Archive for January 31st, 2012

650 new teachers without work

650 new teachers without work

Six hundred and fifty new teacher graduates are without jobs this year in Fiji says Permanent Secretary for Education Dr Brij Lal. Speaking to FijiLive Dr Lal said out of the 800 new graduates only 150 new teachers were able to get posted because there are not enough posts and schools available. However Minister for [...]

Possible tropical cyclone for West of Fiji

Possible tropical cyclone for West of Fiji

A tropical cyclone may develop in the West of Fiji over the next 24 to 48 hours says the Nadi weather office. Speaking to FijiLive senior Meteorologists Amit Singh said a tropical depression was located to the West of Nadi at 3pm today and it is expected to move towards the southeast and will intensify [...]

TV’s latest frontier is internet TV

TV’s latest frontier is internet TV

AFTER years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the web are suddenly flush with original programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series. Over the next few months, YouTube, Netflix and Hulu will roll out their most ambitious original programming yet – a digital push into a traditional television business that has money, a bevy [...]

Wellington a second home for our 7s team

Wellington a second home for our 7s team

The Digicel Fiji Sevens team will have history on its side in the New Zealand Sevens tournament which kicks off this Friday. Fiji has been crowned champions three times in Wellington. Fiji won the first tournament in 2000, then in 2006 and the last one was in 2010. Defending champion New Zealand has been dominant [...]

Ne-Yo wants music to unite everyone

Ne-Yo wants music to unite everyone

NE-YO has a dream: He believes the record industry is segregated, and as the new senior vice president of artists and repertoire for Motown Records, he wants to change that. Even though Motown’s legend is rooted in black music, it was music that appealed to everyone, helping to unite America in sometimes divisive times. As [...]

Car parking? Better leave it to the wife

Car parking? Better leave it to the wife

WOMEN can take heart from a new study that reveals they are actually the better sex when it comes to parking. After decades of male taunts over the driving skills of the opposite sex, a review of CCTV footage from 700 British car parks and interviews with 2000 drivers found that when a range of [...]

Man hires hit on wife’s Facebook friend

Man hires hit on wife’s Facebook friend

A PARANOID husband who tried to hire a hitman to murder his wife’s Facebook friend was suffering major stress including the impact of the Brisbane floods, a court heard today. Silvanus Satya Naidu was so upset when he wrongly thought his wife of 28 years was going to leave him and move to Sydney, that [...]