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The Native Lands Trust Board has stressed that it has no intentions or immediate plans to set up a new subsidiary company to enter into a joint venture to establish ethanol plants in the country with the Chinese investors. NLTB Spokesperson Nimilote Naivalumaira confirmed to Fijivillage news that the Board's only focus is ensuring land availability for the proposed ethanol plants. (fijivillage.com)
Small rice farmers received a jolt from the Food and Agriculture Organisation in the form of a $US250,000 grant. The signing in Nadi was done by Richard Beyer, Agriculture Ministry Permanent Secretary. (FT)
A project costing about 8.8 million dollars to improve rural roads within Navosa was approved by Cabinet yesterday. (radiofiji.com)
Seventy one per cent of native leases to the State have not been surveyed. And as a result, the Interim Cabinet yesterday approved the survey of the boundaries of native leases to State occupied by Government institutions. (fijilive.com)
Archibishop for the Catholic Church in Fiji, Petero Mataca reminded inmates of the importance to educating themselves more about their traditional protocols rather then follow other traditional. Archbishop Mataca visited the Naboro Maximum Security Prison and addressed men convicted for murder, rape and violent robberies, of the need to touch base with the traditional protocols and customs. (FT)
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