- Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara, CF, GCMG, KBE (6 May 1920 – 18
April 2004) was a
Fijian politician who
served as
Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained...
- Fiji.
Arieta Koila Josephine Mara was born in 1953. Her father, Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara (1920–2004), was Tui
Nayau (Paramount
Chief of the Lau Islands) and...
- government.
Other ministers are
appointed by the
prime minister. Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara was
appointed Fiji's
first prime minister on 10
October 1970, when...
- than the
Alliance Party,
thereby ending the twenty-year
reign of Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara, who,
first as
Chief Minister and
subsequently as
Prime Minister,...
- in the 1960s and 1970s.
Vijay Singh served in
Prime Minister Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara's
government in a
variety of positions,
including Attorney-General...
- an
interim administration,
headed by
Ganilau as
President and Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara as
Prime Minister, but
remained Commander of the Army and Minister...
- of 1982, but fell
short of
ousting the
longtime Prime Minister Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara, and was
subsequently deposed as
party leader in
favour of Koya in...
- 1999. In 2000,
during a coup attempt, he
convinced the
President of Fiji
Kamisese Mara to
resign and
formed an
interim military government,
which negotiated...
- over most of his day-to-day
functions to the vice-president, Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara, in 1992. He
remained the
official President until he died. Ratu Sir...
- Fiji's President, Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara
resigned under duress on May 29, 2000, and
handed power over to
Commodore Frank Bainimarama. In what politicians...
