Tuesday's slow-cooked coup has undermined Fiji's tourism business, which attracts 400,000 visitors a year and is Fiji's biggest earner. After the 2000 coup, Fiji saw a 10 percent contraction in ...

As today marks the 25th year since the May 19th coup led by George Speight, the Prime Minister at the time, Mahendra Chaudhry ...

“[T]his action [the 2000 coup attempt] struck at the core of the democratic system of government this country has enjoyed over the most part of its existence. The coup destroyed the image of ...

but nowhere else in the region has experienced anything similar to Fiji’s three coups. The Solomon Islands witnessed a coup back in June 2000, when Malaitan militants in cahoots with the Police Field ...

Today marks 10 years since Fiji's 2006 military coup ... plan to offer pardons to some of those involved in staging the 2000 coup strained relations between the military and the government.

A subsequent military coup, in 2000, was launched to resolve the situation ... in 2005 claiming that “If the trend continues, Fiji will be left with a large pool of poorly educated, unskilled ...

when the National Bank of Fiji collapsed. He was also interrogated on his role in a shambolic coup in 2000 and during a mutiny later in the same year. On both occasions he was accused of seeking ...

“God Bless Fiji.” Reports in Fiji said he would be ... s ethnic Indian minority and was soft on those involved in a coup in 2000. The president said that given the circumstances, he would ...

But for Fiji, the reverberations continue to be felt. After the coup, the army seized power and ... before ending their armed rebellion in July 2000. The hearing of Speight's case lasted little ...

SUVA, Fiji — Armed rebels claiming to support Fijian coup leader George Speight seized up to 30 hostages today at a police station near the capital, in the latest escalation of the island nation ...