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 ...

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.

Indians were Fiji's shopkeepers, doctors and civil servants. The races did not mix, but neither did they fight. Mostly, they rubbed along together. This dual world was the province of Kamisese Mara.

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, 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.

SUVA: Western chiefs came to the Fiji Islands capital of Suva today ... He had been also been deputy to President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who stepped aside when martial law was declared on May ...

Leading the home side was one Kamisese Mara ... developed a bond with Walter Hadlee. Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, Mara’s great-uncle and supreme chieftain of Fiji, had by then marked Mara as his ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, considered to be founding father of modern Fiji, died Sunday at the age of 83, report agencies. The elder statesman, who had just returned from from New Zealand ...

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.