Children Also Part Of Qauia Protest Information gathered inside Qauia by Fiji Sun has pointed this to being politically motivated. by shalveen chand
08 Jul 2021 12:00 Residents of Qauia settelment in Lami gathering at thie border after a planned protest was foiled by police on July 7 2021. Photo- Leon Lord
2021-07-07
Children were used to stage a protest in Qauia yesterday after 14 days of lockdown in the informal settlement in Lami was completed over the weekend.
Some of the placards held by the children wrote: ‘Mum & Dad need to work! Please open the border’, ‘We need to go to work’ and ‘Open the border please’.
This story starts with the late Jim Momolevu and his village of Navoci in Fjii.
NBR owners Todd and Jackie Scott have been visiting Fiji for more than a decade, and Jim was typically their driver when they needed to get to and from the airport and the like.
Since his sudden death five years ago, the Scotts continued a close connection with Jim’s village and family and, in particular, his twin brother Tim, helping out with money and food when they could.
The Scotts returned to Fiji to live earlier this year, just four days before the country’s first community Covid case. This week, the Pacific Island nation reported 42 Covid deaths to date and 791 new cases.
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Fiji overwhelmed by spiralling COVID-19 outbreak
The Pacific island nation of Fiji has, for the second week in a row, recorded spiralling daily cases of COVID-19 as the outbreak that began in April continues to spread unabated. Infection and death rates have been rising rapidly since the first registered daily total of 100 on June 13.
Fiji recorded 312 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths in 24-hours to Tuesday, June 29. This followed 241 cases and two deaths reported Monday, 266 cases and one death on Saturday, 215 cases and three deaths Friday, a previous record of 308 cases and one death Thursday and another 279 cases and four deaths last Wednesday.