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GD has been sidelined by an injury which prevents me from using a computer keyboard for the moment. It means that I am unable to post my usual articles until further notice. I very much regret the temporary suspension of service but please look out for CommonMan's articles on weekends. I seek the understanding of my readers and salute them for … [Read more...] about # PLAY CALLED OFF DUE TO INJURY

A year after their drunken escapade at the annual conference of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, and her Deputy, John Rabuku, are still in place and the substantive DPP, Christopher Pryde, remains in exile facing trumped-up charges of expenses fraud. It beggars belief that this is the … [Read more...] about # AN ENDURING SYMBOL OF THE DEGENERACY OF THE ITAUKEI ESTABLISHMENT UNDER SITIVENI RABUKA

Grubsheet and CommonMan are both taking a break. Back next week with startling revelations about parliamentary expense rorts that lay bare the lack of integrity at the top in Fiji. Where is the official investigation? There isn't one. The law is being openly flouted yet there is one rule for those in power and one for the rest of us. … [Read more...] about # WE’RE TAKING THE WEEKEND OFF

We're giving Fiji's 55 members of parliament the opportunity here to declare whether they have cheated those who put them there - the nation's voters - by claiming per diem expenses for travel when it has already been paid for by their hosts. Grubsheet will soon be revealing widespread abuse of the law that prevents MPs from double-dipping. And … [Read more...] about # ATTENTION ALL MPs. HANDS UP THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER DOUBLE DIPPED ON THEIR EXPENSES

The government has lurched into a fresh crisis, with Professor Wadan Narsey losing patience with the four-month delay in releasing the Electoral Law Reform Commission recommendations for changing the electoral system and taking it upon himself to do so. The Commission's Report was presented to the government back in July but has been sitting on … [Read more...] about # ANOTHER COALITION DEBACLE. PROFESSOR WADAN NARSEY GOES ROGUE AND UNILATERALLY RELEASES THE ELECTORAL REFORM COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS

The NFP leader, Biman Prasad, along with his family and supporters, try to put on a brave face as he appears in court in Suva - the once powerful deputy prime minister and minister of finance now sidelined, relegated to the backbench of parliament and facing a lengthy trial. Why is his lawyer, Richard Naidu, looking so anxious? Because the … [Read more...] about # JUDGMENT DAY APPROACHES. IN THE CORRUPTION COURT AND THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION