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Kohl’s has a Food Network 10-piece ceramic cookware set for just $37 in a delicious Cyber Monday dealBula Two stories make the front page of The Sunday Times for December 8. Manufacturing tycoon Mark Halabe believes there is a need for us to jump into renewable energy such as solar. He also talks about electric vehicles! He appeared on The Fiji Times online portal The Lens @177. A total of 2183 Fijians are blacklisted on the labour mobility program because of their adverse police record. Employment Permanent Secretary Maritino Nemani, while highlighting this at the 26th Attorney-General’s conference in Nadi yesterday, said these Fijians found themselves blacklisted not because they lack skills or dedication but because of past mistakes. He said the labour mobility program represented one of Fiji’s most significant pathways of economic development and the system should be reformed. International Follow us for the best and most comprehensive coverage of international news! Did you know that the northeastern Indian state of Assam has banned the consumption of beef in public places including restaurants and events? Did you know that TikTok’s bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 has been rejected? A new study has flagged the potential for a strain of bird flu to become the next human pandemic, after a string of infections across the US. And the hunt is on for an assassin who New York City police believe fatally shot a UnitedHealth top executive. They believe he has left the city, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said, as the hunt for the gunman passes the crucial 48-hour mark. And did you know that the parents of a 14-year-old Missouri boy who fell to his death from an Orlando amusement park ride in 2022 have won a $310million verdict against the attraction’s Austrian builder? Follow us for the latest international news. We connect you to some of the world’s leading news agencies! Synopsis Worrying rise in new HIV cases! This issue of the rise in new HIV cases in Fiji is cause for concern! It is worrying, especially when you consider the significant rise over the years. Since 2010, we have had a staggering 260 per cent increase in estimated new infections—the second fastest-growing epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region! We had 121 new HIV cases in 2021, which rose to 245 in 2022 and 415 in 2023. Now, from June this year, we have had an alarming 552 new cases! That’s shocking! Well, perhaps not as shocking as it should be, especially given the state of affairs in terms of drug use among Fijians these days. We reflect on the use of shared needles for methamphetamine for instance! We now realise how wide-spread it has become, and how long it has been around. The difference is now there appears to be more said and done about this challenge! Could that be another reason for the rise in numbers, the notion that because of awareness, people are having the courage to come out with their condition! One thing is for certain though, more is now said about HIV. When you look back at the figures, from 2010, we wonder why we sort of lacked the will power maybe, to push this to the top of our domestic agenda then? Health Ministry medical officer West Dr Abdul Shah believes the rise in new HIV cases is cause for concern. We agree! Speaking at the World AIDS Day event in Nadi on Friday, Mr Shah said they had seen an increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Fiji. Of the new cases, he noted, an overwhelming 97 per cent were diagnosed in adults, with a concerning trend of mother-to-child transmission also on the rise. This year, Mr Shah said, there were multiple new infections diagnosed in newborns! He said 15 per cent of new cases reported involved people who used injectable illicit drugs! In saying that, there had also been an increase in AIDS-related deaths, emphasising the urgent need for effective intervention. So in the greater scheme of things, it is encouraging to know that the Health Ministry has developed the National HIV Surge Strategy for 2024 – 2027. Dr Shah said the strategy was a collaborative effort involving diverse stakeholders, including government agencies, civil society organisations, faith-based groups and the community at large. He said international technical organisations including WHO and UNAIDS were instrumental in this process. The National HIV Surge Strategy clearly aims to not only curb the rising numbers of new infections but also to mitigate the social stigma attached to HIV. This, without a doubt, often prevents people from seeking the care and treatment they need. So we say education and awareness campaigns are important in nurturing an environment where people feel safe to talk about their status and seek medical assistance. We say it is important for us to be proactive and vigilant, and address concerns before us. Let’s consider this a health crisis, and focus on education, awareness, prevention and treatment programs. Let’s talk about the stigma attached to it, and work on empowering people to understand HIV and AIDS! If we weren’t enthusiastic a few years ago about highlighting this negative impact on our country, then it is about time that we all back the campaign that is now in full swing around the country! Read the posters that line up many of our urban streets today, understand them, appreciate the message, and be empowered!None

