Fiji is a storytelling nation - Rabuka

Fiji has always been a storytelling nation, and we encourage writers to put those stories to ink so that they may continue to be shared in Fiji and the world.

This was highlighted by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka during the official launch of the Fiji Nikua magazine and the Teivovo magazine.

Rabuka says Fiji Nikua is 150 years since becoming a colony in 1874; Fiji Nikua is 54 years after independence; Fiji Nikua is celebrating two years since the swearing in of the Coalition Government, and Fiji Nikua means Fiji today.

He says that the Fiji Government believes in media freedom and that the Fiji Nikua magazine should use it to the fullest.

Rabuka says they in politics are scared of media freedom because they are subjected to people pointing out their flaws, but that is Fiji today.

He says people have to be prepared to take the good and the bad, and he would like to encourage the Fiji Nikua team to continue to do that.

PM Rabuka added Fiji Nikua has the ability to “show the world the way Fiji is, and hopefully Fiji will get back to being the way the world should be.

Editor for Fiji Nikua Stanley Simpson hopes the government will look into their request and build a journalism institute in Suva next year.