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# THE SIREN OF TUVALU HITS THE ROCKS

Posted on January 29, 2025 18 Comments

The Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner has requested her immediate suspension after she fired her chief investigator over evidence he gave in four days of questioning at the Commission.

The COI has also reported Barbara Malimali to the police for alleged breaches of the Crimes Act.

Her position is now totally untenable and the JSC headed by the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has no choice but to accede to Justice David Ashton-Lewis‘s request or there will be the mother of all showdowns at the top.

For the full background, see our previous articles.

And for an explanation as to why Grubsheet has dubbed Barbie the Siren of Tuvalu…

And how the Siren of Tuvalu lured a judge into a compromising position which led to a trial being aborted. It resulted in Barbara Malimali being barred from practicing law in Tuvalu again.

# SCANDAL. THE PAST CATCHES UP WITH BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED SAT AM AS FRANCIS PULEIWAI SPEAKS OUT FROM AUSTRALIA)

Pungent comment from “Truth for Fiji”:

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  1. Sharma says

    January 29, 2025 at 6:32 pm

    Only if Malimali would open her mouth and expose others involved in this racket
    I bet Rabuka is the main player to save Biman Prasad being charged and save his Coalition Government crushing down

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  2. What is the 30k payment for says

    January 29, 2025 at 6:50 pm

    Barbara Milamila should also be investigated for approving 30k be paid to Tanya Waqaniika’s law firm.

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    • Tuvalu siren says

      January 29, 2025 at 9:31 pm

      What a shit show this has become…enjoying every bit of it. Just goes to show how inept these bunch of buffoons are..reload the pop corn it’s dog eat dog time.

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  3. Idiots everywhere says

    January 29, 2025 at 7:47 pm

    The technical term for this whole saga is – “shooting oneself in one’s own foot”. Or as the Indian saying goes “striking the axe in one’s own leg”.
    In fact, I have been waiting for the government to do this for the last two years. They have been – it is just that it is a very slow process. Patience everyone.
    The glorious pm has done it himself by calling this COI.
    Let’s see what he does with the ex minister for weed and porn.

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  4. Vitian says

    January 29, 2025 at 7:48 pm

    Whatever happened to ” This coalition government has given the people Freedom to freely speak out after 16 years of tyranny, dictatorship and oppression.. Except when Malimali is watching and listening to you giving true testimony she doesn’t like….then your job, your witness testimony, your freedom goes out the window faster than you can say yet another Commission of Inquiry coming.

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  5. Sack them all says

    January 29, 2025 at 9:04 pm

    Tanya Waqanika is just as pathetic

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  6. V4Vendetta says

    January 29, 2025 at 9:14 pm

    Siren? Not a chance. Alluring? No way. Attractive? HELL NO!!!! Repulsive – Absolutely!!!! A better title would be KALAVO.

    This kalavo’s voice is anything but alluring. It’s irritating and downright annoying just hearing this rodent. A drama queen who has no brains and tries to be relevant. A loud mouth lacking substance and competence.

    There is nothing attractive about this overgrown inbred cow.

    Her actions as Chair of the Electoral Commission should have been an eye opener. Those who know her (from a distance) rightly stay away from her. Just like the other clowns currently in top positions, this joker is as racist, corrupt, and incompetent as the rest of them currently in charge.

    By putting her in charge of FICAC is like getting Dracula to guard the blood bank.

    The Tuvalu incident is not an isolated incident. This rodent will sleep with anyone and everyone (the desperate ones at the top) to get a job. So it would explain why Rambo, Temo, and others are fully.behind her.

    How could people not know this kalavo’s character? After all she is a close friend of Tabuya. The saying is so true…birds of a feather do indeed flock together.

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    • Graham Davis says

      January 29, 2025 at 10:04 pm

      I grant that the “Lady” is an acquired taste but the fact remains that quite a few men over the years have been lured onto the rocks in pursuit of her charms, including the judge in the Tuvalu case. Each to his own.

