“Blinky Bill” Gavoka says he is relishing his new job as Minister for Education because it gives him the opportunity to look at the faces of our young people – the nation’s future. Nothing about what he is doing to help them prepare for that future. Staring at them is evidently enough.
He looks down at them beaming his broad koala smile. They look back blankly with the uncomfortable feeling that they are being looked at with a little too much relish.
They have reason to be suspicious. In 2010, Blinky Bill triggered panic when as Chair of the Fiji Rugby Union, he warned that the nation would be hit by a tsunami at precisely 2.30 pm on June 23. Needless to say, it never came and Blinky was charged with spreading false alarm.
Now – 14 years on – he is being investigated by the corruption watchdogs at FICAC for abuse of office for his alleged role – wearing his dual hat as Minister for Tourism – in facilitating the charter of a Fiji Airways flight to Israel that hasn’t been paid for. The shortfall is $2.5-million and one of the freeloaders who reportedly hasn’t paid her fare is the High Chief, Ro Teimumu Kepa, who Blinky wants to be the next President of Fiji.
So the school kids of Fiji have every reason to be sceptical of the leering figure in front of them. Nowhere in the sane world would a crackpot like Blinky – however cuddly – have made it to high office, let alone as Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. But there he is, at the top of the tree in Fiji, relishing every moment of it.
There’s an old saying that nations get the governments they deserve. But the stony faces of these kids seem to be emitting a silent scream: “Did we really deserve this?”
Was Blinky Bill the economic genius who got confused and started handing out tax holidays thinking it was good for tourism?
During the 2022 election Blinky Bill was asked how would his govt pay for its free education policy? He simply shrugged and said, “we’lljust write it off.”
That’s revealing in his approach to debt, “just write it off.”
Fancy the pilgrims not attending to their own particulars first and thinking they could fly off this scam in paying later? What a joke and goes against the very principles they claim to preach about from their Holy Books. Religious biggots still don’t understand that you can’t serve both God and mammon. Get your houses in order 1st folks. All they’ve done is create a bad name for Christianity and themselves. Truly shameful, and reeks pride and arrogance with Gavoka at the helm of this hypocritical circus show.
At the end of the day – All these leaders at the helm of the Fiji ICEJ branch accomplished was to indoctrinate poor souls into their sad mould of “Christianity”. Blind leading the blind.
Maybe not directly related but you need to see this bs. Graham.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/510126/fiji-women-s-minister-lynda-tabuya-calls-for-stronger-online-laws
She’s now playing victim, twisting the account of her sex scandal and actually getting away with it with RNZ selective reporting.
Many thanks for alerting me to this, “Fed Up”. Just posted as a separate article. The cheek.
In any other democracy, he would be serving the nation as an extramural prisoner
It’s clear Bill is ambitious and dangerous ! If he can stab the adulterous Radrodro openly by not corresponding to the PM the issue on FNU, then that’s the man! Of course he wants Radrodro out of Sodelpa because Bill is now happy playing Deputy PM and wants to have another go at being Sodelpa Party Leader!
Stupid Radrodro however made it easy for Bill to get him ffd!
The Education sector will nose dive under Bill.
The integrity of Fiji Airways operations running a tight ship with the most competent persons in charge could never have been doubted. Now that the implausible has happened – the Fly now and Pay later charter, I am hoping that the airline’s Engineering and Flight Operations don’t have a similar reckless, inept work culture as their Finance, Sales, Legal or whichever executive team that thought the Fly Now Pay Later acceptable, and permitted to be secured by that useless personal guarantee deed.
Engineering operations should not be run on a hope and prayer fashion. Passenger safety must never be compromised by behaviour as displayed by whoever was responsible for this fiasco…I think the person at the top, the CEO, should give a better explanation than speculated so far as to how things went pear shaped with this charter process and that similar outcomes that result in passenger safety being compromised should not occur in Engineering Ops due to how management decisions were made in this financial / legal disaster. Thankfully no aircraft or lives were lost but I think its customers need assurance that the rot was a one off, is isolated and isn’t spread to the Engineering division.
This fulla ain’t fit to be a koala bah.
Blinky bill the 2010 Tsunami soothsayer now holds Tourism Education & DPM portfolios & is pushing for Ambassador post in Jerusalem when that happens. Like Judge Judy says, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck.