Serafina Silaitoga
10 July, 2021, 12:00 pm
President Reverend Ili Vunisuwai of Methodist Church Fiji Rotuma getting is jab from staff nurse Merewalwsi Baba at Methodist compound Pender street in Suva. Picture: RAMA
Fiji born Australian Professor Satish Chand has called on religious leaders to push for COVID-19 vaccination and encourage their members to get vaccinated.
Prof Chand, who is a professor of finance in the School of Business at the University of New South Wales based at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said this was imperative in order to get out of the pandemic crisis.
In an interview with Pacific journalists who virtually attended the Covering the COVID Economy Crisis session, Prof Chand said the good news was that nearly every Pacific island country has secured sufficient supply of vaccines.
Driving a hard bargain; not to secure the farmer but his political master January 25, 2021, 10:23 AM IST
Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai.
As protests by farmers ,mainly from Punjab, against three farm laws completes eight weeks this Republic Day, one stark message emerges from the spirited men encircling Delhi. Which is that the highway logjam is no ordinary protest about a few laws . It is more of a hard political bargain that is being driven in the name of farmers. The protests seem more aimed at reviving fortunes of a moribund political party than is connected to improving the lot of the ordinary farmer ; it is more intent on hobbling the Narendra Modi Government that decisively won 2019 Lok Sabha elections than perhaps finding ways to end the logjam .