Recently the Fiji Government has announced the lifting of the Public Emergency Decree controlling the media and the holding of meetings including Methodist Church gatherings outside of Sunday worship. This included of course the quite extraordinary cancellation of the Bose ko Viti from 2009 - 2011.
What terrifies the government is the likely elevation of Tuikilakila Waqairatu to the position of Qase Levu.
The new Public Order Act, which replaces the PER does little to give comfort to the Methodist Church. They still require police permission for many of their meetings and they have little certainty that the Conference of 2012 and the Choir Competition will be allowed to go ahead.
It really is a test of the genuineness of this government in preparing for elections in 2014, to now see if the Church is permitted to resume its normal freedom of operation and go about its work without the degree of state/military interference that has been happening for more than three years
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