The army placed a military guard over the Monosavu Dam electrical power station, which supplies around ninety per cent of the electric power to the country. A small group of villagers armed with sharp bamboo spears and rhetoric disarmed the soldiers. They switched off Fiji's power supply. Two weeks later the country is still experiencing power cuts despite repeated rhetoric from the military that this part of the crisis is being resolved. At the University of the South Pacific electrical power is switched off at ten in the morn, on again at noon, off at two o'clock and on again at four o'clock.
Work output is at a low level.
The main activity of the day is for the few working staff to remember to switch off their computers off before the power cuts causing them to crash. Academics sitting in their offices are having problems trying to assess whether they should pass or fail students who had their first semester studies arrested by the terrorist gang. The university is still trying to get itself back into gear, but it is being out-maneuvered by events. Vijay a young student found out his examination canceled one hour before he was due to attend the examination centre. He listened to the radio to find out that Speight had spited him.