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Fiji is served by a number of trade unions, many of them affiliated with the Fiji Trades Union Congress. The Congress was founded in 1952. In 2008, 32,000 Fijians were members of a union affiliated with the Congress. Another 8,000 workers are members of a union affiliated with the Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions
Drummond Money-Coutts (born 1986), also known as DMC, is an English magician, and the heir apparent to the Latymer Barony. [1] His first professional performance came in 2000 while he was still at school, at the Royal Horticultural Society .
The Fijian Government exercises the executive functions and powers within the Republic of Fiji. This article lists spans of government ministries under a prime minister. [1] The distinctive periods of these ministries consist of post-independence, post-2000 Coup d'état, and post 2006 Coup d'état.
The United Fiji Party (Fijian: Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua, pronounced [soŋ.ɡo.soŋ.ɡo ndu.a.βa.ta ni le.ɰe.ni.βa.nu.a], SDL) was a political party in Fiji.It was founded in 2001 by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as a power base; it absorbed most of the Christian Democratic Alliance and other conservative groups, and its endorsement by the Great Council of Chiefs (Bose Levu ...
Europeans visited Fiji from the 17th century, [2] and, after a brief period as an independent kingdom, the British established the Colony of Fiji in 1874. Fiji was a Crown colony until 1970, when it gained independence as the Dominion of Fiji. A republic was declared in 1987, following a series of coups d'état.
The Great Council of Chiefs in its most recent form was established under Section 116 of the now-defunct 1997 Constitution, but it actually predated the Constitution by many years, having been established by the British colonial rulers as an advisory body in 1876, two years after Fiji was ceded to the United Kingdom.
(Reuters) -The Fiji government on Thursday said police were investigating incidents involving two crew members of Australian airline Virgin Australia who were allegedly victims of rape and theft ...
Kalib Strickland from New Zealand, under the name DJ K-Swizz, won both the 2022 and the 2023 world events. Strickland, who had previously at age 14 won both the DMC Battle for World Supremacy and the 2017 IDA Technical to become the youngest person to win a world championship, was the first winner from the Southern hemisphere.