| Nigel Chetty, Taranaki King Country Candidate, ACT |
| 13 September 2005 |
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Nigel Chetty was born in Labasa, Vanua Levu in Fiji. His first few years were spent in Bua and afterwards his family moved to Lautoka. Most of his pre-teen years were spent growing up in Fiji and then in Otorohanga, New Zealand. Nigel Chetty is standing in the Taranaki King Country Electorate (largest electorate in NZ).
Nigel is currently the Student Union President at Wintec, Waikato. (To find out more, visit ww...
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| John Kotoisuva - Te Atatu Candidate, Destiny |
| 13 September 2005 |
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John Kotoisuva was born in Suva, Fiji and is an ex-pupil of Marist Brothers High School. He has been living in the Te Atatu electorate with his family since 1988. He has been married to Caroline for 19 years and they have two sons, Jonati (18yrs) and Viti (17yrs).
An engineering tradesman, self employed for over five years and tutored at the Auckland University of Technology for ten years, John currently teaches young people in engineering apprenticeship, through Apprentice Training New Zea...
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| Neville Wilson - Mangere Candidate, United Future |
| 9 September 2005 |
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Neville J. Wilson was born in Fiji and hails from Nakayaga in the province of Bua. He is currently standing for this years elections as a candidate for Mangere for the United Futures party.
Neville Wilson served in Youth With A Mission (YWAM) from 1979-1995. He lead the team that pioneered the YWAM base in Fiji in 1983.
Neville served as the South Pacific Area Director of Youth With A Mission (1985-1992), as Director for the University of the Nations-Tonga (1989-19991) on the Fiji Council ...
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| Pita Waqanui - Fiji artist |
| 21 August 2005 |
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Pita Waqanui is a fifth year arts student at the Oceanic Centre for Arts and Culture, University of South Pacific.
Pita’s artwork has appeared with the Red Wave Group Exhibition every year since 2000, in Suva and Nadi. His work has been published in the Fiji Times (2003) and the USP Beat (Published by USP, 2004).
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| Mason James Lee - Fiji artist |
| 19 May 2005 |
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Mason James Lee is an artist of Fijian and Chinese descent based at the Oceania Centre for the Arts and Culture at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. He has been at the Oceania Centre for six years working on his interest in contemporary Pacific/Oceanic art.
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| Jemima Vuidreketi - Trainee Teacher |
| 10 March 2004 |
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Jemima Vuidreketi from Onehunga is one of our young members in our Community, who is taking control of her future and studying towards her career in teaching.
Jemima, 17, is currently studying a foundation course with SENZ Training (www.senztraining.org.nz) and upon completion is looking to enrol at the Auckland College of Education (www.ace.ac.nz) to gain a teaching qualification.
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| Suva artist Lingikoni Vaka’uta exhibits in Auckland |
| 7 February 2004 |
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Lingikoni Vaka'uta, a Fiji-based artist, is exhibiting his art at the Oedipus Rex Gallery in Auckland City during 3-20 February2004. Resident artist Ema Tavola went along to see. In the following art review, Ema gives her impressions of Lingikoni's work and a bit of background information on the artist himself.
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| Waikato University Students |
| 27 December 2003 |
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Waikato University is located in Hamilton, New Zealand's fourth largest city.
Described as a student city, with over 25,000 enrolled in tertiary education, many choose Waikato University for their study because of the excellent educational facilities and easy-going way of life.
There are a number of Fijians who have chosen to study at Waikato University, and thanks to the efforts of Yara Gaunavinaka, we are able to present to you some of their profiles...Vinaka Yara!
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| Melissa Zoing - High School Scholar (Rotorua) |
| 5 December 2003 |
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Melissa Zoing from Labasa recently won the Overall Dux for 2003 at John Paul College during their annual prize giving awards.
John Paul College is a private Catholic School in Rotorua, New Zealand, where the majority of the business sector class send their children for education. The Judge of the Rotorua District Court is the Chairman of the school board which also consists of accountants, lawyers and other business professionals in Rotorua. John Paul College is a Pakeha (kai valagi) dominate...
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| Vinesh Kumaran - MIT Photography Student |
| 12 November 2003 |
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Vinesh Kumaran is a student at Manukau Institute of Technoloy, at the School of Art and Design.
He is studying towards a Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) and is specialising in Photography.
He is in his 3rd year and has one more year to go.
Vinesh and his family came to Auckland in 1987 and live in the Mangere area. They are originally from Ba.
On Saturday 1st November 2003 MIT had an Open Day for students and Vinesh had his work up on display.
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