con-servation, the removal of the damaging Crown-of-Thorns starfish, coral restoration, Reef Check surveys, and waste management projects.

Betani Salusalu of the Mamanuca Environment Society applauded the airline’s commitment to conservation and the environment.

“By lending this support, Air Pacific has again demonstrated its commitment to our home & Fiji’s environment. We will use the annual grant to fund our core activities which will ensure lo-cals and visitors alike can continue to enjoy the pristine natural environment that our islands are famous for,” he noted.

“Such support by Fiji’s national airline and that of our existing partners and resorts from the area will no doubt help us achieve our goals. Our ap-proach to conservation is tailored — we put a lot of thought and care into protecting the stunning marine and terrestrial environment of the Ma-manuca Islands and the Western Division of Fiji’s main island.”

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Air Pacific CEO, Mr Dave Pflieger with PM Voreqe Baini-marama and Air Pacific board chairman, Mr Nalin Patel at the rebranding.

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By RINIKA PRAKASH

VOTER registration numbers are increas-ing as people rush to get registered in cen-tres and booths around the country.

A total of 454,941 people have regis-tered so far.

Once registered, voters will be issued with a voter card which will have their relevant details imprinted on it, including their photographs, fingerprints and sig-

natures. Voters will be required to pres-ent their voter cards when they cast their votes at polling stations during elections. Contingency plans will be put in place if a voter mislays his/her card before elections.

This registration process involves a massive logistical exercise which requires registration officers to personally visit each identified registration centres in stra-tegic locations (including centres within villages/tikina) with several computers to register voters.

In previous elections many voter names were missing from voter rolls, even after they had had been registered — similarly there were also incidences of a voter’s name being spelt incorrectly or being placed in a wrong constituency.

By electronically registering, voters will be able to reduce or eliminate these errors and thus provide an accurate and credible voter roll.

If you have not registered, then it’s not too late to get registered.

Voter register nears half million



LOCAL NEWS

Mum’s milk is best

A mother feeds her baby during the breastfeeding awareness day celebrations at the Civic Centre in Nadi.

BREAST is best! The insistence that breastfeeding confers unique and a significant benefit upon

children underpins both health policy and professional practice.

This is part of the context in which women decide how to feed their babies and, in turn, how they display and de-fend their decisions.

And as the global theme for the breastfeeding week was “Understand-ing the Past — Planning the future” and to mark the day Nadi Hospital organised a breastfeeding awareness day celebra-tions at the Civic Centre on August 3.

Oratory competitions and quizzes were held to make mothers aware on the importance breastfeeding have on their blunder of joy.

Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre co-or-dinator Dr Shamima Ali, who was the chief guest, highlighted issues related to breastfeeding.

Mother to Mother Support Group, La Leche League leader, Kylie Wood says, “breastfeeding is important for mothers and babies as it also affects health.

“It reduces cancer, diabetes, cardio vascular problems, heart problems and other allergies.

“We had a really good turnout and it is great to see that mothers are realising the importance of breastfeeding their babies,” Ms Wood said.

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AN innovative project that will provide benefits for Fiji-an communities in the health, education and sports sector was launched in Lautoka on August 14 by Punja & Sons Ltd and Anchor through Fon-terra of New Zealand.

The Anchor Community fund was initiated by Fonter-ra, the producers of Anchor products which are imported and distributed in Fiji by Punjas.

“The idea came from UK and we were very keen to try out this in Fiji. This is on a four week trial basis and this trial is important to us as if it does go well then we will be able to roll it out to a whole lot of supermarkets as well not only in Fiji but in other Pacific countries also,” Fon-terra’s Pacific account man-ager, Ben Giesen said.

As implementers of the Anchor Community Fund, Punjas have selected the Nadi based charity — Project Bula Mai, Save the Children Fund Fiji and the Fiji Rugby Union as recipients of the Anchor Community Fund.

The Fund operates on the principle where a customer who buys a pack of Anchor product will receive a token. The token is then placed in a charity box of the organisa-tion selected by the customer.

Punjas and Fonterra will then make a donation to the organisation based on the number of tokens collected for the respective organisa-tion.

Anchor launches project

Help for flood affected familiesMORE than 850 women and men have been employed for two weeks as part of a liveli-hoods recovery project.

The program, livelihoods recovery for women and other most vulnerable people affected by floods in Fiji Islands, started in Nadi. It seeks to support market vendors, farmers and families living in informal settle-ments, affected by flooding earlier this year.

The program aims to assist participants in their financial recovery by providing a tem-porary source of cash income in exchange for work related to restoration of livelihoods activities, small-scale socio-economic infra-structure rehabilitation and improving pre-paredness for future floods.

Ms. Sangita Chand, a participant of the Cash for Work, said at the program had been timely and would assist needy families in their efforts to recover from the devastating floods.

The women and men of Nadi being supported through the program cleaned the Nadi market area and its surroundings and planted vegeta-bles that could support their family consump-tion or be sold at market in a few months.

Mr Nemia Tagi, the CEO for the Nadi Town Council is confident that the program will assist in the recovery efforts of Nadi Town. UN Women and UNDP have conduct-ed research and compiled the socio-economic profile of market vendors in Fiji, which shows that about 80 per cent of market vendors in the Western Division are women and with aver-age weekly earnings of between $126 to $250.

Approximately 60 per cent of market ven-dors grow their own produce for sale, and mainly sell vegetables, root crops and fruits.

These vendors work on average 10-hour days, six days a week.

Vendor incomes in Fiji fluctuate quite a bit

depending on several factors. The floods that affected Fiji earlier have caused setbacks for farmers and market vendors.

This initiative follows similar cash for work program from which around 350 market ven-dors and farmers in Rakiraki in the Western Division benefitted in April-June. 84 per cent of the beneficiaries in Rakiraki were women.

The review of the program conducted early June confirms the contribution of the program in supporting vulnerable population to “get back on their feet” and re-establish their live-lihood after natural disasters.

The cash for work program for livelihoods recovery is implemented by the United Nation Development Program, UNDP in partnership with the Government of Fiji, UN Women, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and UN Volunteers with financial support from the Government of Australia through AusAid.

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Teachers clean-up Nadi Primary School after the March floods.

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LOCAL NEWSCampus open day successful THE Shirley Park in Lau-toka was abuzz with activi-ties as thousands of people attended the University of the South Pacific (USP) Lautoka Campus’ Open Day on Friday and Saturday (Au-gust 10th and 11th).

It was a very colorful and carnival-like atmosphere as students and people from all walks of life flocked to the lively venue to make the most of this ever popular an-nual event.

Prospective students were able to get a feel of what it is like to study at the univer-sity and they made the most of this ideal opportunity to find out about the range of programs and courses of-fered by USP by engaging in one-on-one chat with academics and talking to the administrative staff and USP students.

The event featured bril-liant displays and demon-strations by various schools of USP’s three faculties from the Laucala Campus in Suva – Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE), Fac-ulty of Business and Eco-nomics (FBE) and Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE).

There were also informa-tive exhibits from the Cam-pus’ library, The Student Academic Services (SAS), Distance and Flexible Learning (DFL), Continuing and Community Education (CCE), College of Founda-tion Studies. The USP Book Centre and USP Student As-sociation were also present.q PRESS RELEASE

By RAJNEESH LATA

SUNDAY, the 19th of August marked Eid ul-Fitr and the residents at The Golden Age Home were not forgotten.

On this holy and joyous occasion the members of the Samsher family came to-gether to celebrate Eid with the home’s residents. In this perfect time for giving, the Samsher family prepared sewai with other sweets and savouries.

The Board of Visitors also organised different varieties of savouries to mark the occasion. All the residents were served with lot of love by Samsher family and the other members of the board.

This brought back some old memories to residents and it was very touching mo-ment when a few residents shed tears of joy.

Mr Samsher said he wanted to make this an annual event where he and his family would celebrate Eid with the resi-dents.

It was another great day for the resi-dents on 2nd August.

Art of living group with the staff mem-bers of home celebrated the festival of Raksha Bandhan with the residents at the Home. The rakhee was donated by P. K Patel Company, the board and Art of Liv-ing Group provided refreshments. Each of the residents were given gifts by the Art of living Group.

On Friday, the 17th of August, the resi-dents were treated for lunch by Muttu’s South Indian Cuisine in Nadi.

The owners and the friendly staff of the restaurant made the residents feel at home. A variety of dishes were prepared for the residents. The residents really en-joyed the friendly atmosphere, the great hospitality and delicious meal.

The board of visitors is really thankful for such good Samaritans for bringing joy to the lives of the residents.

The residents are like any other human beings who do need occasional break and outing.

Such events help the residents in en-hancing their psychological health and well being.

Hospital declared tobacco-freeBy RINIKA PRAKASH

THE World No Tobacco Day platform was used to declare Nadi Hospital as a Tobacco Free Setting.

Invited guests included Mr Jolame Domoni, the chairman of Nadi Rural Local Autority, chairman of Ba Provincial Council/ Taukei Navo, Ratu Meli Saukuru, and Nadi Town Council CEO Mr Nemia Tagi and Ministry of Health officials included the DMO Western Dr. Susana Na-kalevu, SDMO Nadi Dr. Eliki Nanovu, SDHI Nadi Mr.Onisimo Sadranu and staff members of Nadi Hos-pital.

The tobacco-free bill board was unveiled by the chief guest Mr Nemia Tagi and DMO Western Dr. Su-sana Nakalevu.

The hospital was officially declared tobacco-free prem-ises.

Everyone gathered were reminded that the com-memoration of WNTD and declaration of Nadi Hospital as a Tobacco-Free Setting was not done in the inter-est of a work plan achieve-ment but to save our chil-dren from the grips of the tobacco industry, to put Fiji on the world map as one the leading fighters against the tobacco industries and its dirty tactics and to ensure a healthy tobacco-free life for our families, especially for our children.

By RINIKA PRAKASH

THE much-awaited National Diwali ‘Festival of Lights’ will be coming back in a big way for the people of Nadi.

The Diwali committee is almost rounding up with the preparations, as this year they have introduced sporting activities such as fun run, soccer, golf, snooker and volleyball.

Also an agriculture show and baby show has been organised.

Earlier this month, RB Patel confirmed a sponsorship of three thousand dollars and Tourism Fiji will be assisting to market this event both internationally and with the Fiji Tourism & Hotel Association.

National Diwali ‘Festival of Lights’ became a national event staged only here in Nadi on a large scale since 2010.

The people of Nadi celebrated their first ever Diwali festival publicly in main street Nadi.

According to Vineel Nand, events director of the National Diwali ‘Festival of Lights’, after a huge success last year, they will once again stage this year’s festival at the RB Patel Jet Point car park.

This year the festival has been planned for four days from 9th - 12th November 2012.

The theme for the Diwali ‘Festival of Lights’ is ‘Pamper your family with the sweet-est Diwali ever’.

“This festival intends to create an environ-ment where tourists, families and friends will get a chance to shop, socialise, and enjoy to the fullest.

“The entire event will be promoted in an aspect whereby all cultures and ethnic groups will actively participate as artists in daily en-tertainment programs,” said Mr Nand.

He further added this would help attract au-diences from various ethnic groups and cul-tures — thus bringing members of the com-munity together.

“This year we will be having film produc-tion team from India who will be designing the concept and the programs for this year,” said Mr Nand.

This would be the first ever Diwali celebra-tion on such a grand scale with a touch of professionalism and international standards — lighting, stage, sound, programs .. etc.

By RINIKA PRAKASH

THE Rotary Club of Nadi gave medical equipment to the Nadi Hospital.

This donation was made possible after their successful health walk/run which took place on Saturday July 14, 2012.

This inaugural health walk/run saw an overwhelming two hundred fifty people taking part to walk for a healthier living after which they were given free diabetes and high blood pressure checkups.

Nadi Rotary Club president, Krupesh Patel said, “During the Fun Health Walk/Run, we had staff members of the Nadi Hospi-tal conducting free sugar and high blood pressure tests and today we are just basically giving them back new equipments of what they had used so that they can fully utilise these equipments in all their de-partments.”

Dr Eliki Nanovu, Sub Divisional medical officer of Nadi Hospital, thanked the Rotary Club for their generous donation.

“We would like to thank the Ro-

tary Club for their generous do-nation. These are very valuable equipment for us and we have

various departments in which these equipment will be used,” added Dr Nanovu.

Festival of Lights – on its wayTreat for the forgotten ones

Rotary helps

Rotary Club of Nadi president, Krupesh Patel, 2nd from left, hands med-ical equipment to Dr Eliki Nanovu, right, at the Nadi Hospital.


Magazine top rates Shangri-La’sFOR the sixth con-secutive year, Shan-gri-La’s Fijian Resort and Spa, Yanuca, Fiji is named the num-ber one of the “Best Ten Resorts for Families 2012 in Fiji,” the result of a survey carried out by Holidays with Kids magazine.

