Manoa Kamikamica has again shown his unfitness for national leadership with an extraordinary display of hypocrisy and lack of understanding about (what ought to be) the independence of our institutions of state from the executive government. At the same time as he crows that intimidation and threats against FICAC won't be tolerated, he admits … [Read more...] about # MANOA KAMIKAMICA’S SUBTLE BRAND OF INTIMIDATION (UPDATED THURS PM)
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# EXPOSED: LYNDA TABUYA AND BARBARA MALIMALI’S BIG LIE
It has taken barely a day for the Prime Minister to be humiliated over his refusal to insist that Barbara MalImali stand aside as FICAC Commissioner while an official inquiry examines what Sitiveni Rabuka himself has described as the "rottenness" surrounding her appointment. One of Barbara Malimali's first acts has been to terminate the FICAC … [Read more...] about # EXPOSED: LYNDA TABUYA AND BARBARA MALIMALI’S BIG LIE
# PLEASE EXPLAIN. AN OPEN LETTER TO RICHARD NAIDU
The lawyer, Richard Naidu, has enjoyed decades of being lionised as a conscience of the nation ever since indigenous supremacists dug a lovo pit for him outside the parliament in 1987 when he was press secretary to the ousted prime minister, Timoci Bavadra . He has been a “go to” for anyone concerned about good governance and human rights, … [Read more...] about # PLEASE EXPLAIN. AN OPEN LETTER TO RICHARD NAIDU
# TO STOP THE “ROT”, THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE MUST BE REMOVED (UPDATED MON PM)
As the clamour intensifies for an official inquiry into the circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment at FICAC, the real question is what form that inquiry would take. Because there is no mechanism under the Constitution for the setting up of the local equivalent of a special "Royal Commission" that is common in our larger neighbours to … [Read more...] about # TO STOP THE “ROT”, THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE MUST BE REMOVED (UPDATED MON PM)
# THE FIJI TIMES DEVOTES THREE PAGES TO THE FICAC SCANDAL. WHICH MUST MEAN BARBIE IS TOAST (UPDATED SUN PM WITH LINK TO FRANCIS PULEIWAI’S EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ABC)
The Fiji Times is now the Pravda of Fiji - the local equivalent of the official communist party newspaper of Soviet times - the voice of the government just as the Fiji Sun used to be the local Pravda until their roles reversed after the last election. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the great pastime of "Kremlin Watchers" was to scan … [Read more...] about # THE FIJI TIMES DEVOTES THREE PAGES TO THE FICAC SCANDAL. WHICH MUST MEAN BARBIE IS TOAST (UPDATED SUN PM WITH LINK TO FRANCIS PULEIWAI’S EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ABC)
# SCANDAL. THE PAST CATCHES UP WITH BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED SAT AM AS FRANCIS PULEIWAI SPEAKS OUT FROM AUSTRALIA)
On the evening of August 31, 2016, and in the early hours of September 1, 2016, Barbara Malimali - the newly appointed FICAC Commissioner - was at the centre of an extraordinary scandal involving a High Court judge in Tuvalu in which she was drunk, went swimming in the ocean and behaved in a manner that compromised the judge hearing a case against … [Read more...] about # SCANDAL. THE PAST CATCHES UP WITH BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED SAT AM AS FRANCIS PULEIWAI SPEAKS OUT FROM AUSTRALIA)