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- [# THE PRIDE OF ITAUKEI WOMANHOOD, BARBARA MALIMALI, FIGHTS BACK IN AN ASTONISHING TORRENT OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION AND THREATS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pride-of-itaukei-womanhood-barbara-malimali-fights-back-in-an-astonishing-outburst-of-self-justification-and-threats/) - "Bad Barbie" Barbara Malimali was eviscerated by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances of her appointment as Acting FICAC Commissioner. She has been eviscerated again in the Tuiqereqere judgment on the CoI - the Judge's comments about her conduct ruling out any prospect of reinstatement or, for that matter, ever again securing a
- [# THE SNAKE WIPES THE SMILES OFF THE FACES OF THE CROCODILES AS HE ANNOUNCES HE IS APPEALING THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT ON THE MALIMALI AFFAIR (UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-snake-wipes-the-smiles-off-the-faces-of-the-crocodiles-as-he-announces-he-is-appealing-the-tuiqereqere-judgment-on-the-malimali-affair/) - We can be sure that there is shock and consternation on the part of everyone from the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, down at the news that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, is appealing Justice Dane Tuiqereqere's decision to quash the findings of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as Acting
- [# BREAKING NEWS...PM CONFIRMS HE IS APPEALING AGAINST THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT. DETAILS TO COME.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-pm-confirms-he-is-appealing-against-the-tuiqereqere-judgment-details-to-come/)
- [# THE PRESSURE IS ON THE PRIME MINISTER NOT TO APPEAL THE TUIQEREQERE RULING ON THE MALIMALI AFFAIR. HE MUST RESIST IT FOR HIS SAKE AND OURS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pressure-is-on-the-prime-minister-not-to-appeal-the-tuiqereqere-ruling-on-the-malimali-affair-he-must-resist-it-for-his-sake-and-ours/) - The Rewa high chief, Ro Naulu Maitaitini, has again established himself as influencer-in-chief for the iTaukei establishment with what amounts to a public call for Sitiveni Rabuka not to appeal the Tuiqereqere ruling quashing the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as acting FICAC Commssioner. In doing so, Ro Maitaitini
- [# BOMBSHELL: WHAT JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS TOLD JUSTICE DANE TUIQEREQERE UNDER OATH THAT TUIQEREQERE IGNORED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-what-justice-david-ashton-lewis-told-justice-dane-tuiqereqere-under-oath-that-tuiqereqere-ignored/) - Just a day after the Tuiqereqere judgment quashing the Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair because of the alleged bias of Justice David Ashton-Lewis comes hard evidence of Dane Tuiqereqere's gross mishandling of the case. It was evidence that Justice Ashton-Lewis provided in affidavit form under oath when he was asked by Tuiqereqere why
- [# A BREATHTAKING DECISION BY A SOLE NOVICE JUDGE OVERTURNING A SUPREME COURT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY PLACES A QUESTION MARK OVER THE INTEGRITY OF THE ENTIRE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-breathtaking-decision-by-a-sole-novice-judge-overturning-a-supreme-court-commission-of-inquiry-places-a-question-mark-over-the-integrity-of-the-entire-judiciary-in-fiji/) - The decision by Justice Dane Tuiqereqere to declare the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry null and void has broken like a thunderclap over Suva but it is already clear that it is a serious miscarriage of justice which threatens the reputation of the judiciary and must be appealed. Think that's a big call, Fiji? Then let's
- [# HOMER IS LOOKING FOR SYMPATHY. IT'S BETWEEN SH*T AND SYPHILIS IN THE SHORTER OXFORD DICTIONARY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/homer-is-looking-for-sympathy-its-between-sht-and-syphilis-in-the-shorter-oxford-dictionary/) - Charlie Charters seems to think that his praise for the Coalition government on social media entitles him to special treatment and certainly not to have his phone seized again by the police after he won his court case against FICAC. Grubsheet doesn't know enough to make any credible pronouncement on the case. But our local
- [# WHY FOUR MONTHS SINCE THE RFMF TORTURED AND KILLED JONE VAKARISI HAS NO-ONE BEEN CHARGED?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-four-months-since-the-rfmf-tortured-and-killed-jone-vararisi-has-no-one-been-charged/) - The collective amnesia of the mainstream media and its willingness to be manipulated means that stories of vital national importance routinely go under the radar in Fiji. And none more so than with the extrajudicial killing by the RFMF of the accused drug lord, Jone Vakarisi. It will be four months next week since Vakarisi
- [# THE COALITION IS POISED TO DELAY THE ELECTION IN A MODERN DAY REPLAY OF 1987 WITHOUT THE GUNS. THE FIJIAN PEOPLE MUST FIGHT BACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-is-poised-to-delay-the-election-in-a-modern-day-replay-of-1987-without-the-guns-the-fijian-people-must-fight-back/) - Never mind his rape of democracy in 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka is signaling that the government is considering delaying the coming election until after it can change the constitution. It is a clear violation of the supreme law which other politicians must go to the courts to challenge if Rabuka proceeds with this plan. Because the
- [# FEARS OF A REIGN OF TERROR AS MANOA KAMIKAMICA STORMS BACK INTO POWER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fears-of-a-reign-of-terror-as-manoa-kamikamica-storms-back-into-power/) - God help anyone in government now labouring under the vastly expanded powers of the restored Deputy Prime Minister, Manoa Kamikamica, who wasn't totally supportive of him during his tussle with FICAC. That's the word as a wave of fear spreads through the civil service that Mr Sweet plans not only to take over from Sitiveni
- [# HERE'S LOOKING UP YOUR SULU, MATE. THE DOMINANT MEMBER OF THE VUVALE UNION SPEAKS (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/heres-looking-up-your-sulu-the-dominant-member-of-the-vuvale-partnership-speaks/) - Peter Roberts - the Australian High Commissioner to Fiji - doesn't go to the CFL Fiji Village studios like any local to be interviewed by Vijay Narayan. Vijay goes to him at the Australian official residence - a slice of Oz in the gated complex on Princes Road high above the capital. If the Mountain
- [# MR SWEET REJOINS THE COALITION OF BLING AS HALF THE NATION LIVES IN POVERTY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mr-sweet-rejoins-the-coalition-of-bling-as-half-the-nation-lives-in-poverty/) - So Manoa Kamikamica is back as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and other things wearing the uniform of Sitiveni Rabuka's government - a large rock of gold on his left hand. What is it about these people that they can flash symbols of wealth in the faces of voters who put them there
- [# THE SNAKE'S ATTEMPT TO DESTROY MANOA KAMIKAMICA BACKFIRES WITH MR SWEET'S ACQUITTAL. NOW THE POWER STRUGGLE BEGINS AGAIN (UPDATED WED AUG 4)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whoops-the-snakes-campaign-to-destroy-manoa-kamikamica-backfires-with-mr-sweets-acquittal-now-the-power-struggle-begins-again/) - FICAC's failure to prove its case against Manoa Kamikamica because its star witness went to water in the witness box has triggered a renewed tussle for the leadership of the People's Alliance and again presents a direct threat to the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka. It's widely believed that Rabuka set up the Ashton-Lewis Commission of
- [# PEOPLE FIRST OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES. BUT WHERE'S  PREMILA?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/people-first-officially-launches-but-wheres-premila/) - The photo of the cake-cutting at the election campaign launch yesterday of Inia Seruiratu's People First party looked more like a wake than a celebration. And well it might because of one glaring omission - the absence of what many potential supporters would otherwise regard as the brightest star in its firmament. Where was Premila?
