Just as it is a first in Fiji to have a Chief Justice who is accused by a Supreme Court Inquiry of having perverted the course of justice yet remains in office, so too is it a first for the same allegation to be leveled against a sitting President of the Fiji Law Society and for him to also cling to the wreckage of a broken system. Welcome to … [Read more...] about # WYLIE CLARKE MUST STAND ASIDE AS FIJI LAW SOCIETY PRESIDENT IF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION IS TO BE UPHELD
# BASTILLE DAY NEWS. NEW CALEDONIA TO BECOME A “STATE” BUT WILL REMAIN PART OF FRANCE.
Today's Fiji Times has four pages of articles and ads to commemorate Bastille Day - July 14 - the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille Prison in 1789 that was the climax of the French revolution. Yet characteristically there is no mention of a major development "just down the road" in neighbouring New Caledonia, which has been wracked by … [Read more...] about # BASTILLE DAY NEWS. NEW CALEDONIA TO BECOME A “STATE” BUT WILL REMAIN PART OF FRANCE.
# COMING SOON…WHY IS WYLIE CLARKE STILL PRESIDENT OF THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY WHEN HE STANDS ACCUSED OF PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE?
# CHARLIE CHARTERS CONSPIRES WITH A CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART TWO)
The author and rugby identity, Charlie Charters, has taken his campaign to undermine the Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair from the pages of Facebook to the pages of Saturday's Fiji Times with an extraordinary double-page feature that is a naked attempt to derail the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali … [Read more...] about # CHARLIE CHARTERS CONSPIRES WITH A CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART TWO)
# A RIGHT CHARLIE’S* CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART ONE)
Charlie Charters is one of those End-of-Empire Englishmen like Jon Fraenkel and Matt Wilson who set out for the South Seas like their 19th century predecessors, marry local women, get involved in local politics and exploit the gormlessness of the natives to advance their own prejudices. Some of these English imports like Harry Dugdale - the … [Read more...] about # A RIGHT CHARLIE’S* CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART ONE)
# TIME TO BE GREAT AGAIN (UPDATED THURSDAY)
56 years separates these images but there's a striking timelessness about father and son - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Ratu Tevita Mara - being installed as Tui Nayau, the high chief of Lau. It was a significant event in the vanua then - July 1969 - and it is a significant event now as the people of Lau officially regain their traditional leader … [Read more...] about # TIME TO BE GREAT AGAIN (UPDATED THURSDAY)