Cervical cancer can be prevented and can be cured if it is detected early.  This is the message, Dr Amanda Noovao Hill, an alumnus of the Fiji School of Medicine (FSM), now FNU’s College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (CMNHS) and the current Acting Head of Department-Surgery, Anaesthesia and Women’s Health would like the…Read More

The reigning Ms. Friendly North, Naima Shazmeen is the perfect combination of beauty and brains.  Advocating on antibiotic resistance, Shazmeen is a Senior Pharmacy Technician. Shazmeen was born and raised in Tovata, a residential community located approximately five kilometers from Labasa Town.  Her father was a Police Officer and her mother looked after the family.…Read More

Youngest of two siblings, Sanjeet Singh always wanted to be in the field of accounting. “I loved working with numbers and felt that accounting was the field where I could demonstrate my skills,” said Singh. Coming from a farming community in Bulabula, Ba, he attended DAV Primary School from 1993 to 1995 and then Bulabula…Read More

Science classes were Naikarua’s favourite times in school.  Having a keen interest in the experiments conducted during lab sessions, he chose to enroll in the Pure Science stream from Year 11 in high school and studied Biology, Chemistry and Physics.          Naikarua worked hard in school and attained marks he needed to qualify for…Read More

It was the 90s and Computer Sciences and Information Technology (IT) was a growing field in the Pacific.  The popularity of these new subjects had not gone amiss with Salendra Prasad.  He understood that the field was only going to grow and experts in the area would be needed in the country.  “IT was in…Read More