Sources: BBC
The Fijian High Court sentences former prime minister Frank Bainimarama to a 12-month suspended prison term after being found guilty of making an unwarranted demand to a public official under the Crimes Act this month. 2025-10-22
The 51st Pacific Islands Forum begins in Suva, Fiji, amid escalating geopolitical competition between China and the United States. 2022-07-11
Fiji reports a record 83 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national total of confirmed cases to 604. The Ministry of Health seals off the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva for COVID-19 patients only as 11 of the cases are of unconfirmed origin. 2021-06-6
Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is the first leader to congratulate Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, despite no official result being announced at the time. 2020-11-7
Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama asks developed nations, especially the United States, to help fight climate change to "prevent the current crisis from escalating into total chaos." 2019-05-15
Voters in Fiji go to the polls for the first election since a coup in 2006 with coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama's Fiji First Party achieving 60 per cent of the vote. 2014-09-17
Commodore Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji's military government, says a new constitution will be ready by February 2013. 2012-03-9
Newly released cables reveal that New Zealand threatened Fiji's military chief Frank Bainimarama and his wife. 2010-12-22
News Corporation sells the "Fiji Times" to Fijian company Motibhai two weeks before a deadline set by the government of interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama. 2010-09-15
Fiji imprisons eight men for an assassination attempt on Commodore Frank Bainimarama in 2007. 2010-03-5