Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji’s first prime minister and the dominant statesman in Pacific Island regional affairs for nearly 30 years, has died. He was 83. Mara, a former Rhodes scholar who led ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji’s first prime minister and a dominant statesman in Pacific Island regional affairs for nearly 30 years, has died, New Zealand media reported Monday. He was 83.

A three-day state funeral has begun in Suva for Fiji's former leader Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. The capital of the South Pacific nation was brought to a standstill by thousands of well-wishers who turned ...

Indians were Fiji's shopkeepers, doctors and civil servants. The races did not mix, but neither did they fight. Mostly, they rubbed along together. This dual world was the province of Kamisese Mara.

Fijians stood as one on Friday to farewell their country's greatest leader Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara ... who died at age 83 on April 18, led Fiji to independence from Britain in 1970, serving ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who died on Sunday aged 83, became President of Fiji in 1994 after earlier serving as a district officer and then the first Prime Minister of the South Seas dominion.

SUVA: Western chiefs came to the Fiji Islands capital of Suva today ... He had been also been deputy to President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who stepped aside when martial law was declared on May ...

Looting and rioting break out in Suva. The president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, declares a state of emergency. May 23: Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs calls for the prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry ...

Alexander Downer: It is with great regret that I learned this morning of the death of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the former President of Fiji, on 18 April. Ratu Mara was a key figure in the building ...