{"id":930792,"date":"2026-10-12T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930792\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:18:15","slug":"fiji-day-celebrated-by-more-than-600-fijians-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930792\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Day celebrated by more than 600 Fijians in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to the United States, Ro Ilisoni Vuidreketi says Fiji Day is a celebration of Fiji\u2019s resilience, values, culture and shared experiences.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments during the Fiji Day celebration among the Fijian diaspora in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Ro Ilisoni says Fijians are connected by the things that matter most, including family, culture, togetherness and their love for Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>He also acknowledged the contribution of Fijians to the Canadian economy.<\/p>\n<p>More than 600 people from the Fijian diaspora gathered to celebrate Fiji\u2019s 56th Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Silvia Prasad won the best-dressed award after proudly wearing a saree featuring a Fiji flag print.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261013062314_media_6acd2457941625_03295673.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:8px\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to the United States, Ro Ilisoni Vuidreketi says Fiji Day is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,319672,87674],"class_list":["post-930792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fiji-day-2026","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}