Inspired, young women wrote songs for him (“George Speight, I’m behind you all the ... And they only think about advancing their own tribe or family, not the whole nation.” ...

Jim Speight, younger brother of George Speight, "in many ways regrets ... Speight missed the culture of Fiji and the extended family environment so much that not even his good wages in Australia ...

George Speight, the rebel leader whose raid on Parliament plunged Fiji into two months of crisis, smiled and listened to cheers from hundreds of supporters as he was driven to court in Suva ...

SUVA, Fiji, July 27 (Thursday) -- George Speight, who toppled Fiji's elected government in a two-month hostage standoff, was arrested Wednesday and accused of threatening the island nation's new ...

George Speight pleaded guilty to treason when ... withdrew because of a death in the family. Speight's Australian counsels Jack Flannigan and Ron Cannon, together with local lawyer Kitione Vuetaki ...

Rebel leader George Speight said he would accept the appointment of ethnic Indians to the country’s next government, giving new hope for an end soon to Fiji’s government hostage crisis.

George Speight, the rebel leader who led a two-month hostage crisis that paralyzed the ethnically divided nation, promised further unrest after he rejected a Cabinet named by Fiji's new president.

Fijian coup leader George Speight is tightening the screw on his hapless captives by claiming the prime ministership in return for their freedom. Speight told an Australian radio reporter this ...

Rebel leader George Speight warned the military Wednesday to expect serious reprisals if soldiers shoot at his gunmen, who have been holding government officials hostage for three weeks.

George Speight, who was found guilty of treason after leading a failed coup in May 2000, has received a presidential pardon and been released from prison. Speight held the country's then-prime ...

Speight, 43, part-European and fond of golf and get-rich-quick schemes, had less in common with his ragged retainers than with his bosses, a cabal of former army officers, politicians, young-Turk ...