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An association of legislative aides at the Colorado state Capitol is demanding the resignation of state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Longmont. Jaquez Lewis had been stripped of her ability to hire state-paid legislative aides for repeated mistreatment of those aides. In its demand for her resignation, the Political Workers Guild (PWG) asked the Senate Democrats to review the lawmaker's actions and convene an ethics committee if she refuses to sign. That — or another method that will allow for caucus discussion and decision, the aides group said. The duties that Jaquez Lewis had been asking her aides to conduct "shows a lack of respect and decency," the group wrote. "It is contrary to the values of PWG, and we hope the values of the Senate Democrats, to make aides feel pressured to do tasks out of fear of retaliation." "Jaquez Lewis has consistently shown that she does not have the ability to manage an office, sit in a leadership role as chair, and show basic respect and decency to staff and her colleagues," the group added. "Allowing Jaquez Lewis to stay in the Democratic Caucus is a reflection of the Caucus and their values." The group also asked legislative leaders to create a formal body to address grievances by aides. The group said it would help set such a body up. "For too many years, we have been reporting incidents that have been met with few repercussions for the legislator because of the lack of accountability mechanisms in the current system," the group said. "Too many aides have had to experience workplace violations met with little consequences, and we hope the Senate Democrats view this as an opportunity to send a clear message; that staff in the Capitol are to be respected." The Political Workers Guild "is an open-model minority union that represents legislative aides, campaign workers, and political organizers who want to fight for dignity in our workplaces." It is organized under the Communications Workers of America Local 37074. Outgoing Senate President Steve Fenberg, in a sternly-worded Dec. 3 email obtained by Colorado Politics, told Jaquez Lewis, who was reelected to her second and final term last month, that he had received "new concerns" about the senator's treatment of her legislative aides. "This is now clearly a recurring issue that we have tried to address with you," Fenberg wrote. Colorado Public Radio had reported during the spring that four former aides complained of their pay being withheld, that the senator set unreasonable work schedules and otherwise prohibited them from interacting with other people "in the Democratic sphere." She was removed from a bill dealing with wage theft during the 2024 session as a consequence of that behavior and barred from using Senate partisan staff to help her hire aides. Last January, she was stripped of her leadership of the Senate Local Government and Housing Committee by Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, a Democrat from Denver. Fenberg said the problems dated back to the 2023 interim, but that he has continued to receive concerns about how Jaquez Lewis treats her aides. According to the Colorado Sun , a workplace misconduct complaint filed on Nov. 15 with the Office of Legislative Workplace Relations alleged she paid an aide, who was a Hispanic man, to do landscaping work and tend bar, and that she paid him with a campaign check. She did not report those expenditures in her campaign finance reports. She also paid the aide to knock on doors for an Adams County commissioner candidate in the June primary who faced off against the wife of one of Jaquez Lewis' legislative rivals, according to reports. “Out of respect to those employees’ privacy, I do not wish to comment in detail on HR matters," Jaquez Lewis told the Sun. "I will note that all campaign work by my staff this cycle was the choice of those individuals and was fully compensated. That compensation is reflected in checks that they were paid. I regret that there was an oversight in filing these payments in TRACER. I am amending the reports to reflect these payments.” The lawmaker has not yet done so. The legislative rival is believed to be Sen. Kyle Mullica, D-Northglenn, whose wife, Julie, was elected to the Adams County Board of County Commissioners in November. The aides association called the recent incidents a clear violation of state law for campaign finance reporting, adding she had asked one of her aides to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which is prohibited by a state law passed last year , one that Jaquez Lewis and the rest of the Senate voted for unanimously. Fenberg has cut off Jaquez Lewis' state-paid legislative aide hours. "It is imperative that you do not engage in any behavior that could be reasonably perceived as retaliatory in nature towards past legislative aides or interns, legislative aides in the building, staff, or Senators. Engaging in any retaliatory behavior may constitute a violation of the Workplace Expectations policy," the president said. Jaquez Lewis can use campaign funds to pay aides during the 2025 session. She easily won her reelection bid in November. As of Oct. 28, she had just over $19,000 left in her campaign account. Jaquez Lewis is one of the more progressive members of the Senate Democratic caucus, sponsoring legislation on gun restrictions. She also pushed for a ban on new oil and gas drilling. In 2023, she sponsored the bill that originally intended to ban the carrying of firearms in almost any public place, although that measure was substantially watered down in its trip through the Colorado General Assembly. Jaquez Lewis has not responded to a request for comment as of Saturday afternoon.Tweet Facebook Mail The prime suspect in Melbourne's unsolved Easey Street double murders in 1977 has touched down in Doha, Qatar, as he returns to Australia. Perry Kouroumblis, 65, was approved for extradition from Italy in late October. Overnight, he was transferred from a maximum security prison in Rome into the custody of Victoria Police detectives. READ MORE: Man jailed for stabbing police officer who put gun away  Perry Kouroumblis is en route to Australia. (9News) Kouroumblis is due to land in Melbourne this evening. Police are set to formally question him over the murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett on Easey Street, Collingwood, 47 years ago. Kouroumblis left Melbourne in 2017, after previously consenting to provide a DNA sample during a re-investigation of the case. READ MORE: World-first trial to understand link between violent dreams and Parkinson's  Suzanne Armstrong (right) and Susan Bartlett (left) were found dead in their home on Easey Street, Melbourne. (Nine) He was considered a person of interest, but has never been charged. He gave his own consent to the extradition to Australia in September, and his lawyer at the time said he maintained his innocence of the murders. Armstrong and Bartlett, 27 and 28, were found dead in their home on January 13, 1977. They had both suffered stab wounds and Armstrong had been raped. Her infant son was found unharmed in his cot. 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