We celebrate the 56th issue of maiLife and the incoming year with great hope and optimism. The New Year is a chance for many to leave behind
what we don't need to take ahead in life, challenge our vices anew and
breathe the air of fortitude with resolve and vigour. ......read article
Can we just ban them?
Have you watched that TBN Channel lately? In case you didn’t know that is the so-called Christian channel that broadcasts here. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. read article
Songs in the key of J
During Holy Week last month (that is the week between Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey and His resurrection after washing his disciples feet, eating a last supper, being arrested, tortured, interrogated, dragged from one show trial to another, flogged, mocked, tortured again .... read article
Playing too fast
and too loose
OMG, as my 11-year-old son likes to say. Isn’t Fiji rugby in a mess at the moment? But it’s put a smile on my face because one thing I certainly didn’t think I would be writing, is ‘Well Done’ to the International Rugby Board. read article
Showing off Fiji
in the Big Apple
Greetings and salutations to you all. Nearly half way through the year and I really and truly cannot believe how time has flown but then so much has happened. read article
Rusiate Savuto Vakadewavosa.
The Vude Prince: How Savuto's star is rising
By RICARDO MORRIS
His is the voice that’s been dominating the airwaves with the number one hit Bulou Noqu i Tau.Rusiate Savuto Vakadewavosa – simply known as Savuto – is a rising star in entertainment in Fiji, and with Bulou (written by Laisa Vulakoro) can also be considered the heir apparent to the vude scene – albeit with a fresh approach.
Long walk to freedom ... Tahir Ali, Taimur Ali and Chandlesh Ganesh stroll through Tahir’s overgrown farm days after they were exonerated by the Court of Appeal of the murder of James Nair who died in January 2010.
When Justice Fails
By RICARDO MORRIS
The burglar came at about 2am as the Bau Road community near the end of the Nausori airport runway slept. Within minutes the Ali family had raised the alarm, gathered relatives and a friend from across the road and four of the men, along with a teenager, set out in a twin-cabbed Ford Ranger to look for the culprit.
Some of the graves of early ni-Vanuatu settlers and descendants are overtaken by cassava plants at Flagstaff in Suva.
The Fogotten
By ALIPATE WARA
Early on the morning of Saturday April 2, away from the public gaze, a group of people led by Vanuatu’s Prime Minister, Meltek Sato Kilman Livtuvanu and his Foreign Affairs Minister George Wells, made their way through tall grass and cassava plants through a little-known area of Flagstaff in Suva.
Etika Ve
Ve with a voice
By RICARDO MORRIS
Judging by the smile and bright eyes, you wouldn’t know that Etika Ve cannot hear a word you are saying. The 24-year-old, a twin, has been deaf and mute since he was a toddler when a bout of pneumonia left him without hearing.
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