The list, which has just been released, is the result of a read-ers’ survey sent to the 53,000 registered members of the mag-

azine’s online version and to the magazine’s readership of around 600,000. During the survey, members were asked to vote for the best family-friendly resort that they have encountered and to rank their nominations based on fixed criteria. The criteria included activities and facilities for children, childcare and baby-sitting services, staff hospitality,

standard of accommodation, lo-cation, accessibility, safety, fun for the entire family, value for money and overall experience.

The general manager of the resort, Michael Monks said, “We are very honoured and proud that Shangri-La’s Fijian Resort and Spa has been named the number one resort for fami-lies in Fiji once again”.

“Families are at the heart of Fijian

culture and my wonderful staff exhibit this trait in their interac-tion with guests and their fami-lies. Shangri-La’s own culture is based on families and caring for strangers as our own, so it is even more pleasing to see this culture and philosophy in action in real everyday life.”

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LOCAL NEWS

By RINIKA PRAKASH

A WEEK-LONG drug interdic-tion seminar was held at the Bor-der Control office in Nadi this month and upon completion, the participants were given certifi-cates.

The seminar was organised by the US Drug Enforcement Ad-ministration International Train-

ing Section. Members from the Border Police, Customs and Im-migration participated in the week-long training.

Drug Enforcement Administra-tion Supervisory Special Agent, George Woessner said, “This training was held to make officers more effective in how to identify drugs as drug traffickers might be using Fiji to transit drugs into

other countries.“We had 30 participants from

various agencies and this is one of the best classes I have had so far.”

According to Inspector Shiu Chand, acting deputy command-ing officer Border Police, the training was excellent, well re-ceived by the participants and was an eye opener for everyone.

“This training was held to en-hance our knowledge and our op-erational capabilities in our area of operations to ensure we have a safe passage for our country and our locals.

“In the practical aspects it was noted that there was a change in the officers who had undergone this training,” added Inspector Chand.

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Border control police officers and other enforcement department representative with US officials after their workshop at the AFL training room at the Nadi Airport.


National Library Week organises programBy RININKA PRAKASH

LIBRARIES and schools all around the country will be celebrating National Library Week from Sep-tember 10 – 15.

Here in Nadi, a six-day program has been organ-ised for students of all ages. Reading, art and drama competitions have been organised and a new type of competition has been introduced for the students that is ‘Computer slides presentations’.

According to Nadi Town Council librar-ian Anita Naidu this is the computer age and students mostly use the computer for research and assign-ments.

“We must move with these changing times and we see many students coming over to our library and using the computers for research. We encour-age students, parents and the general public to come and be a part of this library week,” said Mrs Naidu.

The Library week will end on Saturday 15 with a march through the streets of Nadi to Prince Charles Park.



TOURISM

By RINIKA PRAKASH

THE Radisson Blu Resort Fiji hosted a Charity fund-raiser and the Youth Day celebrations for the Ratu Navula College and the Nadi District School at their resort on August 14.

There were fun activities for the students like a Mini Olympics.

“We support responsible business and under these responsible businesses we take initiatives on social responsibility and environ-mental responsibility. So we are starting with our social responsibility by holding this youth day function by

adopting 2 schools to be here with us to celebrate this day,” said Finau Leggett, Training Manager for Radis-son Blu Resort Fiji.

The main event was the rubber duck event. The rub-ber ducks cost five dollars as it was part of the charity fundraiser and many guests had bought rubber ducks for this charity cause.

The winner will have prizes sponsored by the Radisson Blu Resort.

The proceeds of all of this will go towards buying equipment, resources and study materials for Ratu Navula College and also for Nadi District School.

By RINIKA PRAKASH

INTERNATIONALLY respected Master Chef Si-mon Gault, who has a remarkable talent for bring-ing together tastes and techniques from all around the world, did a special cooking performance on the Captain Cook Reef Endeavour four night cruises.

Gault has created some of New Zealand’s most innovative food offerings, and his numerous awards attest to his superb skill.

“I love Fiji and Captain Cook is a great cruise. 29 years I have been in this profession. I have worked on boats before,” said Master Chef.

“In this cooking show we will be showing new

boundaries and new cooking to the audience. This is a cooking show and we love a fun audience.”

Gault’s career has taken him around the world working in top restaurants, and as a high-flying personal chef - and back again as an internationally respected chef.

These days, he’s a Kiwi celebrity chef and a household name thanks to his TV appearances on Masterchef New Zealand.

The four night cruise saw three cooking demon-strations on board by Mr. Gault with his five per-cent magic, a forty minute chat by Simon about his journey and recipes to take home from the cooking demonstrations.

THE 5TH Tanoa Hospitality Games took place at the Water-front Hotel in Lautoka on Sat-urday August 4.

This hospitality game saw all hotel staff members part of the Reddy Group, competing against each other in various activities like culinary com-petition, bed making, napkin folding, wine tasting, cocktail mix, soup making, cake deco-rating and many more exciting activities .

“To compete against your peers can be a very daunting task especially when your skills and work is openly on display. It is not for the faint hearted but you have already added to your personal development by being able to compete in this forum,” said Gordon Wilson, chief ex-ecutive officer of the Reddy Group of Companies.

The Tanoa Hospitality Games is designed to showcase the professionalism and skills of the participants and this year we have increased the element of teamwork to form an inte-gral part of this competition.

“Make no mistake ladies and gentlemen this is a competi-tion. It may not have the fan-fare of the London Olympics but to those competing, their gold medal will be just as im-portant to them as a gold medal awarded today at that event in London.

“Today is about our staff members showing what they can do and to benchmark their skills against their peers. It is about challenging themselves to raise the bar and it is about sharing that experience and knowledge,” added Wilson.

CEO’s Commendation Awards were as follows:

CEO’s Innovative Award: Raj Singh - Tanoa Skylodge, Outstanding Food Revenue Generation Property: Tanoa Waterfront Hotel, Outstanding Bar Revenue Generation Prop-erty: Tanoa Plaza Hotel Culi-nary Awards, Team of the Year Tanoa International Hotel, Pas-try Chef of the Year Darshika Singh and Junior Chef of the Year Shaneel Prakash.

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By RINIKA PRAKASH

TISI Sangam held celebrations to commemorate the life of Sad-hu Kuppuswamy — the Father of Sangam.

The Sangam Day was cel-ebrated on August 2 around the country.

Here in Nadi, the Nadi San-gam Primary School, hosted celebrations to commemorate the life of Sadhu Kuppuswamy.

Sevaka Ratnam Sadhu Kup-puswamy was born in 1890 and died in 1956.

He had inspired South Indians in Fiji to have pride in their cul-ture and language and was in-

strumental in the establishment of the Sangam Organisation in Fiji.

At the end of his indenture period Kuppuswamy took up the cause of the South Indians in Fiji.

He gave up worldly pleasures and took up the life of a Sadhu.

“It is the celebration of the life of a great man who lived from 1890 to 1956. Till today, we fol-low his life and teachings,” said Dorsami Naidu, who was the chief guest during the celebra-tions at Nadi Sangam Primary.

“Unlike us, his only posses-sions were the clothes he wore, but his values have made a mark

for Sangam.”Students were quite excited

and displayed their talents as they performed multi cultural items for the distinguished guests, staffs and students of the school.

On 24 May 1926, at a meeting in Nadi, the Then India Sanmar-ga Ikya Sangam (TISI Sangam) was formed with Sadhu Swami as its first President.

After the formation of the Sangam, Sadhu Swami and other likeminded people, trav-elled throughout Fiji, setting up schools and temples. Aware of the need for qualified help in establishing the Sangam in Fiji,

he appealed to the Ramakrishna Mission in India who sent Swa-mi Avinashananda to reorganize the Sangam.

Swami Avinashananda was replaced by Swami Rudrananda who had great influence in Fiji’s religious, cane farming and po-litical activities.

After many years of dedicated service, Sadhu Swami was hon-oured with the title of Sevaka Rathnam (Jewel of Service) in 1941 by the TISI Sangam.

He died suddenly on 2 August 1956. His remains were interred at the Sri Siva Subramanya Swami Temple in Nadi.

NFA issues fire safety tips THE National Fire Authority (NFA) chief ex-ecutive officer, John O’Connor highlighted the need for the people to take fire safety seriously and take heed of fire safety advice given by NFA which will prevent unnecessary property fire in-cidents.

“With the increasing number of home fire in-cidents in our communities, it is important for the members of the community to take fire safety seriously and take extra care and pay more atten-tion to the little issues which will help prevent fires.”

Members of the community are requested to follow the following tips to prevent fires:

Fire prevention tips: ●A match is a tool for adults. In the hands of a

child, matches or lighters are extremely danger-ous. Store them up high where kids can’t reach them, preferably in a locked cabinet. And teach your children that matches and lighters are tools for adults not toys for kids. If children find a match box, they should advice an adult imme-diately;

●Practice candle safety. Never leave a lit can-dle unattended in any room of the house. Never leave candles burning when going to bed. Never use candles near combustible materials such as curtains, drapes, bedding and cabinets;

●Use electricity safely. If an appliance smokes or begins to smell unusual, unplug it immedi-ately and have it repaired. Check all your elec-trical cords, and replace any that are cracked or frayed. Don’t overload power cord or run them under rugs;

●Unattended cooking. Most house fires start in the kitchen;

●Kitchen stoves are a major fire hazard;●Never leave cooking unattended. Stay in the

kitchen when cooking;●Keep stoves and grills free from grease and

fat build up;●Keep the stove and toaster away from towels

and curtains; ●Wear tight-fitting sleeves when cooking; and●Mosquito coil.Ensure that lighted Mosquito Coils are prop-

erly encased. Just like candles, lit mosquito coils should never be left unattended and should be placed away from curtains, paper and other ma-terials that easily catch fire.

●Prayer diya. Watch out for the prayer diya. Lit Prayer Diya should always be placed well away from curtains or any flammable material. Try placing it on a saucer or tin plate and put out the flame when no longer in use;

Fire protection tips ● Plan and Practice Your escape. If fire breaks

out in your home or workplace, you must get out fast. With your family at home, plan two ways out of every room. Fire escape routes must not include elevators, which might take you right to the fire! Choose a meeting place outside where everyone should gather. Once you are out, stay out!

●Stop, drop and roll. Everyone should know this rule, if your clothes catch fire, don’t run! Stop where you are, drop to the ground and roll over and over to smother the flames;

●Crawl Low Under Smoke. If you encounter smoke using your primary exit, use your alter-nate route instead. Get down on your hands and knees, and crawl to the nearest safe exit.

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Sangam remembers its founder

By RINIKA PRAKASH

A MEDICAL team from US headed by former local nurse Damyenti Chan-dra was in Fiji to provide free medical checkups at the Patan Memorial Medi-cal Clinic in Nacovi Nadi.

Each year the Patan Clinic visits with a medical team from the US offering free clinics in Fiji on women’s health.

All volunteers who arrive are self-funded and this is a clinic the Fiji Can-cer Society western branch works with to ensure awareness and screening pro-grams are taking place.

Women’s health clinic include medi-cal checkups for high blood pressure,

diabetes, breast exams, pap smears, pel-vic exams and thyroid exams.

(A $20 donation is requested for pro-cessing of Pap smear slides in private lab to avoid delay in getting results).

The donation requested is generally for the processing of samples in a pri-vate lab.

Ms Damyenti is a local Indo Fijian who resides in the US and is committed to bringing Fiji Aid International to our country.

“This started in 2000 and our main aim is the health of the local people.

“Our major focus is screening women for breast and cervical cancer,” said Da-myenti Chandra

“Our medical team consists of Dr Jeff Stenger (US), Dr Satish Prasad (Aust), Sheri Morris – Physician (US), Laleen Datt – Occupational Therapist (US), Catherine Tantau (US) and Damyenti Chandra (US).”

“We urge people to take advantage of this medical clinic and come and have themselves checked especially women.

Ms Chadra added transport to and from the clinic was provided by Rosie Holidays from Nadi Temple.

“Support from Rosie Holidays for providing free bus service from the entrance of Nadi town was a big help for which we are grateful,” added Ms Chandra.

Former nurse returns with help

Patan Medical Clinic founder Damyenti Chandra, 2nd from right with visiting doctors from Australia and US. And on the right is retired Fiji nurse Keresi Taylor who is based at the clinic every Tuesdays and Thursdays.




MULTI award-winning Kia designs and world-

renowned after-sales service now available for customers in western Fiji.

Kia Motors Fiji has opened a brand new state-of-the-art showroom in Nadi to provide customers in the west with its range of multi award-win-ning vehicles and world-re-nowned after-sales services.

The newly-opened Kia showroom is situated in the heart of Nadi town, on the site of the old Tappoo Home & Leisure store (opposite Mobil Service Station).

This is Kia Motors Fiji’s second showroom, the first being on Suva’s Grantham Road at the Garden City complex in Raiwai, just over a year ago.

CEO Madhu Tappoo said, “This is another proud mile-stone for Kia Motors Fiji.

