All

Charlie Charters is one of those End-of-Empire Englishmen like Jon Fraenkel and Matt Wilson who set out for the South Seas like their 19th century predecessors, marry local women, get involved in local politics and exploit the gormlessness of the natives to advance their own prejudices. Some of these English imports like Harry Dugdale - the … [Read more...] about # A RIGHT CHARLIE’S* CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART ONE)

56 years separates these images but there's a striking timelessness about father and son - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Ratu Tevita Mara - being installed as Tui Nayau, the high chief of Lau. It was a significant event in the vanua then - July 1969 - and it is a significant event now as the people of Lau officially regain their traditional leader … [Read more...] about # TIME TO BE GREAT AGAIN (UPDATED THURSDAY)

The Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, is calling on the Coalition government to release the entire COI Report on the Malimali affair in unredacted or uncensored form. And for very good reason. Because the Fijian people are being deprived of vital information that is shielding some very important people from scrutiny and enabling them to hoodwink … [Read more...] about # HOW CENSORING THE COI REPORT IS ENABLING BIMAN PRASAD AND MANOA KAMIKAMICA TO LIE ABOUT ITS CONCLUSIONS

In an astonishing story in Tuesday's Fiji Times, the Deputy Prime Minister and NFP leader, Biman Prasad says he is "unfazed" by the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair. The man is totally delusional. Because at the heart of the Report's findings is an examination of how Biman Prasad managed, by a whisker, to … [Read more...] about # COMING SOON… BIMAN PRASAD’S FALSE BRAVADO AS THE NOOSE ALSO TIGHTENS AROUND HIS NECK

Manoa Kamikamica, has responded to the seizure of his mobile phone by FICAC by doubling down on his preposterous claim that he had nothing to do with influencing the appointment of his friend, Barbara Malimali, as FICAC Commissioner. Worse, the Deputy Prime Minister exploits the gormlessness of the Fijian media by avoiding altogether the main … [Read more...] about # MANOA KAMIKAMICA CONTINUES TO LIE ABOUT HIS ROLE IN THE MALIMALI AFFAIR AND THE FIJIAN MEDIA IS ENABLING THOSE LIES.

Judges generally do not issue public statements and traditionally keep their opinions to themselves. But we can be sure that there is widespread dismay in their ranks as the Prime Minister and President double down on their refusal to suspend the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo. For the first time in Fijian judicial history, a chief justice at the … [Read more...] about # HOW MUCH LONGER CAN JUDGES REMAIN SILENT AS THE INTEGRITY OF THE JUDICIARY IS UNDERMINED?