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, considered to be founding ... Ratu Mara was "the father of our nation," and would be accorded a state funeral, he said.

Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright and Foreign Minister Phil Goff are to attend the state funeral of Fijian statesman Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara on Friday. “Ratu Mara was a distinguished leader ...

The first prime minister of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, has been laid to rest ... The burial ceremony took three hours. In his funeral oration, Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Sir Michael ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji’s first prime minister ... three daughters and two sons. Funeral services are pending.

Fijians stood as one on Friday to farewell their country's greatest leader Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara ... as tens of thousands turned out for a state funeral service for the late prime minister ...

Fiji's founding prime minister and later president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, died on April 18 at the age of 83. In honour of his national roles he was given a state funeral and a Catholic requiem ...

The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has paid Australia's respects to the late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara ... to yesterday's state funeral. Ratu Mara, who served as prime minister for 22 years ...

This dual world was the province of Kamisese Mara. For the 30 years in ... He himself was the hereditary paramount chief (“Ratu”) of Lau, on the archipelago's eastern edge.