Tag: Jo Nata
Fiji’s Jo Nata reflects on the 2000 coup: ‘We let the racism genie out of the bottle’
SPECIAL REPORT: Islands Business in Suva
Today is the 24th anniversary of renegade and failed businessman George Speight’s coup in 2000 Fiji. The elected coalition...
Archive: Coup coup land: The press and the putsch in Fiji
By David Robie
Abstract: On 19 May 2000, an insurrection led by failed businessman George Speight and seven renegade members of the élite 1st Meridian...
Fiji’s ‘civil coup’ rebels free 10 MP hostages
By David Robie in Suva
Ten government ministers and backbench MPs held hostage by gunnmen in Fiji's Parliament in a self-styled "civil coup" were freed...
Archive: Media: NZ journalists in Fiji work permit tangle
Two New Zealand journalism educators are still in suspense over their positions at the University of the South Pacific amid controversy over the "politicising"...