“Since launching in Fiji in early 2011, the Kia Mo-tors brand has quickly built a reputation for excellence and reliability.

“Kia Motors is recog-nised worldwide as a maker of quality vehicles for the young-at-heart, as well as value-for-money, high-end but eco-friendly motor ve-

hicles.”Founded in 1944, KIA

Motors Corporation is Ko-rea’s oldest manufacturer of motor vehicles, and now pro-duces more than 2.5 million vehicles a year.

Kia Motors has 15 manu-facturing and assembly oper-ations in 10 countries which are then sold and serviced through a network of distrib-utors and dealers covering 172 countries.

“Kia Motors Fiji is proud to be part of this phenomenal success story,” Mr Tappoo said.

“In a short span of time, Kia Motors Fiji has already exceeded all expectations and projections for this mar-ket. This has come about through the affordability of the vehicles and the effi-ciency and value of the after-sales services.”

Kia today has more than

47,000 employees’ world-wide and annual revenues of $US39 billion ($F64.14m).

It is the major sponsor of the Australian Open ten-nis and an official automo-tive partner of FIFA — the governing body of the FIFA World Cup.

Kia Motors Corporation’s brand slogan — “The Power to Surprise” — represents the company’s global commit-ment to surpassing customer

expectations through contin-uous automotive innovation.

The Kia Motors showroom in Nadi has the full range of multi award-winning vehi-cles available, such as the all new Kia Sorento (Australia’s best SUV over $AUD40,000 ($F74,960) award winner for the second year in a row) and the all new Kia Sportage (Australia’s Best SUV award winner).

Also on show are the all

new Kia Optima (the best of best design award win-ner) and the all new Kia Rio (Australia’s Car of the Year award winner).

Known as one of the world’s fastest-growing mo-tor vehicle brands, Kia Mo-tors has experienced recent rapid growth in US, and in the Pacific — especially in Australia and New Zealand where Kia is fast becom-ing the preferred vehicle of choice.

Mr Tappoo added to ensure customers invested comfort-ably in the value-for-money vehicles, Kia Motors Fiji was well geared up to provide the best after-sales services to its customers.

“Strong, reliable and af-fordable after-sales service is essential in Fiji.

“Kia Motors is leading the way forward in this regard, with a personal customer ser-vice second to none,” he said.

The new Kia Motors Ser-vice Centre in Nadi is next to the Tappoo Nadi administra-tion and distribution centre in Khan Jan Drive, while the Suva Service Centre is in Carpenter Street.

Kia Motors after-sales service is headed by an ex-patriate Kia-trained service manager, and expatriate tech-nicians.

In addition to the award-winning designs, Kia Mo-tors’ eco-friendly and fuel-ef-ficient vehicles come with a 3-year/100,000km warranty on all new vehicles.

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Kia opens Nadi showroom

By TIM SAUNDERS FOR the past decade or so Toyota and Honda have reigned su-preme in the world of the hybrid.

But are they set to be toppled now that the luxury market has finally embraced this technology? There are now offerings from Audi, Mercedes and BMW.

Fresh from its sponsorship of the London Olympics 2012 BMW has entrusted me with its Active Hybrid 5; a 5-series with a 3-litre straight six turbo petrol engine coupled to a 54hp electric motor. The high-performance lithium-ion battery, which resides at the back of the reasonably sized boot, is charged whenever the BMW ActiveHybrid 5 is braking, with the electric motor performing the role of a generator.

At speeds up to 37mph this 5 series uses electric power, mak-ing it pollution free around towns. However, any incline result-ing in acceleration sees the engine take charge. The operating status of the powertrain is displayed in the instrument cluster and on the iDrive central control unit’s screen.

It’s got to be one of the fastest hybrids around reaching 60mph from standstill in just 6.4 seconds and on to a top speed of 155mph. This means that you can overtake in places that you would never normally consider. When the accelerator is kicked to the floor it’s like a scolded cat and there’s a raspy, racing car-type note released from the exhausts.

But surely the point of a hybrid is to be super environmental-ly-friendly and efficient.

It is therefore irksome to find out that it only returns 44mpg and makes me question the logic behind this vehicle. The point, according to the German car maker, is that the ActiveHybrid 5 delivers similar performance to its 535i but has 16 per cent lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Its engine stop start doesn’t always come on when the vehicle pulls up at the lights though.

Perhaps the comments I make on my video at testdrives.biz are a little unfair. A fully charged electric motor allows the Beemer to travel about three miles. It takes around five minutes to fully charge the battery from empty. It is claimed that careful driving can actually see the BMW cover 650 miles on its 67 litre tank. Try doing that in a 535i.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the popular 5 series and in common with most other cars on Britain’s roads, and the popu-lation as a whole, the sixth generation model has grown in size.

With its purposeful nose, trademark double kidney grille and ‘bling’ 17-inch alloy wheels it’s certainly eye-catching. From in-side the cockpit the distinctive, long bonnet is quite a focal point. As long as the driver has the key on them, if they lift a locked door handle, it will automatically open.

While its interior is well above average in terms of build qual-ity it is lacklustre and predictable - plenty of black rubber, plas-tic and leather. But it’s nice to see strips of brushed aluminium, which break the monotony. A neat touch is the leather topped centre armrest that splits in two when opened. Rear occupants have a comfortable existence.

Its eight speed Steptronic automatic gearbox is simple to use. Similar to Peugeot there is a head up display, which projects the travelling speed onto the inside of the windscreen and only the

driver can see it. One qualm is that if the driver wants to check the odometer they have to make a point of leaning forward in order to peer over the steering wheel – the digital reading should be higher up. In a £47,000 car I expect both heated and cooled front seats but only get my first wish, which is unfortunate as leather does get sticky in hot weather.

The ActiveHybrid 5 has highlighted the variety of cruise con-trols now available.

Generally there are three types, let’s call them gold, silver and bronze for sake of argument. Gold sets the speed, measures the distance of the vehicle in front and reacts accordingly, braking and accelerating as appropriate thanks to clever radars – this is found in Rolls Royce, Jaguar and Volvo cars. For silver remove the radars but the system still keeps the engine at the desired

speed no matter what the incline – this can be found in the Skoda Fabia. Basic bronze is for flat roads - show it a downward hill and it will gain speed while it will lose speed travelling up it, as in the Renault Megane.

This BMW has the middle system, operated by a control at the left of the steering wheel. It can be used at speeds of 20mph and above. Given the continual change in traffic speed, for me this system results in pins and needles in my left hand. I find the speed limiter easier to handle.

Arguably the BMW adds a new dimension to the hybrid mar-ket; while it’ll travel further on its battery than a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight and charges quicker, the overall economy figures need improving. Diesels still win hands down for those seeking frugality.

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AIR NEW ZEALAND CARGO AWARDS 2012

Winners display their awards dur-ing the Air New Zealand’s Cargo Awards night.


By RINIKA PRAKASH

Air New Zea-land cargo sales manag-er, Pacific, Mr Pradip Singh (PICTURED) says “it is a time to recog-nise growth and achievements of our customers.

“it is an important part of any partnership to recog-nise the achievement and support of the other party.

“Air New Zealand car-go has changed from its regular Fiji/New Zealand destination carrier to a global carrier to support the growing needs of our Fijian customers.

“We have carried more cargo beyond New Zea-land this year as we are now more focused on opening up Fijian exports to the world, by using Auckland as a hub we are able to open up global destinations for the local exporters and businesses to get Fijian products into the worldwide market.

“From Fiji we are the preferred air freight car-rier for cargo to Japan, South East Asia, London, Australia and greater US

and Canada,” added Mr Singh.

“We see ourselves as leaders in de-signing and delivering ex-cellence in cargo solu-tions in part-nership with our customers

and Fijian exporters. We take pride in providing superior cargo solutions that will enable the suc-cess and profitability of our customers.

“Air New Zealand wants to create a culture around being customer centric, that being we create part-nerships through focusing on our customers’ wider business and how we can in term grow revenue for all parties involved.”

Mr Singh left Air Pacific in June 1990 to join Air New Zealand as Cargo Sales supervisor — Fiji.

He took charge of sales of Air NZ cargo Fiji, Tonga and Samoa in 1993.

Today he is cargo sales manager for entire Pacific islands where Air New Zealand flies into. These are Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, Cooks, Niue, Nor-folk island, Vanuatu & New Caledonia.

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By RINIKA PRAKASH

Air New Zealand Cargo freight agents held its Cargo Awards night at the Beachcomber is-land on Friday August 10.

Air New Zealand’s manager regional Cargo Sales, Mr Blair Gourdie said it was about re-warding the freight agents who had been supporting Air New Zealand.

“So we are re-ally proud of everyone in Fiji and what they have done for us. We just want to be here to sup-port them in long term and yearly we would like to award our clients who support us,” said Mr Gourdie.

The Freight agents who were awarded are: i n t e r n a t i o n a l Freight & Clearance Services Limited, William & Goslings, Carpenters Ship-ping Nadi, Gibson Freight international Fiji Ltd (Nadi Branch), Corporate Freight Services (Fiji) Ltd, TNT Express World-wide, DHL Express (Fiji) Ltd, DHL Glob-al Forwarding Ltd and ATS Sales.

The Top Agent for the Year award was given to international Freight & Clear-ance Services Limited which was re-ceived by its newly appointed general manager, Mr Shalesh Kumar.

Mr Mahendra Singh, presi-dent Custom Brokers and Freight Forwarders Council of Nadi and DHL Global coun-try manager said, “it is not all about getting the money from each other, it’s about com-ing together as one, it’s about friendship and getting together outside the normal business norm and this is something we

gladly appreciate because this is important and we need to do these things.

“So on behalf of everybody here, i would like to say a big thank you to Air New Zea-land as you guys understand us and we appreci-ate what you do for us,” said Mr Singh.

Also, Mr San-dro Penzo, man-

ager Cargo Sales – international added, “Tonight is all about celebrating our suc-cesses together.

“This year has been quite a shrinking market, no one has actually realised but we all have grown the business together quite considerably — some 30 per cent above the actually target.

“Fiji region was our number one growth area with total percentage glob-ally out of Britain and Australia,” Mr Pen-zo said.

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COASTAL RENTAL CARS NADI OPEN 2012

By SACHIDA ANAND SINGH

IT was icing on the cake for national rep Vikrant Chandra as he was se-lected in the three-mem-

ber national team and also crowned new champion at the Coastal Rental Cars-sponsored Nadi Open 2012.

Ba Golf Club member, Vi-krant defied all odds to beat his rivals after carding 216.

Vikrant had to play the ace to best defending champion and Fiji’s best ranked golfer, Olaf Allen Junior who finished second with a score of 218.

Vikrant said he played well and was happy to win the tro-phy.

“I had carded well going into the final day and followed my game plan to win the Nadi Open. It was not a walk in the park as the former champion Allen Jnr was right on my tail. He (Allen Jnr) is a very good player and he was my biggest

threat throughout the tourna-ment,” said Vikrant.

And it was a double up for the lawman as he was selected into the national golf team.

“I am h a p p y to be se-lected into the national team. I have been playing well and hope to do well,” Vikrant said.

Allen Jnr has a world ranking of 1562 fol-lowed by Vikrant on 2080 and Anuresh on 2795.

Allen Jnr is the lone surviving member of the national side which participated in the 2008 WATC in Ad-elaide, Australia where Fiji finished tied for 48th place.

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Coastal Rental Cars-sponsored Nadi Open winner Vikrant Chandra with the trophy. Inset: Vikrant with Sports Minister Viliame Naupoto, left, Coastal Rental owner Biran Kumar and the President of Fiji Ratu Epeli Nailatikau.


Full results from the 3-day Coastal Rental Cars-sponsored Nadi Open 2012Overall gross winner Vi-krant Chandra (216), over-all nett winner Afzal Khan (131), men’s runner-up gross Olaf Allen Jnr (218), men’s runner-up nett Harley Sofield (132), B grade gross Akuila Kata (158), C grade gross Rajesh Prasad (178 C/B), A grade 1st nett Ram Khelawan (210), A grade 2nd nett Roneel Prakash (214), A grade 3rd nett Mo-hammed Faiyaz (217). B grade 1st nett Biran Ku-mar (135), B grade 2nd nett Jeral Sharma (137), B grade 3rd nett Shiva Rajan (140). C grade 1st nett Wang Hou-wan (136), C grade 2nd nett Gary Felton (137), C grade 3rd nett Ravi Chand (140). Friday gross Ba-roon Hussain (71), Friday nett Dinesh Kumar (65). Saturday gross Anuresh Chandra (65), Saturday nett Vinod Chauhan (66). Sun-day gross Munesh Prasad (75 C/B), Sunday nett Dr Goundar (66). NTP Sat-urday (15th) Sulu Brook, NTP Saturday (18th) Afzal Khan, longest drive Satur-day Amitesh Chandra, NTP Sunday (18th) Samu Rat-ulele, NTP Sunday (15th) B Tahal, longest drive Sun-day Roneel Prakash. Ladies gross winner Vani Eaton, ladies nett winner Janice Hinton, ladies runner-up gross Sulu Brook, ladies runner-up nett Amy Suban. Junior gross Ratu Meli, ju-nior nett Jimmy Lutia Jnr.




