Frank Bainimarama

...from Mr Sayed-Khaiyum. He is regarded as the government's second most powerful figure after military commander and Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama. Anyone broadcasting in contravention to the minister's directions can be jailed for five...

In this article: Fiji, Attorney General, Perth, Western Australia, and Pacific

...of Mr Sayed-Khaiyum. He is the second-most powerful figure in the government after military commander and prime minister Frank Bainimarama. Mr Sayed-Khaiyum is also Minister for Justice, Anti-Corruption, Public Enterprises,...

In this article: Hollywood

ACADEMIC duty and a sense of outrage drove Brij Lal to speak out against Fiji's military-installed prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, for expelling Australian and New Zealand diplomats over alleged judiciary interference two weeks ago.

In this article: Fiji, Suva, Australia, Democracy, Great Council of Chiefs, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Anxiety, Sugar, and University of Hawaii

...2006 - and urged the interim administration to move quickly to restore democracy. On November 3, self-appointed Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced that the heads of the Australian and New Zealand missions in Fiji would be...

In this article: European Union, Fiji, Democracy, New Zealand, Australia, Pacific Islands Forum, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Canberra, and Wellington

...judiciary; and the enforcement of martial law through the Public Emergency Regulations in April 2009. Background Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama expelled the Australian and New Zealand High Commissioners from the country on 3 November,...

In this article: Fiji, Amnesty International, New Zealand, Suva, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations, and Australia

FIJI Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama expelled Australia's High Commissioner last week after receiving a memorandum from the country's chief justice containing fundamental errors about Australia's travel bans on Fiji's judges. The...

In this article: Anthony Gates, Fiji, Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs, Korea, Colombo, and New Zealand

...in the Pacific, writes Craig Skehan. With unabashed Beijing-style censorship, the military regime of the Fiji coup leader Frank Bainimarama ensured the local press reported no criticism of this week's expulsion of senior Australian and...

In this article: China, Pacific, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Beijing, and Port Moresby

By January 2007 Gates was acting chief justice of Fiji, on the say-so of the December 2006 coup leader Commodore Josaia Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama, who had deposed the elected government of Laisenia Qarase. Bainimarama was not at all...

In this article: Anthony Harold Cumberland Thomas Gates, Fiji, Laisenia Qarase, George Speight, Sydney, London, and Suva

...find an unequivocal success story. There's not much we can do about all this. But there's one thing we can do. We can beat up on Frank Bainimarama in Suva. This is the true rule of international relations. The strong do what they will, the...

In this article: Fiji, Taliban, Democracy, The West Australian, Kerry Stokes, and Melbourne

Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 9:51 am Press Release: Fiji Interim Military Government Statement by PM Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama on the Interference with Fiji Judiciary by Australia and New Zealand Governments Ladies and...

In this article: Fiji, New Zealand, United Nations, Australia, Democracy, and Climate change