- [# ROLEX RAMBO. KING OF THE ITAUKEI. CONQUEROR OF THE VULAGI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rolex-rambo-king-of-the-itaukei-conqueror-of-the-vulagi/) - The secrecy accompanying the government's plans for constitutional change constitutes a conspiracy against the people and a violation of the public's right know. It is simply not acceptable for the Prime Minister to continue to act like an emperor and dodge the obligation he has to tell us all precisely what changes he envisages. The
- [# THE RULE OF THE MOB BEFORE THE RULE OF LAW. HOW THE ITAUKEI ESTABLISHMENT PLANS TO PUSH THROUGH A NEW CONSTITUTION IN SIX MONTHS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-rule-of-the-mob-before-the-rule-of-law-how-the-itaukei-establishment-plans-to-push-through-a-new-constitution-in-six-months/) - Confused about what the Rabuka government's stance is on changing the 2013 Constitution? You're not alone. Because the mixed messaging from the top has never been more confusing, with just six months now to the last possible date that the government can call an election in the first week of February. On the one hand,
- [# WAITING, WAITING, WAITING. THE ANSWERS THAT NEVER COME DESPITE THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOW (UPDATED TUES JUL 28)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/waiting-waiting-waiting-the-answers-that-never-come-despite-the-publics-right-to-know/) - Grubsheet is reminded yet again how crazy Fiji has become in the four years of Coalition government by the Prime Minister's absurd statement that the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry was worth it because at least people targeted now know they did nothing wrong. It really is like being down the rabbit hole with Alice (in
- [# MORE SCARE TACTICS AS THE FIJI TIMES AGAIN GIVES RO TEIMUMU KEPA ITS FRONT PAGE TO CLAIM A THREAT TO ITAUKEI RIGHTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-scare-tactics-as-the-fiji-times-again-gives-ro-teimumu-kepa-its-front-page-to-claim-a-threat-to-itaukei-rights/) - On Friday, it was Ro Teimumu Kepa - the Roko Tui Dreketi and former opposition leader - claiming that the iTaukei are "still haunted by the damage" caused to them by 16 years of Bainimarama rule. Today it's Ro Teimumu Kepa claiming that laws introduced by the Bainimarama government "continue to undermine iTaukei rights". Both
- [# WHEN THE BEST FIJIAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLET IS IN NEW ZEALAND](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-the-best-fijian-mainstream-media-outlet-is-in-new-zealand/) - The worst indictment of the Fijian media is the fact that the most comprehensive coverage of major individual stories is to be found not on local media outlets but on Radio New Zealand's Pacific Service. RNZ routinely covers stories that some Fijian media organisations ignore altogether, deep diving into detail that seems beyond the capacity
- [# HOMER IS A VERY LUCKY BOY. HE IS GOING TO BE EVEN MORE INSUFFERABLE FROM NOW ON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/homer-is-a-very-lucky-boy-he-is-going-to-be-even-more-insufferable-from-now-on/) - Seriously though, Grubsheet is pleased for him that Charlie Charters has won his court case today because I wouldn't wish a stint in Naboro or Korovou on anyone, let alone someone so obviously unfit for prison life. The judicial finding of a probable abuse of process on the part of FICAC has wider implications beyond
- [# WELL SHE WOULD SAY THAT, WOULDN'T SHE? ANOTHER PERVERSION OF JOURNALISM AND THE TRUTH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/well-she-would-say-that-wouldnt-she-another-perversion-of-journalism-and-the-truth/) - Hold the front page. The Roko Tui Dreketi and head of the Burebasaga confederacy, Ro Teimumu Kepa, says the 16-year rule by Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum was bad for the iTaukei. Oh really? This from the former SODELPA opposition leader and Rewa High Chief who has been saying the same thing for 20 years.
- [# THE FULL EXTENT OF THE STATE'S CONSPIRACY AGAINST CHRISTOPHER PRYDE IS ABOUT TO BE LAID BARE (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-full-extent-of-the-states-conspiracy-against-christopher-pryde-is-about-to-be-laid-bare/) - It was always going to happen - FICAC withdrawing its charges of corruption against the former DPP after more than three years in which the dogged Kiwi with the "Keep Calm and Carry On", sign had his name dragged through the mud yet refused to yield and has again emerged triumphant. Those who conspired against
- [# CFL-FIJI VILLAGE GIVES US A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF THE  MANIPULATION OF THE FIJIAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/cfl-fiji-village-gives-us-a-classic-example-of-the-manipulation-of-the-fijian-mainstream-media/) - While we await responses from Lynda Tabuya, the Prime Minister and the police about the reported existence of a second sex tape involving the notorious Minister for Bonking and Weed, to follow is a prime example of the corruption of the local media and its selective reporting in favour of the powerful while it ignores
- [# BOMBSHELL. REPORTS OF A FRESH LYNDA TABUYA SEX VIDEO EMERGE JUST AS DOPEY KIWI TAXPAYERS FORK OUT NZ$200,000 ON A FILM THAT PROMOTES HER "VICTIM" ACT (UPDATED TUES 21ST)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-reports-of-a-fresh-lynda-tabuya-sex-video-emerge-just-as-dopey-kiwi-taxpayers-fork-out-nz-200000-on-a-film-that-promotes-her-victim-claims/) - Can it possibly be true? Can Lynda Tabuya be so stupid? Because astonishing reports are emerging from police sources in Fiji of yet another sex video featuring the Minister for Information, Environment and Climate Change, aka the Minister for Bonking and Weed. The existence of the video is a closely guarded secret. But Fiji being
- [# THE CORRUPTION OF THE OFFICES OF STATE IN FIJI IS COMPLETE (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corruption-of-the-offices-of-state-in-fiji-is-complete/) - It has taken barely 72 hours since FICAC was presented with the sensational affidavit of the senior ODPP staffer, Susana Vuniani, alleging corrupt conduct on the part of the Chief Justice and the Acting DPP for the corruption watchdog to clear them - conclusive evidence that something is very rotten in the state of Fiji.
