For anyone with a long memory and a healthy dose of scepticism, there was something decidedly unsettling about Jone Kalouniwai's "reconciliation" love-in up at the Camp yesterday, not least because some very big military names decided to give it a miss. There was no sign of the big three former military officers in the parliament - the … [Read more...] about # MEMO COMMANDER CUDDLY: NEVER SAY “NEVER AGAIN”
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# JUSTICE FIJI STYLE. JUDGES “INVITING OPINIONS FROM SELECTED STAKEHOLDERS” (UPDATED THURS AM)
There are genuinely shocking disclosures in leaked correspondence Grubsheet publishes today from the President, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, to Justice Anare Tuilevuka, the Chair of the Tribunal investigating the allegations of misbehaviour against the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde. Firstly, the Pryde case - which was meant to conclude on Monday … [Read more...] about # JUSTICE FIJI STYLE. JUDGES “INVITING OPINIONS FROM SELECTED STAKEHOLDERS” (UPDATED THURS AM)
# THE CROOK “MAC” PATEL, HIS CORRUPT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PM AND HIS CORRUPT NEWSPAPER, THE FIJI TIMES
Finally, a mainstream media outlet, the Fiji Sun, has joined Grubsheet in highlighting the extraordinary circumstances of the granting of a pardon to Mahendra "Mac" Patel - the fugitive "Chairman Emeritus" of the Motibhai group of companies and owners of the Fiji Times. The Fiji Sun rightly describes it today as "a travesty of justice" that … [Read more...] about # THE CROOK “MAC” PATEL, HIS CORRUPT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PM AND HIS CORRUPT NEWSPAPER, THE FIJI TIMES
# A NATION THAT DOESN’T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR THROW UP (UPDATED TUES PM WITH SENSATIONAL FURTHER DETAIL)
Bring out the tissues, Fiji, and pass around the buckets. Because the first rapist of democracy , Sitiveni Rabuka - who seized power at gunpoint in 1987 - is claiming that he was a "victim" of the 2000 rebellion and wants George Speight to tell the truth and clear him of any involvement. WTF? From a man who can't lie straight in bed at night, … [Read more...] about # A NATION THAT DOESN’T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR THROW UP (UPDATED TUES PM WITH SENSATIONAL FURTHER DETAIL)
# H.E THE PRESIDENT HUMILIATED BY HIS LORDSHIP THE HUMAN CAR CRASH
Salesi Temo, the Acting Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, is a walking disaster and it is one of Fiji's great mysteries that he is allowed to continue in the job. That he does so after a succession of public scandals tells us not only that he regards himself as a law unto himself but that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni … [Read more...] about # H.E THE PRESIDENT HUMILIATED BY HIS LORDSHIP THE HUMAN CAR CRASH
# WHO IS RUNNING THE NATION? RABUKA OR RABUKU?
Since when has it been acceptable in Fiji for a notorious Deputy DPP who was removed from the top job because of his professional misconduct to contradict the elected Prime Minister? Since a few hours ago when John Rabuku made a fool of Sitiveni Rabuka by saying on Facebook that the PM's plan to hold an inquiry into the "rotten" circumstances … [Read more...] about # WHO IS RUNNING THE NATION? RABUKA OR RABUKU?