“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 would have comfortably accommodated his ample frame.
Who could “Long Loaf” possibly be referring to in his arrival statements? The reference to grubby could be Grubsheet but then this is not social media but a news website of 15 years standing. I also wear boxer shorts, not Y-fronts, and crank out my own particular nonsense three floors up, not in a basement. And then there’s this other strange jibe.
“Sorry to disappoint the social media trolls who reported I had done a runner and whose lives seem to be defined by the fact that they have never felt the loving touch of a woman”
Is Charlie suggesting that Grubsheet prefers the loving touch of a man? Not so, with due respect to those men who do. As it happens, I enjoy the constant loving touch of a woman in the form of my estimable marama. So again, he can’t have been talking about me.
Yet it’s true that I did canvass the POSSIBILITY of him “doing a runner” – skipping bail on the FICAC charge against him of aiding and abetting a FICAC whistleblower. Perhaps the phrase was picked up by his “enemies” on social media, who turned it into fact.
Yet let me be the first to acknowledge Charlie’s courage in returning to Fiji when rumours abound of other imminent charges against him. I certainly wouldn’t have returned were I in his shoes so hats off to him and good luck with his court case. Because whatever the coming months bring, I think we can all agree that he wouldn’t look good in orange.
Charlie modestly made it known in advance that he would be available for media interviews on arrival at Nadi Airport and I’ve been scouring the media this morning for fresh coverage and photos. But the one in today’s Fiji Sun definitely looks like an image taken before he left. As soon as we get a fresh one, we’ll post it, not least to see if he has a new shirt.
As for baggy Y-fronts, they aren’t immediately obvious in the photos that are available. But God knows, Charlie needs all the support he can get.
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Plus pre-arrival coverage on MaiTV…
I repeat: Yes Grubsheet raised the POSSIBILITY that Charlie would “do a runner” but didn’t say he had. And I am not a “fake account on social media”. So again, I don’t know to whom Stanley Simpson‘s elves are referring.
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As this elf says, Charlie has “pled” not guilty on the aiding and abetting charges. But what’s he pled on the charge of crimes against fashion?
He will keep asking for bail and escape overseas and will stop returning to Fiji once he knows the court will find him guilty.
Why does he look like the villanous Peter Pettigrew – Wormtail – from Harry Potter? Grotesque.
Nothing to worry about Charlie – you did the right thing then you have nothing to worry about! ‘
The Truth will always prevail over Prince of Evil – Lucifer!
Stay blessed with your family and work – I remember you vividly when you worked as a TV Journalist during the revival of amateur boxing in 1992-1993, where the sport dominated the evening sports news every Tuesday …TV sports under your leadership contributed enormously in the revival of the sport since then…God Bless you and your family always!
Charlie will be just fine. He has connections and friends in high places. Nothing to worry about, that is why he is walking around with his chest out and exposed.
He just has not experienced the culture of liumuri yet, even though he believes he knows everything about local culture.
Hey CC, will there be a sequel to your book ?
Is it true that his wife is Hari’s lovechild?
Ok Charlie is back and angrier than before. But I’m with Charlie on the waste to energy proposal. It stinks to high heaven.
Especially with Lynda Tabuya’s involvement. Given her record on the US with phony investment scheme and absconding with investors money, how can she be trusted with the environment portfolio! It’s shocking:
Stanley Simpson is giving the issue lukewarm coverage because he is too cozy with the likes of Linda and Sashi ‘Warm Cosy Feeling’ Kiran, plus he knows which side his bread is buttered. He’s a corrupt journalist. So much talk about investigative journalism but still no sign of it. All we see is government spin and propaganda:
MAI TV:
“Fiji’s Environment Minister Lynda Tabuya says the $5-per-page fee and 21-day viewing period for the EIA report on a proposed waste-to-energy plant in Vuda are mandated by law, while extending viewing hours and promising further consultations as a free digital copy is released online.”
CHARLIE CHARTERS:
MADAM MINISTER … Lynda Tabuya I am sorry to say that your assertion in this Mai TV report does not appear to be correct.
Admittedly my university degree was geography with a diploma in broadcast journalism. I am not a qualified lawyer like you.
But my reading, verified by others, is:
1. There is a significant difference between changing Primary Legislation which you seem to be talking about, and Subsidiary Legislation.
Yes, Primary Legislation must go through the full legislative process including Cabinet approval, Parliamentary Approval and then Presidential Assent.
2. By contrast Subsidiary Legislation sits underneath Primary Legislation. Subsidiary Legislation gives the Minister responsible for the environment the legal power to make and amend regulations.
So you could, if you wished to democratise access to EIA reports now and in the future, simply adjust the Environment Management (Fees) Regulations.
The Environment Management (Fees) Regulations clearly sit within Subsidiary not Primary Legislation.
You could change or even eliminate the costs of obtaining copies of an EIA.
Your choice.
Your discretion.
We’d finally bring to an end how only the rich and well connected can access information about EIAs that affect their lives.
Changing the Subsidiary Legislation requires no new Act of Parliament.
You could even — Heaven’s Above!! — use your Ministerial pen to stipulate that EIAs are published free-of-charge on your Department website. This is the standard in most countries, and recognised in modern legislation worldwide
Of course, I am happy to be corrected if my analysis is wrong and publish a clarification with due prominence.
Perhaps the Solicitor-General might have an opinion?