THE US FIJI TIMES World’s Largest Fiji Newspaper Out Of Republic of Fiji April 2019 Monthly Publication - Subscription Available Pages 68 Volume: 178 FIJI BORN PIONEERING MIDDLE EAST MOTORING WRITER JOINS THE WOMEN’S WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR (WWCOTY) JURY

The Women’s World Car of the Year magazine, a role she has held for the cies and contributes Motoring articles to is originally from the Coral Coast in Awards recently selected Shereen Shab- past 16 years. Executive Women, Capital Business, 800 the Fiji Islands. She has a Bachelor of nam from Dubai as a jury to represent In addition to that, she is a prolific Lifestyle, Trending Business Insights and Mass Communications (BA), a second the Middle East for the prestigious WW- luxury and lifestyle motoring writer for MADAME magazine. Bachelor in Human Sciences degree and COTY awards. Shereen is the Editor- various publications around the world, Shereen is based in Dubai in the United her Masters in World Literature. in-Chief of the Millennium Millionaire writes for leading regional (GCC) agen- Arab Emirates (UAE) and in Spain but Continued on Page 13 Fiji Born Fans Demand Chief Raman: Usft Presence Enhancing In Usa Fijian Safety Through Soccer Technology See Page 11 See Page 12 FLYING HIGH ON LOW FARES - SEE PAGE 4 Rajtravel.net THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 4 THE US FIJI TIMES

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THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 5 Local News VINNY LEADS TEAM USA ALL STARS TO PACIFIC CUP 2019 For the fifth time in row, Ra Buksh, Vinny as he is com- “ Vinny is one of the few Fiji with only $50 in his pocket, ents and family and to also born and top Sacramento Ho- monly known, has for the past born people whom we can is amongst the few successful spend time on his farm in Viti- telier Vineshwar Goundar, many years spent his personal always rely on and that his Fiji business entrepreneurs in ri in the Province of Ra. will be leading Team USA All resources and finances in fa- ability to assist the boys and the USA who have for the past Together with his close buddy Stars to the 2019 Pacific Cup cilitating for the accommoda- officials has been recognized decades risen dramatically in Rocky, they continue to sup- to be held in New Zealand. tion and welfare of Team USA over the years, and that it will establishing high benchmarks port the underprivileged com- Described as a very humble All Stars, a commitment that be very hard to replace such in the Hotel Industry as busi- munities in Fiji by helping to and caring Fijian by close has attracted many football a good hearted and caring Fi- ness owners and also takes feed children in need. friend and fellow Team official players and supporters to the jian”. time from his busy business and CEO/Publisher Rocky Ali Team. Vinny who arrived in the USA commitments to visit his par-

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 6 THE US FIJI TIMES Fiji News PM Bainimarama To Be Chief Guest For Outrigger Walks For Kids cluding a $20,000 pledge from The walk will begin at Out- the Attorney-General, Aiyaz rigger Fiji Beach Resort and Sayed-Khaiyum. The funds continue through Sunset Strip, helped to purchase a four-wheel Korotogo, along the Queens drive vehicle for the teachers at Highway, across the Melrose the Special School. This is an Bridge and past Sigatoka Town initiative of the Outrigger Fiji before finishing at Sigatoka Sales and Marketing and Reser- Special School. Participants vations team. “The day is dedi- will gather at 6.45am for a brief- cated to fostering a greater sense ing at the resort lobby with the of partnership within the Siga- walk starting at 7am. All partici- toka community and the pro- pants will be welcomed at the motion of a healthy lifestyle,” finish line at Sigatoka Special Mrs Bali said. “All funds raised School by students and teachers from this year’s walk will go and presented with certificate, towards assisting the children at prizes, giveaways, games and the Sigatoka School for children activities to mark the event. with special needs as well as Mrs Bali said people wishing Prime Minister Voreqe Baini- event is held to raise money to event, slated for April 6, would the development of schools in to donate to the cause could do marama will be chief guestdur- improve education in the Nad- be held in partnership with the the province. “Participants will so via the Outrigger Fiji Beach ing the 5th annual Outrigger roga-Navosa Province. Resort Sigatoka Special School. include resort guests and staff, Resort WALK FOR KIDS Fiji Beach Resort ‘Walk for front office manager Salote Bali Last year, the 10-kilometre local business partners and other 2019 gofundme page. Kids”next month’.The annual said yesterday that this year’s Walk for Kids raised $47,000,in- tourism stakeholders”. Mechanical Issues Force Fiji Air- ways Flight To Return To Nadi

Fiji Airways flight FJ413 Na- di-Auckland service tonight had to return shortly after takeoff due to mechanical issues with the aircraft. In a statement, a Fiji Airways Spokesperson said: “The flight crew returned the aircraft to Nadi in the interest of safety.” Guests are being ac- commodated in Nadi and will fly on another Fiji Airways ser- vices to Auckland tomorrow, the spokesperson said. LTA, Police, Rental Cars Body To Work Together The Police and Land Trans- from the West have raised is the the Police should be doing to said Mr Sami. “The Police force drive a rental vehicle. It is the port Authority have agreed to relationship between associa- assist us,” he added. The Divi- is obliged to receive complaints rental owner’s responsibility; if work with the Fiji Rental Car tion members and the Police. sional Police Commander West and to investigate it. Not all- he/she knows that it is unsafe Association. This was after We would like to work in an Senior Superintendent Surend complaints are investigated on for them to give their rental to concerns were raised by the environment where both parties, Sami said Police were obliged to the same merit; different com- a provisional licence holder, association claiming that most the Police and the LTA, assist serve the community and would plaints are investigated in a dif- then don’t give it. The onus is complaints being lodged by the the players in the rental industry. investigate cases depending on ferent manner,” he said. Land on them.” “We only have the members to the Police were not “One of the main concerns its particular circumstances. Transport Officer representative power to check or demand the taken into account. Association that we have is the lack of re- “The Police are available to Inoke Turamanu reiterated that licence and the registration on president Rajesh Ku mar said sponse from the Police in assist- serve the members of the com- the FRCA members had certain the road, but the third party, who they hosted a Talanoa session in ing our members in the West. munity, nothing more or nothing policies that have been put in is driving the rental without the Nadi last week to discuss issues “We would like to clarify less,whether there is a partner- place by the authority.Mr Tura- concern of the rental owner that the members were facing. these issues with the members, ship or there is no partnership. manu said, “When you have a is just between the owner and “The main issue our members what we should do and what Our main purpose is to serve,” provisional licence you can also the client,” he added.

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 7 Fiji News Fiji 7s Rugby: Livai In, Mesu Out The Lomanikoro, Rewa, native Rugby Union for recognising made his debut at the 2011/2012 one of our top players and giv- HSBC World Sevens Series at ing him this opportunity.” the Gold Coast 7s in Australia, Despite the national team which Fiji won. being hit with injuries, Baber On his return, he suffered a has managed to select a formi- severe leg injury which threat- dable side with a new player ened to end his career, but he in the mix. Young talent Na- went through rehab and worked polioni Ratu has also made the on trying to win back his spot cut in the 14-member team. in the national 7s team. Speak- Apart from Kalione Nasoko ing to the Fiji Sun last night, and Waisea Nacuqu, Baber has Police Blue manager Aminisitai also dropped Mesulame Kuna- Seru said Ikanikoda’s inclusion vula. With a solid week on the was going to be a huge relief training track, Baber says his for halack Jerry Tuwai. “Livai players are looking forward to is to share the burden with Jerry the challenge. “All players have and that is going to be good for prepared well and have shown 7s team after eight years of try- night by coach Gareth Baber in Plucky Police Blue playmak- us,” he said. “The Police rugby focus so far and all are fit and ing. The former Suva Grammar the 14- member squad for the er Livai Ikanikoda has made it 7s team is grateful to the Fiji ready to go.” back to the Fiji Airways Fijian School halack was named last Hong Kong and Singapore 7s. Affordable homes planned for lower- income Fiji families Fiji’s Attorney-General Aiyaz with limited infrastructure and Saiyed Khaiyum, they aim to access to essential services support families who struggle including water and electric- to find a home due to rising land ity.IFC director for East Asia and house prices. and the Pacific, Vivek Pathak, “Making housing accessible said the IFC would also help to ordinary Fijians. Getting the increase access to finance for cost of housing down. Home low and middle-income families ownership in Fiji is in fact quite so people could look into home low at the moment. We want ownership, regardless of their to increase that. As Fijians we income level.“We know Fiji need to know that we can own is vulnerable to natural disas- a home as a strata title.”An IFC ters and the damage caused by analysis of housing affordabil- cyclones in the past highlights ity in Fiji has shown that the the need for affordable housing lack of affordable housing and which is both climate resilient land packages has contributed and energy efficient,” he said. to the growth of informal set- The IFC, a member of the World tlements around Nadi and the Bank group, is already working Affordable and climate-resil- in Fiji.The Fiji government and an agreement to provide decent capital Suva.It’s estimated that with the government to upgrade ient homes are being planned for the International Finance Cor- housing for all communities in 14 percent of the Fijian popu- the Ba and Lautoka hospitals. low and middle-income families poration (IFC) this week signed Fiji by next year.According to lation live in these settlements Matavesi makes astonishing claim over Fiji’s World Cup prospects The Australian Prime Minis- ment, Australian Rugby League will continue and it’s wonderful last year, and it was one of the same time, it’s important to ter’s XIII men’s and women’s Commission Chairman, Peter that the Prime Minister of Fiji best atmospheres I have ever continue to strengthen rugby teams will take the field in Fiji Beattie reiterated a previous and Fiji Rugby League have ac- encountered at a rugby league league throughout the Pacific, at the end of 2019, marking the commitment to continue to see cepted the opportunity to host match.“Rugby League owes including playing matches, de- first official Prime Minister’s rugby league grow within the the matches.”Mr Beattie said a great deal to the people of livering community programs XIII matches in the country. Pacific.”The Prime Minister’s there was no doubt that the exu- Papua New Guinea and their and supporting wellbeing and The Australian Rugby League XIII match has been a wonder- berance and passion for rugby Prime Minister and our aim is education.“I look forward to the Commission and Australian ful part of our game since 2005 league in Papua New Guinea to see more rugby league play- Prime Minister’s XIII matches Department of Foreign Affairs and in recent years, has included was key to the success of the ers visiting Papua New Guinea in Fiji later this year – and the and Trade confirmed the fixtures a double-header featuring some Prime Minister’s XIII fixture and more games being played continued growth of rugby today, to be played at ANZ Na- of our leading male and female growing in statur“I attended in the region over the coming league right throughout the tional Stadium in Suva in Oc- players,” Mr Beattie said. the Prime Minister’s matches years – including the Prime Pacific.” tober.In making the announce- “I’m delighted the matches in Port Moresby in October Minister’s XIII fixture.“At the THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 8 THE US FIJI TIMES World News Why the U.S. and New Zealand’s responses to mass shootings are so different

Until this month, neither the Pittsburgh synagogue last year reform the country’s gun laws, Route 91 Harvest Festival in gress debated legislative fixes United States nor New Zea- (and the list goes on). There which had largely been un- Las Vegas, where 58 people after the Las Vegas shooting as land had updated its national have been many calls for gun changed since 1992. were killed in October 2017 well, including creating a uni- gun laws in more than two de- reform, including a movement Only a few days later, Ardern in the deadliest mass shooting versal background check sys- cades. On March 15, a gunman led by student survivors. In announced a ban on military- in modern U.S. history. The tem for purchasing firearms, opened fire on two mosques in February, the Democratic-con- style semi-automatic weap- Christchurch, New Zealand, trolled House passed the first ons, along with high-capacity during Friday prayers, killing major gun bills in a generation magazines. She also vowed 50 people and injuring many to face unclear prospects in the to reduce the number of guns more. It was the country’s first Senate. Yet the only significant in the country by encouraging mass shooting in more than a change to tighten U.S. gun reg- owners to get rid of their fire- decade. Three days later, cabi- ulations since 1994 — when arms. New Zealand lawmak- net members agreed to devel- former President Bill Clinton ers are expected to approve op a massive overhaul of the signed an assault weapon ban legislation soon after Parlia- nation’s gun laws, including that lasted 10 years but ap- ment takes up the changes in a ban on military-style assault plied only to guns manufac- the first week of April, and the weapons. tured after the bill became law government is developing a That show of unified politi- — came Tuesday, when the buyback program for owners cal will, leading to swift ac- Trump administration’s ban on of military-style semi-auto- tion, stands in contrast to the bump stocks went into effect. matic guns. The law is likely U.S., where there has been While nearly 40,000 people to provide some exemptions more push-and-pull after in- die from firearms in America to the new restrictions, in- numerable high-profile mass each year, New Zealand’s re- cluding gun use for profes- shootings in recent years: at sponse to this month’s terrorist sional pest control and interna- gunman’s use of bump stocks but did not pass major gun Sandy Hook Elementary in attack has some people asking tional sporting competitions. — attachments added to guns legislation. Years earlier, Con- Connecticut and a Sikh temple how that country moved so that allow rifles to fire multiple gress also considered a bill in Wisconsin in 2012, Eman- quickly to change its laws. What has the U.S. done? rounds like machine guns — after the Newtown elementary uel AME Church in Charles- raised fresh concerns about school shooting where 26 peo- ton in 2015, Orlando’s Pulse What New Zealand did? To summarize recent gun con- whether the device should be ple were killed. In April 2013, nightclub in 2016, at a Las trol developments in the U.S. legal. In response, President a bipartisan amendment failed Vegas country music festival Seventy-two hours after the is a more complicated story. Donald Trump directed the in the Senate by six votes that and a Texas church in 2017, mosque attacks, New Zealand The most recent changes to Justice Department to issue a would have required back- at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern federal firearm laws came in ban on bump stocks. That ban ground checks on gun sales. High School in Florida and a said her cabinet had agreed to response to the shooting at the went into effect Tuesday. Con- THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 9

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We’ve all watched police of duty deaths for officers, just ments are a huge factor. Weather with car loads of families. Po- vision. The longer the pursuit, pursuits on TV. They repre- behind gunfire. But what if it conditions impact our ability to lice officers have seconds to the more dangerous it becomes sent a visceral view of police didn’t have to be as unsafe? The control a 6,000-pound automo- consider all these factors before as we lose the ability to process work: cops chasing criminals. San Pablo Police Department is bile. It’s challenging for anyone deciding to chase that criminal. the information surrounding us. Whether it’s an action scene leveraging technology to catch to drive on slick roads through We also have to consider what All of this increases the risks of in a movie, or watching a real dangerous criminals without city streets and neighborhoods happens to the officer’s physio- collisions, injuries, and overall pursuit unfold on an episode slamming on the gas pedal. after fresh rainfall. Now imag- logical and biological response. danger to our communities. So of COPS; high speed pursuits What’s so dangerous about ine doing it at speeds of 40, 50, Those first seconds of a pursuit how do we go about catching are thrilling. They are also ex- police pursuits? When a crimi- or 75mph. Then consider doing causes the officer’s adrenaline these criminals who choose to tremely dangerous. Automobile nal decides to flee in a car, sev- this at 3 o’clock in the after- to flood the system. This means flee? Should we even try? crashes routinely rank as the eral things occur which are out noon, as kids get out of school blood is leaving the brain, caus- second highest cause of line of the officer’s control. The ele- and the streets are congested ing vision to narrow into tunnel THE US FIJI TIMES 11 Local News

I can tell you the answer for no expectation of privacy. We ficers surrounding the suspect’s are relayed to dispatchers on gerous and there is no single us will always be “yes”, of also added more than seventy area of travel to ensure a safer a mapping system so officers piece of equipment or tech- course we try. Our communi- automated license plate readers. apprehension. can safely drive to the destina- nology that will completely ties expect us to keep them safe This alerts officers of wanted But we don’t stop there. The tion point. San Pablo officers eliminate them from occurring. and apprehending dangerous vehicles within seconds of trav- majority of our patrol fleet is have deployed StarChase nearly But studies show suspects will criminals is part of doing that eling past our cameras. outfitted with StarChase pur- fifty times over the past year, slow down significantly within job. But we have to be smarter. With this technology infra- suit management technology. A with great success. Usually the minutes if they no longer see If we can pursue you, and structure, officers can follow a launcher device is mounted to tag is deployed before the sus- police chasing them. So in not be right behind you, even vehicle remotely through San the front of our patrol vehicles. pects even know we’re behind San Pablo, we do everything better. Our enhanced Public Pablo by simply watching our When the patrol car comes with- them. The “thud” sound of the we can to create that illusion, Safety Equipment Project in- cameras. This remote pursuit in 25ft of the wanted vehicle, tag often compels the suspect while maintaining our vigilance cludes more than 200 situational can be done on mobile devices the launcher deploys, at 26mph, to surrender peacefully as there in their apprehension. We will awareness surveillance cameras issued to officers in the field. a GPS tagging device. An ad- is no longer a point in trying continue to look for technol- throughout San Pablo. These Officers can simply slow down, hesive and magnet ensures the to run. In the first year we’ve ogy solutions which makes our cameras are primarily attached wait and watch, as the suspect tag sticks to the suspect car and seen nearly a 50% reduction in communities safer and we will to traffic poles and street lights drives through our city. Now we officers can fall back at slower pursuits. always be committed to provid- in public view where these is can coordinate resources and of- speeds. The GPS coordinates Pursuits are inherently dan- ing Exceptional Police Service.

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 12 THE US FIJI TIMES Local News Fans Demand USFT Presence In USA Fijian Soccer US Fiji Times CEO/Publisher ing answers as to why US Fiji presence of US Fiji Times dur- reasons why I had to re-consider Sports Commission”, Rocky Rocky Ali Buksh has been inun- Times was not involved with ing any sporting event was ben- my earlier decision because I said. Rocky further added that dated with phone calls and email Pacific Cup?. eficial as thousands of people felt that we owed a lot to the whenever USFT was present messages from countless Fiji Mr Buksh added that there around the world would follow fans and followers of Fiji Soccer any Soccer tournament, more Soccer players including Club was so much demand especially the developments of the sport in the USA, thus my renewed than 500,000 people would fol- officials and Fans and demand- players as they believed that the in the USA.“ That is one of the support for the America Fiji low us.

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THE US FIJI TIMES 13 World News FIJI BORN PIONEERING MIDDLE EAST MOTORING WRITER JOINS THE WOMEN’S WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR (WWCOTY) JURY Continued from page 1

Shereen has considerable ex- “My brother used to draw toring terms, she is a pioneer in male automotive media and af- tive on cars before, so being on perience with women’s business intricate posters of race cars as her region: ter breaking glass ceilings in this panel gives me access to a groups and is the only female well, so our room was full of “The UAE area is going the region by convincing man- wider audience and connects me jury member for the Middle East cars while our yard was filled through a change after Saudi ufacturers that women drivers to like-minded women in other Car of the Year awards (ME- with car parts,” she says. Arabia announced women will count.” parts of the world.” Shereen COTY). Her interest in cars was Shereen is married to a British be able to drive soon and the She says being on an interna- is also on the Editorial Board generated by her family where University Lecturer, Eric Dury, dynamics are changing rapidly tional panel like Women’s World of various intrenational maga- she grew up surrounded by fam- who is also a stage actor with for the automotive industry with Car of the Year further cements zines and is a Board member of ily members entrenched in all multiple theatre groups in the this announcement. We find the message that women in mo- Corvette UAE Club. She loves things automotive. Her brother UAE. They have a 18-year-old more female car enthusiasts toring are important not just as writing, hence her high-volume still delves into opening up old daughter, Natasha Dury who is among the younger generation drivers for personal cars but as output – as well as travelling, cars and making them road wor- an aspiring actress and a Dis- than ever before.”“This helped decision makers for family cars yachting, racing, and going for thy again – His latest project tinction Drama Student with to be accepted into MECOTY as well.“I felt very limited in road trips in her Porsche Cay- was a Land Rover Defender. London Trinity College.In mo- after 19 years of driving with providing a women’s perspec- enne Turbo.

