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. 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.