Traffic seeps slowly into downtown Suva. Today's papers show the grieving wife of the policeman shot dead by Speight's thugs. Sporting headlines announce Fiji's national rugby team is to relocate to Samoa. Schoolyards are quiet. Sporting fields are empty.
People hurry about their business keeping their heads down.
The airport is closed. Less than four weeks ago Suva's streets were packed with backpackers, tourists and locals looking to be entertained. People strolled around, throwing the big smiles Fiji is famous for. Small groups of contented friends leaned on corners, eating and chatting. Shoe-shine boys hassled to clean shoes.