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Imam Gamal Fouda, holding microphone, leads Friday prayers at Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 22, 2019.

New Zealanders observed the but we are not broken. We are offering free rides to and from mosque, which was still sur- Muslim call to prayer Friday alive. We are together. We are the prayer service. The gun legislation is support- rounded by construction bar- in reflecting on the moment determined to not let anyone ed not only by Ardern’s liberal ricades, armed police officers one week ago when 50 wor- divide us," he added, as the “The moment I landed in Labour Party but also the con- and a huge mound of flowers shippers at two Christchurch crowd the city estimated at Christchurch, I could feel the servative opposition National and messages. mosques were slain — an 20,000 people erupted with love here. I’ve never felt more Party, so it’s expected to pass act an imam told the crowd applause. Later in the day, a proud to be a Muslim, or a into law. New Zealand does “We’re feeling stronger than of thousands that had left the mass funeral was held to bury Kiwi for that matter. It makes not have a constitutional right before, and we are one,” she country broken-hearted but 26 of the victims at a cemetery me really happy to be able to bear arms. said. not broken. In a day without where more than a dozen al- to say that I’m a New Zea- precedent, people across New ready have been laid to rest. lander,” Imam said. He called Among those planning to at- She said she prayed for the Zealand listened to the call it surreal to see the mosque tend Friday’s observance was people who died. to prayer on live broadcasts Family members took turns where he used to pray sur- Samier Dandan, the president while thousands, including passing around shovels and rounded by flowers. of the Lebanese Muslim As- “I’m just imagining what Prime Minister Jacinda Ard- wheelbarrows to bury their sociation in Sydney and part would be happening last Fri- ern, gathered in leafy Hagley loved ones. Friday’s burials The observance comes the of a 15-strong delegation of day,” she said. “People were Park opposite the Al Noor included the youngest victim, day after the government an- Muslim leaders that had flown running around so scared and mosque, where 42 people 3-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim. nounced a ban on “military- to Christchurch. helpless. It’s just not right.” died. "New Zealand mourns style” semi-automatic firearms with you. We are one," Ar- Christchurch native Fahim and high-capacity magazines “It was an ugly act of terror- Erum Hafeez, 18 said she felt dern said. The call to prayer Imam, 33, returned to the like the weapons that were ism that occurred in a beauti- comforted by the overwhelm- was observed at 1:30 p.m. and city for Friday’s service. He used in last Friday’s attacks at ful, peaceful city,” Dandan ing response from New Zea- followed by two minutes of moved away three years ago the Al Noor and nearby Lin- said. He said his pain couldn’t landers: “We are embraced by silence. Hundreds of Muslim and now lives in Auckland, wood mosques. compare with that of the fami- the community of New Zea- men at the park sat in socks or New Zealand’s largest city. lies he’d been visiting who land, we are not left behind bare feet. One man in the front An immediate sales ban went had lost loves ones. He was and alone.” row was in a Christchurch “It’s just amazing to see how into effect Thursday to prevent inspired by their resilience, he Hospital wheelchair. the country and the commu- stockpiling, and new laws said. The Al Noor mosque’s imam The Al Noor mosque's imam, nity have come together — would be rushed through Par- said workers have been toil- Gamal Fouda, thanked New blows my mind, actually,” liament that would impose a “And I’ve got to give all my ing feverishly to repair the Zealanders for their support. Imam said before the event. complete ban on the weapons, respect to the New Zealand destruction, some of whom "This terrorist sought to tear Ardern said. prime minister, with her po- offered their services for free. our nation apart with an evil When he got off the plane Fri- sition and her actions, and it Fouda expects the mosque to ideology. ... But, instead, we day morning, he saw someone “Every semi-automatic weap- speaks loud,” he said. reopen by next week. have shown that New Zealand holding a sign that said “jena- on used in the terrorist attack is unbreakable," the imam za,” denoting Muslim funeral on Friday will be banned,” Ar- Ismat Fatimah, 46, said it was said. "We are broken-hearted prayer. He said others were dern said. sad to look at the Al Noor

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 17 Fiji News Fijians in the sights of Scottish clubs Edinburgh Rugby’s Fijian outfit. Any move will depend Edinburgh”, the Welshman was complete the transfer, Kunavala lione Nasoko could also head contingent may soon rise to on the 23 year old securing a quoted as saying. will become a team mate of fel- for Scotland. He is said to be three, according to the coun- work permit allowing him to “As I’ve said before, obvious- low Fijians Senitiki Nayola and a target for Glasgow Warriors. try’s sevens coach. And an- play in the Guinness PRO14. ly players are getting opportuni- Viliame Mata. The latter is a Both he and Kunavala could other countryman could also Baber stated that Kunavula is ties like this and it’s important firm fans’ favourite at Edin- have a month long trial with the be headed for Scotland.Gareth in discussions.“He is still in ne- for them to pursue those.”The burgh. He has shown stunning Scottish clubs before signing a Baber has told Fiji Broadcast- gotiation with Edinburgh and back row player is also attract- form this season. Last month, contract. Should the moves pro- ing Corporation that sevens part of that is he has to sort his ing interest from France, with he extended his contract by a ceed, the duo would join their forward Mesulame Kunavula visa out and then eventually take Bordeaux Begles keen on se- year.Meanwhile, the Fiji Sun new clubs in November. is negotiating with the Scottish up a permanent contract with curing his services.Should he reported that Sevens captain Ka- Fiji Airways flight to Auckland had to return to Nadi after facing mechanical issues Fiji Airways flight FJ413 Nadi‑Auckland service last night had to return shortly after takeoff due to mechani- cal issues with the aircraft. The flight crew returned the aircraft to Nadi in the inter- est of safety. Guests were accommodated in Nadi last night and will fly on other Fiji Airways services to Auckland today. Fiji Ports announces dividend of $16.2M for 2018 Fiji Ports Corporation Lim- ited has announced a dividend of $16.2 million for 2018. While making the announce- ment, Fiji Ports Corporation Limited Board Chairman and Permanent Secretary for In- dustry, Trade and Tourism Shaheen Ali says Fiji Ports Corporation’s performance for the 2018 financial year has been encouraging, re- sulting in higher profits.Ali says Corporation Group’s net profit after tax stands at $28,041,359 and this repre- sented a 6.4% increase from 2017 reported net profit after tax of $26,345,307. He adds Fiji Ports alone re- corded a net profit after tax of maining 20 percent will go to Security code compliance au- Chair of Fiji Ports Corpora- provide good return for FNPF $27,065,479 which was an Aitken Spence PLC.Ali also dit conducted by the United tion and the investors espe- but more so for its members. increase of 6.65% compared says their plan is to continu- Sates Coast Guard.While cially FNPF for their vision to Sayed-Khaiyum also thanked to the 2017 financial year. ously review the operations speaking at the dividend an- invest with Fiji Ports.He says Aitken Spence for their faith From the dividend achieved, of Fiji Ports and in this re- nouncement, Acting Prime the government wants to con- in investing in Fiji including the Government will receive gards both Suva and Lautoka Minister and Attorney Gen- tinue working together with their recent investment in 41% of the share, FNPF will ports have recently passed the eral Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum FNPF in strategic areas of the government printing. get 39 percent while the re- International Ships and Ports thanked the board members, economy where it not only THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 18 THE US FIJI TIMES Fiji News Flight going to Christchurch delayed after a passenger tried to bring a rifle on board An Air New Zealand flight who attempted to bring from Auckland to Christ- the rifle on board had been church has been delayed after off‑loaded, along with their a person tried to bring a rifle luggage.They were escorted on board. off the plane by security and A passenger on the plane engineering staff.The pilot said the pilot announced that said “given the situation in passengers tried to bring a ri- Christchurch we are obvi- fle on to the plane, but failed ously taking no chances”. to follow correct check‑in The security scare delayed procedure.The passengers take‑off by 40 minutes. Boeing issues changes to controversial 737 MAX control systems Boeing has issued changes was previously an optional to controversial control sys- safety feature.Neither of the tems linked to two fatal crash- planes, operated by Lion Air es of its 737 MAX planes in Indonesia and Ethiopian in the last five months.But Airlines, that were involved it’s still not certain when the in the fatal crashes, carried planes, that were grounded the alert systems, designed worldwide this month, will to warn pilots when sensors be allowed to fly.Investiga- produce contradictory read- tors have not yet determined ings.Boeing said in future the cause of the accidents. airlines would no longer be As part of the upgrade, Boe- charged extra for that safety ing will install as a standard system to be installed. a warning system, which $1.3 billion collected through the electronic fiscal device regulation and $3.5 million in Plastic companies never made any Bag Levy through the VAT attempts to install the VAT Monitoring System since its Monitoring System and did inception in December 2017. not even bother to contact CEO Visvanath Das says them for assistance.He adds compliance level for phase the objective of this system is 1 (Supermarkets and Phar- not only to have efficient and macies) and phase 2 (Law reliable software to encour- firms, Medical Centres, age voluntary compliance but Travel agencies, Accounting at the same time collect the firms, hardware companies) revenue that is owed to the still remains a challenge for government.Das says it also them.He says the compliance plays a broader role in align- level currently stands at 82%. ment to the government road- Das says they have issued map for development of Fiji, numerous infringement no- greater financial inclusion tices to companies so far, for initiatives as well as push The Fiji Revenue and Cus- Fiscal Device Regulation in estimated sales record of $1.3 not complying with the Elec- towards a cashless economy, toms Service since the imple- 2017, has 52.3 million re- billion.They also recorded tronic Fiscal Device regula- addressing the black money mentation of the Electronic ceipts in its database with an $100 million in gross VAT tion adding majority of these challenges.

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 19 India News Won’t Allow Attempts To Divide The Country: Mamata Banerjee West Bengal Chief Minister the BJP, her party respects all Mamata Banerjee on Thursday people coming from any state, accused the Bharatiya Janata she said.“We never discriminate Party (BJP) of doing “politics between Biharis and Bengalis. of division” and warned that We respect all the people com- she would not allow any at- ing from any state,” she said tempt to divide the country into at “Holi Milan” celebrations at pieces.“BJP is doing politics of Gitanjali Stadium, Kolkata. division. We will never want the She alleged that incidents country to be divided and not of mob-lynching is rampant allow any attempt to part the in the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh country into pieces,” she said. and industrialists are often be- No one raises question about ing attacked in the state.“Many Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas people from Uttar Pradesh stay Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabh- in Bengal. Ask them, how well bhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad they are staying in Bengal. Ask as the leaders of the country, Ms Biharis, they are well here and Banerjee said.Ms Banerjee said better than in Bihar,” Ms Baner- a leader of the country must love jee said.Slamming the BJP and all and work with all.“You have its leaders, Ms Banerjee said: to love all and do not differenti- “You talk about religion and ate. You have to connect with fight elections chanting name “Some outsiders often are organised in the state. When her party respects and loves all the people to be in power. But if of Ram. But you could not even claimed Durga pujas are not we provide financial support to the religions and festivals are you break hearts, you break peo- construct one Ram temple in allowed to be organised here. clubs to organise activities and for all.”Our duty is to respect ple’s souls. Then, people are not five years... We are with Ram, People are denied worship- pujas, the BJP challenges it be- all. People from all regions par- able to apply their mind.”Unlike Rahim and Christians.” ping. More than 1 lakh pujas fore court,” she said.She said ticipate in all festivals.” “How Will You Get Us Jobs”? Kerala’s Young Voters Ask Election Candidates But students are also busy divisiveness, unlike a particular assessing candidates.“We are party. In Kerala you have Onam. skeptical. This election has lot Who calls it a Hindu festival? dependent on young people and Everyone partakes of it. This that’s why we have so many is India.”BJP candidate Kum- candidates trying to reach out manam Rajasekharan, taken to us. My concern is - after elec- around College of Engineering tions- will they care about us,” by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Erin, an undergraduate student Parishad students , visited in all from Mar Ivanios college said. around three colleges just in one Around two thirds of India’s day.Mohit, a 3rd year computer population interacting infor- science student asked, “What mally with students at the All will you do for Thiruvanantha- Saints College - an all-women’s puram, if elected?”Responding, college in Thiruvananthapuram, Mr Rajasekharan said, “The Shashi Tharoor was asked about earlier MPs have done no de- the lack of jobs, the perceived velopment in our constituen- threat to India’s secularism and cies regarding metro rail, de- corruption allegations against mand for high court bench, even the Congress.“It’s about waste management. My focus improving tax structures, in- will be more on developing With colleges set to close for ernor Kummanam Rajasekharan ised the youth of the nation two creasing investments and creat- our constituency.”Students the summer break, Kerala saw and CPI’s sitting MLA C Diva- crore jobs every year. Where ing jobs, and the central govern- believe being a parliamentary most of the election candidates karan.But despite their stark po- are they? If I am elected, I will ment has failed in all of this. The election, the focus is going to visiting students on campus on litical differences, one common shout and raise my voice in the skill improvement programmes be on national issues, at least Thursday, in an attempt to strike question that they were asked Parliament, drawing attention are terrible for the informal sec- for the youth. “Sabarimala is a chord with the young voters - a at different colleges in the city to your concerns. Look at what tor,” Mr Tharoor said.Respond- a crucial issue in Kerala. But sizeable chunk of the 2019 elec- - “What will you do about our is happening in all universities, ing to a student on the question for the youth, I think a lot of torate.In Thiruvananthapuram jobs if you get elected?”Left including JNU. All this needs to of Congress and his stand on other things are important - es- - a high profile constituency - candidate C Divakaran hit out stop,” C Divakaran answering “threat to India’s secularism”, pecially about what is happen- challenging the two time sitting at the central government for the question of an engineering Mr Tharoor hit out at sangh pari- ing across the nation. Jobs are Congress MP, diplomat Shashi the alleged fake promises of student Amritha from Mutta- var’s ‘hindutva’. “Congress and crucial,” Abhilash, studying in Tharoor are BJP’s former Gov- the past. “Prime Minister prom- thara Engineering College. I stand for secularism. Not for Mar Ivanios said.

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 20 THE US FIJI TIMES Fiji News BEWARE OF ROGUE CHARITY ORGANISERS Fiji people in the USA are being cautioned to keep a lookout for a famous Radio Announcer from the Bay Area who has been known for collecting funds whenever there’s a disaster in Fiji. Reports have recently surfaced that the well known individual whom many have now realized is a fulltime conman, had also raised $US13,000 was reported to have spent $6500 on expensive hotels and rental cars. Concerned Community Leaders and members of the public who had raised the issue with US Fiji Times are also appealing to all Fiji people to be more cautious with this particular person and are reminding all those that want to contribute to any Natural Disaster campaign in Fiji to please send their contributions of Cash or Kind to either the Fiji Red Cross Society or directly to any Orphanage Home. It has been proven that the Radio Announcer is also known for organizing large parties where Live Music and Alcohol is always included in his fundraising events and these would always be held in expensive restaurants. US Fiji Times will always welcome the reporting of such cases in which the public are always the victim and we are also appealing to all Fiji people to come forward should you have a complaint and report such cases so that we can protect our people from such illegal activities.

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THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 29 India News NITI Aayog Boss Seeks More Time To Respond To Election Commission Notice NITI Aayog vice-chairman President announces a scheme Rajiv Kumar has sought time that will bust fiscal discipline, till April 5 from the Election create strong incentives against Commission to respond to a work and which will never be show-cause notice issued to him implemented”.Mr Kumar is for his remarks against the Con- reported to have made similar gress over its minimum income remarks during an interview as guarantee promise.Mr Kumar well.At a press conference in was to respond by Thursday Delhi on Monday, Rahul Gan- evening. He had accused the dhi announced that 20 per cent Congress of promising the families belonging to the poor- “moon to win elections”. est category will be given Rs. He had also tweeted, saying 72,000 each annually as mini- “the proposed income guarantee mum income if Congress comes scheme fails the economics test, to power.When the notice was fiscal discipline test and execu- issued to Mr Kumar, sources in tion test”.In another tweet, Mr the poll panel had said since he Kumar had claimed that “true to is a bureaucrat, he should not its past record of promising the have made political comments moon to win elections, Congress targeting a party. BJP “In War” With Those Who Work For Poor: Rahul Gandhi On Jean Dreze Congress president Rahul Dreze, who was a member of Gandhi on Thursday expressed the National Advisory Council concern over noted economist headed by Sonia Gandhi during Jean Dreze’s detention in BJP- the erstwhile UPA government, ruled Jharkhand, alleging the and Vivek Gupta, an activist, party was in a “state of war” were eventually released. with everybody who works for “I am extremely concerned the poor and the downtrodden. about Mr. Dreze’s detention. Mr Dreze and another person The BJP is in a state of war were on Thursday taken into with everybody who works for preventive custody for violat- the poor & the downtrodden,” ing the model code of conduct Mr Gandhi said in a Facebook by organising a meeting with- post.Mr Dreze is a specialist in out permission in Jharkhand’s Development Economics and Garhwa district, police said.Mr had helped draft the food law. Election Body Seizures Reach Rs. 677 Crore As Polls Near, Tamil Nadu Tops came a close second, with sei- tion Commission said in a press has taken serious note of DMK zures amounting to Rs. 128 release that it has appointed 266 legislator A Radhakrishnan, who crore, while recoveries in Uttar expenditure observers across was seen distributing money to Pradesh -- the most politically 188 parliamentary constituen- women performing a religious significant state in the country cies to ensure that candidates ritual at a private event in Tamil -- stood at Rs. 120 crore. The adhere to rules related to poll Nadu’s Thuthukodi recently. A highest amount of seized goods, spending and assist enforcement case has been registered against in this case, was liquor. teams in tackling issues related the politician and seven others Figures quoted by the Elec- to unaccounted money, illicit under relevant sections of the tion Commission showed that liquor, drugs and other induce- Indian Penal Code, the release drugs continue to be a major ments. Adequate resources in added.The Lok Sabha elections influencer in Punjab, with nar- terms of flying squads, static will be held in seven phases cotics accounting for a major surveillance teams and video from April 11 to May 19, and As much as Rs. 677 crore in today. Tamil Nadu topped the portion of the Rs. 104-crore sei- surveillance teams have also the votes will be counted on cash and other assets has been list of offending states, with the zures being reported from the been put in place in all parlia- May 23. Assembly elections seized across the country ahead authorities recording seizures border state. Karnataka came mentary and assembly constitu- will also be held in a few states of the polls, the Election Com- of Rs. 130 crore in gold and fifth on the list, with seizures encies, it added. at the same time. mission said in a press briefing other assets.Andhra Pradesh worth Rs. 33 crore. The Elec- The Election Commission THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 30 THE US FIJI TIMES India News “Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai”: Shiv Sena On In- dia’s ASAT Missile Launch Hailing India’s successful Gandhi to Atal Bihari Va- led party said. “Some thought successful anti-satellite mis- jpayee - worked very hard for Indian jawans again struck Paki- sile test, the Shiv Sena today the purpose. However, during stan, killed (JeM chief) Masood said it was possible because of Modi’s tenure we have become Azhar, brought his body here Prime Minister Narendra Modi a space super-power. It has all and dumped it in the Arabian sea being at the helm of affairs in the been done by our scientists,” off the Gujarat coast,” it said. country.PM Modi on Wednes- the article stated.It said, as Lok It went on to say that another day announced that India dem- Sabha poll campaign gathers speculation was that fugitive onstrated the anti-satellite or pace, where leaders are indulg- businessmen Vijay Mallya, Me- ASAT missile capability by ing in mud-slinging and hurling hul Choksi and Nirav Modi were shooting down a live satellite, charges against each other, PM brought back together overnight describing it as a “rare” achieve- Modi gave a “pleasant news” of in the same plane to Delhi. ment that puts the country in an the success of scientists, even There were also talks that fu- exclusive club of space super as there was an unprecedented gitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim counts was being reshaped,” it and 2013, respectively. powers.Lauding the country’s suspense over what he was go- was captured and brought either stated.“However, contrary to the The Marathi publication also achievement, the Sena, in an ing to announce in his address to Mumbai or Delhi.“Some even expectations, PM Modi’s an- recalled that key institutions editorial in party mouthpiece to the nation After the govern- went on to think that to coun- nouncement of the anti-satellite like the Indian Space Research ‘Saamana’, said, “Modi hai ment’s demonetisation decision ter Congress president Rahul missile being successfully tested Organisation (ISRO) were toh mumkin hai...on land and in November 2016, there was a Gandhi’s scheme of depositing made the country proud,” said set up during the then prime in space.” lot of curiosity among people, Rs. 72,000 annually in bank the Sena, which is an ally of the minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s “Till yesterday, India was who on Wednesday waited with accounts of poor families, PM BJP at the Centre and in Ma- tenure.”Scientists working a nuclear power...(former) bated breath to listen to Modi’s Modi’s promise of depositing harashtra.It noted that Chan- there have ensured the Indian prime ministers - from Indira address, the Uddhav Thackeray- Rs. 15 lakh into people’s ac- drayaan and Mangalyaan were flag flies high in space,” it said. launched into the space in 2008 Ahead Of Elections, Samajwadi Party Announces 5 More Candidates For UP With just two weeks left SP has fielded party patriarch for the national elections, The Mulayam Singh Yadav from Samajwadi Party today named Mainpuri parliamentary constit- five more candidates in Uttar uency, party chief Akhilesh Ya- Pradesh.Nasir Qureshi will con- dav from Azamgarh, his cousin test from Moradabad, Bhagwat Akshay Yadav from Firozabad, Sharan Gangwar from Bareilly, and senior party leader Azam Puja Pal from Unnao, Shyam Khan from Rampur.According Sundar Singh Yadav from Jhansi to the seat-sharing formula, the and Nathuni Prasad Kushwaha SP is contesting from 37 seats, from Kushinagar parliamentary BSP from 38 seats and the RLD seat, a senior party leader said. from three seats in the state. The So far the party has announced SP-BSP-RLD alliance has left the names of 27 candidates in two seats for the Congress.In the 37 seats it is contesting in Uttar Pradesh, elections will be alliance with Mayawati’s Bahu- held in seven phases from April jan Samaj Party (BSP) and Ajit 11 to May 19. The counting of Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal.The votes will take place on May 23. “Chowkidar vs Daagdar”: PM Attacks Congress At Mega UP Rally Prime Minister Naren- movement.“It was here that in referring to the row over the do I own? Everything I have is from enemies.”The Prime Min- dra Modi, launching the rul- 1857, the first war of indepen- impact of India’s Balakot strike given by you, the country. That ister also hit back at the opposi- ing BJP’s campaign for next dence was fought against Brit- on February 26, in retaliation is everything,” he said, to chants tion, especially Congress leader month’s national election, said ish rule,” he said.Repeatedly against the Pulwama attack in of “Modi, Modi”. Rahul Gandhi, for their criticism at a large rally in Uttar Pradesh’s referring to himself in the third which 40 soldiers were killed. Targeting the Gandhis, he of his televised address to the Meerut that “India’s 130 crore person as “Chowkidar”, PM “If anything at all went wrong said: “It is only those who nation announcing the success people have made up their mind, Modi said those who used to in that February 26 operation, worry about their family who of “Mission Shakti”.“I spoke it is this government again”. He challenge him repeatedly were wouldn’t they have shredded are under pressure.”Referring to about ASAT (anti-satellite mis- also summed up the election as constantly speaking Pakistan’s me, abused me? Would they “Mission Shakti” or the testing sile), some intelligent people a fight between “this chowki- language. not have blamed Modi,” he of India’s anti-satellite weapon thought I was talking about a dar versus daagdar (corrupt)”. “Does this country need said.“I am the person who will on Wednesday, PM Modi said, theatre set,” he said, directly re- PM Modi said it was signifi- heroes of India or heroes of put everything at stake for the “It was this chowkidar’s gov- ferring to Rahul Gandhi’s tweet cant that he was launching his Pakistan? Do we need saboot country. No political or interna- ernment that had the courage to sarcastically wishing him “Hap- campaign from Meerut, a town (proof) or sapoot (good sons)? tional pressure will restrain your conduct surgical strikes on land, py World Theatre Day.”India, 70 km from Delhi that played a My country’s sapoot are my big- chowkidar. I don’t move around sky and space. India should de- said PM Modi, is “ready for central role in India’s freedom gest saboot,” PM Modi said, with any bojh (pressure). What velop, India should be secure chowkidari in space”.

