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 ...

Alexander Downer: It is with great regret that I learned this morning of the death of Ratu Sir Kamisese ... condolences to Ratu Mara's wife, Adi Lady Lala Mara and their children.

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 ...

SUVA: Fiji's rebels still holding 27 captives from the ousted elected government believe that President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara ... and vehicles by Ratu Mara's children. "This is a question the ...

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.

Leading the home side was one Kamisese Mara ... is a term used to refer to inhabitants of Kiribati. Mara, eldest of 16 children of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba III, went to Queen Victoria School ...