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A supine and hopelessly-compromised mainstream media means that Biman Prasad has been able to flash broad smiles as he markets his big-spending Budget, with no media attention whatsoever on the elephant in the room - that the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister is again being formally investigated for corruption. At the urging of the … [Read more...] about # CORRUPTION, INJUSTICE AND RACISM NOW UNDERPINS THE STATE IN FIJI

It's a sign of the climate of fear under the Coalition that a respected national figure with no political allegiance has sent the following analysis of Friday's Budget to Grubsheet with the specific request that their identity be kept secret. As senior government figures from the Prime Minister down keep saying that Fijians now have the freedom … [Read more...] about # THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN’S BIG CON. PART TWO

As the dust settles from the Coalition's budget announcement for 2025-26, the hype of providing relief for the Fijian people from cost-of-living pressures is giving way to some disturbing conclusions for anyone concerned about the proper management of the economy. The embattled Finance Minister, Biman Prasad, may be a professor of economics but … [Read more...] about # THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN’S BIG CON. PART ONE (UPDATED)

A corrupt leadership, the trashing of our institutions of state, heightened racism and a pre-election budget yesterday that sends the nation's debt soaring have combined to give Grubsheet a sense of despair this weekend about the nation's future. But then I read some of the comments of my readers and realise that not all hope is lost. I always … [Read more...] about # VOX POPULI. A SALUTE TO MY READERS

For the first time in Fijian judicial history, a sitting Chief Justice who has been accused by a Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry of lying under oath, perverting the course of justice and abusing his office is being allowed to remain in office. And worse, now sits in judgment in a criminal trial of national importance when he faces the prospect … [Read more...] about # THE CORRUPT TRIUMVIRATE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF JUSTICE TEAR DOWN THE RULE OF LAW

The Prime Minister has given Grubsheet a massive free kick with his announcement that the government is to allow "electronic" public access to a redacted version of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair. You will soon be able to read a censored version presumably on a Department of Information website. … [Read more...] about # ROLL UP, ROLL UP! WHEN THE COALITION RELEASES A CENSORED VERSION OF THE COI REPORT, YOU’LL BE ABLE TO READ THE UNCENSORED VERSION HERE. GO FIGURE