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Content warning: This article contains mentions of gun violence and death.  On April 12, a shooting on Clark Street Beach left an 18-year-old dead and two 15-year-olds injured.  Students on campus at Northwestern University heard the shots. They reported feeling confusion and fear as the University took more than 30 minutes to issue a shelter-in-place...

Date Time IOAC statement at Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly, 25 May 2021 1. Thank you, Mr Chairman. Honourable ministers, excellencies, heads of delegation, Director-General, and distinguished colleagues. On behalf of the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme – IOAC, I thank you for inviting us to present our report to this 74th session of the World Health Assembly. In presenting the report, we wish to pay tribute to all those working tirel...

Yako Takes The Lead As First In Village Firefighting Framework “We need to go beyond the statistics because each of these house fires has a human story. Just this week, a house fire in Nadele, Sabeto claimed the lives of an elderly couple and their five-month-old grandchild by mereliki nai 28 Feb 2021 10:45 ...

Programme Is First Step In Reaching Out To Other Communities: NFA CEO The community fire wardens have been trained and taught the basic skills in life saving evacuation. This includes fire evacuation and tsunami evacuations and others. by mereliki nai 28 Feb 2021 10:47 P...

Fires cost us nearly $13 million in property damage in 2020 Fires cost us nearly $13 million in property damage in 2020 [image: Fijian Govt.] Fires cost us nearly $13 million in property damage in 2020 and more than $22.1 million in 2019. Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama has revealed this adding we are only two months into 2021, and we have already had a total of 20 house fires in Fiji. He says this may be shocking, but it is not unusual as last year we had 16 house fires in January and Febru...