Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara ... which ensured that Fiji received the deeds of independence a year later. When the Prince of Wales arrived in Suva in 1970, Mara greeted him with the traditional Fijian ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUVA: Fiji's rebels still holding 27 captives from the ousted elected government believe that President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara has not resigned, the Fiji Times reports. Rebel leader Ilisoni ...

This dual world was the province of Kamisese Mara. For the 30 years in ... manners that became a world statesman. Perhaps only Ratu Mara could have politely played the cold-war game of sometimes ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who was removed as President of Fiji following the recent coup, has said that if Indians are forced to leave the country, outer islanders such as himself would also leave.

A dispute has broken out in Fiji between two traditional warrior clans over which one is responsible for guarding the body of the late president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. Ratu Mara's coffin arrived ...

Kamisese Kapaiwai ... Prime Minister. Mara assumed the role of Vice-President although, constitutionally, the post did not exist. On the death of the first President, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau ...

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 ...