{"id":14112,"date":"2025-06-27T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14112"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:20:24","slug":"fijians-to-get-bus-fare-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14112","title":{"rendered":"Fijians to get bus fare relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Fijians will pay less for bus travel from August under a new government subsidy announced in the 2025\u20132026 National Budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Professor Biman Prasad says a 10 percent bus fare subsidy will be provided from August 2025 to July 2026 at a cost of around $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>This means passengers will pay 10 percent less, while bus companies will continue to receive the full regulated fare as government will cover the difference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2925900470816303\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_2_host\"><\/div>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cApart from providing relief to our people, this will also encourage more people to use public transport.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Students will continue to benefit from free travel to school with blue cards, while the 50 percent travel subsidy for other students remains.<\/p>\n<p>The budget for the overall student transport assistance has been increased to $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the $200 Back-to-School Assistance will continue in January 2026, with a total allocation of $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Prasad says this will bring the total spending under the signature policy to over $170 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2925900470816303\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_3_host\"><\/div>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>The initiatives are part of the coalition government\u2019s ongoing focus on providing relief for families and ensuring better access to education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Fijians will pay less for bus travel from August under a new government subsidy announced in the 2025\u20132026 National Budget. &nbsp; Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Professor Biman Prasad says a 10 percent bus fare subsidy will be provided from August 2025 to July 2026 at a cost of around $10 million. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,175,222,208,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14114,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions\/14114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}