There is hope for the Fijian media after all when a paper with a chequered history in the form of the Fiji Sun brands Lynda Tabuya a “straight-faced liar” and demands that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, sack her.
If indeed, the PM dismisses the Minister for Bonking and Weed when he returns from Australia later in the week, it will be in large part because of the Fiji Sun, which has finally called this sex and drug scandal for what it is. Totally unacceptable.
Finally, a public media watchdog has barked and barked loudly. And in stark contrast to the government’s drooling lapdogs at the Fiji Times, which meekly continues to play down the shocking details of what Lynda Tabuya did which the PAP’s disciplinary committee has now found proven.
While the Fiji Times ought to be ashamed for largely ignoring this story and, at times, twisting it to suit its own political agenda, the Fiji Sun has snapped at Lynda Tabuya and the Prime Minister loudly today. And it is to the great credit of the journalists involved – the increasingly impressive Inoke Rabonu and especially Naisa Koroi, who has penned an astonishingly power editorial by local standards. Plus the Fiji’s Sun‘s publisher, Rosi Doviverata, and the rest of the Sun’s editorial team.
Take a bow, Fiji Sun, for a great example of judgment and clarity – journalistic and moral – and for saying what needed to be said. Lynda Tabuya must go and go now if the Coalition government is to have any credibility at all.
As Grubsheet as remark before – the Fiji Times is a travesty of a newspaper and it is time for its Editor-in-Chief, Fred Wesley, to also go. While the Fiji’s Sun‘s editorial wields the punches that need to be wielded, Fred – the Coalition’s lapdog – finds something, anything, to write about. As long as it isn’t the story of the day.
Congratulations Fiji Sun
Graham you are too kind.
Stop giving the spineless media too much kudos for what you mostly brought to light with Fijileaks.
Fiji’s media are like parrots regurgitating stuff or monkey see and monkey do people.
They have no investigative journalism skills. Look at these reports. They have basically collected inputs and comments from your pages and posts and made it theirs. Ya! Va ya na skill of a koki or a monkey with no brains.
The problem here is the PM.
Why did he keep Lynda on the role, and she still is, when she was under consideration allegation. Not only that but she was traveling abroad representing Fiji. No PM in their right mind allows this. The public sector has an expected code of conduct. Tabuya and Radrodro failed. They should be thrown out of the government altogether. No one should be paying their salary.
Again, Rabuka is the problem. Investigate him too as he is losing his marbles.
Excellent progress Fiji Sun!!!! This is the way forward. The truth and nothing but the truth
When all failed she started using her children as her click bait.
Then came habibi.
Then came the abused child whose mother did not give permission for Lynda to expose her identity to her 170,000 followers.
Then came the poor Kadavu Rugby Club with alcohol madness.
And now the women in the village.
Aren’t her children hurt now?
Who will she blame next for her self inflicted harm?
Typical of a fame getter and a narcissist.
Graham, this what Lynda’s fangirl Lice Movono has been posting on Twitter. It reflects in her reporting and a lowering of ABC standards, who she represents.
Although you are a fanboy of Lice, I hope you can clear her ‘confusion’ as this ‘journalist’ uses her position to openly and shamelessly barrack for her friend Lynda under the pretext of clearing confusion:
First she tweeted:
“Statement issued to the media, nothing formal yet on the party page and senior party members of the cabinet seem surprised. Another day in #FijiPolitics.”
She followed that up with:
“There appears to be some confusion.
@LyndaTabuya was removed from the position of Deputy Party Leader of the People’s Alliance Party.
It does NOT mean she’s lost her cabinet role as Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection.
It does NOT mean shes lost her position as member of the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji
A Cabinet Minister can only lose their seat if the Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka terminates the position.”
Lice is always confused. Confused in her voice and mind. Nothing adds up for her. What a waste of space for ABC.
Most reporters in Fiji can barely string together a coherent sequence of words on a good day! Lice comes from this stock.
Let’s also not forget where Lice was and who she was with back in 2000. Her reimagination of herself as a sophisticated ABC reporter can’t erase her racist tendancies, visible not just in 2000 but before that in her ACS days and through her life since! She loved the build up to 2022 elections cos she could pile on to those she disliked, and has since gone strangely silent about ridiculous decisions made by this govt re appointments in judiciary, and all things ‘vulagi’.
There you go.
The home wreckers and wannabe angels of Fiji.
Prostitutes of feminists NGOs and the Cabinet.
This is all we have left to showcase on who we are as women to the world.
Countries are celebrating International Women’s Day whole of this week. Fiji has taken this all to a new height. We are celebrating women in power who abuse their office, marriage, and society. That’s our shameful status today. Take a bow Shamima and Tabuya.
Boycott all corporate and other sector organisation events that have these two women and Radrodro attend. They need to learn that our society holds fast to its values. All sectors take note now.
Never seen women so fired up at work. Everyone is refreshing Grubsheet by minutes. And a special Whatsapp group is set at work to provide updates whenever a new post goes up on Grubsheet and Fijileaks.
Mind you, our Pacific colleagues in Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga are keeping a tab and joined the Whatsapp group too.
Women want Lynda Tabuya out.
That’s telling on a International Women’s Day week! Amen.
I dont know what else Lynda has put of hers in the PM’s hands given his indifference to do any thing substantive, given the volume of her offences, which include the illegal transportation and consumption of banned narcotics in Australia – yes, the drugs were with Lynda and carried on her using her diplomatic immunity status.
Even worse is the fact she has abused her position as a minister to engage in an extra-martial affair while on a government trip which is funded by Fiji’s taxpayers. Her actions have also brought shame on the country given the public attention this entire affair has drawn on Lynda, Aseri and their spouses.
I would be interested to learn whether the AFP are investigating the transportation and use of banned narcotics into Australia under to guise of diplomatic status.
I would be very interested to know if the Fiji Police and their sleepy koala of a commissioner has awakened his brain cells to put two and two together to realize he needs to investigate the purchase of narcotics in Fiji by Lynda and then the transportation of the items out of Fiji.
She should do the honorable thing and resign. Same for her partner in crime. Why do they have to wait to be sacked? We need better MPs. A suitability criteria should be in place before the next elections as these are people shaping people’s lives and livelihoods.