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      • V4Vendetta says

        January 30, 2025 at 2:40 am

        Lol…acquired taste…lol. Those men who went astray must have been quite desperate and going through some severe season of “drought”. 😁

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    • Guru Singh says

      January 30, 2025 at 1:06 am

      This is Hilarious
      Kalavo, love it .
      Acquired taste maybe, when you are blind drunk and it’s dark

      I hope this COI delivers what it is supposed to, which is truth.

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  7. Alvin Kumar says

    January 29, 2025 at 9:30 pm

    https://www.fijileaks.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/13759434/published/screenshot-29-1-2025-91137-truth-for-fiji-weebly-com.jpeg?1738142147

    Don’t you just love this cartoon ! The best.

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  8. Climax reached says

    January 29, 2025 at 9:56 pm

    The JSC is compromised.
    Wylie has been representing Malimali.
    The shit show has hit the fan.
    Now watch the cards fall.
    She will go down and take everyone down with her.
    Rabuka’s Fiji.

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  9. HP says

    January 29, 2025 at 10:13 pm

    Who is writing the scripts for this soap opera? Coming in too fast! I have run out of popcorn and need a toilet break…

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  10. Kava farmer says

    January 29, 2025 at 11:08 pm

    She’s looking more and more like a 44 gallon drum….and as empty as well.

    Fiji the international embarrassment at the moment, but guess what, Rabuka isn’t aware….haha. Or hes not received an official complaint yet.

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  11. Ratu Imperial Vulagi says

    January 29, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    The nationalist iTaukeis marched through Suva in great numbers to protest against the Vulagi Government in 1987 and fired up Rabuka to carry out a coup in that once successful and prosperous Fiji. Look where that March has got us to today.

    To get that Fiji back and against all these heathen acts by Rabuka, Temo and gang, I don’t see the Vulagis rising up and marching through Suva to start the counter revolution!

    Question is: WHY NOT ?

    Are the Vulagis in Fiji just yellow belly subservient imbeciles, simple keyboard warriors whining and whinging nobodies that prefer to lose their equal rights in the near future when the Constitution is changed?

    Similar to the RFMF whose sole Constitutional responsibility is to be the guardians of that Constitution but who are busy polishing their boots while the pieces are being assembled to overthrow the Constitution they are supposed to be guarding?

    As my learned friend would say of Fiji, “Idiots Everywhere “. Agreed wholeheartedly.

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    • Anonymous says

      January 30, 2025 at 9:02 am

      The people of Fiji were not consulted in the drawing up of the 2013 Constitution. It was shoved down their throats. How many times do we have to say that?

      Even the RFMF were not consulted. They have, since Kalouniwai assumed command, demanded greater clarity in their role. Fair enough.

      The majority i’taukei dont like it because it was used to marginalise their interests. Remember the furore over Bill 17?

      The growing groundswell of public opinion here in Fiji is that there has to be a Constitutional Review. Momentum for such a review is building. It is now a political issue.

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  12. Blame FFP says

    January 29, 2025 at 11:34 pm

    Just wait for the defence party:

    1. Blame it on the past 16 years
    2. Blame the 2013 constitution

    That is all you see daily on social media, from the loyal supporters. As long as they have the so called freedom (yeah right), nothing else matters.

    Bunch of buffoons.

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  13. Lucifer says

    January 30, 2025 at 4:14 am

    Can you imagine what else these imbeciles are up to behind closed doors where their actions and conduct goes unchecked and unreported?

    The change that the so called majority wanted.

    And it seems that the supposed “protectors of democracy” are not getting paid enough by donor agencies because shameless Shamima and her stooges Roshika, Sharon Rolls, Nalini Singh and other junkies are awfully quiet enabling the Coalition government to openly molest rule of law and values that are a trademark for a democratic society.

    Goes to show that they’d remain silent and enable the Coalition government to continue to breach constitutional provisions and democratic principles because they voted for the change.

    Reply

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