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THE US FIJI TIMES 31 India News Space Debris From Anti-Satellite Test To ‘Vanish’ In 45 Days: Defence Research Body Chief up in the atmosphere in a mat- Microsat R, weighing about 750 ter of weeks, instead of posing kg (1,653 lb) and launched on a threat to other satellites. In January 24 by the Indian Space 2007, China destroyed a satel- Research Organisation for the lite in a polar orbit, creating the purpose of the test.A week af- largest orbital debris cloud in ter launch, it was moved into history, with more than 3,000 a different orbit in preparation objects, according to the Secure for the test. World Foundation. “The technology has been Because the impact altitude completely proven, we hit it exceeded 800 km (500 miles), with centimetres of accuracy, many of the resulting scraps probably less than 10 cm,” Mr stayed in orbit.“Some of it could Reddy said.India’s test of the still be there,” Mr Reddy said, anti-satellite weapon broke a adding that India had been much lull since the United States used more careful in conducting its a ship-launched SM-3 missile test.In Florida, on a visit to the to destroy a defunct spy satel- US military’s Southern Com- lite in Operation Burnt Frost mand, acting US Defense Sec- in 2008. The Union of Con- retary Patrick Shanahan warned cerned Scientists said nearly any nations contemplating 2,000 orbiting satellites provide The space debris from India’s test aimed at boosting India’s duce the risk of debris left in similar anti-satellite weapons key benefits to people around anti-satellite weapons launch is defences in space.Critics say space.“That’s why we did it at tests that they risked making the world, and India’s launch expected to burn out in less than such technology, known to be lower altitude, it will vanish in a “mess” in space from debris. showed more countries were 45 days, the top defence scien- possessed only by the United no time,” he told Reuters in an The US military’s Strategic seeking the capabilities that tist said on Thursday, seeking States, Russia and China, raises interview. Command was tracking more put satellites at risk. “Destroy- to allay global concern about the prospect of an arms race in “The debris is moving right than 250 pieces of debris from ing satellites...can have ripple fragments hitting objects. The outer space, besides posing a now. How much debris, we are India’s missile test and would effects, producing dangerous comments came a day after hazard by creating a cloud of trying to work out, but our cal- issue “close-approach notifica- clouds of debris that could stay Prime Minister Narendra Modi fragments that could persist for culations are it should be dying tions as required until the debris in orbit for decades or centuries, said India used an indigenous- years.G Satheesh Reddy, the down within 45 days.” enters the Earth’s atmosphere,” disabling or destroying any sat- ly developed ballistic missile chief of Defence Research and Few satellites operate at the Pentagon spokesman Lieuten- ellites they collide with,” one of interceptor to destroy one of Development Organisation, said altitude of 300 km, from which ant Colonel Dave Eastburn its scientists, Laura Grego, said its own satellites at a height a low-altitude military satellite experts say the collision debris said.Mr Reddy identified the in a statement. of 300 km (186 miles), in a was picked for the test, to re- will fall back to earth, burning military satellite shot down as Top Court To Hear Pleas Challenging Centre’s 10% Quota To Poor On April 8 The Supreme Court on Thurs- commodate me,” he told the bench matter today in the CJI’s grant 10 per cent reservation to tution (103rd Amendment) Act, day said it would hear on April bench.Senior advocate Rajeev court.“We would like to give economically weaker sections 2019, saying economic criterion 8 a batch of petitions challeng- Dhavan, appearing for one of opportunity to them (Centre) in jobs and education.On March cannot be the sole basis for res- ing the Centre’s decision to the petitioners, referred to the and the Attorney General,” the 11, the apex court had said it ervation. grant 10 per cent reservation apex court’s last order passed bench told the counsel appear- was not in favour of passing The petitioner has said the in jobs as well as admissions in the matter on March 11 and ing for the petitioners.Rajeev an order at this stage to refer bill violates the basic feature of to educational institutions to said the issue of whether these Dhavan said the Railways is go- the petitions to a constitution the Constitution as reservation economically weaker sections pleas should be referred to a ing to hold recruitment with 10 bench.The court had said it will on economic grounds cannot be across all classes.A bench Constitution bench should be per cent reservation to economi- consider on March 28 whether limited to the general category comprising Justices SA Bobde considered.“If the matter is to cally weaker sections as per the the matter is required to be re- and the overall 50 per cent ceil- and SA Nazeer said it would go before a Constitution bench, 103rd amendment.The bench ferred to a constitution bench. ing limit cannot be breached. also deal with the contentions then ad-hoc adjournment can- orally observed that it would The top court had earlier refused The Centre has come out with raised by some of the petitioners not come in the way,” he said, be subject to its final orders to stay the Centre’s decision to the Constitutional amendment who have said that the matter adding, “You (bench) have to in the matter.Referring to the grant 10 per cent quota in jobs bill giving quota benefits to the was required to be adjudicated consider if this matter needs to nine-judge bench decision of and admissions to poor candi- poor among general category upon by a constitution bench. go before a Constitution bench the apex court in the landmark dates in the general category. candidates.The Lok Sabha and At the outset, Solicitor General since it attacks the basic struc- 1992 Indira Sawhney case, Ra- However, the court had agreed the Rajya Sabha cleared the Tushar Mehta, appearing for the ture”.To this, Tushar Mehta jeev Dhavan said reservation is to examine the validity of the bill on January 8 and 9 respec- Centre, sought an adjournment said, “On this (issue of whether to be based on the concept of law and issued a notice to the tively, and it has been signed saying he and Attorney General to refer the matter to a Constitu- discrimination. Centre on the pleas.Petitions by President Ram Nath Ko- KK Venugopal were appearing tion bench), the Attorney Gen- The apex court allowed a have been filed by parties, in- vind.The quota will be over in a matter on Thursday before eral has to say something.” separate plea filed by the Centre cluding ‘’Janhit Abhiyan’’ and and above the existing 50 per a constitution bench headed by He said these pleas have been which has sought a stay on pro- NGO ‘’Youth For Equality’’, cent reservation to Scheduled Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. “suddenly listed” before a new ceedings initiated in the Punjab challenging the Centre’s deci- Castes, Scheduled Tribes and “I am on my legs before the bench and the Attorney General and Haryana High Court against sion.One of the petitioners has Other Backward Classes. constitution bench. Please ac- was appearing in a Constitution the government’s decision to sought quashing of the Consti- THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 32 THE US FIJI TIMES Fiji News Hunt for Fijian man in his 30s who is accused of raping his 80-year-old mother-in-law A manhunt is underway for a mation on his whereabouts.’No being investigated.Seaqaqa Po- Fijian aged in his 30s accused of charges have been laid. The al- lice are investigating an alleged raping his 80-year old mother- leged incident is one of several incident involving a 14-year-old in-law last week. The alleged in- being investigated by Fijian student and a bus driver last July cident is being investigated after Police.A 14-year-old teen was after it was reported this week. it was reported by the victim to questioned and released in re- Totogo Police are also investi- Nausori Police in the country’s lation to the alleged rape of gating a separate alleged inci- Central Division on Tuesday. an eight-year-old boy, which dent involving a 16-year-old girl ‘It is alleged the incident oc- was reported to Labasa Police by a 22-year-old bus driver dur- curred inside the victim’s home in January.Police said the case ing a ‘drinking party’ at a unit last Friday morning when the will now be referred to the Di- complex in Suva on Sunday. two were alone,’ Fijian Police visional Crime Officer to -de Fijian Police said investigations said.‘Since the alleged incident, cide the next course of action. into both incidents continue and the suspect has been missing and Meanwhile, the alleged sexual that the young victims will un- investigators are pursuing infor- assaults of two teens are also dergo medical examinations. Fiji social media expert wants more education on appropriate use Friday prayers at two mosques respective of where we come seen were concerning, but it’s last week.Three people from from, irrespective of our faith not clear which specifically the Fiji were among those killed and irrespective of the place of police are investigating.“Some and New Zealand’s High Com- worship,” Mr Sayed-Khayium of the posts I think require more missioner to Fiji Jonathon Curr said.Meanwhile, Fiji police are focus and observation and it’s says they’re working with their continuing their investigations difficult to ascertain what specif- families.Another vigil was held into several several social me- ic content the Commissioner is in Fiji on Tuesday afternoon to dia posts that were made in the referring to because there’s quite remember those killed — this aftermath of the Christchurch a number but it comes across time at the Anglican Church in attacks, which they allege incite as insensitive,” Mr Tarai told the capital Suva. hatred.The Police Commission- Pacific Beat.“These issues on The country’s acting Prime er Brigadier General Sitiveni social media are a reflection of Minister, Attorney General Ai- Qiliho told local media FBC that what is concealed in our soci- yaz Sayed-Khaiyum was among they’re investigating, despite ety and it speaks to the fact of New Zealand Police say delay in releasing the bodies those to speak at the service.“We not receiving any official reports education that needs to be rolled they’ll improve communication for burial.So far 12 of the 50 are all brothers and sisters and or complaints.Jope Tarai from out. Advocacy and education, with the families of the Christ- victims have been identified if we are all brothers and sis- the University of the South Pa- more so than regulating these church terror attack victims, - after they were killed when ters, then we must be deeply cific in Suva specialises in social particular issues or at least on- as frustration grows about the a man fired at people during concerned about each other, ir- media and says some posts he’s line activity”. Young Woman Used Emergency Fijian Passport To Flee Cooks The Fijian Immigration Passport dueto the fact that she came to know of avenues closed authorities given the risk for on 11 March, which waslev- Department had issued ane- had met the requirements for a off to her for help,” she said. her life, if word got out.Now elled against a garage business mergency passport to a young Travel Document. I would She was surprised that the Cook family members are more con- employee. Neither of these in- woman whichallowed her to flee rather not comment on the is- Islands Police denied ever re- cerned with how the young lady volved any allegations by the the Cook Islands.More details sues surrounding her.”Ms Khan ceiving reports regardingrape escaped and how she obtained woman, of a sexual nature or continued to emerge yesterday said he had been supportive and sexual abuse.“They’re only a passport when they ought to any suggestions related to sex- on herescape. She claimed she after she disclosed what was claiming that the victim made a be concerned with her welfare ual abuse of any kind.“Today, fled because she was sexually- happening. harassment claim from March at the time.” she said.But her the Police are progressing with abused and kept as a sex slave “ A Successful Rescue Op- 11. What was done about that? mother in the Cooks denied her interviews again with the par- for six years. She couldnot find eration was put into place Nothing. That too was left un- daughter’s claims and called on ties involved. I may not have her original passport.Her legal thereafter. If you want to know resolved.” The young woman her to return to continue her law the outcomes of those investi- counsel, human rights lawyer the full details of how she got alleged a male family member studies.Cook Islands Police me- gations today but will try and Sabrina IqbalKhan, said the Di- out – ask God. It is by His Will raped and threatened her with dia officer Trevor Pitt said they keep you updated.”A Cook Is- rector of Immigration had exer- and His grace that she’s been- aknife. She also claimed an “are looking into two reported lands professional counsellor, cisedhis discretionary powers in saved,” Ms Khan said.“In the employee of the family also incidents – one is a complaint of Thomas Tarurongo Wynne, has issuing an emergencypassport. two years of knowing this girl, tried to rape her.Ms Khan said assault from about a year ago, offered Ms Khan his support. Director Nemani Vuniwaqa we have spoken every single that was the kind of situation involving a domestic argument. Mr Wynne said there were still said: “I had made thedecision day this year since Icame to she was exposed to.“We could “The second involving an al- victims there who were suffer- to issue her with an Emergency know of her suffering.“I also not reach out to other Fijian legation of verbal harassment ing a similar fate. THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 33

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THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 36 THE US FIJI TIMES LocalHealth News News Yes, More People Are Getting Plas- tic Surgery. Here’s Why Size acceptance, body positiv- Dr. Dennis Schimpf, FACS, ity, and fat activism are now part author of “Finding Beauty: of the cultural lexicon, yet ac- Think, See and Feel Beautiful” cording to data from the Ameri- and founder of Sweetgrass Plas- can Society of Plastic Surgeons tic Surgery in Charleston, South (ASPS), nearly a quarter mil- Carolina, thinks cell phones, lion more cosmetic procedures selfies, and social media plat- were performed in 2018 than in forms have greatly driven the 2017.And this isn’t a new trend. desire for plastic surgery.“If you The number of people getting think back even 10 years ago, cosmetic procedures has risen let alone 25, rarely would you steadily over the past five years. see yourself in pictures,” said How can you #loveyourself yet Schimpf. “Maybe a birthday or still pursue a cosmetic treatment wedding, usually some type of to smooth, shrink, or tuck a facet special event. Now, with mobile of your appearance? According devices and platforms, we’re lit- to experts, it’s easier— physi- erally seeing hundreds, if not cally, financially, and emotion- thousands, of pictures of our- ally — than you may think. selves documenting things we According to the ASPS, 1.8 don’t like about our appearance, At some point in the not-so- spring. are.”Advice for the cosmetically million cosmetic surgical pro- as well as the aging process.”In distant past, cosmetic plastic 5. More health benefits inclinedIf you’re thinking about cedures were done last year. other words, we’re all under con- surgery was only for the uber- So maybe getting your lips pursuing a cosmetic treatment The top 5:breast augmentation stant scrutiny — by ourselves. wealthy.Today, Schimpf’s most plumped won’t have benefits for yourself, make sure to:Ask (up 4% from 2017), liposuction 2. More acceptance common patient is usually “a beyond increasing your self- yourself “Why?” “And be hon- (up 5%), nose reshaping (down When Alan Matarasso, MD, working professional, often esteem. But “in certain circum- est,” advised Schimpf. “It has 2%), eyelid surgery (down 1%), FACS, first built his private double-income family or a stay- stances, some cosmetic treat- to be for you and the goal has tummy tuck (about the same) practice in New York City at-home mom who now, after ments can benefit your health,” to be to make you feel better Body-sculpting procedures such over 25 years ago, “I literally having children, would like to said Matarasso.Botox, for in- about yourself. Having a pro- as buttock augmentations, which put in a back door because regain the physical appearance stance, has been shown to help cedure to impress someone else improve the contour, size, or people didn’t want to walk in she once had,” he said.In other with conditions such as chronic or make someone else happy will shape of your butt, and thigh the front.” Matarasso is also words, not the stereotypical migraines, excessive sweating, never make you happy.” Find a lifts, which reduce excess skin president of ASPS and a clini- housewife in Beverly Hills who Bell’s palsy, and perhaps even reputable doctor you trustYes, and fat of your upper legs, also cal professor of surgery at Hof- “had her face done.”Cosmetic major depression.Women who you could go to a random den- saw an increase.15.9 million stra University.“Now, with the procedures, both surgical and choose a breast reduction often tist and have Botox done with minimally-invasive procedures rise of social media, people are nonsurgical, “have also become get relief from disc or back prob- a Groupon, but why not care- were also performed in 2018. Of in the recovery room, posting more affordable,” said Schimpf. lems. And plastic surgery allows fully research doctors first? Seek them, the most popular proce- about what they went through Plenty of financing options ex- people who’ve gone through care from a skilled board-cer- dures were:Botox (up 3% from and sending pictures to friends ist, from medical credit cards weight loss surgery to shed extra tified plastic surgeon who will 2017), fillers (up 2%), chemical that show the bandage on their and personal loans to payment skin that can cause severe rashes prioritize your care.“You want peels (up 1%), laser hair removal nose,” he said.“People are much plans offered by doctor’s offices. and infections.“While we may to go to someone who can say (down 1%), microdermabrasion more comfortable owning their Health insurance typically only not be curing cancer,” Matarasso ‘This is best for you,’ not ‘This (down 4%)It’s a diverse list, but self-care rituals — including covers cosmetic procedures due said, “the impact and psycho- is best for me,’” said Matarasso. most of these likely share one those that involve needles and to a medical reason — such as logical benefit [of some cosmetic “Plastic surgeons are trained as thing in common.“Most patients knives,” agreed Devgan.Since breast reconstruction after a treatments] can be profound.” much as heart surgeons.”Besides seek [cosmetic] procedures to 2015, the total number of re- mastectomy. 6. More self-confidence cosmetic procedures, many also feel like the best version of views on RealSelf has more than 4. More technological ad- According to a 2019 survey perform complex procedures like themselves,” said Dr. Lara Dev- doubled. Community users often vances by RealSelf/Harris Poll, the top breast cancer reconstruction and gan, MPH, FACS, chief medical post before and after photos and Technical procedures used cited motivations among those pediatric birth defects.Be spe- officer at RealSelf, a site where share candid details about the during cosmetic procedures who’ve had or are thinking cific about what you want to people learn about cosmetic treatment they chose to have.“I continue to become safer and about a cosmetic treatment are be differentDon’t assume any treatments, share experiences, also have patients come into my more reliable, said Matarasso. “to improve self-esteem/confi- surgeon knows what you mean and connect with providers. office and request to be on my So are the instruments and prod- dence” and “to look as good as by “better skin” or “smaller “There’s a magical paradox I’m Instagram feed, which is some- ucts doctors now have at their I feel.”That’s consistent across breasts.”“By understanding what helping people achieve: look- thing we never would have seen disposal.Nonsurgical treatments both surgical and nonsurgical you’re seeing and hoping to im- ing the same but better.”Why 5 years ago,” Devgan said.She are an especially rapidly evolv- procedures — and those reasons prove, the surgeon can hopefully cosmetic procedures are on the credits millennials for owning ing arena. “Lasers didn’t exist haven’t changed since RealSelf match a procedure that’s safe, upswing. Doctors who perform self-improvement. They “feel 10 years ago,” noted Matarasso. launched a decade ago.“Despite as well as one that meets your cosmetic procedures point to a that they don’t have to apologize And Botox used to be the only all of the changes in the techni- desired goals,” Schimpf said. number of reasons why people for their decisions, whatever line-smoothing neurotoxin on cal aspects of aesthetic surgery, Be realistic:Doctors “aspire to preach “Don’t let anyone judge they may be, and this attitude the market. Now, three others human desires and motivations an improvement over baseline, your appearance!” online yet is making Gen Xers and baby exist, and a fourth option, Jeu- remain the same,” said Devgan. not a shortfall from perfection,” still shell out money to change boomers feel that they don’t veau, was recently approved by “We all want to present our best said Devgan. “Plastic surgery is their own. have to either,” Devgan said. the Food and Drug Administra- selves to the world — the ways medicine, not magic.” 1. More screen time 3. More affordability tion and is poised to roll out this we do that depend on who we

