In spite of the chaos of George Speight's armed coup, people in Suva are trying to get on with their lives as best they can. Reporter, Phil Thornton and photographer, Joe Yaya took a walk around Suva and talked to local people about how they're coping. Packed buses and cautious car drivers squeeze slowly pass barbed wire, steel-spiked road plates and heavily armed soldiers.
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.