Upmarket
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resort fit for a PM
By Lata Yaqona
FIJI’S Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara is expected to open his own upmarket island resort by Christmas.
Ratu Mara and Japanese businessman Tsugio Yokota are equal shareholders in the new resort on Yanuyanu, off the island of Vanuabalavu.
The resort has so far cost $300,000 to buy and set up.
Visitors to the island will be taken by charter flight and stay in bure-type accommodation. The bures were built by craftsmen from Namuka, Ogea, Lakeba, Lomaloma, Kabara, Oneata, Moce, Komo, Vanuavatu, Vatoa and Nayau.
The resort is expected to employ about 24 people. □
Picture: Asaeli Lave Newly-weds: Adi Litia, the daughter of Fiji’s Prime Minister Ratu Mara, with Englishman Harry Dugdale. The two wed in Suva on August 31 and honeymooned in Sawana Village on Vanuabalavu in the house where her father was born. The couple are pictured sailing past Ratu Mara's new resort off Vanuabalavu.