Anyone who grew up in western Fiji in Viti Makawa knows the name Eddie Hin - the Chinese restaurant celebrated for its chop suey and sweet and sour pork and the local manufacturer of lemonade and other soft drinks long before the global beverage heavyweights came to Fiji. The drinks delivery from Eddie Hin - along with the delivery of Rewa … [Read more...] about # THE EDDIE HIN GIRL FROM LAUTOKA BECOMES THE KINGMAKER OF NEW ZEALAND POLITICS
# HAPPY DIWALI, READERS!
May the light that triumphs over darkness shine in all our lives. And let's hope for more light than heat in our national political discourse, in which the search for a new supreme law has been marked by division when it should be a source of unity. People of genuine goodwill want the fireworks in the night sky, not in our parliament. And that … [Read more...] about # HAPPY DIWALI, READERS!
# WHAT DON’T THESE PEOPLE GET? A PARTY DIRECTIVE IS A PEOPLE’S DIRECTIVE
Respect for democracy in Fiji has really reached rock bottom when three of the nation's ministers are defying directives from their parties - the NFP and SODELPA - to vote against Bill 32 - the plan by the dominant partner in the Coalition, the People's Alliance, to defy community opinion and fast-track a new Constitution. Pio Tikoduadua and … [Read more...] about # WHAT DON’T THESE PEOPLE GET? A PARTY DIRECTIVE IS A PEOPLE’S DIRECTIVE
# SITIVENI L. TRUMP. “NOBODY’S DYING. WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?” (UPDATED MIDNIGHT FIJI TIME)
The Prime Minister is displaying all the callous indifference of the US President in playing down the seriousness of the drought that is fast becoming a national emergency. And fast becoming a huge political liability for a government that, like Donald Trump, has lost the plot. Sitiveni Rabuka is now in the firing line of both the formal … [Read more...] about # SITIVENI L. TRUMP. “NOBODY’S DYING. WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?” (UPDATED MIDNIGHT FIJI TIME)
# TURNCOAT. PIO TIKODUADUA POISED TO DEFECT FROM THE NFP TO THE PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE
It will come as no real surprise because the rumours have been swirling for weeks. But the Defence Minister, Pio Tikoduadua, is evidently about to betray his colleagues in the NFP and those who sent him to parliament in 2022 by jumping ship to join Sitiveni Rabuka's PAP. He isn't doing so in the honourable way with a formal announcement that he … [Read more...] about # TURNCOAT. PIO TIKODUADUA POISED TO DEFECT FROM THE NFP TO THE PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE
# RAGING WITH FRUSTRATION AS THE RFMF DRAWS A LINE IN THE SAND, THE PRIME MINISTER TURNS THUG (UPDATED THURS AM)
Sitiveni Rabuka's Coalition partners - the NFP and SODELPA - are clearly reflecting the views of their supporters in refusing to back his plan for a new constitution by Christmas. But he doesn't care about them. He is intent on bludgeoning his partners into submission by threatening to expel them from the cabinet. It is sheer thuggery and a sign … [Read more...] about # RAGING WITH FRUSTRATION AS THE RFMF DRAWS A LINE IN THE SAND, THE PRIME MINISTER TURNS THUG (UPDATED THURS AM)