The Fiji Times

A two-month-old infant in Fiji is reportedly the country's youngest patient living with tuberculosis and HIV.

Fiji Times reports the co-infection is exposing critical gaps in community screenings.

Fiji's government declared an HIV outbreak early last year and last week declared it a national crisis.

Fiji's national TB control officer, Dr. Lusei Byunimasi, says out of 23 children under five who were diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2025, 16 of them were also infected with HIV.

And there is one small strange detail from 2009.

That year, the son of the captain who towed the Joyita in brought a sextant into the offices of the Fiji Times and said it was hers.

Yet the Joyita's sextant was one of the things missing when she was found.

And whether that sextant was aboard in 1955 or came from her later years at sea, I've not found anyone who can say.

Fiji Airways has recorded its highest ever number of bookings for a single day, with more than 14,000 bookings last Wednesday, September 2.

The Fiji Times reports that the booking figure was recorded during the airline's 75th anniversary global sale.

Fiji Airways Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Paul Skara says the result reflects continued demand for travel to Fiji.

Data from Fiji's Bureau of Statistics shows monthly visitor arrivals in Fiji exceeded 100,000 for the first time in July.

Fiji's Prime Minister has urged Fijians to remain calm following the presentation of the Constitutional Review Commission's reports and recommendations.

The Fiji Times reports, as Titi Venderambuka's comments, relate particularly to the Commission's recommendation on Fiji's status as a secular state.

Calls for Fiji to be declared a Christian state have recently met with concern among some political figures.

Mr Rambuka has stressed that the Commission's recommendations do not necessarily represent decisions by the government.

Politalk has reached out to Fiji's Ministry of Health on this issue, but we haven't received a response.

However, local media, the Fiji Times, reported in March 2025 that Fiji's Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rambuka, has expressed concerns around the medicine shortage and said that his government is committed to strengthening the healthcare system and that a newly opened warehouse funded by the Japanese government will help with the medicine distribution.

The medicine shortage is a crisis for Fiji which is alarming for the rest of the Pacific because Fiji is one of the most well-funded public health systems in the Pacific, spending just over 5% of its gross domestic product or GDP on health.

By comparison, Solomon Islands spends 4.7% of its GDP on health, and PNG spends only 2% on health.

Yes, yeah, so this 23-year-old man, he surrendered himself to police yesterday evening, uh, and is now being questioned over an aggravated robbery of a taxi driver in Nadi that same morning.

According to the Fiji Times, the robbery occurred at around 8:00 a.m. and was captured on the taxi's dash camera.

Now, that video has since gone viral, and it shows the taxi driver pleading for his life during this attack.

Oh, wow.