Alexandra Forwood is the bane of Sitiveni Rabuka‘s existence – a one-woman whirlwind bombarding his government with a constant stream of emails demanding action or answers as it lurches from crisis to crisis and scandal to scandal.
Alex marks all of these emails “without prejudice” as an apparent device to minimise the threat of defamation action when they are all highly prejudicial to the Coalition’s reputation and standing. She has even been referred to the police after she branded the Chief Registrar, Tomasi Bainivalu, a “boci” * in an email that was copied to some of the most senior officials in the country.
The adopted daughter of Peter Bott – the former owner of Scott’s and for many years, Fiji’s most famous restaurateur – is only safe from prosecution because she lives in Sydney and like Grubsheet, is beyond the reach of Fijian authorities. Yet for the Prime Minister, there was no escaping her at the Fiji Day celebrations in Liverpool on Saturday.
Demonstrating once again that she is utterly fearless – some might say reckless – Alex bounded up to the Prime Minister and secured the most unofficial of the many official Fiji Day photos and one that will infuriate Lynda Tabuya – Rabuka’s Minister for Information. Or as we call her here, the Minister for Bullsh*t, Bonking and Weed.
Genuinely a moment to savour.
As for the official Fiji Day photos, many were genuinely depressing to Grubsheet’s eyes and the eyes of anyone else concerned about the nation’s direction.
Two in particular struck a jarring note – first the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, talking about the importance of young people when he has set the worst possible example to Fiji’s youth, having been accused of perjury and obstructing and perverting the course of justice by the Supreme Court Inquiry into the Malimali affair yet being allowed to cling to the pinnacle of the judiciary and act as Head of State.
Plus the following photo, which is just creepy – Temo’s protector, the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu talking about protecting young people when he is an accused pedophile, having impregnated a 15-year old girl, the “special needs” daughter of a member of his domestic staff in Taveuni.
Every picture tells a story – as an old saying goes – and the dominant narrative of the government’s PR effort is the none-too-subtle message that the iTaukei occupy centre stage and the “vulagi” are an afterthought.
In multiple images of Fiji Day, there are few, if any, that include members of Fiji’s minorities.
And in the usual manner of this government, many of its ministers were absent from the country on the Fiji Day weekend, turning up in all sorts of places.
There was the Prime Minister in Sydney, the President in the US and the UK, ministers Lynda Tabuya in South Australia and Agni Deo Singh in Victoria and Deputy Prime Minister “Blinky Bill” Gavoka in the Holy Land.
Ain’t life grand? Keep that money coming in, folks. With the country terminally unable to stand on its own feet 55 years after independence, those remittances are more important than ever.
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Yes, your hearts remain close and your wallets even closer.
Hope you enjoyed your own Fiji Day weekend.
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*From Ronald Gatty‘s Fijian-English dictionary:
“boci adj., n. uncircumcised, for a male adult a despised characteristic, implying he never became a man. A person known to be uncircumcised is the butt of jokes and derision. Circumcision is an important ceremony for all Fijian boys growing up. By contrast, most Fiji Indians are not circumcised.“
There. Now you know. If you didn’t already.
And not forgetting minister Sashi Kiran in Auckland NZ for Fiji Day celebrations.
Well at the rate of migration out of Fiji – it’s possible that in the not too distant future the diaspora will outnumber the population in Fiji! The govt is just planning ahead with overseas junkets throughout the year so that the ever increasing diaspora funding the Fijian economy is not forgotten especially on Fiji Day.
Soon there may not be much of a taxpayer base left in Fiji. Just remittance Dependants. In an Independent land. And by the way there are more than enough Ministers and Assistant ministers that half the govt could go on overseas trips, and there would still be enough ministerial cover left in Suva to run the show.
It is the planet of the Great Apes – saying that with grated teeth.
How many of the minorities are ambassadors? Permanent Secretaries? Assistant Permanent Secretaries? Chairmen of Boards? CEOs of government linked organisations?
No longer a meritocracy but indigenous despotism.
Appears that among those who have lost faith and hope in Fiji and are living comfortably in Oz is the wife (and family?) of the Vunivalu of Bau, head of one of the three confederacies.
Another head is hopping, stepping and jumping from the USA, to the UK and where’s next …. UAE? While back home, many are scratching their heads and all for survival on yet another Monday.
Hey GD.
It’s been a while.
The pedo president after the US is in the UK to meet up with old big ears ling Charles. He then trots off to the ancestral lands of the vulagis he hates so much. But as long as he gets the world class medical treatment they offer then his hate for them will be put aside untill he leaves India. A round trip of a few weeks at our expense bereft of any shame. I’m kinda hoping he dies in India. Now wouldn’t that be ironic! But then most people in fiji don’t do irony.
You should also look at the vomit inducing photos of the gaggle of indo fijians lining up to take photos with the evil entity, the viceroy of Satan on earth at the sydney fiji day celebrations. These traitorous indo fijians like biman have no shame and look ready to suck up to him in return for a quick photo. The real boci in the crowd, Ajay Amrita, the most unqualified high commissioner in fiji’s history who is always looking for an opportunity to put rambos nuts in his mouth, looks on gleefully as his mate Rambo carries on his vesumona bullshit with traitorous indo fijians.
But what’s even worse is that the Fiji times has on their fb page a short clip interview of rabuka by someone who’s definitely from India asking them about his message to indo fijians. The evil c**t says with an evil laugh that he will keep them safe fiji and look after them and they should be proud of their heritage.
