This weekend marks the welcome return of Sashi Singh's Talking Point program on Facebook and YouTube and his first guest is Savenaca Narube - the former Reserve Bank governor and leader of the Unity Party. Narube has so far failed to make the 5 per cent threshold needed under the d'Hondt system to get any seats in the parliament at all but … [Read more...] about # COMING THIS SUNDAY…SASHI IS BACK!
# THE CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT BILL IS NOW DEAD IN THE WATER AFTER SODELPA AND THE NFP WITHDRAW THEIR SUPPORT
"Bill on brink of collapse" screams today's Sunday Times front page after SODELPA joined the NFP in saying it will not back the third reading of the parliamentary bill that is the only way Fiji will have a new constitution by Christmas. Or any other time for that matter. The collapse of solidarity among the three governing parties just one week … [Read more...] about # THE CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT BILL IS NOW DEAD IN THE WATER AFTER SODELPA AND THE NFP WITHDRAW THEIR SUPPORT
# THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT REJECTING KETAN LAL’S BID TO STOP THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNTDOWN
A senior barrister sent Grubsheet the following brief but pungent message after the High Court Judge, Justice Dane Tuiqereqere, delivered his ruling yesterday on the attempt by MP Ketan Lal to derail the government's timetable for the introduction of the new Constitution. He has a point, don't you think, Fiji? It is the Chief … [Read more...] about # THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT REJECTING KETAN LAL’S BID TO STOP THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNTDOWN
# ROLEX RAMBO HUMILIATES THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED
24 hours after the Prime Minister said publicly that Lynda Tabuya was a contender for the job of attorney general after the resignation of the minister for muff diving, Siromi Turaga, he has ruled her out. And in the most humiliating fashion. Tabuya's hopes were clearly raised by Sitiveni Rabuka's initial statement because she made a point of … [Read more...] about # ROLEX RAMBO HUMILIATES THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED
# ONLY IN FIJI WOULD A SELF-PROCLAIMED DRUG-TAKER BE CONSIDERED AS THE STATE’S PRINCIPAL LAW OFFICER
Being found guilty of an "illicit drug scandal" by the Prime Minister himself hasn't excluded Lynda Tabuya from being in contention for the job of attorney general after Siromi Turaga was forced out for posting a sex video on his Facebook page. Thursday's Fiji Times front page confirms rumours of recent days that Tabuya is in the running, though … [Read more...] about # ONLY IN FIJI WOULD A SELF-PROCLAIMED DRUG-TAKER BE CONSIDERED AS THE STATE’S PRINCIPAL LAW OFFICER
# A FIJIAN RATU JOINS THE RUSSIAN INVADERS IN UKRAINE. RATU SUKUNA WOULD BE SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE
Today's Fiji Times front page has Grubsheet again thinking with time on my hands: Is there no end to the moral collapse of the iTaukei? It's the astonishing story of a chief from Tailevu who has taken the side of the Russians in the war in Ukraine - an act of monstrous folly that shames the entire nation. On top of all the other shame brought … [Read more...] about # A FIJIAN RATU JOINS THE RUSSIAN INVADERS IN UKRAINE. RATU SUKUNA WOULD BE SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE