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| | Articles - Constitution of Fiji: Chapter 7 |
 | | The Cabinet, whose members must also be members of either the House of Representatives or the Senate, is to be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister. | | | Court cases followed, and on 18 July 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of the Labour Party was unconstitutional and demanded that the situation be rectified. | | | Although a member of the Cabinet, the Attorney-General's office is the only Cabinet position, apart from that of the Prime Minister, to be mentioned specifically in the Constitution. |
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http://www.lastring.com/articles/Constitution_of_Fiji:_Chapter_7
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| | Cabinet (Fiji) |
| | Fiji has the Westminster system - executive authority is vested nominally in a List of Presidents of FijiPresident, but exercised in practice by a Cabinet of Ministers, presided over by the List of Prime Ministers of FijiPrime Minister. | | | Then following the Fiji election of 2001election of 2001, Mahendra Chaudhry, the leader of the Fiji Labour Party, was involved in litigation against the List of Prime Ministers of FijiPrime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, on the grounds that Qarase had unconstitutionally refused to include the Labour Party in the Cabinet. | | | This continued to stall negotiations, until late November 2004, when Chaudhry announced that the Labour Party had decided to remain in opposition for the remainder of the present parliamentary term, which is supposed to expire in 2006, although rumours abound that the government is looking at an early 2005/ election. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Cabinet_(Fiji)
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| | Fiji Human Rights |
| | Fiji is a constitutional republic with an elected President, Prime Minister and Parliament. | | | The FLP took legal action against the Government, and in March the Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the FLP; the Government appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. | | | After the election, four ethnic Fijian women were appointed to the Cabinet (two as ministers and two as assistant ministers) and another was appointed to fill a vacancy in Parliament. |
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http://www.multied.com/nationbynation/Fiji/Human.html
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| | Fiji (09/05) |
| | The Senate is appointed; the House of Representatives is elected. | | | The president in turn appoints the prime minister (head of government) and Cabinet from among the members of Parliament. | | | Subsequent negotiations between the two sides regarding the cabinet portfolios proved unsuccessful until November 26, 2004, when Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, of the ruling SDL party, and Mahendra Chaudhry, of the opposition FLP, agreed not to pursue further the dispute over the composition of the cabinet. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1834.htm
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| | Speight's surprise |
| | In a more politically relevant ruling, the Court of Appeal held that the Fiji Labour Party was entitled to be represented in the Cabinet in proportion to its strength in the House of Representatives, according to the Constitution. | | | Just before Speight's trial was due to begin in the Suva High Court, the Cabinet approved an amendment to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment. | | | The five Judges of the Court of Appeal held that Qarase's invitation to Chaudhry to join his Cabinet was a conditional one, and so was Chaudhry's acceptance of the offer. |
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http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1905/19050560.htm
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| | Laisenia Qarase |
| | He was subsequently confirmed in office when he led his newly formed United Fiji Party to victory in the Fiji election of 2001election held to restore democracy in 2001/. | | | In June 2004/, the Supreme Court that the Labour Party was entitled to 14 out of 30 cabinet posts. | | | Qarase has remained Prime Minister since, except for a period of two days (March 1414-16 March 2001), when he temporarily vacated the office to meet a constitutional technicality; the Supreme Court of Fiji had ruled that his government was unconstitutional and that Mahendra Chaudhry remained the rightful Prime Minister. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Laisenia_Qarase
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| | CNN reporting about Fiji |
| | Fiji lurched toward another government crisis Wednesday as the swearing in of a new Cabinet was postponed indefinitely, a move coup leader... | | | Fiji's President Ratu Josefi Iloilo said on Friday he was reappointing caretaker Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to head the country's interim government... | | | Fiji's President Ratu Josefi Iloilo said on Friday he was reappointing caretaker Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to head the country's interim... |
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http://www.fijihosting.com/pcgov/events/cnn_log.htm
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| | FIJI COULD LEARN FROM NEW CALEDONIA GAINS - July 6, 2005 |
| | For the first four years of this government, Fiji’s highest courts were constantly addressing legal issues concerning the requirement that the Prime Minister invite all parties with over 10 percent of seats into his cabinet. | | | In Fiji, the new constitution required the Prime Minister to invite all parties with over 10 percent of the seats in parliament to participate in cabinet. | | | The Fiji rules leave the small parties with less than 10 percent of the seats outside cabinet (although the latest Supreme Court decision left some uncertainty about this). |
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http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2005/July/07-06-com.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Fiji cabinet ruled 'illegal' |
| | Fiji's Supreme Court has ruled the nationalist government of Laisenia Qarase must include members of the Indian-dominated opposition. | | | In a 60-page judgement, the Supreme Court in the Fijian capital, Suva, decided Mr Qarase's exclusion from cabinet of his political rivals was unconstitutional. | | | In a landmark decision judges unanimously said Mr Qarase breached the constitution when he excluded MPs from the Fiji Labour Party from his cabinet after an election almost two years ago. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3076391.stm
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| | Response to the President’s address in Parliament by Labour Parliamentary Leader Mahendra P. Chaudhry |
| | This was a correct move, in line with the constitutional provisions of Section 99 of the Constitution that requires the Prime Minister to invite all parties with 10% or more representation in the House of Representatives to participate in his government. | | | The case was first filed in the High Court but because of the urgency of the matter, the presiding judge, with the consent of the two parties, fast-tracked it straight to the Fiji Court of Appeal in order to save time. | | | Sir, as a result, the Fiji Labour Party, cheated of its right to join in a multi-party cabinet, sought redress through the courts of law. |
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http://www.flp.org.fj/n040806.htm
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| | Workers Online : News : 2000 - Issue 54 : STOP PRESS: AK-47s used in coup against union-aligned Fiji Labour Government |
| | The union-aligned Labour Prime Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudry, and members of his Cabinet are being held in Parliament House by armed men with AK-47s. | | | The Indian community, brought to Fiji by British colonialists mainly as indentured labourers for sugar plantations, now form nearly half the population of this island nation. | | | Apart from Prime Minister Chaudry about a third of the Fiji Labour Cabinet were former union officials - and many Labour Party backbenchers held senior union posts at the same time as being MPs. |
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http://workers.labor.net.au/54/news93_fiji.html
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| | Fiji |
| | Fiji's highest Court is to hear submissions this week on the inclusion of the Labour Party in a multi-party cabinet. | | | Investigations by Fiji's police into their own involvement the May 2000 coup have found that a middle-ranking and a senior officer were involved in criminal... | | | Ward is new President of Fiji Court of Appeal |
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http://www.world-news-watch.com/world/062004/Fiji.html
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| | NZOOM - ONE News - World |
| | Chaudhry's party won 28 seats in the 70-seat parliament in 2001 elections, with Qarase's Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua party holding 33 seats. | | | Political observers said the decision left Qarase with three options: offer Labour MPs minor posts as assistant ministers, reshuffle cabinet entirely to appoint Labour MPs to senior posts such as the ethnic affairs portfolio or call a snap election. | | | Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, who has ruled out holding snap elections, said he would abide by the unanimous ruling of five Supreme Court judges that he must offer Labour MPs cabinet posts. |
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http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,206662-1-9,00.html
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| | FIJI: Flawed election formalises coup |
| | The composition of Fiji's new cabinet represents a reconciliation between the two main political representatives of the Melanesian-Fijian chauvinist movement. | | | On September 12, Fiji's new prime minister and leader of the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL) party, Laisenia Qarase, named a 20-member cabinet dominated by the SDL. | | | The military-backed Qarase regime was busy drafting a new constitution that would discriminate against the 44% of Fijians who are of Indian ancestry, when the Fiji's High Court on November 15 ruled that the 1997 constitution was still legally in effect and that Chaudhry was still legally Fiji's prime minister. |
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/464/464p22.htm
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| | List of Fijians: Information From Answers.com |
| | Sailosi KEPA, judge, diplomat, cabinet minister, ombudsman (1938-2004) | | | Ahmed ALI (1938-2005), several times a cabinet minister. | | | Ro Teimumu KEPA, Roko Tui Dreketi and Cabinet Minister |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-fijians
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| | FOUR SWORN IN AS NEW MEMBERS OF FIJI CABINET - December 21, 2004 |
| | Eighteen months from the general elections in 2006, and the new members of cabinet have an immense task and challenge ahead of them. | | | SUVA, Fiji (FijiSUN, Dec. 20) - Four new cabinet ministers have been sworn in by Fiji President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, replacing those who submitted resignations last week. | | | Today, the three new ministers and one assistant minister say they are up for the challenge. |
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http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2004/December/12-21-03.htm