The demented arsehole still talks as if the indo fijians have just recently settled in fiji. He never makes an effort to say things that will give a indo fijians a sense of belonging and equal sense of respect and justice. The c**t always polarizes our population at any given opportunity and laughs about it cos he knows our people are generally too stupid to detect the evil of his double speak and hypocrisy. He like the president should die overseas. Now wouldn’t that be ironic if Rambo dies in the arms of his girlfriend Ajay Amrita and pedo dies in India.
Precedent of a Fijian leader dying in or around the subcontinent: Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna on 30th May 1958 in the Indian Ocean off Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. He is internationally acclaimed as a “Fijian chief, scholar, soldier, and statesman”. Our two sickly leaders from Ca’audrove fall way short of his stature, but may just follow suit if Anonymous’s closing point is to be realized.
Please can someone also tell the President to sit properly. He and Rabuka have no sense of decorum. Legs splayed out and almost lying down in chairs.
Oh, come on, Mister, Reverend Graham Davis, Sir —“indigenous despotism”? That’s a bit harsh, forget the inaccurate part. The indigenous whatever it is, is intertwined with sycophants, known by other names like Indians, Indo-Fijians, even as mislabeled ‘Fijians’. There’s Baiman and his motley crew. Do not forget them. Part of the circus. Not just funny people, funny looking people most of them with two left feet, some club footed, others with damaged brain synapses.
Pray for them Graham since yours is lineage that links you to Reverend and revered men of the cloth.
I didn’t use the term “indigenous despotism”. “Daniel” did. But I don’t have a problem with it even if you do.
The crooked PM must feel good wearing all those medals. The glory is all his. He cannot wait to pull out the medals and bask in glory. I think it must make him feel like royalty as he pretends to be the king of Fiji.
But what have all those medals achieved for Fiji and for Fijians? Backwardness, poverty, beggar state status. A failed state if it was for Australia and Australians. And proudly so.
Many of us in Sydney noted that when Frank was PM, he and his wife Mary, attended dressed in colourful bula shirts and became part of the crowd.
Rolex Rambo rocks up dressed in a three-piece suit with a tailcoat and wearing the medals he created for himself and his supporters, including the President who wears a string of military medals despite having never served…Stolen Valour?
I thought medals are worn by veterans on ANZAC Day, Remembrance Day, and the like. But wearing them on Fiji Day ?
Is this the new dress standard for Fiji Day?
As Ro Naulu wrote a while back after seeing a picture of the Pedo Prez – vitchi seems to be manufacturing occasions so medals can be handed out.
I think Rambo looks and feels like a despot African leader with all the medals pretending that he is important. The reality is he is impotent. He certainly dresses and acts like one. What is amazing is that he is so proud to be utterly useless and being a beggar. With the tax base in Fiji shrinking, the only alternative are remittances and charity from Australia. And he is so thankful and feels entitled that Australia must keep giving to Fiji.
And for those Indians who took selfies with him, they do not know they are donkeys. Now they do. How many proud donkeys are there in Fiji and in the diaspora. It is mind boggling. And then they all wonder why Fiji is where it is!!!!
A picnic trip to many politicians. Agni Deo was in Melbourne. Also why no vulagis to be seen around the president?
They have better taste?
The vulagis have been f**ked too often and in more ways than one since the Girmit days. And with this Pedo President, it’s safer to be as far away as possible.
They are all making hay whilst the sun shines with the overseas junkets cos they know time is limited.
All the overseas trip is nothing but income generation for the travelers and their political parties.
And to go begging for money in vulagi land. The begging is either for themselves, their parties or for the country.
Nothing else to it. Everything else happening during the trip is sundry.
This includes political campaigning to the itaukei people held at various Fijian church halls in Sydney in the last few days in the guise of bringing government departments. Some of the speeches in Canterbury church hall on Thursday night last week by the Itaukei Affairs Ministry employees were very political and downright racist.
And I thought civil servants were supposed to be apolitical.
Go figure.
It is the ministry of itaukei affairs.
I believe MK was in Dubai on the weekend.
A final taste of freedom.
She’s wiped the smile off his face !!
‘There was the Prime Minister in Sydney, the President in the US and the UK, ministers Lynda Tabuya in South Australia and Agni Deo Singh in Victoria and Deputy Prime Minister “Blinky Bill” Gavoka in the Holy Land’
I have never really thought about it before but I don’t understand how any government minister is absent on their country’s National Day unless it’s because of an emergency.
There isn’t really a bigger day for a country to celebrate than its National Day .
I think those Fijians living overseas would completely understand that a National Day requires all hands on deck to celebrate.
Isn’t it like having a big event and the VIPs are a no show ?
I am surprised the media especially thinks it’s perfectly reasonable ..or maybe they haven’t thought much about it either .
What is this fascination with circumcised penis? What’s to be proud about mutilated genitalia? The same people fervently believe that God’s creations are perfect yet chop off the foreskins on their penis. But I guess some are just too dense to see the contradiction.
Obviously you are a ‘boci’ in the Fijian context.
That is your individual choice.
We can only wish you all the very best in negotiating lifes challenges as a ‘boci’.
All the very best bro.
GD, President Naiqama is the lead PAP campaigner ! He doesn’t know though that people are no longer gullible ! They know that the Vanua Levu faction are all about themselves and their cronies !
This time around Rabuka knows if he went to US it would be an embarrassment so he chose to go to Aussie. But guess what – lots of that crowd are the seasonal workers who were told they have to be there because govt organised their jobs .