Posts By: Laurent Olivier

Speakeasy Kava bar opens in downtown Morganton

The news Harold JUSTIN EPLEY Staff writer   Aug 13, 2020  Something new is brewing in downtown Morganton in the form of the Speakeasy Kava bar. The tearoom/bar, which opened on July 31, is located at 100 Stoney Place and serves a variety of products in a laid back atmosphere, said owner Spencer Smallwood in […]

Kava Culture Kava Bar Takes Part In “Project Family Relief.”

On May 29th, 2020 Project Family Relief in association with Great Hope Foundation delivered free, to-go meals to the car windows of families impacted by COVID 19 in Bonita Springs, Florida.  Greg Souther, the Kava Culture Kava Bar business manager commented, “It’s a great way to give back to the community that’s been so good […]

Kava Korner Feeding Children When Schools Can’t

BY BOB KALINOWSKI / PUBLISHED: MARCH 14, 2020 With all local schools canceled for at least the next two weeks due to the coronavirus, Mary Kilheeney and her husband can’t stay home with their 7-year-old daughter. They have a small business to run — a restaurant in Trucksville called Kava Korner. Instead, they came up […]

Weta Coffee (Fiji) opens its second location.

Weta Coffee opened itss second location on Selbourne Stree, in Suva.  The new spacious location features a play area for children. The owner, Mue Bently rund Weta coffee with the help of her husband Darran Fisher.   Read full article on the fiji sun: https://fijisun.com.fj/2020/03/05/6am-start-at-new-weta/

Energy Drinks, Put That Redbull Down

By Jen Hill March 1, 2020   Need a little lift but don’t want to be buzzing at bedtime? Before you knock back a commercial energy drink with all that sugar, caffeine, taurine and heck knows what else, consider kicking back with an anti-energy drink, designed with the opposite purpose. “In a stressed-out world full […]

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Fiji: Drinking kava

25 Feb, 2020 5:00am By: Barry Soper It’ll be all pomp and ceremony in the Fijian capital today as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pays her first official visit to the country and only the second by a leader from this country since democracy was restored there in 2014. Ardern landed in Suva not long before midnight […]

A farm to withstand a cyclone: rebuilding after Fiji’s worst storm

Nilesh Pawar in Taveuni Wed 19 Feb 2020 18.12 EST   When Tropical Cyclone Winston struck Abhishek Sapra’s farm exactly four years ago, the damage was monumental. Sapra suffered losses of over $F500,000 (US$227,000). “The trees were stripped of all their leaves, a lot of heritage trees fell over, crops were almost completely wiped out,” says Sapra. […]

Tamavua Family Gives Land For Kadavu Kava Farmers C0-Operative

By Mauka Bolatiki on Feb 18, 2020. The Raibevu family in Tacirua has given a piece of  land to the Kaduva Kava Farmers Co-Operative Limited. Co-Operative chairperson Rokoseru Nabalarua said current Roko Tui Kadavu, Kitione Raibevu, , came to their help when he heard they were searching for a piece of land. To thank the […]

Key Outcomes of Pacific Trade Ministers’ Meetings

SAMOA, February 17 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Forum Trade Ministers convened in Suva on Thursday 13 February 2020, a welcomed opportunity to consider developments in regional trade and in the context of global issues including the multilateral trading system and the impacts on trade and Pacific economies of climate change, environment and […]