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FAShION

By RINIKA PRAKASH

BAYVICK Lawrence is an uprising 20-year-old young designer whose

vasu is in Lomainikoro, Bau and whose father hails from Macuata in Vanua Levu.

He has launched his own fashion line called Dreams and has used satin for sarongs, at-tires for weddings, pregnant women, plus-sized women, jaw dropping garb for every-day women, and shirts all fea-turing the lapita pottery design as his stamp intertwined with dashes of Tongan mat and magimagi.

“I am a great believer in us-ing recyclable materials which was evident in the 2010 Voda-fone Hibiscus Festival when I dressed Miss Youth Coalition queen, Paulini Turagabeci. I became the first designer to dress a queen in a dress made from black industrial garbage bags,” he said

Bayvick received raving reviews and set a trend. Pau-lini’s earrings were made out of peanut can lids. She later on became first runner up to the Hibiscus crown.

Bayvick used the lapita print as its beginnings are mysterious and have significant history to his Fijian and Itaukei traditional side.

“I have also used mat and the civa shell.

“Everyone dreams of looking beautiful, handsome and glamorous whether you are pregnant, big or just gorgeous.

“The line Dreams has captivated all silhouettes. My designs are con-temporary, loud, bold but very subtle to the wearer so it makes one feel at ease and graceful. I don’t design an individual’s beauty it’s designed by

God and I have no right to judge,” he said

Bayvick designs from home and this is his first line as others have just been designing as per requests or or-ders.

Apart from winning in the Agri-culture Show in 2010 and 2011 Bay-vick again took part in the show and walked away with the best design in the Amazon category on a green-house theme after a model strutted an organsa ball gown with a fairy theme on the ramp.

In 2011, whilst in Form seven he managed to get his designs show-

cased at the Fiji Festival in Vegas and then at Hilton Hotel in Austra-lia where his tie dye sarongs were flaunted.

The same year Bayvick dressed Fiji born and now Australian-based rugby league player Emosi Ugavule, who was then Mr Yellow Ribbon in the Hibiscus Kings category, and the King was announced as being the best dressed.

“I was also awarded the “High School Designer of 2011”.

Apart from dressing Emosi Bay-vick has dressed reigning Miss South

Pacific Alisi Rabu-kawaqa and activists Josephine Prasad and Fenton among others.

The former Latter Day Saints school

student understands the business of designing in the Pacific and finding a niche in the market can be difficult however he presses home the need that one needs to stay positive.

“Whether you get put down or have negative comments thrown your way remember criticism is meant to inspire you, so shrug it off and it’s onwards and upwards.

“I have learnt a lot from so many individuals and somewhere, some-how.

“I attempt to admire all the design-

ers as everyone has something unique, adventurous and new-fangled to offer,” he said.

Bayvick loves the unique designs put together by Tav from Cook Islands, Mena from Samoa and Fiji’s own Hupfield Hoerder and for his personal wear it would be Louis Vuit-ton in bags and the outfit from Giorgio Armani.

“Fashion to me is wearing an outfit that makes one not only look good but feel good to and set that trend,” said Bayvick

“It can be restrained to just being eccentric,” he said

Bayvick heaps praises on his bevy of friends whose support he describes as being overwhelming.

“Most of them lit the mid-night oil especially my models to make sure we met deadlines even if it meant getting off flights and into my designs for photo shoots.”

“Fenton, Emosi and Jose-phine, Kyrie, Laite and Kelera thank you for doing just that our journey has just begun.”

Bayvick also thankedto the Holi-day Inn, Fiji Arts Village, The Pearl and Lagoon resorts, the Sacred Heart Cathedral for hosting his crew and Ben’s Handicraft for adorning his models as well with Fiji made jewel-lery.”

“Thumbs up to makeup and hair artist Naphyzah Rhazah as well”

Bayvick has launched his Face-book page “Bayvick Designs” as he want’s to harness the power of social media to make people look beautiful and not breaking their bank.

“Everyone is welcome to like my page and see the designs as I roll them out over the next few months,” he said on his Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/waisilivacollec-tions.

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Executive stress

MOST business executives know that they have a tightrope to walk, balanc-ing between success and

failure, vigour and exhaustion, recog-nition and blame, and that stress ac-companies every step, though many are not willing to acknowledge that they are ‘stressed out’. This enormous stress is part of the popular image of today’s ‘top executive’

There is no denying that the execu-tives’ working lives do cause great stress which can have serious conse-quences physically and mentally.

Ulcers, migraine, heart-disease, fa-tigue, depression, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem — these and other symp-toms may be become the executive’s life if stress is not managed.

But of course, there is good news as well.

Even though stress may be an ines-capable part of your job you can, with proper techniques, handle it effective-ly and even turn it to your advantage.

If you can identify the sources of stress you have won half the battle to manage and control it.

Below are some factors, I have no-ticed, that seem to appear in all kinds of on-the-job situations in a company manager’s working life.q A feeling of helplessness. When

you are prevented from fulfilling your proper role, you feel powerless and this gives rise to stress. For example, you

may work hard to develop reasonable solutions to some tough problems, but are actually unable to put them into ac-tion because of constraints within the organisation;q Uncertainty - Lack of reliable

information — on company policy, budgets, procedure — can make it dif-ficult for you to take sound decisions and this situation producers stress; q Urgency - The executive day is

characterised by a high turnover of different decisions and tasks. It’s es-timated that, on average, managers do something different every seven min-utes. And each one demands great at-tention and effort. Their jobs are char-acterised by briefness, fragmentation and stress; andq Overwork - The general notion

of the workload of the executive is ac-curate — a great deal of work to be accomplished at an unrelenting pace.

The above factors fall into few cat-egories that may seem depressingly familiar to many of you.q Poor management. Having to

deal with bad management can be the single biggest stress-producing situa-tion. Poor planning, bad direction and chronic indecisiveness are usually the main cause of tension for managers;q Lack or authority or blurred or-

ganisational structure. The second most significant reason for stress, is having to do a job with no authority to it;q Uncertainty about promotion and

recognition. Great stress can result from worrying about career advance-ment, and if you never receive any praise or recognised from top manage-ment; andq Personal problems. Executives

must manage people. But when those people do not do their jobs, or are themselves troubled by personal prob-lems, the manager bears the burden of stress.

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Lifestyle

THERE is no love sincer-er than the love of food” – and when we talk about food our eyes lightens up and a nice hot meal is all we crave for but there are some who love to cook.

Chefs’ world over ex-periment different ways to make eaters taste bud tickle and this December Castaway Island Resort will be launching a five-day gourmet food safari of fresh Fijian food and culinary Master classes.

The five-day safari will see the finest displays of tropical cuisines by re-nowned chef Lance Seeto.

The Fiji Food Safari also embraces Chef See-to’s food philosophy of eating food as medicine with an emphasis on the Tree of Life coconut, tra-ditional medicines, herbs and diet of less red meat, less dairy, not genetically-modified and completely gluten free.

This unique combina-tion of flavours, tropical produce and a healthier way of eating is the basis of his highly anticipated lifestyle cookbook “Co-conut Bliss — Inspiration and the Food of Life from Ancient Fiji” — sched-uled for global release in November.

In another exciting first for food tourism in Fiji, Castaway Island Resort

has launched a 5-day gourmet food safari of fresh Fijian foods and cu-linary Master classes in December.

A limited number of international guests will spend the week with Aus-tralian Chef Seeto on a gastronomical discovery of organic tropical cuisine centered on the three an-cient civilisations of Fiji — the native Polynesian/Melanesians, Indian and Chinese.

Crouching Tiger Prawns with a spicy, sweet Thai Banana Salsa and garlic butter vudi (Fijian plantain banana). This recipe was in response to locals wanting new ways to serve prawns and the Fijian starchy vudi.

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BUShELLS FIjI’S BIGGEST MORNING TEA

By RINIKA PRAKASH

ONE of the Fiji’s leading businesses, Motibhai Group hosted Fiji’s biggest morning tea at their head office in Nadi raking in a $21,987 for the fight against cancer.

Mr Kirit Prabhudas Patel, chief ex-ecutive officer of Motibhai thanked everyone for coming over to be part of the function and accepting their in-vitation.

“Our involvement with the Fiji

Cancer Society goes back to 2006 and it is part of our corporate social re-sponsibility initiative. This follows on from the earlier one in which we were in the forefront with the Fiji Diabetes Foundation,” said Mr Patel

A special announcement was made during the morning tea.

“We will contribute a sum of $15,005. This amount is on top of the amount we give to Fiji Cancer Soci-ety every year for their operational run,” said Mr Patel.

Mrs Milika Marshall, president of the Western Fiji Cancer Society said Motibhai had committed $30,000 in total and they were thankful to them.

“I think this is going to be a record year and because of the popularity of this morning tea, we have extended it till end of August,” said Mrs Mar-shall.

Donations from other business-houses and individuals amounted to $6973.00 plus $15,005 given by Mo-tibhai boosted the amount to $21,987.

Left: Fiji TV journal-ist Maciu Bolaita-mana looks at the giant cup on display at the Bushells Fiji’s biggest morning tea which was held at the Motibhai’s head office located at Nadi Airport.


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This religious celebration is observed on the day fol-lowing the last day of fasting which is observed daily by all able-bodied Muslims from dawn till sunset throughout the Islamic month of Rama-zan. It is a day of much rejoic-ing and happiness especially by those fortunate persons who observed the fasts and reaped the spiritual fruits of this holy exercise in ac-cordance with the directions of God in the Holy Quran.

Fasting has been pre-scribed in one form or an-other by all the revealed reli-gions of the world. The Bible tells us that Prophet David declared ‘I humbled my soul with fasting’ (Psalms 35:13) and we read in the New Tes-tament that ‘the disciples of Jesus and the Pharisees used to fast’ (Mark 2:18). We are also told that ‘Je-

The Holy Quran has set forth many conclusive reasons in sup-port of the verity that souls are the creation of God. We set out brie y a few of them by way of illustration. First, it is obvious that all souls are at all times subordinate to and subject to the command of God Al-mighty, and there is no other cause for such subordination except that they are the creation of God. Second, it is also obvious that all souls are limited in their capacities and powers, as is proved by the diver-sity of the spiritual conditions and capacities of sections of mankind.

This limitation must be imposed by a Limitor, which proves that souls are created. Third, it needs no argument to establish that all souls are, for the purpose of their perfection and survival, dependent upon and in need of a Being who should be Perfect, All-Powerful, All-Knowing and an absolute Benefactor. This proves that they are creat-ed. Fourth, a moment’s re ection would show that our souls comprise brie y all the wisdom and the creative skill that are demonstrated in the heavenly and the earthly bodies, that is why the universe on ac-count of its diverse elements is known as the macrocosm and man is called a microcosm. Thus when the universe, on account of its wonder-ful qualities, is accounted the work of a Wise Creator, how would that not be the creation of God which on account of its personal wonders is a re ection of the whole universe and comprises within itself the won-derful qualities of all the units of the universe and illustrates the con-summate wisdom of God Almighty? That which is a manifestation of all the wonders of Divine attributes cannot be outside God’s creation.

Indeed it bears the seal of creation more than anything else and is a greater proof of the existence of the Creator. This is not only a theoreti-cal proof of the soul being created but is a bright verity. Moreover, other things have no consciousness of their being created but souls are by their very nature conscious of having been created. Even the soul of a savage cannot reconcile itself to being self-existent. This is indicated by the verse which says that God enquired from the souls: Am I not your Lord? That is to say, your Creator, and they responded: Indeed, yes (7: I73). This dialogue indicates the natural relationship between the Creator and His creation, the proof of which is inherent in the nature of souls. Fifth, as a child partakes somewhat of the features and character of his parents,

The Signi cance and Purpose of Eid-ul-Fitr in Islam

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The Promised Messiah (as) : Soul is a Creation of God

THE PROMISED MESSIAH

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) is the only Is-lamic organization to believe that the long-awaited messiah has come in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) (1835 – 1908) of Qadian.

Ahmad (as) claimed to be the metaphorical second coming of Jesus (as) of Nazareth and the divine guide, whose advent was foretold by Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (sa).

AMC believes that God sent Ahmad (as), like Jesus (as), to end religious wars, condemn bloodshed and reinstitute morality, justice and peace. Ahmad’s (as) advent has brought about an un-precedented era of Islamic revival.

He divested Islam of fanatical beliefs and practices by vigor-ously championing Islam’s true and essential teachings. He also recognized the noble teachings of the great religious founders and saints, including Zoroaster (as), Abraham (as), Moses (as), Jesus (as), Krishna (as), Buddha (as), Confucius (as), Lao Tzu and Guru Nanak, and explained how such teachings converged into the one true Islam.

in the same way souls, which have proceeded from the hand of God Al-mighty, partake somewhat of the character and qualities of their Creator.

