The problem with job losses is all the police work for prosecution has to be handed over to DPPs office for a decision as to whether to prosecute or not so unless Christopher Pryde is back in post those prosecutions will never happen as current DPP staff are all big friends with Barbara
Hey GD. How awful… There are many horrible bugs floating around. Hope your vaccinations are up to date. Please seek medical advice. We need you to fight and speak for us. You must understand our selfishness, but we love you.
Awwww…Those diarrhoea people will miss your breaking news, people like Charlie Charters and all implicated in the COI Report
Get well GD, have a scotch dry.
Get well soon, GD!
We’ll certainly miss your daily insights. And let’s be honest, that corrupted government’s undoubtedly breathing a massive sigh of relief with your blowtorch temporarily off their radar!
Speedy recovery GD šš» Thank you for your service and take that much needed rest.
While the swampās being drained, the frogs are also coming out one by one to say their useless commentaries. Tell us something we donāt know, eh?
Season 1 is almost done. Crocodiles and their cronies are agitated as we watch unconvinced š š
Prepare for Season 2 – why the crocodiles were involved in the first place. The Cover Up!
Rabuka, stop the strategising. Youāre an open book now. Weāre not stupid. Stop protecting the jezebels and rodents in parliament. Release the COI report to the public; and CID, start cracking the whip.
Do your jobs!
Bula vinaka GD ā hope youāre recovering well and feeling better soon.
Just wanted to take this opportunity to invite your iTaukei readers, through your columns, to share their honest thoughts on the 1997 Constitution and the momentum currently building around calls to abolish the 2013 Constitution.
My question to them is this:
How exactly does changing the Constitution lift the iTaukei out of poverty?
How will it drive economic growth and success for all Fijians, across the board?
And if possible, it would be great to hear some of these views expressed in the iTaukei language ā it adds depth and authenticity to the conversation.
Looking forward to hearing real perspectives from the ground.
I have a question, …….. what does…. “Equal citizenship mean” exactly. Being a citizen of Fiji grants such individual status and rights it does NOT mandate equality and rightly so. For obvious reasons.
Yes, citizens of our beloved country are equal before the law. Yet we are richly blessed with distinctions too:
1. I taukei means Owner not all of us are itaukei;
2. Respectfully we do not all serve the Lord Jesus Christ, the Hindus have their Gods, Muslims, Allah. And respectfully so forth.
3. There is the Vola ni Kawa Bula not all of us are included.
4. We have the rich, well to do and citizens that are aspiring to succeed.
I am responding to “Havenāt We Learnt Anything? ”
The much-touted equal citizenship is in the 2013 Constitution.
Can we see Equal citizenship in 1 to 4 above at least???
Isn’t Citizenship enough??? which encompasses 1 to 4 above???
“Havenāt We Learnt Anything? ” Can you please enlighten me as to what EQUAL CITIZENSHIP means???
We are surely not a communist country, are we??? Or is it that the architects of the 2013 Constitution ascribed to Fabianism i.e. gradual fundamental changes over time. It appears so.
What will Equal Citizenship look like in say 100 years’ time??? Will all citizens of Fiji have one religion, we are all included into the Vola ni Kawa Bula or alternatively the State owns all the Land. What will the narrative be in households, kindergarten, schools and Universities.
Na ulu Taga oqo e dodonu me soli vakasama kina o keda kece ,e sa rui titobu ka rabalevu na kena i balebale
I have said this before the 2013 Constitution even though elections and appointments have been made under it remains a document that was conceived in a procedurally unfair manner. And for it to be the supreme law of the land. We have institutionalized unfairness and lack if due process.
How can 1 or 2 tell the thousands what should be. The 1 or 2 will certainly come up with not CITIZENSHIP but EQUAL CITIZENSHIP. Why??? exactly, where 1 or 2 know that the people do not have a say. With that much power surely one will be tempted to fiddle. And fiddle they did by moving boundary stones.
This is the fundamental reason (at least in my humble view) why the 2013 Constitution needs to go. In keeping with the character of the 1 and 2 and true to boys trying to keep all the marbles to themselves they set impossible mechanisms to have the said Constitution changed. Yes because they know they fiddled i.e. CITIZENSHIP upgraded to EQUAL CITIZEHSHIP.
Viti – e tosoi na yalayala
A fundamental boundary stone has been moved deliberately. Who benefits? Who will end up without a Chair when the music stops.
Ask yourselves given at least the 4 fundamental distinctions listed above why would a constitution add EQUAL to CITIZENSHIP???
The 2013 Constitution and the wellbeing of the itaukei are inter-related through the introduction of the term “EQUAL CITIZENSHIP”.
The itaukei (me for one) will not accept the machinations to distort or erase history by fiddling with words period.
Hi GD,
Sorry to hear that you are unwell, meanwhile, get well soon and let’s get these buggers packing out of their jobs!