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 37 Health News The key to brain health: Light but frequent exercise Researchers are finding new cise differently, and other stud- turn automatically.“This feature evidence that exercise — even ies presented aim to find better allowed us to keep pedal speed low-intensity, casual physi- strategies to encourage people constant while only changing cal activity — can boost brain to become more physically ac- heart rate between conditions health in the short- and long- tive — even in communities that of light- and moderate-inten- term.Evidence that exercise may struggle to offer their mem- sity activity,” says Voss, add- can benefit the brain and help bers the motivation, context, ing, “This is novel for acute maintain cognitive function and facilities they need.Both exercise paradigms, which — including memory — is short- and long-term benefit- often use sitting as a control accumulating.One study, for sAccording to Voss, this study condition.”In the future, the instance, suggests that engag- is the first of its kind; it looks researchers hope to replicate ing even in low-level phyisical at both the short- and long-term their findings in studies with a activities, such as doing house- benefits that exercise brings to larger participant cohort.Right hold chores, can help reduce the brain health, whereas normally, now, she and her colleagues risk of cognitive impairment in scientists focus on these two are recruiting participants for a want to add physical activity simulates physical activity for older adults.Now, a team led by aspects separately.In the study, trial that will augment the fitness to these weekly volunteering the improvement of cognitive Michelle Voss — from the Uni- volunteers agreed to undergo program duration to 6 months sessions.“We need to address function and physical mobility. versity of Iowa in Iowa City — functional MRI scans measuring to allow the volunteers to reap socioeconomic barriers like So far, the data — on 14 people has found evidence in support brain activity and take tests as- more physiological benefits. cost and accessibility to moti- who joined a 5-week interven- of the notion that the benefits sessing their working memory. Still, she notes that the results vate older adults to regularly en- tion — are promising.“What is of just one workout can predict The participants underwent show just how important it is to gage in healthful behaviors. And cool is that most participants, the benefits of frequent physi- these evaluations once follow- stay physically active. “Think many people don’t appreciate the regardless of baseline cognitive cal activity in the long run.The ing single workout sessions of about how physical activity may power of physical activity for our and physical limitations, learn team presented these findings at light- and moderate-intensity help your cognition today and brains.”-Michelle Carlson and improve steadily over ses- this year’s Cognitive Neurosci- exercise, and then again after a see what works,” she says. “Day So far, the researchers explain sions,” Carlson explains.“We ence Society’s symposia in San 12-week fitness program.Fol- by day, the benefits of physical that many of the studies they want to help a large segment Francisco, CA.As symposium lowing these assessments, the activity can add up.” have conducted within this pro- of the aging population that is chair Wendy Suzuki, of New scientists found that those who A ‘need to address socio- gram show that volunteers who sedentary or unable to tap into York University in New York had the most improvements in economic barriers’At the same participate in the physical activ- volunteer opportunities by pro- City, explains, “There is a strong brain network connectivity and symposium, Michelle Carlson ity initiatives — which include viding opportunities to increase and direct link between physi- the largest cognitive benefits — from Johns Hopkins Univer- regular walking — experience meaningful physical activity,” cal activity and how your brain after single workouts also had sity in Baltimore, MD — and better memory and other cogni- she adds.Suzuki explains that works.” similarly important positive ef- colleagues talked about their tive improvements.“These and even with all the evidence about “People still do not link phys- fects at the end of their train- efforts to make frequent physi- related findings in my [labora- exercise’s benefits for the brain, ical health to brain and cogni- ing programs.For the purpose cal activity an achievable goal tory] and others have contrib- there are many questions that tive health; they think about of this research, they also note for members of economically uted to our understanding that remain unanswered. These in- fitting into a bikini or losing that they opted for recumbent disadvantaged communities.To targeting low-intensity lifestyle clude: “Which types of exer- that last pound, not about all bicycles (where the individu- do so, they are setting up ini- activity is increasingly being cise work best to provide these the brain systems they are im- als lie down on their backs) tiatives within a program called recognized as important and [a] improvements?” However, she proving and enhancing every with motorized pedals, which the Experience Corps. The pro- scalable intervention to promote also expresses the hope that ad- time they work out.”However, meant that the participants had gram calls on older adults to any physical activity,” says Carl- ditional research might, little by the new research aims to en- the choice of either actively ped- mentor children from the same son.She and her team have also little, provide all the necessary courage people to view exer- aling or allowing the pedals to community, and the scientists been working on a 3D game that answers. Drinking hot tea may increase risk of esophageal cancer: Study Most people enjoy sipping on drinking temperature. We exam- for the purpose of the study. The also considered a “reported strengthen the existing evidence a piping hot cup of tea. How- ined the association of tea drink- researchers clinically followed shorter time from pouring tea supporting an association be- ever, a recently conducted study ing temperature, measured both the participants for an average to drinking” it — that is, on a tween hot beverage drinking that was published in the In- objectively and subjectively at period of 10.1 years, between scale between 2 and 6 minutes’ and [esophageal cancer risk],” ternational Journal of Cancer study baseline, with future risk 2004 and 2017, during which wait, as well as “reported prefer- conclude the researchers.As per throws light on the association of esophageal squamous cell period, 317 people developed ence for very hot tea drinking.”” the same report, Dr Islami and between drinking hot tea and carcinoma (ESCC) in a prospec- esophageal cancer.To arrive As far as the quantity is con- colleagues continue, “It may the risk of developing esopha- tive study”, the study stated. at specific conclusions, as per cerned, the study found that thus be a reasonable public- geal cancer.“Previous studies Researchers, led by Dr Farhad Medical News, “researchers drinking 700 milliliters (ml) of health measure to extrapolate have reported an association Islami, the strategic director of divided tea temperature into “very hot” tea per day increased these results to all types of bev- between hot tea drinking and Cancer Surveillance Research “very hot” – a temperature of the chances of esophageal can- erages, and to advise the public risk of esophageal cancer, but at the American Cancer Soci- over 60°C, and “cold [or] luke- cer by 90 per cent compared to wait for beverages to cool to no study has examined this as- ety, looked at the data of over warm,” that is, a temperature to drinking the same amount [lower than] 60°C before con- sociation using prospectively 50,000 people in Golestan, a that is or falls below 60°C. In of cold or lukewarm tea daily. sumption.” and objectively measured tea province in northeastern Iran their analysis, the researchers “Our results substantially THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 38 THE US FIJI TIMES Health News World Sleep Day 2019: The best and worst sleeping positions you need to know about This is the best sleeping position because the position puts your as it helps reduce the pressure on spine into an extension. It also your spine and at the same time affects the neck as it will be relaxes the entire body. Plac- turned on one side. Being in this ing a pillow under your knees position for a couple of hours at will help take care of the natural a stretch can be extremely harm- curve of your spine and reduce ful to the neck and the spine. the pressure on it.For someone If absolutely out of habit, you suffering from lower back pain, do sleep on your stomach, sleep sleeping on the back will reduce with a pillow under your tummy. the intensity of pain.Sleeping Sleeping in foetal positionThis side-waysSleeping on your back is the unhealthiest position one may not always be comfortable. can sleep in as it puts the spine You can turn side-ways, such in a flex, with an unnatural C- that your legs are aligned. A shape as opposed to the usual good precautionary measure S-shape of the spine.Spinal discs would be to place a pillow be- are jelly-like structures, if they tween your knees. This will help receive pressure from one side, stabilise the posture. If you sleep it bulges out from another side. A good sleeping habit organised by the World Sleep habit includes maintaining the without a pillow, your body This is called a disc bulge. In the includes maintaining the Day Committee of World Sleep natural curve of your spine and will flop down or fall forward, foetal position, all the discs are natural curve of your spine and Society.Despite sleep playing aligning your neck, back and putting more pressure on your pushed back, making the back aligning your neck, back and an essential role in one’s well- hips when lying down.Dr. Shi- spine.Sleeping side-ways ben- highly prone to problems like hips when lying down.Every being, most people neglect the kha Jain, senior spine specialist efits those suffering from lower a slipped disc.There is no way year, March 15 is observed as importance of a good sleeping at QI Spine clinic recommends back pain, stiff back, and neck to sleep healthily in the foetal World Sleep Day – a day that position. A poor sleeping posi- the two best and worst sleeping related issues.The two worst po- position. You must keep your highlights the importance of tion puts pressure on the neck, positions:Sleeping on your back- sitions to sleep in are:Sleeping back straight and if need be, your sleep in our lives. Dedicated to hips, and back, causing lower When sleeping on your back, on the stomachWhen you sleep legs at a right angle. Keeping a celebrating sleep as well as the back pain and hence impacting make sure that your head, neck, on your stomach, the natural pillow between your legs can health issues related to it, it is sleep quality.A good sleeping and spine are in neutral position. curve of your spine gets affected help stabilise the body. Diet good for the heart can also benefit the brain: Research Greater international coopera- 420 000 to die worldwide ev- ference is a great opportunity Goals,” WTO Director-General and improve nutrition, liveli- tion is needed to prevent unsafe ery year. Illness linked to unsafe for the international community Roberto Azevedo said. “Trade is hoods and trade. At the same food from causing ill health and food overloads healthcare sys- to strengthen political commit- an important force to lift people time, climate change and the hampering progress towards tems and damages economies, ments and engage in key ac- out of poverty… when we recon- globalization of food production, sustainable development, world trade and tourism. The impact of tions. Safeguarding our food is vene in Geneva in April we will coupled with a growing global leaders said at today’s opening unsafe food costs low- and mid- a shared responsibility. We must consider these issues in more population and increasing ur- session of the First Internation- dle-income economies around all play our part. We must work depth,” he added.Around 130 banization, pose new challenges al Food Safety Conference, in $95 billion in lost productiv- together to scale up food safety countries are participating in the to food safety. Food systems Addis Ababa, organized by the ity each year. Because of these in national and international po- two-day conference, including are becoming even more com- African Union (AU), the Food threats, food safety must be a litical agendas,” he said. ministers of agriculture, health, plex and interlinked, blurring and Agriculture Organization paramount goal at every stage of “Food should be a source of and trade. Leading scientific ex- lines of regulatory responsibil- of the United Nations (FAO), the food chain, from production nourishment and enjoyment, perts, partner agencies and rep- ity. Solutions to these potential the World Health Organization to harvest, processing, storage, not a cause of disease or death,” resentatives of consumers, food problems require intersectoral (WHO) and the World Trade distribution, preparation and said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghe- producers, civil society organi- and concerted international ac- Organization (WTO). consumption, conference par- breyesus, Director-General of zations and the private sector tionStrengthened collaboration A follow-up event, the Inter- ticipants stressed.“The partner- the World Health Organization. are also taking part.The aim of A central theme of the confer- national Forum on Food Safety ship between the African Union “Unsafe food is responsible for the conference is to identify key ence is that food safety systems and Trade, which will focus and the United Nations has been hundreds of thousands of deaths actions that will ensure the avail- need to keep pace with the way on interlinkages between food longstanding and strategic,” said every year, but has not received ability of, and access to, safe food is produced and consumed. safety and trade, is scheduled African Union Commission the political attention it deserves. food now and in the future. This This requires a sustained invest- to be hosted by WTO in Geneva chairperson Moussa Faki Ma- Ensuring people have access to will require a strengthened com- ment and coordinated, multi-sec- (23-24 April). The two meetings hamat. “This food safety confer- safe food takes sustained invest- mitment at the highest political toral approaches for regulatory are expected to galvanize sup- ence is a demonstration of this ment in stronger regulations, level to scale up food safety in legislation, suitable laboratory port and lead to actions in the partnership. Without safe foods, laboratories, surveillance and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable capacities, and adequate disease key areas that are strategic for it is not possible to achieve monitoring. In our globalized Development.Changing food surveillance and food monitor- the future of food safety. food security,” he said.“There world, food safety is everyone’s systemsTechnological advances, ing programmes, all of which Food contaminated with bac- is no food security without food issue.”“Food safety is a central digitalization, novel foods and need to be supported by informa- teria, viruses, parasites, toxins safety,” agreed FAO Director- element of public health and processing methods provide a tion technologies, shared infor- or chemicals causes more than General José Graziano da Silva will be crucial in achieving the wealth of opportunities to simul- mation, training and education. 600 million people to fall ill and during his remarks. “This con- 2030 Sustainable Development taneously enhance food safety, THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 39 Health News Woman in China nearly dies after injecting herself with fruit juice A woman in China almost edge.After injecting herself died after injecting herself with with the mixture, the woman liquidised fruit in a bid to be had itchy skin and a rising tem- healthy.The 51-year-old suf- perature.She was admitted to the fered liver, kidney, heart and intensive care unit of the hospi- lung damage and was put into tal on 22 February, before being intensive care for five days. transferred to a general ward There were over 20 kinds of and later discharged.The case fruit in the intravenous injec- has drawn attention on Chinese tion, an employee at the Af- social media site Weibo.More filiated Hospital of Xiangnan than 11,000 users have used the University in Hunan told the hashtag #OldWomanPutsJui- BBC.Social media users in Chi- ceIntoVeins.One person said: na claim the case highlights the “It seems the public’s medical need for basic medical knowl- knowledge is still too little.” Drinks to Help You Kick Your Soda Habit Are you a sugary soda junkie? know that the answer isn’t diet Following up on research but has the same mouth feel as might give you a lift at first, but If you’re ready to kick the habit, sodas. that calls the safety of these soda. With this one simple swap, then leave you crashing a few artificially sweetened drinks you’ll save hundreds of calories hours later. Instead, sip on iced into question is a February weekly as you trim your sugar tea made from caffeine-free study published in the journal cravings and your waistline. rooibos (also known as redbush) Stroke that found for women Used to the sweet taste of tea. As a plus, it has lots of an- after menopause, drinking more fruity sodas? Rotate among four tioxidants as well as great taste. than one diet soda a day was as- flavor additions to your spar- Finally, ginger ale fans can sociated with an increased risk kling water that give a hint of make their own calorie-free gin- for stroke or heart disease.For sweetness along with refreshing ger ale by adding one teaspoon tasty thirst quenchers, try these aroma: Lemon twist, lime twist, of freshly grated ginger root to easy and better-for-you swaps. four or five crushed raspber- 8 ounces of seltzer along with Water is great, but if you’re ries (fresh or frozen) and vanilla stevia to taste (start with a half- a soda drinker, you want the extract. Adding a teaspoon of teaspoon and add as needed). fizz. So don’t take the bubbles extract to your seltzer creates Garnish with fresh mint for away, but do start with sodium- a taste similar to old-fashioned more pizzazz.With all these free sparkling water or seltzer. cream soda.Are you more of a tasty drinks, you’ll find it easy It hydrates like plain tap water cola connoisseur? Sugary sodas to say so long to soda ‘Game of Thrones’ Actress Had Two Brain Aneurysms “Game of Thrones” actress treat it with minimally invasive Emilia Clarke disclosed Thurs- surgery. In 2013, routine moni- day that she’s had two surgeries toring showed that the second for brain aneurysms.In 2011, aneurysm had doubled in size. she developed a sudden, severe During minimally invasive headache while working out surgery to repair it, that aneu- and was rushed to a hospital. rysm burst, forcing doctors to Doctors discovered two brain perform open-brain surgery on aneurysms, which occur when Clarke, ABC News reported. a blood vessel in the brain has a “In my years since my sec- weak spot that causes it to bulge ond surgery I have healed be- and fill with blood.Aneurysms yond my most unreasonable can burst and be life-threaten- hopes,” said Clarke, who plays ing, because they cause bleed- Daenerys Targaryen on ‘Game ing in the brain.Doctors found of Thrones,’ a wildly popular that one of Clarke’s aneurysms fantasy series on HBO. had burst open, but were able to THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 40 THE US FIJI TIMES Health News People don’t become ‘adults’ until their 30s, say scientists Have you ever been told to health disorders.Professor Peter “grow up” in your 20s or need Jones, from Cambridge Univer- an excuse as to why you still sity, said: “What we’re really find cat videos on the internet saying is that to have a defini- really funny?Well now you tion of when you move from might have an official reason childhood to adulthood looks as to why you’re not acting like increasingly absurd. a mature adult.People don’t be- “It’s a much more nuanced come fully “adult” until they’re transition that takes place over in their 30s, according to brain three decades.” scientists. He added: “I guess systems Currently the UK law says like the education system, the you become a mature adult health system and the legal when you reach the age of system make it convenient 18.Scientists who study the for themselves by having brain and nervous system say definitions.”When you reach the age at which you become 18, you can vote, buy alcohol, an adult is different for every- get a mortgage and are also one.Research suggests people treated as an adult if you get in like (the idea of) a caterpillar trajectory.”Prof Jones is one of aged 18 are still going through trouble with the police.Despite between a 19-year-old defen- turning into a butterfly,” he changes in the brain which can this, Professor Jones says he dant and a “hardened criminal” a number of experts who are said.“There isn’t a childhood affect behaviour and make them believes experienced criminal in their late 30s.“I think the sys- taking part in a neuroscience and then an adulthood. People more likely to develop mental judges recognise the difference tem is adapting to what’s hiding meeting hosted by the Academy in plain sight, that people don’t are on a pathway, they’re on a of Medical Sciences in Oxford. WHO launches new global influenza strategy sulting in 290 000 to 650 000 than ever before for the next demic Influenza Preparedness influenza-related respiratory big outbreak, but we are still Framework, a unique access and deaths. WHO recommends an- not prepared enough,” said Dr benefit sharing system that sup- nual influenza vaccination as the Tedros. “This strategy aims to ports the sharing of potentially most effective way to prevent get us to that point. Fundamen- pandemic viruses, provides ac- influenza. Vaccination is espe- tally, it is about preparing health cess to life saving vaccines and cially important for people at systems to manage shocks, and treatments in the event of a pan- higher risk of serious influenza this only happens when health demic and supports the build- complications and for health systems are strong and healthy ing of pandemic preparedness care workers.The new strategy themselves.”To successfully capacities in countries through is the most comprehensive and implement this strategy, effec- partnership contributions from far-reaching that WHO has tive partnerships are essential. industry.The strategy meets one ever developed for influenza. WHO will expand partnerships of WHO’s mandates to improve It outlines a path to protect to increase research, innovation core capacities for public health, populations every year and and availability of new and im- and increase global prepared- helps prepare for a pandemic proved global influenza tools ness and was developed through through strengthening routine to benefit all countries. At the a consultative process with input programmes. It has two over- same time WHO will work from Member States, academia, arching goals:Build stronger closely with countries to im- civil society, industry, and inter- country capacities for disease prove their capacities to prevent nal and external experts. surveillance and response, pre- and control influenza.The new Supporting countries to vention and control, and pre- influenza strategy builds on and strengthen their influenza capac- WHO today released a Global transmitting from animals to hu- paredness. To achieve this, it benefits from successful WHO ity will have collateral benefits Influenza Strategy for 2019- mans and potentially causing a calls for every country to have programmes. For more than in detecting infection in general, 2030 aimed at protecting people pandemic is real. The question a tailored influenza programme 65 years, the Global Influenza since countries will be able to in all countries from the threat is not if we will have another that contributes to national and Surveillance and Response Sys- better identify other infectious of influenza. The goal of the pandemic, but when. We must global preparedness and health tem (GISRS), comprised of diseases like Ebola or Middle strategy is to prevent seasonal be vigilant and prepared – the security.Develop better tools to WHO Collaborating Centres East respiratory syndrome-relat- influenza, control the spread of cost of a major influenza out- prevent, detect, control and treat and national influenza centres, ed coronavirus (MERS-CoV). influenza from animals to hu- break will far outweigh the price influenza, such as more effec- have worked together to moni- Through the implementation mans, and prepare for the next of prevention.” tive vaccines, antivirals and tor seasonal trends and poten- of the new WHO global influ- influenza pandemic.“The threat Influenza remains one of the treatments, with the goal of tially pandemic viruses. This enza strategy, the world will be of pandemic influenza is ever- world’s greatest public health making these accessible for all system serves as the backbone closer to reducing the impact present.” said WHO Director- challenges. Every year across countries.“With the partnerships of the global alert system for of influenza every year and be General Dr Tedros Adhanom the globe, there are an estimated and country-specific work we influenza. more prepared for an influenza Ghebreyesus. “The on-going 1 billion cases, of which 3 to have been doing over the years, Important to the strategy is pandemic and other public risk of a new influenza virus 5 million are severe cases, re- the world is better prepared the on-going success of the Pan- health emergencies.

