A three-day state funeral has begun in Suva for Fiji's former leader Ratu Sir Kamisese ... His family has been presented with ceremonial gifts such as food and money, which are traditionally given to ...

Fijians stood as one on Friday to farewell their country's greatest leader Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara ... Maori queen and Ratu Mara's family to farewell the hereditary paramount chief.

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who was removed as President ... Government House, where Ratu Mara was staying with his family. Later, Speight supporters razed a sugar cane farm owned by Ratu Mara ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.