Though in cases in which the darkness and heedlessness of be-ing created prevails over some souls the Divine colour appears some-what faded, yet it cannot be denied that every soul possesses that co-lour to some degree. In some cases that colour appears unattractive on account of misuse, but that is not the fault of the colour, it is the fault of the use to which it is put. None of man’s faculties or powers is evil. It is misuse that makes them appear evil. Every faculty employed on its proper occasion is wholly good and bene cent, and in truth all the faculties that are bestowed on man are a re ection of Divine powers.

As a son exhibits some features of his father, in the same way our souls re ect the features and qualities of Divinity which are easily recognized by those who possess comprehension. As a son has natural love for his father we, who are from God, have natural love for Him. If our souls had not a nat-ural relationship with God those who seek Him would have had no means of reaching Him (Surma Chashm Arya (Qadian, 1886); Now published in Ruhani Khazain, Volume 2 (London, 1984), pp. 119- 121). The Holy Quran states that God enquired from souls: Am I not your Creator? and they responded: Indeed, yes (7: 173). This means that souls naturally af rm the existence of a Creator, though some people falling in the darkness of heed-lessness and being in uenced by wrong teachings become atheists or Aryas and deny their Creator contrary to their nature. It is obvious that everyone loves his parents, so much so that some children suffer death in conse-quence of the death of their mother. Then if souls are not God’s creation who has invested them with natural love for God, how is it that when a person achieves full consciousness his heart is drawn to God and his bosom is ooded with the love of God? There must be some relationship between God and souls which makes them fall madly in love with God. They become so devoted to God that they are ready to sacri ce everything for His sake. It is truly a wonderful relationship which is far above one’s relationship with father and mother. If souls are self-existent, as is alleged by the Aryas, then how has this relationship been established and who has invested souls with the faculty of love for and devotion to God? This is worthy of re ection and is the key to true comprehension (Chashma Maarifat, pp. 158—159).

sus fasted forty days and forty nights’ (Matthew 4:2).

One does not only feel happy on Eid-ul-Fitr be-cause through exercising self-discipline one has suc-cessfully complied with the commandment of God to observe the fasts, but also on account of a feeling of spiri-tual exhilaration which glows within the heart and soul.

No doubt on Eid-ul-Fitr much pleasure is derived from wearing new clothes, meeting friends and relatives and eating specially prepared food. The main event, of course, is the religious service when one offers prayers and listens to the inspirational ad-dress of the Imam on relevant matters concerning the sig-ni cance of the occasion. As the main purpose of fasting is to develop righteousness and self-puri cation (Quran

2:186) the most attractive garment one should be wear-ing is the one mentioned by God in the Holy Quran:

The raiment of righteous-ness - that is the best. (7:27)

The real food one should be enjoying is the spiritual nourishment acquired dur-ing the month of fasting.

Eid-ul-Fitr should remind one of many lessons learned from fasting and which, dur-ing the holy month of Rama-zan, one should have endea-voured to keep in mind and to have practised. One of them is the offering of one’s morning (Fajr) prayer before sunrise and also of the offer-ing the ef cacious pre-dawn prayer (Tahajjud) which is highly recommended. One realizes that it is not too dif- cult to arise early and offer these prayers at the proper time. If one can discipline

oneself to do so during the month of fasting then it is not impossible to do so during the other months of the year also.

The purpose of taking medicine is to combat and cure an ailing condition and when it takes good ef-fect one wants to maintain one’s improved condition.

Likewise when one re-duces weight after a course of dieting one wants to main-tain one’s lower weight and similarly one wants to main-tain one’s improved physical condition after completing a course of exercise. After completion of the holy month of fasting one is able to gauge one’s improved spiritual condition as a result of one’s devotion, conduct, prayers and divine favours received during that period. On Eid-ul-Fitr one should re ect one’s condition of spiritual

improvement and resolve not to lose what one has gained but rather, not only to maintain it, but press for-

ward to even higher spiritual development through righ-teous conduct, prayers and seeking the Grace of God.

The name Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, is followed by the symbol “sa,” an abbreviation for the traditional salutation “may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.” The name of other prophets and messengers are followed by the symbol “as,” an ab-

breviation for the traditional salutation “on whom be peace.”



TUTTIE FRUITY FEATURE

iF you are looking for a quick bite or smoothies to quench

that thirst – come and check out Tuttie Fruity Café and i am sure you will not regret spending your hard earned dollar.

The cafeteria opened its eatery in Nadi town and is gaining popular-ity as its menu list is af-fordable and each serve is worth as customers will have a hearty meal.

The eatery offers its customers the finest and fresh hot and cold beverages, specialis-ing in specialty cold coffees, blended teas, fresh Juice, freshly blended fruit drinks and other custom drinks.

in addition, the caf-eteria will offer fresh fruits, fresh fruit salads and seasonally avail-able fruits. Tuttie Fruity will add beverages such as milkshakes, frozen yogurt, fruit shakes, fro-

zen coffees and short orders like sandwich,

burgers, cakes and more.

According to owner Sandeep Singh their everyday goal is to pro-vide a service that is most accommodating to the needs and desires of their valued custom-ers.

“Our aim is to create an exciting atmosphere that strives to promote

our stronger sense of community and serve only the finest quality products to the promote a healthier lifestyle.

Chris, Malou, Brett and Lyn, customers of Tuttie Fruity say, “Tuttie Fruity is one of its kinds. The smoothies are so healthy and refreshing while their pizza is so tasty with its thin crust. We just love it.

“You will just keep on coming back for their smoothies with a pearl,” the four friends com-mented.

rustic Pathway, a group of volunteers from the US and regu-lar customers of Tuttie

Fruity say, “Tuttie Fruity has been a wonder-ful addition to dining in Nadi.

“We have been able to use their facility for our meetings and it has an excellent workspace.

“Their staff members are extremely helpful and their dishes are prepared with the fresh-est ingredients,” Path-way said.

With a great loca-tion, the best products combined with highly-skilled and friendly staff members will take care of your taste buds with mouth-watering and de-licious taste with bula experience.

Tuttie Fruity opens

By RINIKA PRAKASH

FrESH is best is the norm for the newly-opened cafeteria Tuttie Fruity as all its meals are prepared with fresh veg-etables in all its dishes.

This is to provide customers with a healthier choice and a better taste.

According to café owner, Mr Sandeep Singh, he grows vegetables in his own back-

yard.“We want people to know

that whatever vegetables we use in our menu and dishes are mostly grown in our gar-dens, as we want our cus-tomers to have a healthier choice,” said Mr Singh.

“Even for tomato pastes, we use fresh tomatoes to make fresh paste daily. We also bake our own bread which in-cludes herbs.”

Fresh is best

By RINIKA PRAKASH

Tuttie Fruity owner, Mr Sandeep Singh at his back yard garden.

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Pizza timeBy RINIKA PRAKASH

TUTTiE Fruity has launched its new pizza which has fresh topping and made from halal meat.

The cafeteria range of pizza which was recently launched sees a great variety for meat lovers and a greater delight

for vegetarians as they can order paneer in their veg-etarian pizza or simply order it any way they like.

With more options to choose from and a greater variety, you are bound to leave your taste bud sat-isfied and a smile on your face.

Tuttie Fruity outlet in Nadi town.

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The course consists of six modules - Fundamentals of IT, Word Processing, Electronic Spreadsheet, Internet & Email, Database Management, and Information Systems & Networking.

At the completion of the ACIT, you will be able to obtain cross credits to IS121, a compulsory course for further (higher) USP programmes in Information System.

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Dates:1 Sept to 10 Nov 2012 (Saturdays Only); Time: 9am to 1pm; Venue: USP Lautoka Campus; Total Fee: $1100 (cash, installments, cheque or can be assisted by FNPF); Target Audience: Professionals with more than 3 years of work sector experience. Training can also be conducted in house for large organisations.

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NAIM helps schoolBy RINIKA PRAKASH

NAIM Engineering Construction (Fiji) Ltd gifted eight computers to the Nadi Muslim College.

The gift was given by Johari Abdullah, senior general manager of NAIM Engineering Construction (Fiji) Ltd to Hafizud Dean Khan, Fiji Muslim League national presi-dent.

“We were approached by the Fiji Muslim League for assistance and we took into consideration that they were in dire need of computer after the disastrous floods which had af-fected many and Nadi Muslim Col-lege also.”

This is part of our management to provide donations to needy organi-sations and these kinds of donations will carry on in the future,” said Mr Abdullah.

“Today’s donation was a step in the right direction. We are focus-ing mostly on today’s state of the art education and we are grateful to NAIM Engineering Construc-tion (Fiji) Limited for their timely donation, said,” Mr Dean Khan, Fiji Muslim League national president.

THROUGH AQEP, Australian AID will invest up to $93 million (A$50m) over 2011 -2016 to im-prove the poorest 25 per cent of schools in all districts across Fiji.

Australian AID is working with the Ministry of Education and will support schools to help students ac-cess and stay in school with books, stationery and school grants over the next four years. And already two schools in the west are reaping the

benefits of this aid.Close to 550 students in Ba and

Lautoka who had their schools dam-aged in the floods, are benefiting from refurbished classrooms now that repairs to their school buildings are completed.

Namosau Methodist School in Ba and Vitogo District School in Lau-toka are two of 59 schools that are being repaired with funding from AusAID, after the devastating floods

earlier in the year. Speaking at the of-ficial handover ceremonies to mark the completion of these works, the Acting Australian High Commis-sioner, Mr Glenn Miles said: “We are pleased to help repair these damaged schools after the floods this year. Australia is working with the schools most affected to ensure students can study in refurbished classrooms and have access to clean water and toilet facilities. Good facilities are an im-

portant part of helping raise the qual-ity of teaching and learning for Fiji’s children.”

Namosau Methodist School received funding of more than $100,000, through AusAID’s Ac-cess to Quality Education Program (AQEP) to repair and upgrade 16 classrooms, two teachers offices and a pre-school, a toilet block, and a wa-ter tank and furniture

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Aust boost $93m aid

FRIENDS help college, mandirBy RINIKA PRAKASH

THE New Zealand FRIENDS of Korovuto Nandi Incorp gave mechanical tools to the Koro-vuto College earlier this month.

This donation was made by their local representative Ogina Lata, general manager of The Terraces Apartment Resorts.

“I am honoured to be here to do the presentation of these tools on behalf of the former students association in New Zealand,” said Mrs Lata.

“This association was formed in 2010 and is run by 15 mem-bers but is widely supported by the former students of Korovuto and friends.

“Their main aim is to provide as much assistance as possible to help out our students and give our community what we were unable to get during our days.”

“This association has also helped Ajodhyapuri Mandir and other surrounding village kin-dergartens with resources.”

Mrs Lata added in two weeks time there would be some kin-dergarten books arriving for Korovuto Primary School Kin-dergarten, Ajodhyapuri Kinder-garten, Korovuto Koro Kinder-garten and Nacovi kindergarten.

The Principal of Korovuto College heartily thanked the NZ Friends of Korovuto Nandi In-corp for their generous donation to their Automotive Engineer-ing section.

“Our Automotive Engineer-ing Section at our college be-gan its operation 2012 and it is growing with the support we have received from the Ministry of Education and the donors’ assistance,” said Sanjesh Chan-dra, principal of Korovuto Col-lege.

National president of Fiji Muslim League, Mr Hafizud Dean Khan, left with Naim senior general manager, Johari Jegatheesan Abdullah who donated the new computers to Nadi Muslim College.

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ENVIRONMENT

By EMOSI LASAQAMamanuca Environment Society

Celebrity iguanasTHEY are probably the most

famous Iguanas in the Pacific. Meet, Malolo and Likuliku,

the two Fiji crested iguanas at the magical Likuliku Lagoon Resort in the Mamanuca Groups.

In a haven of subtle luxury, embraced by the renowned warmth of its workers, the two iguanas seem to know that they are celebrities.

They pose, with attitudes of total indifference for photo-graphs.

And many guests who have visited Likuliku Lagoon Resort, the first and only resort in Fiji with over-water bure, are trailing the iguana’s progress and fame on facebook.

The Fiji crested iguana (Brachyllophus Vitiensis) was

feared extinct on Malolo so when in January 2011, a 33.5 centime-

tre long iguana weighingaround 19 grams was found in a hibiscus tree

at Malolo Island Resort there was much excitement.

Ten months later an-oth-

er slightly larger iguana was found at Likuliku Lagoon measuring 37cm and weighing 29 grams.

Both have been named after their place of origin.

The discovery of these two criti-cally endangered species (ICUN list 2006) is a reminder of the need to protect natural habitats so “future generations can also enjoy the flora and fauna of Fiji,” said Steve Anstey, the group general manager for Ahura Resorts.

Mr Anstey who is also the treasurer of the Mamanuca Environment Soci-ety (MES) said Iguanas were thought to have been extinct on the Island of Malolo and this made their discovery even more exciting.