The problem with job losses is all the police work for prosecution has to be handed over to DPPs office for a decision as to whether to prosecute or not so unless Christopher Pryde is back in post those prosecutions will never happen as current DPP staff are all big friends with Barbara
Hey GD. How awful… There are many horrible bugs floating around. Hope your vaccinations are up to date. Please seek medical advice. We need you to fight and speak for us. You must understand our selfishness, but we love you.
Awwww…Those diarrhoea people will miss your breaking news, people like Charlie Charters and all implicated in the COI Report
Get well GD, have a scotch dry.
Rest well and get well soon, GD. Thank you for all that you do for Fiji!
Get well soon, GD!
We’ll certainly miss your daily insights. And let’s be honest, that corrupted government’s undoubtedly breathing a massive sigh of relief with your blowtorch temporarily off their radar!
Yadra Graham, sending good wishes for your rapid recovery.
Get well soon GD š
Get well soon brother.
God bless you
Rest up! We need you back on the frontline!
Get well soon
Wishing you a speedy recovery GD , get lots of rest !
Speedy recovery GD šš» Thank you for your service and take that much needed rest.
While the swampās being drained, the frogs are also coming out one by one to say their useless commentaries. Tell us something we donāt know, eh?
Season 1 is almost done. Crocodiles and their cronies are agitated as we watch unconvinced š š
Prepare for Season 2 – why the crocodiles were involved in the first place. The Cover Up!
Rabuka, stop the strategising. Youāre an open book now. Weāre not stupid. Stop protecting the jezebels and rodents in parliament. Release the COI report to the public; and CID, start cracking the whip.
Do your jobs!
Speedy recovery Graham
Speedy recovery ššš
Get well soon, sir.
Get well soon – wishing you all the best!
A s[eedy recovery GD
Bula vinaka GD ā hope youāre recovering well and feeling better soon.
Just wanted to take this opportunity to invite your iTaukei readers, through your columns, to share their honest thoughts on the 1997 Constitution and the momentum currently building around calls to abolish the 2013 Constitution.
My question to them is this:
How exactly does changing the Constitution lift the iTaukei out of poverty?
How will it drive economic growth and success for all Fijians, across the board?
And if possible, it would be great to hear some of these views expressed in the iTaukei language ā it adds depth and authenticity to the conversation.
Looking forward to hearing real perspectives from the ground.
I have a question, …….. what does…. “Equal citizenship mean” exactly. Being a citizen of Fiji grants such individual status and rights it does NOT mandate equality and rightly so. For obvious reasons.
Yes, citizens of our beloved country are equal before the law. Yet we are richly blessed with distinctions too:
1. I taukei means Owner not all of us are itaukei;
2. Respectfully we do not all serve the Lord Jesus Christ, the Hindus have their Gods, Muslims, Allah. And respectfully so forth.
3. There is the Vola ni Kawa Bula not all of us are included.
4. We have the rich, well to do and citizens that are aspiring to succeed.
I am responding to “Havenāt We Learnt Anything? ”
The much-touted equal citizenship is in the 2013 Constitution.
Can we see Equal citizenship in 1 to 4 above at least???
Isn’t Citizenship enough??? which encompasses 1 to 4 above???
“Havenāt We Learnt Anything? ” Can you please enlighten me as to what EQUAL CITIZENSHIP means???
We are surely not a communist country, are we??? Or is it that the architects of the 2013 Constitution ascribed to Fabianism i.e. gradual fundamental changes over time. It appears so.
What will Equal Citizenship look like in say 100 years’ time??? Will all citizens of Fiji have one religion, we are all included into the Vola ni Kawa Bula or alternatively the State owns all the Land. What will the narrative be in households, kindergarten, schools and Universities.
Na ulu Taga oqo e dodonu me soli vakasama kina o keda kece ,e sa rui titobu ka rabalevu na kena i balebale
I have said this before the 2013 Constitution even though elections and appointments have been made under it remains a document that was conceived in a procedurally unfair manner. And for it to be the supreme law of the land. We have institutionalized unfairness and lack if due process.
How can 1 or 2 tell the thousands what should be. The 1 or 2 will certainly come up with not CITIZENSHIP but EQUAL CITIZENSHIP. Why??? exactly, where 1 or 2 know that the people do not have a say. With that much power surely one will be tempted to fiddle. And fiddle they did by moving boundary stones.
This is the fundamental reason (at least in my humble view) why the 2013 Constitution needs to go. In keeping with the character of the 1 and 2 and true to boys trying to keep all the marbles to themselves they set impossible mechanisms to have the said Constitution changed. Yes because they know they fiddled i.e. CITIZENSHIP upgraded to EQUAL CITIZEHSHIP.
Viti – e tosoi na yalayala
A fundamental boundary stone has been moved deliberately. Who benefits? Who will end up without a Chair when the music stops.
Ask yourselves given at least the 4 fundamental distinctions listed above why would a constitution add EQUAL to CITIZENSHIP???
The 2013 Constitution and the wellbeing of the itaukei are inter-related through the introduction of the term “EQUAL CITIZENSHIP”.
The itaukei (me for one) will not accept the machinations to distort or erase history by fiddling with words period.