We're just going to have to suck it up, Fiji. We're getting a new constitution foisted on us by Christmas whether we like it or not, just like the last one was foisted on us. Except that this time, we've got to pretend that we had some say in it when we didn't. The unholy alliance of the Prime Minister, his People's Alliance colleagues and the … [Read more...] about # GET SET FOR A WEEK OF BETRAYAL LED BY THE GREAT BETRAYER AND SNAKE
# SHOCK NEW OPINION POLL: SAVENACA NARUBE LEAPS TO SECOND PREFERRED PRIME MINISTER AFTER SITIVENI RABUKA
Savenaca Narube and his Unity Fiji Party are the big winners in the first opinion poll of voter intentions since just after the 2022 election conducted by the independent policy think-tank - the Centre for Democracy and Dialogue, formerly Dialogue Fiji. Unity is the second most popular party at 13.6 per cent after the People's Alliance on 27.5 … [Read more...] about # SHOCK NEW OPINION POLL: SAVENACA NARUBE LEAPS TO SECOND PREFERRED PRIME MINISTER AFTER SITIVENI RABUKA
# NOT A HAPPY KOALA. BLINKY BILL ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH HIS SODELPA COLLEAGUES OVER THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION
The lead-up to next week's parliamentary vote on the new constitution has become increasingly fraught as "Blinky" Bill Gavoka - the Deputy Prime Minister and SODELPA'S former leader - goes head- to-head in a very public clash with his successor, Aseri Radrodro. Blinky tells the Fiji Times that he is "devastated" by SODELPA's decision to vote … [Read more...] about # NOT A HAPPY KOALA. BLINKY BILL ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH HIS SODELPA COLLEAGUES OVER THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION
# COMING THIS SUNDAY…SASHI IS BACK!
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