He said the Fiji Crested Iguana was known to exist on the lesser populated islands in the north such as Monuriki and just recently one was found on Qalito, home to Castaway Island Re-sort.However, their recorded numbers are fast diminishing along with their natural habitat the dry forest.

Mr Anstey said the discovery of Malolo and Likuliku transformed their perspective and the scope of their environmental initiatives.

“MES which has historically been marine-based in its en-

deavours also realised that there was some wonder-

ful land-based flora and fauna that needs just as much care and at-tention as our marine preserves.

“The Fiji crested iguanas are actu-

ally on the same level as the

panda bear in terms of extinction and people don’t realise that how impor-tant these creatures are. They are fas-cinating animals, prehistoric in many ways and we should be taking every effort to preserve them.

“We hope that with further dis-coveries we will start our own breeding program which will enable us to systematically release them back into their natural habitat,” he said.

Mr Anstey believes there are three main factors that have seen the de-cline in number of the Fiji crested iguanas.

“The first is the loss of their natu-ral habitat. The dry forest that should cover all of the large islands in the Mamamnucas is all but gone. Rem-nants remain in isolated pockets and in island gullies. The dry forest ironi-cally is also one of the most endan-gered eco systems in the world.

“All the larger islands in the Ma-manucas for instance should be cov-ered just like Qalito and Monuriki. Now most are just covered with grass. The other two factors have been the introduction of goats that compete with iguanas for food and also wild cats have had a terrible effect on num-bers.”

Mr Anstey said they were working closely with Kula Eco Park, San Di-ego Zoo and Sydney’s Taronga Zoo as they were well aware of the com-plexities involving raising iguanas.

“In fact, Ramesh Chand from Kula Park, Peter Harlow from Taronga Zoo and Robert Fisher from the San Di-ego Zoo have visited the island twice since we found the iguanas - firstly to

assess them, take DNA samples and secondly to do a search and count for any adult population that we know must be around.

“Unfortunately the weather was not conducive for a thor-

ough search of the forest areas. They are very hard to find as they

live high up in the trees canopy and

search is done at night with spotlights.“The female Fiji Crested Iguanas

only come down to the ground once a year to lay their eggs in the sand usu-ally during the wet season. They are oviparous and have one of the longest incubation periods of any reptile. The eggs take approximately 189 days (6 to 7 months) to hatch.

“The Fiji crested iguanas are her-bivorous feeding on leaves, fruit, flowers of trees and shrubs. Our igua-nas follow a very strict controlled diet which includes a balance of fruits, vegetables and flowers,” said Mr Anstey.

By April 2012, Malolo has grown to 39.3cm and weighs 51.9 grams while Likuliku is 99.1cm long and weighs 49grams so we are pleased with their progress.

The discoveries of the iguanas have lead to a rethink and the iguanas and dry forest now form a crucial part of our Ahura Resorts Environmental Policy. According to Mr Anstey, they have already planted over one thou-sand dry forest species on their lease since they found the iguanas and they are collecting more to start their own propagation program.

There is hope, he said, that one day they would be able to allow each guest to plant a tree during their stay.

And they are working hand in hand with land owners and the Ministry of Forestry over the issue of the lease.

Apart from the loss of the vegeta-tion, Mr Anstey said the dry forests were also home to a variety of ani-mals including the Bolo snakes and Pacific boas and also the Ogea mon-arch, Red throated lorikeets, Falcon and Fiji parrot finches.

Unfortunately some species like the Grass owl are already extinct — never to be seen again.

While the work will take many years, Mr Anstey said the mission was a must do and they were on course to actually carrying it out.

Steve Anstey with Malolo Iguana.

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www.thejetnewspaper.com www.epapergallery.comLOCAL NEWS Teachers

learn laptop movesIN an effort to promote education and keep in par with technology, the Uni-versity of the South Pacific (USP) in partnership with the Ministry of Edu-cation (MOE) in Fiji with the support of the Bank of the South Pacific (BSP) has embarked on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) training for the three pi-lot schools’ teachers began this week.

The training which was formally opened on Monday (20/08) by the OLPC trainer and consultant, Mr Ian Thomson at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture and Pacific Studies (OCAC) performance space on Lau-cala campus, is being organised by USP’s Faculty of Arts, Law and Edu-cation’s (FALE) School of Education (SOE).

Conducted at the USP Teacher Edu-cational Resource and E-Learning Centre and facilitated by Ian Thom-son, 38 primary school teachers will be trained during the two weeks school break on how to use the digital lap-tops. OLPC will open up new learn-ing opportunities for Fijian children, introducing them to the Information Society and the world of Informa-tion Communication and Technology (ICT). There is a rich source of world class education resources available through the laptops and the Internet which will prepare our students for the future.

USP’s Dean of FALE, Dr Akanisi Kedrayate said there is a need for teachers to move into ICTs and e-learning from just using blackboard and chalks. She said this is the first systematic training that is being con-ducted in the region because the Gov-ernment of Fiji was able to submit a well-developed and detailed plan on the provision of laptops to the primary school children in the country.

source: UsP

67 attend workshopSIXTY-seven teachers from around the country are at-tending a three-day work-shop in Suva to familiarise themselves with a pilot proj-ect to introduce Disability Inclusive Education in five primary schools across the country.

An initiative of the Minis-try of Education and the Aus-tralian Government-funded Access to Quality Education Program (AQEP), the Dis-ability Inclusive Education will be piloted at the follow-ing schools:

• South Taveuni Primary School (Northern Division)

• Tavua District School (Western Division)

• Adi Maopa Primary School (Eastern Division)

• Ratu Latianara Primary School (Central Division)

• Arya Samaj Primary School (Suva District)

Opening the workshop, the Australian High Com-mission’s Counsellor Aus-AID, Ms Sarah Goulding, said Disability Inclusive Development was a high priority for the Australian Aid program.

“We recognise that devel-opment assistance will only be effective and achieve poverty reduction if it also reaches and benefits people with disabilities. “We need to be aware that around 15 percent of the world’s popu-lation – around 1 billion peo-ple – live with some form of disability and are among the poorest and most vulnerable in developing countries,” Ms Goulding said.

Lautoka Campus director, Dr Pramila Devi presents a certificate to one of the participants with Mr Dennis Sen.

Photo: SUPPLIED

USP course for kidsHIGH school students in Fiji began their holidays on a positive note as they took advantage of the opportu-nity to participate in a charity com-puter course conducted by the Uni-versity of the South Pacific.

The courses, organised by the South Pacific Computer Society (SPACS) for students around the country, are being held at USP’s three campuses in Fiji namely Lau-cala, Lautoka and Labasa.

The courses which are scheduled conveniently during the second term school break, is sponsored by the University’s School of Computing, Information and Mathematical Sci-ences.

The aim of this training pro-gramme is to fulfill the objectives of SPACS to provide computer literacy and create awareness on Informa-tion and Communications Technol-ogy (ICT).

Twenty-eight students from the Western Division participated in the one-day programme held at the Lau-toka Campus on 22 August, 2012.

The students were trained on Ba-sic Microsoft Word 2010 and Basic Microsoft Excel 2010, conducted by university staff member, Mr Dennis Sen from the Lautoka Campus.

The feedback from the partici-pants was positive as most of the students found the training quite

useful. Ms Rachel Raiova, a Form six student of Jasper Williams High School in Lautoka, said she learnt new things from the course which will help her in her studies.

Another student, Mr Walter Fra-ser, a seventh former of Xavier Col-lege in Ba, said he found the course quite interesting and he was happy to be given the opportunity to par-ticipate in the free training program.

After completion of the course, certificates were presented to stu-dents by the Lautoka Campus direc-tor, Dr Pramila Devi.

Source: USP




Pride looks simpleBula everybody,

LAST month I had the pleasure of watch-ing Battle of the Giants Soccer tourna-ment at home live thanks to Sky Pacific pay per view channel.

Trust me it was worth subscribing for live games. I wonder how many of you have heard the slogan “Ba Toh Ba Hai” meaning Ba is Ba. Whenever, I used to hear this slogan, I used to get upset and frustrated since I am a diehard Kai Nadi. But not anymore.

After watching most of these games, I found one particular thing missing in ev-ery team except for Ba and that is pride.

The Ba players played with pride for their district, they had patience within the team and they had passion, vision, leader-ship in the team and as I said above all the players had pride.

They were proud to be part of the team, they had pride in representing their dis-trict. The end result was that not only they won this tournament but proved it at least to me that why Ba Toh Ba Hai.

Now you people might be thinking why is he talking soccer, but ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, what I have learnt and we all need to put this perspec-tive in our lives that anything you do with Pride, you are bound to succeed. Pride in business is what I shall be talking in this article.

The word pride looks simple but it serves different purposes in life. In lay-man term, it means pleasure or satisfac-tion taken in achievement or the opposite as arrogant or disdainful conduct. In our day to day life, pride at times drains our energy but sometimes we really need it to excel.

Pride is a two-faced emotion. On the one hand it can be noble and good, and on the other it can be selfish and mean.

It all depends on how it is used. Pride is particularly useful when it helps us to have and maintain standards. I am proud of my professional abilities and will work hard to maintain them.

Pride can also be a unifying force in a group of people, such as when a team

achieves a difficult challenge or lives up to its high standards. It has historically been used by leaders to en-courage a depressed organisation or country to feel good again.

You might want to be a successful sales-person but are not pre-pared to accept defeats and rejections at the beginning, then most likely you won’t make it in the first place. This is the bad pride. On the hand, if you started with pride which you earned through the many years of learn-ing and understanding life, the chances of succeeding is greater. Pride within yourself creates confident, and respect bursts yourself with pride.

Muhammad Ali’s famous quote; “I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round.”

George Bernanos said, “It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. Any job you do is going to “have your fingerprints all over it.”

That is why it is so important to take ownership of your job, any job you do, and really own it. Do it the best you can; do it the best it can be done. That is how you succeed.

When you are passionate about what you do, you have more energy. You care more about what you do. When you care more about what you do, you do it better and you can take pride in what you have done. When you are proud of what you have done, you are passionate about it.

It is a cycle that feeds on itself and in-creases your capability. When we achieve a goal, we feel good about ourselves. A common part of this is feeling proud, where our self-respect and feelings of

worth are boosted. In this way, our sense of identity is increased. Pride is greater when we have had to work hard for something, as this makes the achievement more worthwhile.

Many people work for the sake of working. It’s a means to get a pay check at the end of the month and there is noth-ing more to it. What can you do to change the attitude?

How can you take pride in what you do? Well, remember, whatever you do, no matter how small it is, has your signature on it. Even if you do not physically sign on it. The work passes through your desk, your section?

Your name is on it. The more good work you do, the better your reputation will be in the company.

If you have an impeccable record of good work, who do you think the boss will remember first when it is time for increment and promotion?

Remember each one of us has a role in the workplace, no matter how small you think your role is in the organisation.

Find meaning in what you do. To

take pride in your work, you need to know what you do not know. Then you can seek to improve. Someone who constantly takes steps to improve themselves is like-ly the person who take pride in their work.

You should know that you carry some form of knowledge that only you have. You need to know that your experi-ence and someone else’s experience is different. In that

sense, what you bring to work is also differ-ent. That is a unique

point. Build trust with people around you. When people trust you, you will naturally feel a sense of confidence that will spur your sense of pride at work.

Building trust with colleagues is a good way to take pride in your work. Trust yourself, you know you bring unique ex-periences to work

and you know you have a role to play. Trust that you bring something special to work and the team. Be realistic and stay true to what can be completed and how you can complete it.

The workplace is filled with political agendas, resource issues, delayed deci-sions and all. But your resourcefulness should help you tackle this. There is no need to feel defeated by the extraordinary factors.

You do your work with pride and let the rest of factors fall in place. Eventu-ally, things will sort itself out. Once you start to take pride in your work, even your work environment will start to change.

You will feel happier at work and even help create a positive work environment.

Money cannot be the only determining factor as to why you work. There must be bigger reasons for you to work for in order to enjoy your work.

Recently we had the Olympics in Lon-don. While watching the Australian Pro-gramme on Australian Network Channel called the Grandstand, there was a big discussion regarding why the Australians as a whole performed very badly at this year’s Olympics?

Apart from all the excuses presented by various sports personalities, one of the sports psychologists made a point that the Australian athletics lacked

Pride compared to other top countries. These athletics hardly showed pride for their country. Money now a days is a pri-ority. Look at the Jamaicans who ran fast-est. They showed off their Jamaican Flags every time the Camera focussed on them.

Before I leave this article on Pride, I think I would have committed a crime if I hadn’t mentioned the great Jane Aus-ten’s Novel Pride and Prejudice which I had the pleasure of studying in Year 12 at Kogarah High School. An awesome novel with humour and hard hitting facts of life.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synony-mously.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us — Jane Austen

You want the work you do to be some-thing to be proud of. You want the jobs you take on to help your career, not hold you back.

So go above and beyond and really take ownership of every job you do. You will feel better for having done that. And others will notice.

“No one has a greater asset for his busi-ness than a man’s pride in his work.” — Hosea Ballou

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is because of pride in one’s work-the pride that makes business an art. —Henry L. D

God Bless Nadi, Fiji

... but it serves different purposes in lifeBy PRANESH AMARSEE

TALK BUSINESS

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AS a self-employed, sole proprietor of my consulting practice I often

get friends asking for advice to run or start up their own business. I also realise that often with good intentions people tend to mix up the way they handle their income, sales and expenses, swapping pockets.

They do not quite understand that swapping pockets is not good practice especially when you have partners, fam-ily members involved in the business with you. Sometimes they use business money for personal expenses, rather than paying salary or making withdraw-als. They take funds from the business account instead of the personal account. I must admit that the banking system does not help forcing clients to hold many accounts for their own benefit of charging unjustified fees, but that is an-other topic in itself.

Most small business keep their ac-counts records handwritten or in few simple excel sheets, passed to their ac-countant who does not really bother ex-ploring as they pass on the small clients to the clerks. Learning to use MYOB or Quickbook is worth taking a free class online if you are at ease with computers. In the end small business like mine, are not worth spending time on for the ac-counting firms as and they simply just copy and paste our records to FIRCA without providing better advice. I got the best guidance by asking FIRCA directly in learning the rules of this country.

When I arrived in Fiji, of course I got taken for a ride (privilege of the white skin LOL) with all sorts of “Joe Blow” wanting to overcharge me. Thank God I did not trust them. I recall the advice from FTIB (now Investment Fiji), the officer told me: register a company name, (form was less than a dollar) then get a T.I.N., a work permit, bank ac-count and start, come back next year and show us your investment progress. I am grateful that the officer there guided me

so well without pushing anywhere else. Now that I am Fijian I can give the same advice to overseas people wanting to do business in Fiji (go to Investment Fiji) .

Now, let us look at swapping pocket in the case of NGO’s and other non-profit entities with committee members using the organisation’s funds for their own purposes. I recall an organisation overseas (PNG) and I had to find out what was happening with the money as the head office was suspicious of mis-management of their funds.

The manager of the project had his residence in the premise of the project, any repairs to his house were charged so his utilities such as electricity, telephone were all passed on to the NGO. Being funded by an International Aid organisa-tion, the man had “assumed” it was okay to do so, they had plenty money. One of the things I also discovered, even though he had been there for many years, is that he was paid very low, basically peanuts. So consciously or not he helped himself out of believing he deserved it. I think that when you pay people peanuts you can only expect ‘monkey business’.

The very first thing we had to do was

to clarify with proper procedures what was allowed and not, in terms of pay-ing his personal expenses. Secondly, we increased his pay to the level of his responsibilities as the manager of the program having to work with 11 affili-ates comprising of many volunteers and staff members. That man was very good out in the field with people, but all ad-ministration duties were not at all his strong suit. So we provided training to teach him and the accounts clerk proper finance recording and reporting. I would like to point out here that it is not al-ways dishonesty that brings these types of problems, it is often the lack of skills and knowledge.

Another perspective to look into in this case was the fact that this organisa-tion accepted and even preferred to hire couples when it came to volunteers. At times we saw that the committee had husband and wife at the same table meeting. There is a high temptation here again for swapping money, especially when the couple has no other income. It is not recommended to have them both in executive positions or signing authorities. It is simple common sense

which could do wonders when it comes to money.

There is one more aspect of managing money I would like to raise here. As a self-employed person I have learned to be careful with spending, everything we pay comes from our own pocket any-way. In my various consultancy projects, like Change Management, Job Evalua-tion; I wonder about certain benefits that are paid to employees and managers. I was surprised to see how people who get allowances somehow claim even if they do not actually spend that money.

For example, If I had to travel to Suva for a meeting or workshop and the lunch was provided, I did not claim that meal. But when I went to the accounts clerk he said that I was entitled to it and to claim it. I did not feel comfortable with that and asked again are you sure, it does not make sense, he said yes, that’s the pro-vided allowance and you claim it.

For me being used to check my ex-penses, stay at hotels that were clean and safe but not luxury, eat at the same restaurant as the local staff members and not at expensive places, I was shocked by these claims. I had charged reason-

able fees and was not claiming that kind of false expenses. I still wonder why the accounts people did not stop that…to me it is wrong. It is probably better to pay a higher salary then get cheated by these claims.

Lastly, often the big guys are using the services of the small businesses and squeeze too much juice out of them. I was talking with a printer last week, small print shop husband and wife run-ning it with a few employees and she was telling me that there biggest chal-lenge is clients asking for more and more discounts and not giving them the order for 50 cents difference.

Where is the sense of loyalty when you get quality, I know that I would pre-fer to maintain a good relationship with my supplier to ensure other types of fa-vours like faster delivery instead of just getting lower and lower prices.

Let’s agree that small businesses, self-employed people deserve to be recognised for their willingness to earn a living on their own. It is not easy, it de-mands lots of extra hours, no tea break or long lunch, no getting to work at 8.15am no going home at quarter to five. We work all the time that is necessary to serve our clients.

Now do we really need to pay exces-sive fees to professionals like lawyers and accountants to set up a business? I say no….because first of all there are many government programs, like micro-finance or others to help and guide us.

It all depends on what you want to do, there is tremendous support now and I invite you to use them. Let us congratu-late FDB for Small Business Award, it is encouraging and we thank you!!! When will you do one for the one man/woman enterprise?

In conclusion, I believe that honesty and integrity must be part of running any business be it small, medium or large, be it NGO, non-profit or government we must integrate values of ethics to better serve customers. Yes, I am dreaming again I know, but I now have an allied that never cheats and watches over ev-erything that comes my way. I tell people I deal with, you cheat me or overcharge me it does not matter, I know I will be blessed ten times more and whatever you take away from me you will lose it, cause my God is a just God.

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BUSINESS NEWS

CARPENTERS Shipping has ex-panded its waste removal fleet with the addition of its new $500,000 front-end loader.

Carpenters Shipping general man-ager, Manikam Narain said the in-vestment in the new loader reflects the confidence the company had in the economy.

“In only a few short years our Waste Disposal unit under the brand name “CARRY CLEAN” has grown from 180 customers in 2008 to 320 today.

And this growth has required a continuing expansion of the fleet. Our fleet is now comprised of three front-end loaders, six Gantry trucks,

two Wheelie Bin Trucks and two Septic Tank Trucks,” said Mr. Nara-in.

“We do much of our work for large commercial companies and other organisations with 120 cus-tomers in the Western Division covering the area from Tavua to Si-gatoka and Resorts in Outer Islands

and 200 primarily in Southern Divi-sion covering the area from Nausori to Navua.

“These are significant numbers and a healthy indication that more and more businessmen in Fiji are prioritising proper presentation and the environment” said Mr. Narain.

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Headwinds fail to deter business performanceBUSINESS performance solid despite headwinds from softer economic conditions, continued progress with su-per regional strategy

As part of a third quarter trading update, ANZ chief executive officer Mike Smith said ANZ had continued to execute against its super re-gional strategy with a solid business performance con-sistent with the outlook pro-vided at the time of half year results.

“We continue to see growth opportunities in the business from ongoing good performance in International and Institutional Banking while also focusing on driv-ing greater cost and capital efficiency across the Group.

“We have seen continuing market share gains and some recovery in margin in the Australia Division and the benefits of productivity ini-tiatives initiated earlier in the year are beginning to show through. New Zealand has also seen market share gains particularly in Retail and costs continue to be tightly controlled.

“We have managed ongo-ing funding and competitive pressures well, with Group margins stable relative to the end of the first half. While the credit environment reflects the pressures in the broader economy there have been no developments which would lead us to alter our provision outlook,” Mr Smith said.

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By RINIKA PRAKASH

Terry Allen Construction Lim-ited has introduced new in-novative house designs for the residents of Nadi and its best quality is that it is flood free.

This new innovative design is called a pole house.

It’s a new design which sees houses being secured from floods, less loss of property and damage.

Some of its advantages are: Better use of the natural lay of the land and less alteration to land causing less man made flood issues, the use of native timbers as well as plantation timbers. Plantation timbers be-ing a renewable timber source.

Timber being more aesthetic rather than concrete, construc-tion time being reduced by thirty to forty percent, Con-struction costs being reduced by thirty percent.

This new design is fully en-gineered to Fiji building code to cyclone certificate require-ments.

Contact TAC for all your de-sign and build requirements.

Flood-free homesInnovative house designs for Nadi residents

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SPORTS

THE second and final regatta for the 2012 Fiji Outrigger Nadi Business House Regatta was held at Travellers Beach Resort, Wailoaloa on Saturday 11 August.

The 11 teams that battled it out on the water included - APTC x 2 teams, Air Pacific En-gineering, Air Pacific HaiHeilava, Fiji Beach Resort Hilton x 2 teams, Island Hoppers, Ter-races, Pacific Destinationz, Shangri-la Fijian Resort and Waimana Connections. The races included heats and repechage events over a 250m course with 4 canoes.

The overall winners of the two day series were Air Pacific Engineering, second place was a draw between Hilton 1 & Waimana Connections and third place Air Pacific Hai-heilava.

The event included fun races sponsored by Ed’s Bar and Travellers Beach Resort which is made up of intercompany paddlers who are required to paddle with their arms, relay crawl up the beach, scull a beer each and all run to the finish line together.

The annual business house regatta is run mainly to encourage new paddlers to the sport. For more information or to join a paddling club please call Yvette on 8670603 or find us on Facebook Nadi Bay Canoe Club.

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Flyers win final race

Most Entertaining Team - APTC showing off their McDonald’s McValue Meal Vouchers.

Best Dressed Team on the water - Team Hilton.

Coral Coast’s Shangri-La Fijian Resort Outrigger team won the Plate Final for Re-gatta 2.

Officials take a photo break - Elizabeth from Williams & Gosling, Yvette Samson from Nadi Bay Canoe Club, Loretta Ooms from Nadi Bay Canoe Club, Sydel Whippy - Fiji Outrigger president.

Overall Cup Winners for the 2012 Fiji Outrigger Nadi Business House Regatta - Team Air Pacific Engineering with their Tanoa Trophy.

Pictures: Courtesy of STANLEY OOMS

Fun race participants paddling with their arms to the beach.



SPORTS

By SHEIKH ISRAR, head of FANCA NZ

BI-ANNUAL Fiji Muslim FANCA Sports Fed-eration sports tournament is this year hosted by Fiji Muslim Sports Association and will be held in Nadi starting with a banquet night on 25th September and will go through to 30th September. FANCA which stands for FIJI, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America nations takes part in the championship.

New Zealand the defending champions in the senior division, veteran’s over 35s and tug-of-war are getting ready to participate in the cham-pionship together with Under 21s and over 42s.

The senior team and the veterans had just fin-ished their Auckland Football League and will now concentrate on the FANCA games.

The volleyball team is also getting ready to take part in the championship. NZ Golf team headed by Faiyaz Khan JP has made a group to take part in the FANCA golf competition at the same time as other sports will be played.

NZ FANCA groups did a lot of fundraising and have raised over $100,000.00 for the Fiji tour said the head of nation NZ Sheikh Israr.

Nur Ahmed with his group did a couple of food sales for the veterans over 35s and the Un-der 21s group made some lovo sold them for their fundraising headed by Abdul Aiyas Ab-bas.

The senior division did a major food sale from the so called famous base and are hav-ing another food sale this month. The golden oldies over 42 have called for a run last month and had a wonderful turnout headed be Abdul Khaid and Mohammed Farouk.

The support club headed by Abdul Faiyaz and Kasif Khan had made arrangements for discounted air fares and giveaways and they can be contacted at Travel 2000, Mt Roskill.

New Zealand has also arranged a float to go in the parade on Wednesday during the opening and the marching from Nadi Muslim College to Prince Charles Park where the chief guest will be the Fiji’s President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau.

By RINIKA PRAKASH

FANCA has organised mini Muslim World Wup Soccer and Sports at the Prince Charles Park in Nadi from September 26 – 30.

Celebrating their 15th birthday, FAN-CA has organised this tournament in a big way which will be officially-opened by the President of Fiji His Excellency Ratu Epeli Nailatikau.

“FANCA was formed in 1994 after an informal discussion and the year after, the four countries, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America were taken on board to be,” said Mohammed Sattar, secretary gen-eral of FANCA.

In 1997, the first FANCA was held in Canada and that’s where the word FANCA was given.

The 2004, FANCA was held in Fiji and now for this year we are organising it in a big way as its FANCA’s 15th birthday.

This is their eighth tournament in 15 years as it is a bi-annual event.

On Tuesday September 25, a banquet

night will be held at the Fun World Hotel in Nadi and the chief guest for the night will be Honourable Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Minis-ter for Justice, Anti-Corruption, Public En-terprises, Industry, Investment, Tourism and Communications.

