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 ...

In 1986, he returned to Fiji to become Permanent Secretary of Information, first under the leadership of Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara ... with one of his books, Kava in the Blood ...

The Alliance Party of the First Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara represented the indigenous feudalist chiefs against the National Federation Party of Fiji Indians and supported Rabuka’s coup ...

The transfer of power was smooth and a rare act of bipartisanship saw chief minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara transition to prime minister without a general election. Suva in the 1960s was a ...

SUVA, Tuesday: The future of Fiji remained in the balance tonight after Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka claimed he had sacked the Governor-General and scrapped Fiji’s Constitution. Colonel Rambuka ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. Perhaps it was also that Foster had learned and practised the singular skills of self-effacement and disengagement that had come, increasingly, to be needed. Asked about ...

The late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara had taken legal action over the book's claim that Rabuka told him of a possible military coup to overthrow the late Dr Timoci Bavadra's coalition Government in May ...

Lautoka: Fiji’s general election had been an example to the rest of the world’s developing countries, the Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, said after the conclusion of the first general ...

Fiji radio earlier reported that the military and police had pledged their support to the country’s head of state Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who declared a state of emergency after the coup on Friday.

Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare was instrumental in the initial establishment of Ramu Sugar through a friendly game of golf between him and his Fijian counterpart late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. The Ramu ...