Fiji has gone into mourning for Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, whose death at the age of 84 has triggered genuine sorrow across all sections of the community at home and abroad. It isn't often that an individual's passing can trigger such emotion but Ratu Epeili was special - a unifying figure at some of the most challenging times in the nation's … [Read more...] about # VALE RATU EPELI NAILATIKAU. SOLDIER, STATESMAN, SPEAKER, HEAD OF STATE. AND A GENUINE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS FRIEND TO ALL
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# HE’S BACK AND VERY GRUMPY. THE “CITIZEN JOURNALIST” AND FASHION TRENDSETTER RETURNS TO FACE THE MUSIC
"Judge me by my enemies, including the grubby social media trolls in their baggy Y-fronts, sitting all alone in their basements cranking out their nonsense" Ooh-ah. Charlie Charters has returned to Fiji in a decidedly irritable mood, despite flying business class on Fiji Airways courtesy of the madrai millions in luxurious seats that … [Read more...] about # HE’S BACK AND VERY GRUMPY. THE “CITIZEN JOURNALIST” AND FASHION TRENDSETTER RETURNS TO FACE THE MUSIC
# THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HIS JSC FINALLY BOW TO THE INEVITABLE AFTER A TWO WEEK STANDOFF WITH THE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER
Salesi Temo has finally acknowledged defeat after his petulant standoff with the President and Prime Minister in which he refused to acknowledge that the Prime Minister had gone over his head and appealed the decision by Justice Dane Tuiqereqere that he had no legal right to remove Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. Grubsheet was first with … [Read more...] about # THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HIS JSC FINALLY BOW TO THE INEVITABLE AFTER A TWO WEEK STANDOFF WITH THE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER
# A GRUBSHEET GOLD STAR FOR THE FIRST SIGHTING OF CHARLIE CHARTERS RETURNING TO FACE THE MUSIC (UPDATED)
The citizen journalist and fashion trendsetter, Charlie Charters, has until tomorrow, Thursday March 26, to return to Fiji to fulfill the terms of his bail variation that enabled him to travel to Australia during his trial on a charge of aiding and abetting a FICAC informant. Will he return to face justice or "do a runner"? It's a question we … [Read more...] about # A GRUBSHEET GOLD STAR FOR THE FIRST SIGHTING OF CHARLIE CHARTERS RETURNING TO FACE THE MUSIC (UPDATED)
# BRITAIN – “MOTHER OF THE FREE” – ASSISTS FIJI TO COMBAT THE ALLEGED DISINFORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S CRITICS IN A GROSS PERVERSION OF DEMOCRACY
There is something deeply perverse about a government that launches a formal campaign against disinformation paid for by the British taxpayer using the itaukei word "sautu". It means peace and prosperity when the nation has experienced anything but under the Coalition government. But na veisaututaki also means "the pacification" - a … [Read more...] about # BRITAIN – “MOTHER OF THE FREE” – ASSISTS FIJI TO COMBAT THE ALLEGED DISINFORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S CRITICS IN A GROSS PERVERSION OF DEMOCRACY
# BIMAN PRASAD WANTS TO FORCE THE MOTHER TONGUE OF INDIA ON EVERY FIJIAN CHILD. WHAT ABOUT THE MOTHER TONGUE OF ENGLAND?
Most grassroots Indo-Fijians these days speak Fiji Hindi - an adaptation of the formal Hindi spoken in India and certain educated circles in Fiji, including Hindu religious devotees. But Biman Prasad - the NFP leader and sidelined deputy prime minister awaiting trial on criminal charges - wants formal Hindi, along with vosa vakaviti spoken by … [Read more...] about # BIMAN PRASAD WANTS TO FORCE THE MOTHER TONGUE OF INDIA ON EVERY FIJIAN CHILD. WHAT ABOUT THE MOTHER TONGUE OF ENGLAND?