Wednesday September 26 will be the of-ficial opening of the tournament.

“We are expecting a big group to arrive from overseas,” said Mr Sattar.

“This tournament for us is like a reunion as everyone will be coming back to their homeland. All participants of FANCA have to be descendants of Fiji.”

Sattar added, “All teams will be march-ing from the Nadi Mosque to Prince Charles Park which will be led by the Fiji Police Band.”

The defending champion is New Zealand.The soccer tournament will be played in

four categories, National team, U21, Master 35, and Veteran 42. Also volleyball, tug of war and golf will be played.

Golf tournaments will be held at the De-narau Golf and Racquet Club and Natadola.

Nadi hosts FANCA’s 15th birthday bash

FANCA secre-tary general Mo-hammed Sattar goes through the 2009 FANCA pictures at The Jet Newspaper office in Nadi.


NZ ready to defend title

Team New Zealand receiving the FANCA winners Cup in USA in 2010. Picture: SUPPLIED



SPORTSFun games for primary cricketersA CRICKET fun game was organised at Nadi Muslim Primary School grounds on Thursday 16th August 2012.

A total of four primary schools participated namely Nadi District School, Nadi Primary School, Nadi Sangam Primary and the host school.

Games of ten overs were played on a round robin basis. Students who took part in the competition were mostly from classes Five and Six.

The tournament was won by Nadi Muslim Primary School as they comfortably defeated all three opponents. Nadi Dis-trict was the runners-up.

Ahmez Shabil of Nadi Muslim Primary was awarded the best bowler of the tourna-ment while a player from Nadi District scooped the best bats-man award. Victorious Nadi Muslim was awarded a trophy with a gold medal for each player while the runners-up settled for silver medals.

The head teacher of Nadi Muslim Primary, Mr Moham-med Ali, was full of praises for the team and complemented on the hard work done by Mr Sekove of the Fiji Cricket As-sociation as well as the teach-ers of his school.

“The inaugural tourna-ment was well organised and we saw awesome talents dis-played by the young players of all the participating schools” he added.

The teacher in-charge for the Nadi Muslim team, Mr Ayzal Ayub said that it was a momentous occasion as it was the first time for the school to participate in a cricket compe-tition and winning it at home was an icing on the cake.

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WHERE must Indian kids prefer to play video games or hang out with peers — here is a boy who loves playing rugby which in Fiji is widely played by i-Tiki-na boys at such young age.

Nehal Rama Kumar was the only In-dian player playing in the Nestle-spon-sored Milo Kaji rugby tournament which was held at Nadi’s Prince Charles Park.

The Lautoka Under-13 player was flying in number 11 jersey against Nadi outfit.

The Natabua Primary School, Class Eight student says he loves playing rug-by and plans to continue playing the oval ball game in future.

“Yes I love to play rugby. I have been playing since I was in Class 3 and since I

have been playing. But this was the first time I played for Lautoka U13,” the bud-ding rugby star said.

The soft spoken from Lautoka said he had been watching local and internation-al rugby matches.

“Whenever there is a rugby match ei-ther it is local or international I watch it,” said Rama.

The Class Eight student added he would train hard and hoped to play for the national team one day.

“I want to play for Fiji and for that I will train hard and hopefully one day I will fulfill my dream.”

This young boy was fast and was all over the ground — he played like a sea-soned player as time and again he was in the face of the Nadi defence giving i-Tikina boys a hard time as he zoomed

past them and was also rock solid in de-fence.

Even the crowd was cheering for young Nehal whenever he had the ball or was defending.

Also national 15s and 7s halfback Niko Matawalu was full of praises for the young-led saying, “This boy is very good. I have been watching him play and he has speed to burn. He is quick and also his handling skill is good. It was wonderful to watch him play,” Niko said.

The national team halfback added, “More teams should bring in Indian boys to play in such tournaments as it will make the tourney more interesting. “Also Fiji Rugby Union should encour-age more Indian boys to play rugby,” Niko said.


Just like billions of baby stars bub-bling to pop up and shine in the galaxy — our very own kaji stars are also bubbling to show-off their rugby skills when they pop out of their shells and grace the world po-dium keeping Fiji rugby’s rich his-tory alive.

And if you were at the Nestle-sponsored Kaji rugby tournament which was held at Nadi’s Prince Charles Park – you will know what I am writing about.

As thousands of fans cheered from the grandstands — kaji rug-gers played with pride and passion

for their respected districts.I was amazed to see the talent

this tiny-tots have — truly I can say kajis were too good and showed Fi-jian style of rugby which we love to watch — guts combined and sheer strength to become a world renowned player.

The highlight of the tournament for me was when Suva Under-13 took on Nadi side in the final.

The southerners out sized its smaller western opponents. But it was not a walk in the park for the

Suva team as the tiny westerners stood brave in the face of its huge opponents.

Suva with height and weight advantage was rattled by its much smaller opponent. Whenever bulky Suva forwards attacked, Nadi play-ers showed guts and put their bod-ies on the line.

But finally the bigger Suva players managed to outmuscle its smaller opponents winning 12-nil.

Natabua Primary School student was the toast of the tournament

as he was the only Indian player playing the oval ball game. Nehal played for the Lautoka U13 and was the crowd favourite. He played on the wing and kept the fans on their toes with speed and skills.

National 15s and 7s halfback Niko Matawalu praised the kaji players and said he was surprised to see the talents these young rug-gers had.

“It’s good to see such young players playing so well. They played very entertaining rugby as

we can see the crowd was on their toes supporting and cheering them on,” the national rugger comment-ed.

Meanwhile, Suva won U11, U13, U14 and shares the trophy in the U12 grade after locked nil-all against Nadi after both teams failed to score any points in the extra spell of added time.

However, it was a different story in the U10 grade where Nadi and Nasinu will share the trophy after locked at 5 all after full time.

And the biggest upset was caused by Macuata U9 who defeated Suva 7-5 to take the title home.

Gloucester confirms date with Fiji 15sGLOUCESTER Rugby have confirmed that Fiji will be-come the latest international side to play at Kingsholm when the two teams meet on Tuesday 13th November.

Recent seasons have seen the likes of Australia, Geor-gia, Ireland and Samoa play at the home of Gloucester Rugby while2011 Churchill Cup fixtures, featuring Eng-land Saxons, Italy A, Russia and Tonga were also held at Kingsholm.

Fiji has produced a num-ber of world class players in recent years, with a number playing their rugby in Eu-rope.

Akapusi Qera, of course, has been a favourite at Kingsholm for several sea-sons now and Apo Satala was a popular member of the squad a couple of years ago.

As a nation, they are best known for their success on the Sevens circuit, but the Flying Fijians are more than capable of giving any inter-national side a run for their money. Their most famous result was probably the 38-34 victory over Wales in Rugby World Cup 2007 which saw them reach the quarter final stage.

Gloucester Rugby are proud of the fact that Kingsholm has proved to be a venue of choice for in-ternational fixtures in recent years, including being a home ground for the Barbar-ians on two occasions.

So, Fiji will be in good company when they take on Gloucester in November and it should be an occasion to remember according to Gloucester Rugby Managing Director Chris Ferguson.

Source: Rugby Rebals

Rama loves rugby

Kajis bubbling with talents

Lautoka Under 13 winger, Nihal Rama Kumar with the ball was the only Indo Fijian player at the 2012 Milo Kaji rugby competition held at Nadi’s Prince Charles Park.

Picture: SACHIDA ANAND SINGH



SPORTS

AUSTRALIA and Tonga have become the latest nations to qualif y for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2013 in Moscow after safely negotiating the Oceania regional qualifier in Sydney this weekend.

They will join the region’s automatic qualifiers New Zealand, Fiji and Samoa in Russia from 28-30 June next year.

The Australians delighted the home crowd by beating defending champions Samoa 12-7 in the Oceania Sevens final at North Sydney Oval on Sunday, while Tonga finished third after a tight battle with the Cook Islands.

It was a tense, physical final that went right down to the last seconds. Samoa scored first through a converted Rob-ert Lilomaiava try after an at-tack that started in their own half, but Australia struck back through the tournament’s top try scorer Pama Fou to make it 7-5 after a break by captain Ed Jenkins.

With tensions mounting Samoa’s Talaga Alofipo re-ceived a yellow card early in the second half for a high tackle and while Australia pressed they could not take advantage in his absence.

Then, with Samoa back to full strength Allan Faalavaau broke from his own half to score under the posts to make it 12-7 to the home team.

Further pressure then saw Australia lose possession near the Samoa line and the cham-pions headed down field with pace and numbers. It looked as though Falenui Iosi was set to score the winning try but a last ditch tackle by Will Miller cut the Samoan down and Australia hung on to win.

Jenkins was delighted with the victory. “The first objec-tive was to beat Tonga in the semi final and qualify for next year’s World Cup Sevens. The win over Samoa to win the Oceania title is the icing on the cake. It was incredibly close but playing Samoa is always hard and it could have gone either way.

“It was great to be playing at home and it was good prep-aration for the Gold Coast Sevens that is coming up in October. Like Samoa we had some debutants today and they have now got some ex-cellent experience of top level

Sevens under their belt.” Samoa coach Faamaoni

Lalomilo said: “I am really proud of my boys. We left our senior players at home as we had already qualified for the World Cup Sevens next year. I wanted to see how the young players went against some of the top teams in Sevens such as Australia and they showed they have what it takes.

“It was a trial of sorts for them. We have the HSBC Sevens World Series coming up plus the World Cup next year and we wanted to build depth in the squad. A lot of young players put their hands up today which is just what we wanted.”

There was also all to play for in the third place play-off with Oceania’s other Rugby World Cup Sevens place up for grabs.

Cook Islands and Tonga played out an intense first half with both sides having their chances before the Cooks broke the deficit through Jus-tin Marsters and then Sailosi Nagi to give them a 10-0 half time lead.

Tonga, however, replied in the first minute of the second half with a converted try and then added another from So-natane Takulua to give them a 14-10 lead.

The momentum was now with Tonga and when Siosiua Ma’afu scored it looked all over at 19-10. However, Tia-kina Manga scored and con-verted for the Cooks to make it to make it 19-17 to set up a tense last minute.

Tonga captain Sione Vaio-mounga said: “We were bad on the first day. We were not prepared to do the work. We took too much for granted but the boys dug deep and we earned a spot at the Rugby World Cup Sevens which is what we wanted. The key was less mistakes and more physi-cality at the tackle.”

Cook Islands coach Ramsey Tomokino said: “We had our opportunities, many of them, but just couldn’t convert the pressure which is disappoint-ing.

“We also had to play with-out our captain Koiahu who suffered concussion in the semi-final against Samoa. Top level Sevens is all about tak-ing chances and we didn’t.”

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Fiji 1 Play Fair Brazil 0

LETHAL striker Roy Krishna guided Fiji to a historic 1-0 victory over the Play Fair Bra-zil side on Saturday at Govind Park in Ba.

Fiji side a after a close 1-2 re-sult in the first test at Churchill Park in Lautoka , the national side gained confidence to top-ple the South Americans.

Fiji made few changes to their line up which saw Ba stopper Ratu Jone Gasaubalavu start ahead of young Akuila Mateisuva.

PNG-based Maciu Dunad-amu was promoted to the starting line up as Valerio Nawatu was named on the bench.

Gasaubalavu gave a man of the match performance as he denied the Brazilians many scoring opportuni-ties.

Krishna was dangerous as ever and kept lurking.

He struck in the 31st minute as he was setup by Ilimotama Jese for the opening goal of the match which also proved to be the match winner.

In the second half the Play Fair Bra-zil side dominated possession but the strong Fiji defence was at their best.

The home crowd got behind Fiji

which was an added strength as Fiji held on for a famous victory.

Fiji team director, Taranesh Reddy believes the result is a perfect boost for football in the country.

“It was a very tough match but the boys stood the test and proved that they have a lot of pride for the nation-al side. This is a very positive result

for us as we prepare for the next World Cup playoffs.

“We will look back at this day in future and say yes we beat the Play Fair Brazil side. I believe this is a boost for football in Fiji after the national side did not do well at the Nations Cup,” Reddy said.

Play Fair Brazil team manager Marcos Grava Vasaconcelos said the results did not matter.

He said their aim was to show-case high standard of football.

“A win and a loss is not impor-tant but I think the people here have seen a high level football game,” Vasaconcelos said.

“I must congratulate the Fiji side for a great match. We felt like playing against Uruguay. Fiji was very solid in defence. Carlos is doing a good job. The Fiji team is very young and if they keep playing together than they could have a bright future. These players could get attachments with clubs in Brazil.

“Today they knew that it was a match of their lives. It was a unique opportunity to play with their hearts.

“When they scored the goal they went back to half of the pitch and defended. We tried hard to break the defence but could not do that,” he told TIMESSPORT. Source: Fiji FA

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Vodafone’s Shailendra Prasad gives speech before the Fiji Brazil Match. Picture: Shalendra Prasad



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