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Suva City Council
The Suva City Council is the municipal law-making body of the city of Suva, Fiji's capital. It consists oy f 20 Councillors, elected for three-year terms from four multi-member constituencies called wards. Councillors, who are elected by residents, landowners, and representatives of corporations owning or occupying ratable property in Suva, elect a Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor from among their own members; they serve one-year terms and are eligible for reelection. Since the dismissal of the councillors by the interim military government the City Council is run by a Special Administrator appointed by the Ministry of Local Government. Electoral history Suva has had a somewhat turbulent electoral history. In the 1985 municipal election, the newly founded Labour Party won 8 of the 20 seats on the City Council to become the largest single party, and succeeded in electing Bob Kumar as Lord Mayor in a harbinger of the national election two years later, when an FLP-led coalitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government In Fiji
Fiji is divided administratively into four divisions, which are further subdivided into fourteen provinces. Each province has a provincial council. Administrative divisions Fiji is divided administratively into four divisions, which are further subdivided into fourteen provinces; the self-governing island of Rotuma and its nearby islets lie outside any of the four divisions. Each division is headed by a ''Commissioner,'' appointed by the Fijian government. The divisions are basically agglomerations of provinces and have few administrative functions of their own, but serve to foster cooperation among the member provinces for providing services. Provinces Provincial council Each province has a ''provincial council'' which may make bylaws and impose rates (local taxes), subject to the approval of the Fijian Affairs Board, a government department. The board must also approve the appointment of the ''Roko Tui'', or executive head of the provincial council, who is usu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Singh
Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from Latin ''Prisca'', derived from ''priscus''. One suggestion is that it is intended to bestow long life on the bearer. The name first appears in the New Testament of Christianity variously as Priscilla or Prisca, a female leader in early Christianity. The name also appears along with Maximilla, as female leaders in the Montanist controversy of the 2nd century AD. The name appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's '' The Faerie Queene ''(1596), and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th century. Notable people and characters with the name include: People * Priscilla, an early Christian of the New Testament and companion to Paul the Apostle * Priscilla and Maximilla, charismatic prophets of the 2nd century Montanist movement * Priscilla (Brazilian singer) (born 1990), Brazilian singer and songwriter * Priscilla Ahn, American singer * Priscilla Alden (c. 1602 – c. 1680), member of Massach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhani Ram
Dhani may refer to : Places *Dhani (settlement type), a type of small settlement in India * Dhani Bandhwali, small village situated near the town of Nangal Choudhary, India * Dhani Dulat, village of district Fatehabad, Haryana, India * Dhani Kumharan, small village in the Buhana tehsil of Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, India * Dhani Poonia, village in Taranagar tehsil of Churu district in Rajasthan, India * Dhani-Sela, village located in the Bali tehsil in the Pali district of Rajasthan, India * Dhani Waterfall, high waterfall in Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan *Ghaslo Ki Dhani, village of Kishangarh tahsil, Ajmer district, Rajasthan, India *Meharon Ki Dhani, small village in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan, India *Salamsingh Ki Dhani, small village in the outskirts of the Sikar city, Rajasthan, India People Given name *Dhani Ram Chatrik (1876–1954), pioneer of modern Punjabi poetry *Dhani Ram Shandil (born 1940), Indian colonel and politician * Dhani Harrison (born 1978) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashi Dhanji
Shashi may refer to: Places and jurisdictions China *Shashi City (), Hubei from 1949 to 1994 * Shashi District (), Jingzhou, Hubei (historically, Shashi City) since 1994 ** Apostolic Prefecture of Shashi ** Jingmen–Shashi railway, single-track railway in Hubei province, China * Shashi, Liuyang (沙市镇), town in Hunan province * Shashi, Shaodong (砂石镇), town of Shaodong County, Hunan province Africa *Shashi River or Shashe River, major left-bank tributary of the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe People Shashi is an Indian and Nepali male and female name, abstracted from ancient Sanskrit language, meaning "Moon". Politics * Shashi Kumar (born 1965), actor and politician from Karnataka, India * Shashi Shrestha, Nepalese politician, Central Committee member of Janamorcha Nepal * Shashi Tharoor (born 1956), Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development Culture, science and entertainment *Shashi Caan, American architect, designer, advocacy icon, founder of The Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deven Magan
Deven can be a variant of the Indian masculine given name Devendra. It may also refer to: __NOTOC__ Places *Devin, Minab, a village in Iran Surname * Chimbu Deven (formerly Simbudevan), Tamil film director * Mandy Van Deven (born 1980), American writer and activist Given name * Deven Bhojani (born 1969), Indian TV serial actor/director *Deven Green (born 1975), Canadian-American comedian, comedy writer and musician *Deven May (born 1971), American Broadway performer, actor and photographer *Deven Sharma (born 1956), Indian-American business executive, president of Standard & Poor's * Deven Thompkins (born 1999), American football player * Deven Verma (1937–2014), Indian film and television actor, particularly known for his comic roles See also *De Ven *Dev-Em *Devein *''Devena'' *Devens (other) *Devina *Devine (other) *Devon (other) *Devona (other) *Devonne *''Dive In ''Dive In'' is the debut album by Darius Danesh, released on 2 Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Ward (Suva)
Central Ward was a former ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It originally consisted of the part of the city between Bank Street and the Rideau Canal. It was first known as Centre Ward. It was created when Wellington Ward Wellington Ward was one of the original five wards of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada created in 1855 from West Ward in Bytown, Upper Canada. It existed until 1994 when it was amalgamated with Dalhousie Ward to become Somerset Ward. The origina ... was split in half in 1889.''Ottawa: An Illustrated History'', by John H. Taylor The ward was abolished in 1952, when it joined neighbouring Wellington Ward once again. Ottawa wards References {{ottawa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamavua
Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Division. In 1877, the capital of Fiji was moved to Suva from Levuka, the main European colonial settlement at the time, due to its restrictive geography and environs. The administration of the colony was transferred from Levuka to Suva in 1882. As of the 2017 census, the city of Suva had a population of 93,970, and Suva's metropolitan area, which includes its independent suburbs, had a population of 185,913. The combined urban population of Suva and the towns of Lami, Nasinu, and Nausori that border it was around 330,000: over a third of the nation's population. (This urban complex, excluding Lami, is also known as the Suva-Nausori corridor.) Suva is the political, economic, and cultural centre of Fiji. It is also the economic and cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Leung
Graham Everett Leung is a Fijian lawyer and former president of the Fiji Law Society. He was also chairman of the Electoral Commission (Fiji), Electoral Commission, and was named as judge advocate of a Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit Court Martial, Fiji, Court Martial panel to retry 20 soldiers convicted Mutinies of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, mutiny in relation to the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, Fiji coup of 2000, but a number of complications left his commissioning in that office outstanding until he was finally approved as judge advocate and commissioned as an army officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel on 4 January 2006. Privately, Leung was a senior partner at Howards, a commercial law firm in the Fijian capital, Suva. He retired from private practice in June 2009 following the abrogation of the Fijian Constitution. He chose not to renew his licence to practice law after the military backed regime altered the licensing procedure, requiring lawyers to submit their ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiji Electoral Commission
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about . The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau. About 87% of the total population of live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts: either in the capital city of Suva; or in smaller urban centres such as Nadi—where tourism is the major local industry; or in Lautoka, where the sugar-cane industry is dominant. The interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited because of its terrain. The majority of Fiji's islands were formed by volcanic activity starting around 150 million years ago. Some geothermal activit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