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| | rediff.com: Fiji's interim cabinet to be sworn in today |
| | Fiji's new interim cabinet will be sworn in at 11 am at Boron House today, reports fijilive.com. | | | Fiji's interim cabinet to be sworn in today | | | Earlier, addressing the nation after he was sworn in, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said the indigenous Fijians must stop blaming others for their plight. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/28fiji.htm
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| | Fiji - 10/6/2004 |
| | Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments |
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http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/chiefs62.html
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| | Fiji |
| | Includes a list of Government Miisters and the Cabinet. | | | "This database contains selected decisions of the Supreme Court of Fiji." | | | "This database contains selected decisions of the Court of Appeal of Fiji." |
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http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/pacific/fiji.htm
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| | Scoop: Fiji Sun Slams Rebel Threats |
| | The Fiji Times said the President had "raised a lot of eyebrows" by announcing a "bloated and racially weighted" interim cabinet. | | | One Indo-Fijian was named among the 32 ministers and associate ministers - George Shiu Raj, who was elected as an independent MP in Rakiraki but aligned himself to the indigenous SVT Party founded by former Fiji coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka. | | | "Third, out of 32 appointments, there is only one Indian who may not even sit in cabinet because he is an assistant minister. |
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0007/S00079.htm
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| | Fiji Cabinet Member Stumbles Over Immigrant Problem - Indians Are Like Weeds |
| | Somehow I think that the Republicans didn't stumble as badly on the immigrant question as this Fiji cabinet minister did. | | | Fiji Cabinet Member Stumbles Over Immigrant Problem - Indians Are Like Weeds | | | Minister for Women Asenaca Caucau made the remark in Parliament and Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase's silence over the issue has not helped his government's image. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/727314/posts
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| | Scoop: Fiji sanctions following Commonwealth decision |
| | Targeted sanctions were put in place in July 2000 following the coup of 19 May during which members of Fiji’s Parliament were held hostage. | | | New Zealand will remove sanctions against Fiji immediately following a decision by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) to lift Fiji’s suspension from the Councils of the Commonwealth, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said. | | | “Fiji will remain under Commonwealth scrutiny until the constitutional issue has been properly resolved when the matter goes before the Fiji Court of Appeal in February 2002. |
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0112/S00431.htm
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| | Radio Australia - News - Fiji's cabinet approves changes to currency |
| | Fiji court finds transport minister not guilty > [15/08/2005] | | | FIJI: Kaitani's lawyer attacks DPP evidence > [16/08/2005] | | | Fiji's cabinet has approved the changes to the country's currency, including the introduction of a one hundred dollar bill, and the removal of one and two cent pieces from circulation. |
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http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1439968.htm
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| | Women's Response to Fiji Cabinet Line Up - WAPAD |
| | We further urge you to ensure that the composition of the Constitution Review Commission ensures racial and gender balance, as well as provincial representation, and that an intense selection process is undertaken to ensure the collective needs, of our multi ethnic and multi cultural society, form the foundation of the Constitution Review Process. | | | Call for the restoration of the democratic process as outlined in the 1997 Constitution | | | The National Council of Women Fiji (NCWF) has responded to the announcement of the Interim Cabinet in a letter to the Interim Head of State, Commander Ratu Voreqe Bainimarama, voicing concern at the lack of gender and racial equality in the composition of the Interim Civilian Cabinet: |
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http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/wapadcou.htm
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| | Fiji Government Online |
| | H.E. the President at the Opening of the Fiji Day Parade | | | 12/10/2005 - Cabinet endorses principles for National Position on Pacific Plan | | | Kubuabola - Closing Address at the Fiji Day Parade |
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http://www.fiji.gov.fj
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| | Fiji Cabinet considers total ban on coral and live fish export |
| | Mr Smith added that there had been much controversy about exporting coral and fish from Fiji, and the government has a Cabinet sub-committee currently looking into the matter. | | | Fiji is one of 70 countries which export coral and aquarium fish, that will develop and apply practices which companies will have to follow. | | | Council advisory board member, Walt Smith, who is the director of Walt Smith International, Fiji’s largest exporter of coral and fish, said the certification would be voluntary. |
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http://www.spc.org.nc/coastfish/News/LRF/7/LRF7-10.htm
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