Once again, the Coalition's new Minister for Information, Lynda Tabuya, has become the story herself at yet another Fiji Media Association "town hall" meeting that is meant to be giving the public fresh insights into national issues but is dishing out more of the same. Alone in the democratic world, only in Fiji would a Prime Minister make a … [Read more...] about # ‘EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST. EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE”. AND EVERY VOTER HAS A VOTE
# COMING TOMORROW (SUNDAY), COMMONMAN ON THE VULAGI DEBATE
What does our new columnist think about the vulagi debate that has become one of the nation's most divisive issues, with its implication that non-iTaukei citizens are merely visitors to Fiji and don't really belong? CommonMan is a 45 year old iTaukei farmer who has lived in the vanua all his life- a village in rural Viti Levu. So what he has to … [Read more...] about # COMING TOMORROW (SUNDAY), COMMONMAN ON THE VULAGI DEBATE
# AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT TO “SAME SUIT, DIFFERENT COUNTRY. BRUTUS LEAVES THE ROMAN FORUM FOR THE WELLINGTON FORUM TO DRUM UP BUSINESS FOR FIJI”.
The Fiji Times e-edition carried a lead story this morning about a speech by Manoa Kamikamica to the Fiji-New Zealand Business Forum. A keen-eyed reader points out that the accompanying photo shows the date on the slide behind the Minister as September 8. Yet here's how it appeared in today's Fiji Times with yesterday's date - October … [Read more...] about # AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT TO “SAME SUIT, DIFFERENT COUNTRY. BRUTUS LEAVES THE ROMAN FORUM FOR THE WELLINGTON FORUM TO DRUM UP BUSINESS FOR FIJI”.
# POOR KING CHARLES. FORCED BY PROTOCOL TO DEAL WITH ANOTHER PAEDOPHILE
You really have to have sympathy for Charles III when he is obliged to set the highest standards of conduct as King of the United Kingdom and its realms, as well as Head of the Commonwealth, yet is beset by the quandry of having to deal with individuals accused of having sex with minors. The King is already facing calls for his brother, Prince … [Read more...] about # POOR KING CHARLES. FORCED BY PROTOCOL TO DEAL WITH ANOTHER PAEDOPHILE
# MANOA KAMIKAMICA PLAYS BRUTUS, WITH ALL ROADS LEADING TO ROME AS HE UNDERMINES CAESAR
The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, was making it known that he had no idea where his Deputy, Manoa Kamikamica, was going when he ran into him as "Mr Sweet" boarded the same plane at Nadi Airport on Saturday - in the PM's case, to attend Fiji Day commemorations in Sydney. And in Kamikamica's case, to change planes in Sydney and head for … [Read more...] about # MANOA KAMIKAMICA PLAYS BRUTUS, WITH ALL ROADS LEADING TO ROME AS HE UNDERMINES CAESAR
# APPLICATIONS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE COI SET DOWN FOR HEARING ON DECEMBER 12 (UPDATE THURSDAY AM)
The High Court judge, Justice Dane Tuiqereqere, will start hearing the applications for judicial review of the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair in just under two month's time - on December 12. The Judge has evidently consolidated all applications into a single hearing - that of Barbara Malimali herself, the Judicial … [Read more...] about # APPLICATIONS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE COI SET DOWN FOR HEARING ON DECEMBER 12 (UPDATE THURSDAY AM)