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 41 Recipes Zafrani Pulao Recipe for Zafrani Pulao- least 30 minutes. fried paneer cubes and fresh saf- Preparation time: 10 minutes Soak the saffron strands in fron strands. Cooking time: 30 minutes the hot milk. Detailed Steps to make Zaf- Serves: 3-4 Slice the onion lengthwise rani Pulav Ingredients and fry it till it become brown. 1. Wash and soak the rice for Basmati Rice - 1.5 cups Remove and keep aside. at least 30 minutes. Soak Saffron - 2 pinches Heat ghee in a pan, fry the the saffron strands in the Warm Milk - 1/4 cup nuts, remove and keep aside. hot milk. Hot water - 2.5 cups Method 2. Slice the onion lengthwise Nuts (Cashews, Almonds, Heat ghee in a pan and splut- and fry it till it become Walnuts etc) - 1/2 cup ter the cumin seeds and whole brown. Remove and keep Dried Fruits (Golden Raisins garam masala. aside. or other dry fruits like Black Drain the soaked rice and add 3. Heat ghee in a pan, fry Raisins, Cranberries, Pineapple to this. Roast it in ghee for few the nuts, remove and keep etc) - 1/4 cup minutes. aside. Whole Garam Masala - (cin- Add hot water and salt. 4. Heat ghee in a pan and namon stick - 2, cardamon - 2, Cover and cook for 5-7 min- splutter the cumin seeds 3 cloves) utes till most of the moisture is and whole garam masala. Black Cumin (Shahi Jeera) absorbed. 5. Drain the soaked rice and - 1 tsp At this stage add the soaked add to this. Roast it in ghee Onion - 1/2 (for frying) saffron-milk mixture on top of for few minutes. Ghee - 3 tbsp the rice. Also add the toasted 6. Add hot water and salt. Salt - 1/2 tsp nuts and fried onions. 7. Cover and cook for 5-7 Optional Ingredients Cover and cook on low flame minutes till most of the Fresh fruits (eg: Pomegran- for another 3-5 minutes till the moisture is absorbed. ate, apple) - 1/4 cup (for gar- rice is completely done and all 8. At this stage add the soaked 9. Cover and cook on low top and fluff up with a fork. nish) the moisture is absorbed. saffron-milk mixture on flame for another 3-5 10. Garnish with additional Paneer - 1/2 cup Add few drops of ghee on top top of the rice. Also add minutes till the rice is nuts, fresh fruits, fried pan- Preparation Steps and fluff up with a fork. Garnish the toasted nuts and fried completely done and all eer cubes and fresh saffron Wash and soak the rice for at with additional nuts, fresh fruits, onions. the moisture is absorbed. strands. Add few drops of ghee on Sweet Punjabi Lassi, Dahi Ki Lassi The secret to making perfect is not only refreshing but also 2. 3/4 cup powdered sugar Lassi lies in the curds. If the quite satiating. Sometimes, a Method curds are loosely set or sour, glass of Lassi can be a mini 1. Combine the curds and you will just not get it right. So, meal itself! powdered sugar in a deep the first step is to put the curds Enjoy lassi after relishing bowl and whisk well till into the refrigerator as soon as chatpata chaats . smooth. it sets, so that after some time it Other variants of lassi to try 2. Add ¼ cup of water and will be thick and luscious, with are Grape Lassi , Mango Lassi whisk well till smooth. a fresh flavour that is just perfect , Kesar-Pista Lassi , Cardamom 3. Refrigerate it for 30 minutes. for Lassi. Lassi and salty variant like Phu- 4. Pour equal quantities of All you need is such fresh curds dina Lassi . the lassi into 4 individual and sugar to make a large glass Ingredients glasses and serve imme- of sweet and thick Lassi, which 1. 3 cups curds (dahi) diately. Masala Masoor Ingredients 4. 1 tsp cumin seeds (jeera) they turn translucent. 1. 3/4 cup masoor (whole red 5. 25 of ginger (adrak) 4. Add the prepared ground lentil) , soaked overnight 6. 1/4 cup water paste, mix well and cook and drained For The Garnish on a medium flame for 2 2. 7 to 8 small sized white 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander minutes, while stirring oc- onions , peeled (dhania) casionally. 3. salt to taste Method 5. Add the tomatoes and salt, 4. 1 tbsp oil 1. Combine the masoor, white mix well and cook on a me- 5. 1/2 cup sliced onions onions, salt and 1 cup of dium flame for 2 minutes, 6. 1/2 cup chopped tomatoes water, mix well and pres- while stirring occasionally. To Be Ground Into A Smooth sure cook for 1 whistle. 6. Add the cooked masoor Paste 2. Allow the steam to escape dal – onion mixture, mix 1. 2 tsp chopped garlic before opening the lid. well and cook on a medium (lehsun) Keep aside. flame for 2 to 3 minutes, 2. 4 whole dry kashmiri red 3. Heat the oil in a broad non- while stirring occasionally. chillies , broken into pieces stick pan, add the onions 7. Serve hot garnished with 3. 2 tsp coriander (dhania) and sauté on a medium coriander. seeds flame for 2 minutes or till

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THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 46 THE US FIJI TIMES Bollywood News Student of the Year 2: Tiger Shroff, Tara Sutaria and Ananya Pan- day to glam up popular retro track Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Karan Johar’s upcoming pro- Jaya Bachchan starrer Jawani from the first part. Talking about duction venture Student of the Diwani. The popular will have the film, it is directed by Pu- Year 2 featuring Tiger Shroff a modern touch and will be pic- nit Malhotra, who previously along with debutants Tara Su- turised on the lead stars Tiger helmed films like I Hate Luv taria and Ananya Panday has Shroff, Ananya Panday and Tara Storys and Gori Tere Pyaar been in the news for quite some Sutaria. Well, there are possi- Mein. It is produced under the time now. The Baaghi actor has bilities, that Alia Bhatt might banners of Dharma Productions been updating us about the sta- also feature in the song as he and will be distributed by Fox tus of the film through some earlier hinted in an interview Star Studios. It is scheduled cool videos and pictures from with Midday that she will be to hit the screens on May 10. the sets. While we are quite seen in a special from SOTY Meanwhile, Tiger Shroff is cur- excited to check out the new 2. “I am sure Karan (Johar) rently shooting for an untitled batch of the students, here’s an will find a way to associate us film along with Hrithik Roshan interesting piece of news, which in some way. For all you know, and Vaani Kapoor, which is di- will raise your excitement to the there might be some reference rected Bang Bang helmer Sid- next level. to us in the second part. Never dharth Anand and is scheduled As per the latest reports, the say never! It could be possible,” to hit the screens on October makers have decided to include said the Gully Boy actress. 2. It will clash with Sidharth the remix version of hit retro Well, we hope the glamor- Malhotra and Riteish Deshmukh song, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani ous song turns out to be a chart- starrer song from Randhir Kapoor and buster just like Disco Deewane Saroj Khan says Bollywood songs have hit an all-time low Choreographer Saroj Khan and dress the same.”She added is undoubtedly one of Bolly- that she often has to ask her wood’s most celebrated person- kids who the actress is, stating alities with her commendable that yester-years stars were dis- body of work over the years. tinctive and weren’t afraid of The star choreographer, who close-ups.Khan even slammed will be collaborating with Mad- music directors for remixing old huri Dixit in the upcoming film songs and not coming up with ‘Kalan’, shared her thoughts more original work.Meanwhile, and disappointments about the ‘Kalank’, directed by Abhishek Bollywood songs hitting “an Varman and starring Alia Bhatt, all-time low.” Varun Dhawan, Sonakshi Sinha, Elaborating on her comment, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sanjay Dutt she said that none of the new and Madhuri Dixit, is slated to songs are memorable and that release on 17 April, with the one can’t differentiate between film’s romantic title track set heroines who she says, “look to drop soon. Priyanka Chopra Jonas launches her inspirational YouTube series ‘If I Could Tell You Just One Thing’ In Priyanka Chopra’s first the wise words, Priyanka took and PeeCee laughed. “I want YouTube series ‘If I Could a moment, and reiterated, “Do to… it’s not like I don’t want Tell You Just One Thing’, she something that scares you.” to,” she responded. interacted with three powerful When the same question was “No no, I mean, that’s ok,” women from varied fields— asked in the next segment, Awk- said the veteran designer, and American artistic gymnast, wafina stated, “My grandma added, “The most important Simone Biles; American rap- told me, life is only a series of relationship in life is the one per and actress, Awkwafina and ups and downs. When you are you have with yourself. Period.” Belgian fashion designer, Diane up, there’s no way but to go Soon, Priyanka will feature Von Furstenberg. down and when you are down, the upcoming film ‘The Sky Is Our desi girl asked for one the only way is up.” Pink’ along with Farhan Akhtar, piece of advice that they would Towards the end, fashion icon Zaira Wasim and Rohit Saraf. give her, and Simone exclaimed, Diane Von Furstenberg jokingly The film is slated to release on “Risks taking!” Intrigued by advised her to have children, October 11. THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 47 Bollywood News Diljit Dosanjh: ‘1st sardar at Tussaud’s’ Have you ever been told to es in the brain which can affect get in trouble with the police. “grow up” in your 20s or need behaviour and make them more Despite this, Professor Jones an excuse as to why you still likely to develop mental health says he believes experienced find cat videos on the internet disorders.Professor Peter Jones, criminal judges recognise the really funny?Well now you from Cambridge University, difference between a 19-year- might have an official reason said: “What we’re really say- old defendant and a “hardened as to why you’re not acting like ing is that to have a definition of criminal” in their late 30s.“I a mature adult.People don’t be- when you move from childhood think the system is adapting come fully “adult” until they’re to adulthood looks increasingly to what’s hiding in plain sight, in their 30s, according to brain absurd.“It’s a much more nu- that people don’t like (the idea scientists. anced transition that takes place of) a caterpillar turning into a Currently the UK law says over three decades.”He added: butterfly,” he said.“There isn’t you become a mature adult “I guess systems like the educa- a childhood and then an adult- when you reach the age of tion system, the health system hood. People are on a pathway, 18.Scientists who study the and the legal system make it they’re on a trajectory.”Prof brain and nervous system say convenient for themselves by Jones is one of a number of the age at which you become an having definitions.”When you experts who are taking part in adult is different for everyone. reach 18, you can vote, buy al- a neuroscience meeting hosted Research suggests people aged cohol, get a mortgage and are by the Academy of Medical Sci- 18 are still going through chang- also treated as an adult if you ences in Oxford. When Aamir took his ‘tiffin’ to Shah Rukh’s house Aamir Khan lost nearly 25 home, Mannat, at a party thrown har’s Fat Loss DietThe event kilos to transform from the older for the CEO of Apple Inc, Tim itself was unusual as the book version to the younger version of Cook, or going for a meeting, was released last year, but Dr Mahavir Singh Phogat in Dan- this superstar will carry along Dhurandhar was only able to gal.He has already lost 3.5 kilos his own “tiffin”.And that’s what visit India this year to have his for his coming film, Lal Singh he’ll tuck into, especially when favourite celebrity client, who Chaddha.This, Aamir says, has he trying to lose weight for a has also written the foreword, been possible due to his “tiffin” film.Watch him explain what launch it.If the good doctor had and to Dr Nikhil Dhurandhar. happens how this can end up actually had his way, this book “Isme apne ko sharam nahi kar- being rather funny, and share may never have been written. ni chahiye (We should not feel some diet tips as well. Let Aamir Khan, who first embarrassed while doing this),” Aamir was speaking at consulted with Dr Dhurandhar says Aamir Khan.So, whether the book launch of Dr Nitin for Dangal, explain why. he is in Shah Rukh Khan’s grand Dhurandhar’s Dr Dhurand- ‘Salman said, “Leave everything and become an actor”’ Zaheer Iqbal was perform- when you read the script of actor to be sad. He wants me to why I started working early. wedding. He told me, ‘Leave ing at his sister’s wedding Notebook? I loved it. It is such be sad like Kabir is. What does How did films happen? everything and become an ac- when superstar Salman Khan an unconventional love story. he do when he is sad? How does I always had a filmi keeda.I tor. You have everything that did a double take and decided Before I picked up Notebook, he react when he is happy? If was always into dance and dra- it takes.’ I loved what he said. to launch him under his banner. we had gone through a lot of you ask me if Kabir had tea or ma. In weddings, I don’t dance, Were you interested in acting Zaheer, 31, is the son of one of scripts for me and most of them coffee as a kid, I will tell you I perform. So that nautanki was before Salman approached you? followed the same trodden path that he had coffee. I can tell you always in me. Salman bhai saw I am very fond of performing. Salman’s closest friends.Note- -- the boy meets girl and the what his mother was like, what my performance at my sister’s book, directed by Nitin Kak- father gets upset... stuff like his father was like, who his best kar, co-stars Kajol’s gorgeous that. When I read the script of friends were. I can even tell you niece Pranutan Bahl and tells a Notebook, I was very happy; their names. I have gone into unique love story“We shot very its unconventional romance at- that sort of preparation where less with each other,” Zaheer tracted me. We should explore today when you ask me about says as Rediff.com Contributor different types of love stories. Kabir, I feel he is a real guy. Mohnish Singh listens in. Everyone is getting tired of the What made you choose acting? Do you believe in nepotism? predictable, conventional, ro- I was very fond of construction. I was a part of nepotism in my mantic film. I started working at a very early father’s construction business. Do you relate to your char- age. During my college holi- My father wanted me to take acter Kabir? Nitin (Kakkar, days, I used to go to my father’s director) sir told me a lot about office and work. I used to enjoy his knowledge and experience my character Kabir, like how it. I love the concept of mak- of 25 years and take the real is he in life, how he behaves ing buildings. When you see a estate business forward. So I and talks. I backtracked Kabir building that you have made, it was a part of nepotism in the and made a life journey for him. feels great. I always wanted to construction business. But not Nitin Sir does not believe that be the youngest builder in Mum- here. What was your reaction you come on set and he tells the bai... in India, actually. That’s

