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Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama called the damage caused by Cyclone Tomas--which struck Fiji late on March 12 and lasted more than four days--"overwhelming." While only one death had been confirmed as of March 16, the full extent of the destruction caused by winds of up to 130 m.p.h. (209 km/h) was still being assessed. Australia and New Zealand quickly began to send aid to Fiji, which lies about 2,000 miles (3,220 km) northeast of Sydney...
...Fiji Trouble in Paradise A day after Fiji's court of appeal declared the regime of military chief Frank Bainimarama unlawful, his ally, President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, abolished the constitution, sacked Fiji's judges and reinstated Bainimarama as Prime Minister. Bainimarama, who seized power in a 2006 coup, wants to reform a political system he calls racist and corrupt. Critics, however, call him a dictator. Fiji's central bank has devalued its currency 20% to boost exports and tourism amid the turmoil...
Around the corner, the soldier who had been closest to the explosion, Private First Class Ratu Waqa Mawi, 26, of Fiji, called out. "This place," he said, jabbing his gun at a large stone house. "I saw him go in there." After his sergeant blew the lock off the door with a shotgun, "Maui Wowy" as he is known, raced into the house, screaming with fury. In a cool, dim room, he found his attacker - a 19-year old with a pubescent mustache, in a red and black Real Madrid tracksuit - sitting on a couch between two older women...
Wait, you hadn't been home in a year? Nah. I just tend to stay where I'm at, I don't like to fly to Fiji or Tahiti or Australia or Indonesia and fly back home the next week and then fly somewhere else that far away again the other week. I tend to stay where I'm at and then fly to next place, it makes it easier for me to deal with. Why not chill in Fiji for a while...