The government's truth and reconciliation process is floundering even before it begins as today's Fiji Sun confirms the worst fears of those who are sceptical about Sitiveni Rabuka's own commitment to the truth and whether he can be trusted to fully account for his own role in the events of 1987 and 2000. It transpires that the Prime Minister … [Read more...] about # THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION PROCESS BEGINS WITH A BIG LIE
# WHY ARE INDO-FIJIANS LEAVING? IT ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE
Charan Jeath Singh has been warning privately for some time that Fiji is steadily being "depopulated" by the exodus of skilled workers and faces a crisis as the tax base needed to pay for everything steadily shrinks. Now the multi-millionaire Minister for Multi-Ethnic Affairs has gone public with those concerns, speaking of a "troubling decline" in … [Read more...] about # WHY ARE INDO-FIJIANS LEAVING? IT ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE
# HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM MISS TRICK OR TREAT AND DRACULA
Like many Fijians, I am still struggling to come to terms with why on earth the Assistant Minister for Women and Children would pose with a misogynist who compared a female predecessor as speaker of the parliament to anal sex and called her retarded and stands accused of defiling and impregnating a 15 year old girl. Sashi Kiran has followed her … [Read more...] about # HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM MISS TRICK OR TREAT AND DRACULA
# TO YOU AND YOURS, DEAR READERS. MAY THERE BE LIGHT AMID THE DARKNESS
# SO A CONVICTED CRIMINAL AND ALLEGED CHILD ABUSER BECOMES OUR HEAD OF STATE (UPDATED)
I have never been more ashamed to be Fijian. In fact it is the first time I have ever been ashamed to be Fijian in my seven decades on this earth. To have a convicted criminal at the apex of the state is intolerable. And I am speechless with rage that a government that promised better standards would so grievously betray the nation's trust. … [Read more...] about # SO A CONVICTED CRIMINAL AND ALLEGED CHILD ABUSER BECOMES OUR HEAD OF STATE (UPDATED)
# WE HAVE BEEN BETRAYED, FIJI, BY THE VERY PEOPLE WE ELECTED TO KEEP THE BASTARDS HONEST. (UPDATED FRI AM)
So we are now set to get a convicted criminal, racist, misogynist and alleged child abuser as our next president and head of state when parliament meets to vote this morning. (11.00am) A curse on the NFP and those members of the former FijiFirst who have joined the People's Alliance in inflicting this monster on the nation. May you burn in the … [Read more...] about # WE HAVE BEEN BETRAYED, FIJI, BY THE VERY PEOPLE WE ELECTED TO KEEP THE BASTARDS HONEST. (UPDATED FRI AM)