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 48 THE US FIJI TIMES BollywoodBollywood News News Rani Mukerji is back! Last year, Rani Mukerji made Sukanya Verma noted in her re- a solid comeback in Hichki. view, ‘Rani Mukerji plays Liam The actress had taken a break Neeson!’Sharing an Instapic on from the movies after her 2014 the Yash Raj Films Insta feed, wedding to cine mogul Aditya team YRF wrote, ‘#RaniMukerji Chopra. The following year, starts shooting for #Mardaani2’. Rani and Adi had their daugh- Rani was last seen in ‘Hich- ter, Adira.Rani was lauded for ki’, a film where she played a her nuanced performance as a teacher suffering from Tourette school teacher who suffers from Syndrome. Her performance Tourette syndrome in Hichki, was loved by the classes and which released in March 2018. masses alike. The movie was Rani has now started working an Indian adaptation of Brad on Mardaani 2, the sequel to her Cohen’s autobiography Front 2014 thriller Mardaani in which of the Class: How Tourette Syn- she played tough cop Shivani drome Made Me the Teacher I Shivaji Roy -- or as our critic Never Had. Mahesh Babu’s wax statue visits him Here is good news for all the on March 25 for a day. fans of Tollywood superstar This is the first time Madame Mahesh Babu. His wax statue Tussauds is organising a presti- has been brought from Madame gious event outside Singapore Tussauds, Singapore and placed and the wax statue of Mahesh in AMB Cinemas, Hyderabad Babu will be flown back to on Monday. [Scroll down to Museum after the event. Such see photosMahesh Babu fans events have restricted visit for were are extremely delighted fans and outsiders as they are with the announcement about filled with stars and VIPs. But his wax idol to be placed in this time, it is going to be a Madame Tussauds, Singapore. pure press-fans event and the Another exciting news for them regional, national and interna- is that the statue will fly all the tional press has been invited for way from Singapore and will the grand launch. be placed in his AMB Cinemas Life lessons from Aamir Khan There is a reason why between faith and arrogance In hai hone do, bardaasht karte jao Aamir Khan is one of the Ghajini, Aamir explains the dif- ya phir zimmedari uthao usse most successful actors in ference between faith and arro- badalneki.’ 3. Don’t chase suc- the Hindi film industry.His gance quite precisely. ‘Vishvas cess 3 Idiots has many life les- movies are not only enter- aur ghamund mein bahut kum sons. The strongest would be not to chase success blindly. taining, but they also teach farak hai. Main kar sakta hoon, yeh mera vishvas hai. Sirf main Instead, just be capable, and some valuable lessons.And hi kar sakta hoon, yeh mera gha- success will come to you. ‘Bac- when we say lessons, we mund.’ 2. Bear it or take charge cha kabil bano, kabil. Kamyabi don’t mean kitaabi gyaan. Rang De Basanti is for all to sali jhak maar ke peeche It’s much more than that.As those who crib about every- bhagegi.’ Aamir Khan celebrates his thing that is wrong with the 4. Never stop fighting for birthday, Namrata Thakker country while sitting inside what’s right Aamir has a life les- looks at some important life their air-conditioned homes and son that perhaps even Narendra only boys can fulfill ambitions? liye khushti me gold lata. Yo lessons we can learn from his offices.‘Zindagi jeene ke do hi Modi can learn from.‘Ladenge Women can do it just as well. baat mere samajh me na aayi, ki movies.1. Learn the difference tarike hote hai -- ek jo ho raha toh khoon bahega ... nahi lad- ‘Main hamesha yo soch ke rotta gold toh gold hota hai, chhora enge toh yeh log khoon choos reya ki chhora hota to desh ke laave ya chhori.’ lenge.’ 5. Don’t weigh your child down Taare Zameen Par offers a beautiful insight into how to raise children. ‘Apni am- bitions ka wajan apne bachcho ke nazuk kandhon pe daalna ... it’s worse than child labour.’ 6. #Friendship goals 3 Idiots has some insights into friend- ship too. ‘Dost fail ho jaye toh dukh hota hai ... lekin dost first aa jaye toh zyada dukh hota hai.’ 7. Empower women Who says

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 49 World News Cyclone Idai: A Time to Reassess Disaster Management It was one of the worst tropi- cal cyclones hit Southern Africa in recent times. Cyclone Idai, which has been characterised by heavy rains and flooding includ- ing mudslides in some parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, has left more than 750 dead, with thousands marooned in remote rural areas, whilst oth- ers are still unaccounted for. More than 1,5 million people are affected by the cyclone in the region.Almost two weeks after the cyclone hit, many of the areas have not been acces- sible as roads, bridges, homes were completely destroyed and communication cut off making it impossible for the rescue teams to provide support in the affected areas.But as people begin to pick up the pieces of their lives, and as aid pours into the region from all corners of the world, questions are being munities to flee to in the event of characterised the 2018/2019 it comes to settlements. In the measures and systems to ensure asked about the disaster pre- an evacuation.“As an organisa- farming season, this created con- case of Cyclone Idai there was adequate support and disaster paredness of many countries. tion we only managed to provide ducive conditions for cyclones lack of preparedness and people mitigation. “We still going to While the highest tolls of those information on the cyclone by to form.“A tropical cyclone re- underestimated the gravity or get tropical cyclones affecting affected are from Mozambique, word of mouth as well as social quires energy that’s why they amount of rain that would fall. lives, we need to map areas that eastern Zimbabwe was also hard media, in this case What’s app, tend to form mostly on the ocean Local rescue operations in the are susceptible – having long hit by Cyclone Idai. There, large which is rarely taken seriously as the ocean temperatures are a aftermath have not all been ef- term plans to deal with future areas of water bodies are pres- as it is often seen as a gossip bit warm. Furthermore, with cli- fect as in some cases people cyclones if they happen. Ideally ent where homes once were. platform,” says Madhuku.The mate change, a situation where- resorted to using shovels and we need to ensure that every Meteorology and Early warn- country’s Civil Protection Unit, by surface temperatures are ris- hoes to dig up rocks and trees. part of the country should have ing systems which is part of Zimbabwe’s ing even the oceans are warming The lack of adequate equipment some level of preparedness,” Claris Madhuku, director for Local Government Ministry, up which creates favourable and tools to undertake rescue Unganai advises.Where people Youth Development Trust, a had told people to move to the conditions for these extreme operations has been obvious are housed after a natural disas- community-based nonprofit or- higher ground. It was a case of weather events to form,” says and the country has turned to ter is also import.Some areas in ganisation based in Zimbabwe’s being between a rock and a hard Unganai, adding that there is neighbours and other partners Chimanimani and Chipinge had Chipinge and Chimanimani ar- place, as even those who sought likely to be an increase in terms for assistance. South Africa has preciously designated for plan- eas (the areas most affected by refuge at high-lying areas were of the intensity of the severity offered sniffer dogs in order to tations, but in the aftermath of the cyclone), tells IPS that infor- affected by mudslides.Climate of the cyclone system.“We have identify dead bodies trapped the cyclone there are settlements mation provided by Zimbabwe’s change expert, Dr. Leonard Un- a warm atmosphere and warm under boulders. of people seeking shelter.Mad- meteorological department ganai stated that almost every oceans such that when they “There is a lot of panic as huku remembers back in 2000 ahead of Cyclone Idai making season tropical cyclones form strike they tend to cause a lot there is a mismatch of official when Cyclone Eline affected landfall had been insufficient to in the southern hemisphere, but of destruction,” Unganai tells statistics available about people communities in the eastern part prepare people of the danger.In only five percent tend to make IPS.Climate change adaptation who are missing, pointing to the of the country. People had fled addition, many people did not a landfall. and mitigation.Unganai advised fact that more people could have the destruction and ended up have the capacity to cope with But since 2018 was the warm- that there should be more aware- lost their lives,” Madhuku notes. erecting permanent structures the cyclone and there were no est year on record, as seen by ness and education around cli- There is obviously a need on the river banks and below safe alternative places for com- the droughts and dry spells that mate change particularly when for governments to put in place the mountains. Andrew Cuomo is reportedly trying to get Amazon to come back to NYC Some New Yorkers rejoiced ness owners, and community to the world’s industry leader mit to a project as important as executives, including Bezos, by after Amazon announced it activists have signed on to an in e-commerce, logistics and this, we figure out a way to get phone over the past two weeks. would no longer be building open letter to Amazon CEO web services would be a tre- it done in a way that works for But Cuomo’s efforts may not a massive, 25,000-employee Jeff Bezos, urging him to re- mendous boost for our state’s everyone.”The letter also states be enough to get the company corporate campus in the Long consider backing out of the deal, technology industry, which is that Cuomo will “take personal back. Public opposition to the Island City neighborhood of the New York Times reported our fastest growing generator responsibility for the project’s idea of an Amazon campus in Queens. But others — includ- on Thursday. Signatories in- of new jobs,” the letter reads. state approval,” and Mayor New York City began brewing ing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and clude representatives Hakeem “We know the public debate that de Blasio “will work together long before the company an- Mayor Bill de Blasio, who Jeffries and Carolyn Maloney, followed the announcement of with the governor to manage nounced where its so-called helped broker the deal with the the presidents of four public the Long Island City project was the community development second headquarters, which it tech giant — were less pleased. housing tenant associations, rough and not very welcoming. process.”Cuomo, the Times dubbed HQ2, would be.ome And now a group of them are and the CEOs of Goldman Opinions are strong in New reports, has been “furiously critics speculated that Amazon’s begging Amazon to come back. Sachs and JetBlue. (Cuomo York — sometimes strident. working behind the scenes to search for a home for its new Led by Cuomo, a disparate did not sign the letter.)“We un- We consider it part of the New lure the company back,” and has office park, which it framed as coalition of politicians, busi- derstand that becoming home York charm! But when we com- repeatedly spoken to Amazon a national competition THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 50 THE US FIJI TIMES Recipes Paneer Masoor Paratha Ingredients into a soft dough using aside. For The Dough enough water. How to proceed 1. 3/4 cup whole wheat flour 2. Cover the dough with a lid 1. Divide the dough into 6 (gehun ka atta) and keep aside for 10 to 15 equal portions. 2. 1 tbsp oil minutes. 2. Roll a portion of the dough 3. salt to taste For the filling into a 75 mm. (3”) diameter For The Filling 1. Clean, wash and soak the circle using a little whole 1. 1/2 cup crumbled paneer masoor in enough water in wheat flour for rolling. (cottage cheese) a deep bowl for 8 hours. 3. Place one portion of the 2. 1/4 cup masoor (whole red Drain well. filling in the centre of the lentil) 2. Combine the masoor and circle. 3. 1/2 cup chopped onions 1 cup of water in a deep 4. Bring together all the sides 4. 1 tsp chilli powder non-stick pan, cover it with in the centre and seal it 5. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder a lid and cook on a medium tightly. (haldi) flame for 8 minutes or till 5. Roll again into a 125 mm. 6. 1 tsp coriander (dhania) the masoor gets cooked, (5”) diameter circle using powder while stirring occasionally. a little whole wheat flour 7. salt to taste Drain well and mash it us- for rolling. Other Ingredients ing a potato masher into a 6. Heat a non-stick tava (grid- 1. whole wheat flour (gehun coarse mixture. dle) and cook the paratha, ka atta) for rolling 3. Combine the coarsely using a little oil, till golden 2. oil for cooking mashed masoor, paneer, brown spots appear on both For Serving onions, chilli powder, tur- the sides. 1. fresh curd meric powder, coriander 7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 to make Method powder and salt in a deep 5 more parathas. For the dough bowl and mix well. 8. Serve hot with fresh curds. 1. Combine all the ingredients 4. Divide the mixture into 6 in a deep bowl and knead equal portions and keep Buckwheat, Moong and Vegetable Khichdi Ingredients 8. 1/4 tsp asafoetida (hing) seeds. 1. 1 1/2 cups buckwheat (kut- 9. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder 5. Once the cumin seeds to or kutti no daro) (haldi) crackle, add the asafoetida, 2. 1/2 cup yellow moong dal 10. 2 tsp green chilli paste moong dal, buckwheat and (split yellow gram) 11. salt to taste mixed vegetables and sauté 3. 1 cup chopped and boiled For Serving on a medium flame for 2 to mixed vegetables (French 1. Karela Kadhi / Low-fat 3 minutes. beans, carrots, green peas, Curds 6. Add the turmeric powder, cauliflower) 2. Method green chilli paste, salt and 4. 1 tsp oil 3. Clean and wash the moong approx. 4 cups of water, 5. 2 black peppercorns (ka- dal and buckwheat togeth- mix well and pressure cook limirch) er. Drain and keep aside. for 3 whistles. 6. 1 to 2 cloves (laung / la- 4. Heat the oil in a pressure 7. Serve hot with karela kadhi vang) cooker, add the pepper- or low-fat curds 7. 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera) corns, cloves and cumin Makhane ki Kheer Ingredients seeds and sauté on a medi- crushed lotus seeds, mix 1. 1 cup lotus seeds (makha- um flame for 3 to 4 minutes well and cook for 19 min- na) or till they turn crisp. utes or till the milk has re- 2. 2 tbsp ghee 2. Remove from the flame, al- duced to half, while stirring 3. 5 cups full-fat milk low it to cool and blend in and scraping the sides of 4. 3/4 cup sugar a mixer to a coarse powder. the pan occasionally. 5. a few saffron (kesar) Keep aside. 5. Add the saffron and nutmeg strands 3. Boil the milk in a deep non- powder, mix well and cook 6. 1/2 tsp nutmeg (jaiphal) stick pan, add the sugar, on a medium flame for 1 powder mix well and cook on a more minute. For The Garnish high flame for 2 minutes 6. Switch off the flame and 1. 1 tbsp pistachio slivers or till the sugar dissolves, allow to cool completely. Method while stirring continuously. 7. Refrigerate for atleast 1 1. Heat the ghee in a broad 4. Reduce the flame to me- hour and serve chilled non-stick pan, add the lotus dium, add the coarsely garnished with pistachios.

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THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 52 THE US FIJI TIMES HealthWorld NewsNews World Bank Financializing Development ‘shadow banking’ into securi- measures will inadvertently with social, environmental or ties-based finance, while the Eu- undermine needed financial in- other public interests.Not sur- ropean Commission’s Sustain- stitutions such as development prisingly, considerable doubt able Finance initiative seeks to banks. There is no reason to be- exists as to whether private similarly reorient institutional lieve that MFD will somehow capital markets and institutional investors and asset managers. create the capital market infra- investors can be incentivized to Cascading financialization The structure to improve finance for finance long-term public goods Bank’s ‘Cascade’ approach SMEs or needed development as these mechanisms serve the seeks to institutionalize this bias transformations.Once a proj- profit motive, not public wel- for private financing. It seeks to ect’s future revenue streams fare.Anis Chowdhury, Adjunct facilitate securities lending by are securitized, the multilateral Professor at Western Sydney enabling ‘repo’ market financ- development banks’ environ- University & University of New ing and hedging, and ‘rehypoth- mental and social safeguards South Wales (Australia), held ecation’, i.e., allowing securities no longer apply. Contracts to senior United Nations posi- to be used repeatedly for new repay securitized debt held by tions in New York and Bang- lending.The Cascade approach seeks to accelerate financializa- tion with measures to accommo- date new asset classes, enable banks to engage in securities and derivatives markets with minimal regulation, deregulate financial institutions creating tradable assets from PPP proj- The World Bank has suc- nancialization coalition The ects, and facilitate capital flows cessfully legitimized the notion MFD strategy seeks to enable ostensibly for development.It that private finance is the solu- financialization and transition presumes market imperfections tion to pressing development to securities-based financial and missing markets deter the and welfare concerns, includ- systems in developing coun- private sector from financing ing achieving the Sustainable tries, complementing other sustainable development proj- Development Goals (SDGs) initiatives by the Bank, IMF ects, and proposes to address through Agenda 2030.A recent and G20. Such initiatives are such bottlenecks by ‘internaliz- investors would be disconnected kok. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, McKinsey report estimates expected to encourage investors ing externalities’ and providing from the underlying project fi- a former economics professor, that the world needs to invest to use environmental, social and subsidies and guarantees to de- nanced and its consequences. was Assistant Director-General about US$3.3 trillion, or 3.8 per governance criteria to attract, risk investments.Tito Cordella Holders of these securities have for Economic and Social Devel- cent of world output yearly, in mobilize and sustain needed notes that it prioritizes private no incentives to prioritize social opment, Food and Agriculture economic infrastructure, with financing.The MFD presumes finance even when a project or environmental goals. Private Organization, and received the about three-fifths in emerging that public money should main- is likely to be profitable if un- equity and hedge funds that Wassily Leontief Prize for Ad- market and other developing ly be used to leverage private fi- dertaken with public funds. have short-term incentives for vancing the Frontiers of Eco- economies, to maintain current nance, particularly institutional He notes the tensions between profit-taking, including by as- nomic Thought in 2007. growth.Maximizing finance investments to finance the fund- maximizing private financing set-stripping, are not concerned The Bank’s ‘Maximizing Fi- ing gap. Government guaran- and optimizing financing for nance for Development’ (MFD) tees are deemed necessary to development, and some im- strategy marks a new stage. It ‘de-risk’ projects, especially plications. Public options are presumes that most develop- for public-private partnerships only to be considered after all ing countries cannot achieve the (PPPs).Meanwhile, the Inter- private options are exhausted or SDGs with their own limited national Finance Corporation fail.Thus, the Cascade approach fiscal resources and increasingly (IFC), a Bank subsidiary, is presumes that the private sector scarce donor overseas develop- helping subsidize capital market is always more efficient, despite ment assistance (ODA). involvement in infrastructure actual experiences. Clearly, it Bank prioritization of finan- development; the MFD strat- not only reflects an ideological cial inclusion presumes that egy envisages capital markets preference for private finance, fintech-powered digital finan- in ‘green bonds’, ‘social impact but also seeks to promote securi- cial inclusion would increase bonds’, infrastructure bonds and ties and derivatives markets, as growth, create jobs and promote so on. market liquidity is among the entrepreneurship in developing Securities markets are sup- core G20 Principles of MDBs’ countries.The MFD purports to posed to enable institutional strategy for crowding-in Private respond to the G20’s April 2017 investors to make desirable Sector Finance.Hijacking de- Principles of MDBs’ strategy social and environmental im- velopment finance The strategy for Crowding-in Private Sec- pacts. MFD advocates claim would thus commit scarce pub- tor Finance for growth and that capital markets provide lic resources to ‘de-risking’ such sustainable development. The new solutions to development financing arrangements to trans- G20 has offered the Roadmap to challenges such as inadequate form ‘bankable’ development Infrastructure as an Asset Class infrastructure, and poor access projects into tradable assets. for energy, transport and water to schooling, clean water, sani- This means that governments inter alia. tation and housing.The Finan- will bear more of the likely The 2017 MFD strategy cial Stability Board has also costs of greater financial fragil- recycled the Bank’s 2015Fi- proposed measures to transform ity and crises.Such government

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 53 World News Call for Returnee Migrants to Join Forces to Fight Irregular Migration Elhadj Mohamed Diallo ously wounded in the face and wants to make sure that oth- back. It, however, didn’t deter ers won’t experience what he him from trying to reach Europe has lived through. The former through irregular means. And it irregular migrant who has re- was only after he had been held turned home to Guinea from a for the third time in a Libyan jail in North Africa is calling on jail that he eventually returned his fellow returnee migrants to home through the European establish associations in their Union (EU)-International Or- respective countries, which will ganisation of Migration (IOM) serve as powerful platforms to Joint Initiative for Migrant Pro- combat irregular migration tection and Reintegration. across the continent.”If I had The 31-year-old is one of the the resources, I would tour Af- Guinea migrants assisted to re- rica to create awareness about turn home by the IOM. A total irregular migration. But because of 12,609 Guinean migrants I haven’t got , I am urging all stranded in North Africa have the African returnees wherever been assisted by the EU-IOM they are to take this fight into initiative to return home from their hands and do something Niger, Libya, Mali and Moroc- to stop the people who want to co. According to IOM’s recent travel that route from experi- figures, four percent of the re- encing what we went through,” turnees to Guinea are women, he tells IPS.The resource-rich with six percent being minors. West African nation has a popu- Thirty returning migrants, in- lation of about 13 million, of cluding Diallo, were selected young migrants who returned were time to time in touch with dia, Mamou, Labe, Kankan and which 60 percent are less than to become volunteers as part of from different North African the media to discuss the issue of Nzerekore. The group has cur- 25 years of age. But widespread IOM’s Migrants as Messengers countries with the support of irregular migration in a view of rently 550 members in Conakry corruption, poverty, the coun- (MaM) campaign in Guinea, IOM and its partners,” Maria- reaching more people, and get and 250 outside the capital.“The try’s low score on the Human which kicked off in June 2018. ma Bobo Sy, the spokesperson the message across to various terrible things that we saw and Development Index (Guinea MaM, which runs in Senegal, for IOM in Guinea, tells IPS sections of the population,” Sy experienced during our ordeal ranks 175 out of 189 countries Guinea and Nigeria, is a unique about the project.As part of the says.The experience made Dia- in North Africa should serve as on the index), coupled with ter- peer-to-peer “awareness-raising awareness campaign, returnee blo realise there was a need for a catalyst for teaching the young rorist attacks and inter-ethnic project about irregular migra- migrants in Guinea have par- further action. He has gone on to generations about the dangers conflict, has seen hundreds of tion which includes various ticipated in events at football found the Guinean Organisation of irregular migration,” Diablo young people attempt irregu- campaigns targeting, among games, music shows and even for the Fight against Irregular explains. “However, we have to lar migration with the hope of others, parents, returning mi- universities.“They also organ- Migration, known as Organisa- do it in a united manner so that finding peace and stability in grants and candidates to irregu- ised focus groups with young tion Guinéene pour la Lutte- the message conveyed through Europe.The journey is a harsh lar migration.” people in different neighbour- contre la Migration Irregulière concerted efforts and as a bloc one and Diallo’s own experi- https://www.facebook.com/ hoods of Conakry and outside of (OGLIM) in French.Apart from reaches the communities effec- ences of irregular migration are MigrantsAsMessengers/vid- the capital, particularly in Ma- its headquarters in the capital tively and makes a long-lasting traumatic. In Morocco he was eos/2071252583186046/ mou, a crossroads town located Conakry, OGLIM has five na- impact in our society.” attacked by five youth and seri- “They are carried out by 275 km of Conakry. Also, they tional branches, namely in Kin- Russia confirms its military personnel are in Venezuela Russia acknowledged tergovernmental agreement on dent of the country’s National to send military specialists “We do not interfere in the do- Thursday that it has military military-technical coopera- Assembly, as the Venezuela’s to Venezuela. “Russia has a mestic affairs of Venezuela,” personnel in Venezuela, which tion” between Moscow and interim president.Zakharova longstanding, highly devel- he added. “We count on these is facing political turmoil and Caracas.Asked at the briefing provided few specifics about oped and mutually beneficial third countries to follow our a humanitarian crisis, saying by CNN how long they would the activity of the person- relationship with Venezuela,” example and allow Venezu- the deployment is legal and be deployed, she replied that nel but said their presence Peskov said in a conference elans to decide their own fate.” does not alter the delicate the personnel would remain “doesn’t violate international call with reporters. “Russia has The Trump administration has balance of power in the re- in Venezuela “for as long as law, doesn’t change the bal- contractual obligations based warned Russia over the recent gion. In a briefing Thursday needed, and as long as the gov- ance of forces in the region.” on previously signed docu- arrival of a small contingent of in Moscow, Foreign Ministry ernment of Venezuela needs She added that Russia had ments, contracts to supply spe- Russian troops on two military spokeswoman Maria Zakha- them.”Moscow has continued delivered a shipment of hu- cial equipment. To implement aircraft. The revelation comes rova said “Russian specialists” to back embattled Venezuelan manitarian aid at the request these contracts, Russia is tak- a day after President Donald were on Venezuelan soil but President Nicolas Maduro, of the Venezuelan government. ing the actions that its taking.” Trump urged Moscow to “get declared their deployment to while Washington and more Kremlin spokesperson Dmi- Peskov said Russia’s relations out” of Venezuela following be “in accordance with the than 50 other countries rec- try Peskov said Thursday that with Venezuela should not reports that Russian planes provisions of the bilateral in- ognize Juan Guaido, the presi- Russia was within its rights worry third party countries. were arriving in the country. 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With this in mind, poli- Communications Officer, based cies and projects should strive in Dhaka. to not only involve women in The stakes are high for wom- decision-making and leadership en when faced with a warming processes for climate change world – their livelihoods jeop- mitigation, but put them in the ardised by labour markets that driving seat to make the tough tend to put men first, their family choices. responsibilities increasing rap- In developing countries, idly in the face of droughts and there are many other examples flooding, and politicians who of women’s inclusion at the refuse to acknowledge the chal- local level, which have led to lenges they face. The story of enhanced outcomes of climate- those living on the frontline of related projects and policies at a harsher climate is simply not a much wider often national being heard.Women commonly level. For example, in Dacope face higher risks and greater – a community in a climate- burdens from the impacts of vulnerable region of Bangla- climate change. Combined with desh where water resources provide water, sanitation and the village and also those from and she will be able to rely on the fact that climate change has are so heavily saline as to be hygiene services to many com- other communities at a very her new source of clean water. a greater impact on people who poisonous. Children and adults munities.Through the project, low-price. Shila plans to sell She is happy to serve the cus- are heavily dependent on natural of the community were suffer- mother-of-two, Shila Bawali, it to restaurants and cafes, so tomers in her shop and is ea- resources for their livelihoods, ing from skin allergies, stom- 35, successfully enlisted another the water not only brings health ger to see her own community women also have the least ca- ach problems and water-borne 44 women into a committee benefits but improves her fam- blossoming with new hope.Let’s pacity to respond to increasingly diseases due to the daily con- called “Khona Khatail Mahila ily’s economic outlook too.And, applaud women like Shila who severe natural disasters such as sumption of unsafe water from Samity” to start a fund for the as a number of the women are take control of their rightful droughts, landslides, floods and their only water source – ponds installation of a reverse osmosis now trained with the essential destiny, and take on new chal- cyclones. Despite this, and often and canals.A group of women plant to purify their water.This skills to be able to maintain the lenges and risks in their hectic because of this, it is women who decided they could not stand plant has started the water filtra- water plant, it is sustainable and lives. Through their incredible are the drivers of adaptation to by as their health and that of tion process, which takes out resilient to future climate pres- drive and ambition, they can climate change. their families deteriorated due the impurities out of the water sures.How does Shila feel about bring about lasting change to By promoting their local to lack of safe water. Things and makes it safe for drinking. this success? She told WaterAid secure the future of their family knowledge of sustainable re- needed to change.WaterAid With this plant removing the that she’s now incredibly opti- and community in the face of source management, and leader- and HSBC have been working salinity from ground water, it mistic about the future – she’s climate change. ship in sustainable practices at partnership for four years in this is now safe and pure to drink confident that life will be better, the household and community region of Bangladesh helping to for the 1,300 people living in her children will be healthier, 4th Victims Dies Following March 18 Utrecht Tram Attack Authorities say a fourth slaughter or murder charges not be published, broadcast, city faces multiple manslaugh- resident of Turkish descent, was victim has died from injuries and authorities continue to rewritten or redistributed. ter or murder charges and au- arrested hours after the shoot- sustained in the March 18 investigate “terrorist intent” Authorities say a fourth victim thorities continue to investigate ing. He has said he acted alone. tram shooting in Utrecht, an in the attack, the prosecutor’s has died from injuries sustained “terrorist intent” in the attack, Prosecutors say the man has a incident being investigated as office said in a statement.The in the March 18 tram shooting the prosecutor’s office said in a long criminal record and did not a possible extremist attack. suspect, a Utrecht resident of in Utrecht, an incident being statement.The suspect, a Utrecht know any of his victims. The 74-year-old man died Turkish descent, was arrest- investigated as a possible ex- Thursday. Two men and a ed hours after the shooting. tremist attack.The 74-year-old woman died on the day of He has said he acted alone. man died Thursday. Two men the attack, and one victim Prosecutors say the man and a woman died on the day remains injured in hospital. has a long criminal record of the attack, and one victim No further details were avail- and did not know any of his remains injured in hospital. 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THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 59 World News Brazil school shooting: Thousands at- tend wake for victims portedly had “addiction prob- lems”.His mother told Folha newspaper that her son had been bullied because of his acne, and one of his friends also told local media that Monteiro had complained about being “harassed” by a fellow pupil. Rossieli Soares, who is São Paulo state’s education secre- tary, said Monteiro had studied at the Raul Brasil school for two years and “had never caused any trouble”.Investigators say Monteiro was the one who made the plan to attack the school and who was “the leader”. They say that he may have been planning the attack for more than a year. Neighbours described Cas- tro as a quiet young man whose family members kept them- selves to themselves.Minutes before the attack, Monteiro posted photos of himself wear- ing a skull mask and holding a Thousands of people have at- As it was break time, many the victims?Before Monteiro Another school official, gun. Police also found a note- tended a wake for victims of a pupils would have been in the and Castro went on their kill- 38-year-old Eliana Regina de book in the car in which were school shooting near the Brazil- school yard. The school has ing spree at the Raul Brasil Oliveira Xavier, was the third drawings of weapons and slo- ian city of São Paulo.Two former about 1,000 students aged be- school, they stopped at a car adult to be killed.Five pupils gans such as “Can’t run”. pupils, aged 17 and 25, killed tween 11 and 16. Twenty sec- rental agency owned by Mon- were also among the victims. What weapons did they eight people on Wednesday, in onds after Castro runs through teiro’s uncle, 51-year-old Jorge They are:Caio Oliveira, 15, de- have?Police found: A revolv- an attack police say was planned the school gates, pupils can be Antonio Morais. scribed as a studious boy who er, which had been carried and for more than a year.Family seen fleeing in panic.CCTV Mr Morais had reportedly had many friendsDouglas Mu- fired by Monteiro A crossbow members and friends wept over footage recorded inside the given Monteiro a job washing rilo Celestino, 16, who died on A traditional bow and arrow the open coffins of four teen- school entrance hall shows cars at his rental agency two the way to hospital. His family Petrol bombs An axe What’s age boys before their funerals. Monteiro wearing a baseball cap years ago, but had sacked him said he had “no malice” and the reaction been? While gun The young gunmen killed a total calmly walking into the build- after only two months. Mr Mo- was a keen skater and football crime is widespread in Brazil, of five pupils, a school admin- ing.He briefly turns his back to rais’ parents did not say why player. His parents say he had school shootings are not. The istrator and a teacher before a group of pupils who are mill- their son had fired Monteiro, already fled the building when incident in a middle-class neigh- killing themselves.Earlier, they ing about before pulling a gun but some media have speculat- he noticed his girlfriend had bourhood has shocked the na- had shot dead the uncle of the from his trousers. The footage ed about whether the boy may not made it out. He was killed tion.The commander of police 17-year-old. shows him pointing the gun at have still been angry over the when he returned to get her. She forces in São Paulo, Marcelo A state official said the pupils’ faces.Investigators think incident.Mr Morais had also is among the injured.Samuel Salles, said he had “never seen younger gunman “had never the first person to be killed in- encouraged Monteiro to return Melquiades Silva de Oliveira, anything like this”.President shown any problems” at school, side the school was Marilena to school after he had stopped 16, a religious boy who wanted Jair Bolsonaro described it as but his mother said he had been Ferreria Umezu, the educational going at some point last year. to become an artist, he espe- “a monstrosity and enormous bullied.What happened on co-ordinator of the school. An eyewitness said Monteiro cially loved designClaiton An- cowardice”. Wednesday?Seventeen-year-old They think the gunmen next walked into the car wash, called tonio Ribeiro, 17, described as a Classmates, friends and fam- Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and headed to school yard and then out the name of his uncle, who bookworm, a quiet and modest ilies of the victims of a mass 25-year-old Luiz Henrique de to the school’s language centre, was speaking on the phone at teenager who was close to his shooting at a Brazil school be- Castro arrived at the Raul Brasil where some pupils and teachers the time, and shot him dead.The parentsKaio Lucas da Costa Li- gan saying goodbye on Thurs- school in Suzano at 09:30 local had barricaded themselves in a second person to be killed was meira, 15What is known about day, with thousands attending time (12:30 GMT) in a white car classroom after hearing gun- Marilena Ferreria Umezu, who the gunmen?Both Monteiro and a wake in this devastated Sao stolen from his uncle’s car rent- shots.Footage recorded inside has been described as one of the Castro had been pupils at the Paulo suburb while authorities al agency.A recording from a the school corridors shows a most popular staff members by Raul Brasil school. Monteiro, worked to understand what CCTV camera at a nearby house number of victims lying in pools her former pupils, who said she the younger of the two gunmen, drove two former students to at- shows the passenger, Monteiro, of blood on the floor.Police ar- was always smiling.Ms Umezu, had left the school in 2018 but tack with a gun, crossbows and getting out of the car and putting rived at the scene eight minutes who was 59, opposed a recent it is not clear if he was expelled small axes.Before 17-year-old a rucksack on his back before after the shooting started. By change to Brazil’s laws which or had left of his own accord. Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and calmly walking through the the time they arrived, the two makes it easier for people to The two had been close friends 25-year-old Henrique de Castro school gates.Why are there so gunmen were dead.Monteiro buy firearms. On her Facebook since childhood and spent a lot launched an assault on the K-12 many murders?Castro follows shot dead Castro at close range account, she shared a cartoon of time together playing video public school Wednesday morn- him at a much faster pace 30 before turning the gun on him- reading: “We support the car- games and were often seen at a ing, police said they shot and seconds later, also with a ruck- self in an apparent suicide pact rying of books, because they’re local gaming arcade. killed a man who owned a used sack on his back. Neither is as the police officers could be the best weapon to save the citi- Monteiro was raised by his car dealership nearby. masked or hooded at the time. heard approaching.Who were zen and the education [system].” grandmother as his mother re- THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 60 THE US FIJI TIMES

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THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 61 India News Won’t Allow Attempts To Divide The Country: Mamata Banerjee West Bengal Chief Minister the BJP, her party respects all Mamata Banerjee on Thursday people coming from any state, accused the Bharatiya Janata she said.“We never discriminate Party (BJP) of doing “politics between Biharis and Bengalis. of division” and warned that We respect all the people com- she would not allow any at- ing from any state,” she said tempt to divide the country into at “Holi Milan” celebrations at pieces.“BJP is doing politics of Gitanjali Stadium, Kolkata. division. We will never want the She alleged that incidents country to be divided and not of mob-lynching is rampant allow any attempt to part the in the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh country into pieces,” she said. and industrialists are often be- No one raises question about ing attacked in the state.“Many Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas people from Uttar Pradesh stay Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabh- in Bengal. Ask them, how well bhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad they are staying in Bengal. Ask as the leaders of the country, Ms Biharis, they are well here and Banerjee said.Ms Banerjee said better than in Bihar,” Ms Baner- a leader of the country must love jee said.Slamming the BJP and all and work with all.“You have its leaders, Ms Banerjee said: to love all and do not differenti- “You talk about religion and ate. You have to connect with fight elections chanting name “Some outsiders often are organised in the state. When her party respects and loves all the people to be in power. But if of Ram. But you could not even claimed Durga pujas are not we provide financial support to the religions and festivals are you break hearts, you break peo- construct one Ram temple in allowed to be organised here. clubs to organise activities and for all.”Our duty is to respect ple’s souls. Then, people are not five years... We are with Ram, People are denied worship- pujas, the BJP challenges it be- all. People from all regions par- able to apply their mind.”Unlike Rahim and Christians.” ping. More than 1 lakh pujas fore court,” she said.She said ticipate in all festivals.” “How Will You Get Us Jobs”? Kerala’s Young Voters Ask Election Candidates But students are also busy divisiveness, unlike a particular assessing candidates.“We are party. In Kerala you have Onam. skeptical. This election has lot Who calls it a Hindu festival? dependent on young people and Everyone partakes of it. This that’s why we have so many is India.”BJP candidate Kum- candidates trying to reach out manam Rajasekharan, taken to us. My concern is - after elec- around College of Engineering tions- will they care about us,” by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Erin, an undergraduate student Parishad students , visited in all from Mar Ivanios college said. around three colleges just in one Around two thirds of India’s day.Mohit, a 3rd year computer population interacting infor- science student asked, “What mally with students at the All will you do for Thiruvanantha- Saints College - an all-women’s puram, if elected?”Responding, college in Thiruvananthapuram, Mr Rajasekharan said, “The Shashi Tharoor was asked about earlier MPs have done no de- the lack of jobs, the perceived velopment in our constituen- threat to India’s secularism and cies regarding metro rail, de- corruption allegations against mand for high court bench, even the Congress.“It’s about waste management. My focus improving tax structures, in- will be more on developing With colleges set to close for ernor Kummanam Rajasekharan ised the youth of the nation two creasing investments and creat- our constituency.”Students the summer break, Kerala saw and CPI’s sitting MLA C Diva- crore jobs every year. Where ing jobs, and the central govern- believe being a parliamentary most of the election candidates karan.But despite their stark po- are they? If I am elected, I will ment has failed in all of this. The election, the focus is going to visiting students on campus on litical differences, one common shout and raise my voice in the skill improvement programmes be on national issues, at least Thursday, in an attempt to strike question that they were asked Parliament, drawing attention are terrible for the informal sec- for the youth. “Sabarimala is a chord with the young voters - a at different colleges in the city to your concerns. Look at what tor,” Mr Tharoor said.Respond- a crucial issue in Kerala. But sizeable chunk of the 2019 elec- - “What will you do about our is happening in all universities, ing to a student on the question for the youth, I think a lot of torate.In Thiruvananthapuram jobs if you get elected?”Left including JNU. All this needs to of Congress and his stand on other things are important - es- - a high profile constituency - candidate C Divakaran hit out stop,” C Divakaran answering “threat to India’s secularism”, pecially about what is happen- challenging the two time sitting at the central government for the question of an engineering Mr Tharoor hit out at sangh pari- ing across the nation. Jobs are Congress MP, diplomat Shashi the alleged fake promises of student Amritha from Mutta- var’s ‘hindutva’. “Congress and crucial,” Abhilash, studying in Tharoor are BJP’s former Gov- the past. “Prime Minister prom- thara Engineering College. I stand for secularism. Not for Mar Ivanios said.

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 62 THE US FIJI TIMES Sports News Dubai World Cup: The richest race day re- turns with $35 million prize purse Boasting the most expen- a prestigious event -- with sive prize purse in horse ticket prices rising to more racing, it’s no wonder the than $1,200.The facility Dubai World Cup attracts boasts a nine-hole golf course the very best of the equine as well as luxury five-star ho- world. Held at the Meydan tel, including roof top swim- Racecourse, the prestigious ming pool, which positions meeting marks the end of the residents at the heart of the UAE racing season, bring- action.“This is a once-seen- ing together the world’s top never-forgotten behemoth, jockeys, trainers and thor- shown to best effect after oughbreds.On Saturday, a dark, when the distinctive cool $35 million will be up crescent-shaped roof that for grabs across the six Group rests atop this iconic build- 1 and three Group 2 races, ing stands illuminated be- culminating in the showpiece neath the desert night sky,” Dubai World Cup -- a suitable wrote Nicholas Godfrey on finale for such a glamorous AtTheRaces.com.“It would setting.Dubai has hosted the be hard to envisage a more at- event is the Dubai World Cup of Sheikh Mohammed, has the lucrative Pegasus World lucrative racing day every mospheric venue.”However, -- one of the highlights of the particularly enjoyed the event Cup.American Jerry Bailey is year since it was launched it’s not just world-class rac- Flat racing calendar.Run over in the past.It celebrated its the race’s winning-most jock- by ruler Sheikh Mohammed ing on offer during the spec- a mile-and-a-quarter (10 fur- record eighth victory in 2018 ey with four victorious -- his bin Rashid Al Maktoum in tacle. In recent years, some of longs), the race invites four- as Thunder Snow, trained by first coming in the inaugural 1996.Initially held at the the world’s biggest pop stars year-olds or above from the Saeed bin Suroor, set a new meeting in 1996 on Cigar.He Nad Al Sheba Racecourse, have headlined a concert that northern hemisphere and dirt-track record. The reign- sits just one win ahead of Flat the event moved to the mag- starts after the final race. three-year-olds or above from ing champion is back again racing’s poster boy Frankie nificent Meydan Racecourse This year about 60,000 the southern hemisphere.This this year, aiming to become Dettori, who holds the record in 2010, allowing it to flour- racegoers will see Gwen Ste- year, the prize fund has been the first horse to win the for most wins at the meeting, ish into the huge social and fani join an illustrious alumni boosted to $12 million and race more than once.How- with 19 victories in 113 rac- sporting spectacle it is today. which includes Jennifer Lo- the winner will take home an ever, he’ll have to beat the es.As well as eight races for Stretching for nearly a mile pez, Kylie Minogue and Janet eye-watering $7.2 million -- cream of the crop, including thoroughbreds, the event also along the home straight, the Jackson.“Meydan,” after all, the biggest prize for a single Japanese raider Yoshida and includes the Dubai Kahayla impressive grandstand can is Arabic for “A place where race in the world, overtak- American horses Gunnevera Classic which is dedicated to hold 80,000 spectators and people congregate.”Thunder ing the Pegasus World Cup. and Seeking the Soul, which the local Purebred Arabian is a suitable venue for such SnowThe pinnacle of the Godolphin, the racing stable was second to City of Light in horses. We are playing at IPL level, not club cricket: Virat Kohli fumes after no ball goes unspotted Virat Kohli lashed out after the umpires should have way they bowled, we can rope. These kind of things you can always trust those the umpire failed to spot a had their eyes open. “We learn from their game. The are not good for cricket, one guys in the back end. They no-ball by Lasith Malinga are playing at the IPL level onus is always on each and of the Bumrah’s deliveries bought experience into during the final over of In- and not playing club cricket. every member of the team.” wasn’t a wide. Players can’t play. We were quite brave dian Premier League match The umpires should have had “I got out at a wrong point do much. Very disappointed to bowl the deliveries we between Royal Challengers their eyes open. That is a ri- of time. Shivam was good to see that.”“Anything over bowled. Bumrah executed Bangalore and Mumbai In- diculous call at the last ball. as well. I mean Jassi is a 180 is a good score. We well and we just missed a dians at Chinnaswamy Sta- If it is a game of margins, I top-class bowler. A bit of know the conditions here trick in the middle with the dium in Bengaluru.Needing don’t know what is happen- a mistake from me to take and we got the bowlers to bat. Those are the kind of six to take the game into ing. They should have been him on at that stage. Mum- get the job done. We didn’t things we need to remember Super Over, Malinga’s final more sharp and careful out bai is lucky to have him. panic, we kept sticking to when playing big games. We delivery to Shivam Dube was there.”“When they were 145 And also Malinga. And if our strengths. Middle overs were upto the mark today. a no-ball that was missed by for 7, we should have done Jassi is in good form, it is are very crucial. We stuck We all understand Hardik’s the on-field umpires. It cost better. The last few overs good for India,” he added. to our plans and I think it importance in the side. What- the hosts dearly as RCB man- were brutal for us. A few The winning captain Rohit was a great effort from the ever happened with him, he aged 181 for 5 in reply to 187 more strikes apart from AB Sharma also expressed his bowlers.” needed that confidence. Bat- for 8 by Mumbai Indians. could have done the job for disappointment over umpir- Praising Malinga, Rohit ted well and got us those cru- Speaking in the post-match us. We need to be smarter at ing errors and said, “I just got said, Malinga has been the cial runs in the end.” ceremony, Kohli said that death bowling. I think the to know when we crossed the part of MI for a long time, THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 63 Sports News Is Hugo Lloris underrated? The Tot- tenham captain’s stats stack up he is? Could it be that Lloris is as many goals as Lloris based According to Opta, this is de- actually underrated?Expected on the analysis of the quality fined as any time that a goal- goals on target calculates the of the shots they have faced. keeper anticipates danger and likelihood of a goal going in Manchester United’s David de rushes off their line to try to ei- based on the location from Gea and others boast far less ther cut out an attacking pass in which the shot was taken, the impressive numbers. a race with the opposition player type of shot, and where on the Despite his slip-up in the or to close down an opposition target it was struck. This makes Champions League against Bar- player.The Spurs skipper has it a useful tool with which to celona, according to Opta, Lloris attempted this 18 times in the measure how many goals that has not made an error directly Premier League this season, be- a goalkeeper might have been leading to a goal in the Premier ing successful 17 times. That’s expected to concede from the League so far this season. Alis- more than any other goalkeeper shots that they have had to face. son has made three and so has at a top-six team. The fact that Hugo Lloris has made some be.But Lloris’ recent form has Those numbers look good for Arsenal’s Bernd Leno. De Gea the more passive De Gea has high-profile errors but his num- encouraged a rethink after a se- Lloris this season. He has faced has made a couple too.Lloris attempted it only once all season bers stack up against the best, ries of game-defining moments 104 shots on target in the Pre- might have been a little fortu- highlights the fact that this is writes Adam Bate.When Hugo have gone his way. Firstly, there mier League and conceded 27 of nate - he has made four errors a stylistic choice. Some goal- Lloris made his humiliating was his penalty save from Ja- them. But based on the analysis leading to shots that were not keepers just suit different teams. mistake in the World Cup fi- mie Vardy against Leicester of those 104 shots, the statistics converted - but his reputation Lloris is right for Tottenham. nal last summer, gifting a goal just when the momentum of suggest that he would have been for riskiness is a product of his Perhaps the next mistake will to Croatia’s Mario Mandzukic the match was threatening to midway through the second half take it away from Tottenham. after being dispossessed with Lloris saved a stoppage-time the ball at his feet, it wasn’t penalty from Arsenal’s Pierre- enough to spoil his evening. Emerick Aubameyang To the After all, he was France’s cap- delight of the fans, he repeated tain and as such he was the man the feat in stoppage time of who got to lift the trophy, the the derby game against Arse- biggest prize in football. nal earlier this month to deny But Tottenham supporters Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang certainly noted it. Lloris, for all the winner from the spot.As his qualities as a goalkeeper, has for Lloris’ role in the away win earned something of a reputa- over Borussia Dortmund that tion for saving his worst errors took Tottenham through to the for the biggest of stages.Last quarter-finals of the Champions season, he ensured Spurs kicked League, it will perhaps never be off their home campaign with clear just how crucial that was. defeat to rivals Chelsea when he The record books will show a allowed a Marcos Alonso shot 4-0 aggregate win but anyone expected to concede at least 33 style of play. Indeed, it is his not be too far away and the crit- to squirm under his body. In who watched the game will re- of them. In other words, his su- willingness to come off his line ics will be out in force again. the reverse fixture at Stamford call the series of stunning stops perior goalkeeping skills have as he did against Barca that al- But over an extended period Bridge, Alvaro Morata headed to keep the German side out in saved Spurs six goals so far this lows Spurs to play with the high of time, these numbers suggest home after Lloris came for a the first half.Mauricio Pochet- season.That compares favour- defensive line that is so pivotal that Lloris is getting the balance cross and missed it.This season tino was full of praise for Lloris ably with the rest of his top- to Pochettino’s approach to the right. He is helping his team and didn’t start much better. Making after that performance, just as six rivals. Liverpool’s Alisson game.Lloris’ proactive attitude is appreciated by his coach and his return from a thigh injury he had been following the early and Manchester City’s Ederson is best highlighted by the num- his team-mates. Beyond the Tot- in the high-profile Champions victory over Leicester. “We can have conceded fewer goals but ber of goalkeeper sweepings that tenham dressing room, it could League game against Barcelo- have no doubts about someone they haven’t saved their team he has attempted this season. well be that Lloris is underrated. na, he needlessly rushed from who is one of the best goal- his line in the second minute, keepers in the world,” said the presenting Philippe Coutinho Tottenham manager after that with the opportunity to fire into one.It brought to mind another an empty net. Tottenham went comment from one of Lloris’ on to lose the game 4-2 having team-mates back in 2016. “For never managed to get back on me, he is the best ‘keeper in the level terms.These are the sort league,” said Eric Dier at the of mistakes in big matches that time. “He is very underrated. I linger in the memory and add don’t know why that is, maybe it to the perception that Lloris is is because he is a very low-key a liability when it matters most. guy. He is fantastic though.”Just Throw in the ambitious attempts as Lloris’ errors in big matches to pass out from the back that can skew perceptions of his make supporters so anxious and overall performance levels in a it all contributes to the idea that negative way, recency bias can the Frenchman is not quite at work in his favour after a series the level required to take Tot- of key stops. So what do the tenham to where they want to statistics tell us about how good THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 64 THE US FIJI TIMES Horoscope April 2019

LIBRA ARIES (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) (Mar. 21- April 20) Be sure to take care of any minor ailments. Depres- You will need to work diligently in order to ac- sion may be likely if you’re away from home. Don’t complish even the smallest amount. Get busy making be too confident that coworkers are on your side. You those changes to your home. You will tend to overeat must be sure not to be frivolous, because as the saying this month. A little volleyball or other outdoor sports goes, easy come, easy go. should be on your agenda. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tues- Your luckiest events this month will occur on a day. Friday.

TAURUS SCORPIO (Apr. 21- may 21) (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) You could be quite erratic regarding your personal Enjoy taking courses or lecturing others. You may relationship. A passionate encounter with your mate experience financial loss if you don’t use good judg- should help alleviate that pent-up energy. Think twice ment. Emotional matters may not be easy for you to before you pursue an unrealistic endeavor. You need handle. Consider a conservative investment that will to mingle with people who can spark enthusiasm and stay solid when everything else goes sour. confidence in you. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tues- Your luckiest events this month will occur on a day. Monday.

GEMINI SAGITTARIUS (May 22-June 21) (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) Changes in your domestic scene are evident. Spend You will be able to work with fine detail this month. a quiet day with the one you love. Be cautious while You can evade the issue as usual by being affectionate, traveling to foreign countries. Added knowledge will fun loving, and far too active for your lover to catch on. give you the edge when dealing with peers. You’ll find travel or involvement in large groups grati- fying. Don’t let others know about your private affairs. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Wednesday. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sat- urday. CANCER (June 22-July 22) You can enjoy short trips. You will be too quick CAPRICORN to point your finger at your mate. Keep an open mind (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) when dealing with youngsters. You should be getting You need to keep everyone on your domestic scene into self-improvement projects. too busy to complain. You will get upset over trivial matters. You will have the ability to capture the interest Your luckiest events this month will occur on a of others. You have a real need to be vocal. Monday. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Mon- LEO day. (July 23-Aug 22) Real estate and joint financial ventures will be profitable. Be prepared to make compensations and AQUARIUS adjustments. You will be able to get along well with (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) colleagues. Get proper medical attention and confront You have to let go of your past if you wish to get your situation decisively. out of any sentimental mood that might be hanging over your head. Be prudent and don’t be led down the Your luckiest events this month will occur on a garden path. Don’t prejudge. You may get drawn into Wednesday. a personal situation that will not be to your liking. You can help them more than they can help you. VIRGO (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sat- Refuse to get involved in idle chatter; it will only urday. make you look bad. Social activities or travel should be in your plans. You might find that delays will cause setbacks and upset. You’ve been in a rut and you need PISCES to do something that will help you break the pattern (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) you’ve fallen into. You can expect changes in your living arrangements. Take a look at the possibilities of starting a small part Your luckiest events this month will occur on a time business with friends or relatives. Try to be rea- Friday. sonable. Accept the inevitable, and opportunities for advancement will follow.

Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 65 Sports News Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed as Manchester United manager Manchester United has ap- pointed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as its new permanent man- ager after a successful spell as temporary boss.The club leg- end had initially taken over until the summer, replacing Jose Mourinho in December after a series of poor results and uninspiring performanc- es.Solskjaer was unbeaten in his first 11 games in charge and his side produced a his- toric display to beat Paris Saint Germain in the Cham- pions League Round of 16.In his 19 games in charge, Unit- ed has won 14, drawn two and lost three, while scoring 40 goals and conceding 17. He has a win percentage of 73.7%.United announced the news of Solskjaer’s perma- nent appointment on Twitter continued.“The last few given his heroics in the 1999 at the end of the English do- as a coach, coupled with a on Thursday, stating: “Ole’s months have been a fantas- European Champions League mestic season but United’s desire to give young players at the wheel.”Speaking to tic experience and I want final where he scored a last- performances over the past their chance and a deep un- the Manchester United web- to thank all of the coaches, minute winner to secure a few months means he will be derstanding of the culture of site, Solskjaer said he “felt players and staff for the work historic treble.After coach- staying on indefinitely.“Since the club. This all means that at home at this special club.” we’ve done so far.“This is ing United’s reserve team, the coming in as caretaker man- he is the right person to take As well as scoring 126 the job that I always dreamed 46-year-old went on to man- ager in December, the results Manchester United forward. goals in 366 appearances for of doing and I’m beyond ex- age Molde in his native Nor- Ole has delivered speak for “I want to thank Ole and the Red Devils between 1996 cited to have the chance to way before a short and rather themselves,” Manchester the coaching team for ev- and 2007, he also coached lead the club long-term and unsuccessful spell at Cardiff United executive chairman, erything they have done so the club’s reserve team un- hopefully deliver the contin- City in 2014.Solskjaer re- Ed Woodward, said in a far and congratulate him on til 2010.“It was an honor ued success that our amaz- turned to Molde in 2015 be- statement.“More than just this richly deserved appoint- to be a Manchester United ing fans deserve.”Solskjaer’s fore the option to take over at performances and results, ment. The fans and everyone player, and then to start my place in the hearts of United United arose in December.He Ole brings a wealth of expe- at the club are behind him as coaching career here,” he fans has never been in doubt was due to return to Molde rience, both as a player and he looks to take us where we F1 2019: Fernando Alonso returns for

Bahrain Testing with FernandoMcLaren Alonso will return Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris, to F1 Testing with McLaren at will share duties in the other car, the Bahrain test which follows which is free to focus on usual this weekend’s grand prix.The team development work.Since Spaniard, who stepped down the end of last season, Alonso from racing in F1 at the end of has won the Daytona 24 Hours last season, continues to serve as sportscar race and the first 2019 a McLaren ambassador along- event of the World Endurance side a range of racing activi- Championship in Sebring. He ties and has been expected to and his Toyota team-mates lead drive their MCL34 car this year. the standings with two rounds to McLaren have confirmed he will go, at Spa and Le Mans. be in action in the car on both The 37-year-old also tested days of the in-season test - for Toyota’s Dakar Rally car ear- the whole day on Tuesday fol- lier this week.The return of the lowed by Wednesday afternoon. two-time world champion af- He will focus exclusively on ter a five-month absence from Pirelli tyre testing, with the team an F1 track adds to the interest running a second car in Bah- around the first of 2019’s two rain for that specific purpose. in-season group tests. McLaren’s new race drivers, THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 GO FIJI GO 66 THE US FIJI TIMES Sports News TJ Perenara defends his Hurricanes forwards ahead of Crusaders clash Hurricanes halfback and team which viciously preys captain TJ Perenara launched on other opposition errors a spirited defence of his for- were the areas Perenara ward pack after his side’s identified as most important captain’s run, saying criti- to their chances of success cism of his forward pack not tonight at Westpac Stadium matching with the Crusaders in Wellington. has been wide of the mark. The Hurricanes will take Perenara says their pack is on defending champions, doing a really good job for the Crusaders at 6.35 tonight them and doing the basics while the Waratahs take on well and limiting their mis- the Sunwolves at 8.35pm. takes against a Crusaders Fiji National 7s team aims to win 5 straight Hong Kong 7s titles The Fiji Airways Men’s Na- take on Kenya at 11.37pm next tional 7s team is out to create Friday in their first pool match history next weekend as they of the Hong Kong 7s, they aim to win 5 straight Hong will then take on Australia at Kong 7s titles.No other team 5.13pm next Saturday and play has won the Hong Kong 7s their final pool match against title for 5 straight years.So far New Zealand at 8.55pm next in the current series Fiji have Saturday.The Cup quarterfinals only appeared twice in the final, will kick start at 2.58pm next winning in the Cape Town and Sunday, cup semifinal final at Hamilton 7s where they toppled 7.41pm and cup final will be USA at both events.Fiji will played at 11pm next Sunday. 14 weightlifters vying for spot at Junior Weightlifting Championships 14 weightlifters are vying for attends Suva Grammar School 3. Esala Cama 5. Samuela Nagata from 7. Issac Rabua a place in the Fiji Team that will to continue training.Another 4. Maika Taukeinikoro 6. Timothy Vakuruivalu participate in the 2019 Interna- recent find is Adi Wini Mekula tional Weightlifting Federation of Wainimala, Naitisiri and is Junior Weightlifting Champion- currently a student at Adi Ca- ships which will be held in Suva kobau School.The International in June.Weightlifting Fiji says Weightlifting Federation Junior that they are looking at fielding Weightlifting Championships a final team of 7 to 10 athletes to will be held at the FMF Gymna- represent Fiji.The 14 weightlift- sium from the 1st to 8th of June. ers have been selected from the The full team is as follows: initial trials that were held from Female Athletes last December to this month.The 1. Adi Wini Mekula final team will be named after 2. Rebecca Johns the remaining trials next month. 3. Merewalesi Vusonitokalau Meanwhile, Merewalesi 4. Helen Seipua Vusonitokalau who hails from 5. Shauntelle Mocevakaca Joma, Kadavu was identified 6. Leilah‑Anne Elder during the Fiji National Sports 7. Makareta Vatubuli Commission’s Outreach Pro- Male Athletes gram in Kadavu last year. 1. Maloni Sadranu She has relocated to Suva and 2. Luke Tuikenawa THE US FIJI TIMES April 2019 Vol. 178 THE US FIJI TIMES 67 Sports News Indian Open: Shubhankar Sharma will keep the Indian flag flying turn in a solid under par round to make up and then get into the weekend. I know I can do it and I have done it in the past. As for the others, it was good to see young Shubhankar Sharma 69 and place himself strongly in the Top-10. He had the best score among all Indian players and I am sure he will keep going and fly the Indian flag high. Stephen Gallacher, who I have seen play a lot at the Dubai Classic, is getting back into form. He was not having a great season, but five-under on this course should put him back on track and he was also Top-10 last year so he will be happy.The Indian players, bar- ring Shubhankar, did not have a great day, but Julian Suri gave it an Indian touch.Suri’s father moved from India to US, where his son started playing golf and The closing birdie at the 18th having missed the cut the pre- Player course is never an easy ered. In fact, I bogeyed third and has done a great job. Suri also may have been the only time I vious year, it is indeed disap- one and it has challengers at ev- fourth and then added more on shot five-under as he came back felt like smiling during the first pointing. Especially when you ery corner. Last year I felt I had ninth and tenth. So I was four- after a long lay-off. Don’t be round of the Hero Indian Open, have had the chance to win the let go of many chances in the over after 10. In a sense, I got surprised to see him on the front though I try not to let the scores same tournament for two years first two rounds and crashed out. back two shots with birdies on page of the leaderboard on Sun- affect my demeanour. Yet when in a row before that. The DLF This time around, I messed up 11th and 14th. I have to see that day.From our Indian pack, the you come in and shoot 74 after Golf and Country Club’s Gary the front nine and never recov- as a silver lining and hopefully players having decent rounds. Blues make changes in their starting line‑up to face the Stormers The Blues have made two key changes in their starting line-up to face the Stormers on Saturday, as they target a third consecutive Super Rugby win. Otere Black comes in at first- five in a direct swap, with Harry Plumber dropped to the bench, while co-captain Patrick Tuipu- lotu starts at lock, replacing Josh Goodhue, who has a shoulder injury.Both Black and Tuipulotu came off the bench against the Highlanders, and played pivotal roles in helping the Blues to their first win against a New Zealand franchise in 20 attempts.The pair will add firepower to the Blues starting side, but the real impact will again come off the bench, with five capped All Blacks named in the reserves.Props sixth consecutive match, mean- matches.The Blues are favourites and that is creating some quality our fans.“That win won’t mean Karl Tu’inukiafe and Ofa Tun- ing he’ll miss next week’s tussle heading into the match, despite efforts at training, which is what much unless we can continue to gafasi, flanker Dalton Papalii, against the Waratahs, due to the losing six of their last seven we want,” said Blues coach Leon improve our performances with halfback Augustine Pulu and welfare protocols agreed among against the Cape Town-based MacDonald.“There is another every game. The Stormers are midfielder Sonny Bill Williams the All Blacks, Super Rugby side.On the flip side, the Storm- opportunity for us at home. The going to bring a very difficult will all look to make a significant teams and New Zealand Rugby. ers haven’t won in New Zealand win last week has added to our challenge than the Highlanders impact in the second half.Left- Ioane has been in deadly form, since 2013.“There’s good com- confidence and we want to play and we must be better, if we are winger Rieko Ioane will play his scoring six tries in his last two petition for places in the team well at Eden Park in front of to get a positive result.”

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