- [# FICAC BEGINS INVESTIGATING SUSANA VUNIANI'S EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION ON THE PART OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND ACTING DPP (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ficac-begins-investigating-the-explosive-allegations-in-the-susana-vuniani-affidavit-of-corruption-on-the-part-of-the-chief-justice-and-acting-dpp/) - It has taken two days after Grubsheet broke the story but the sensational sworn statement by the senior ODPP staffer, Susana Vuniani, is finally news in the Fijian mainstream media. It is also now the subject of a formal FICAC investigation homing in on the allegations of wrongdoing by the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, the
- [#BOMBSHELL. AN ODPP INSIDER BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF FIJI'S INSTITUTIONS OF STATE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-an-odpp-insider-blows-the-whistle-on-corruption-at-the-heart-of-fijis-institutions-of-state/) - Grubsheet returns with the publication of an explosive affidavit by a senior member of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions that details a conspiracy involving the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, and the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, to destroy the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry and prevent the prosecution of some of the nation's biggest
- [# MY NEW LEFT HOOK. TO ENABLE GRUBSHEET TO PUNCH ABOVE ITS WEIGHT ALL THE WAY TO ELECTION DAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/my-new-left-hook-to-enable-grubsheet-to-punch-above-its-weight-all-the-way-to-election-day/) - As I indicated in previous postings, Grubsheet is temporarily suspended as I recover from surgery to replace my left shoulder, which was damaged when tendons were torn accidentally. That operation to install a titanium replacement has been a success but I am barred from keyboard work until further notice. I am typing this with one
- [# ONE LAST THING. THE STARTER PISTOL FOR THE ELECTION HAS BEEN FIRED, PRIME MINISTER. YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE RULES IN MID-RACE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/one-last-thing-the-starters-gun-for-the-election-has-been-fired-prime-minister-you-cannot-change-the-rules-in-mid-race/) - The Coalition has been eviscerated by Fiji's only independent think tank, Dialogue Fiji, for suggesting that the electoral laws can be changed after the official campaign period for the coming election has already begun. The points it makes are entirely valid. Sitiveni Rabuka has had close to four years to reform the electoral system and
- [# THE OPPOSITION SETS THE SCENE FOR A MORAL CRUSADE AGAINST THE COALITION IN THE COMING ELECTION (FINAL POST UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-opposition-sets-the-scene-for-a-moral-crusade-against-the-coalition-in-the-coming-election-final-post-until-further-notice/) - Inia Seruiratu, the current Opposition Leader in the parliament, is a devout Christian and lay preacher who is finally beginning to expound a clear vision of his leadership of the newly-registered People First party that has arisen from the ashes of FijiFirst. It is of a return to morality in government and proper standards of
- [# MEMO PRIME MINISTER. THE CLIMATE FIGHT IS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE IN THE HANDS OF YOUR SCANDAL-PRONE INFORMATION MINISTER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/memo-prime-minister-the-climate-fight-is-too-important-to-be-in-the-hands-of-your-scandal-prone-information-minister/) - The massive backlash against Lynda Tabuya on social media over her bungled attempt to remove Alexandra Forwood and others from Facebook has prompted the Information Minister to try to deflect the onslaught by highlighting the importance of her other portfolio - climate change. Apropros of nothing, the Minister for Disinformation, Bonking and Weed has issued
- [# BAINIMARAMA'S ONE NATION TO GO HEAD TO HEAD WITH RABUKA'S PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE TO DECIDE THE NATION'S FUTURE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bainimaramas-one-nation-to-go-head-to-head-with-rabukas-peoples-alliance-to-decide-the-nations-future/) - Grubsheet continues to be amazed that the Fijian media is overlooking easily the most significant political story now that the campaign period for the coming election has commenced - that Frank Bainimarama is back in a fight to the death against Sitiveni Rabuka for the hearts and minds of the Fijian people and the future
- [# LYNDA SLAIN BY THE DRAGON. META RELENTS. ALEX IS BACK (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-slain-by-the-dragon-meta-relents-alex-is-back/) - There nothing like targeting the biggest fish in a global giant like Meta on charges of suppressing free speech to get a rapid result - and Alexandra Forwood is now back on Facebook after an outcry over her suspension driven by the lamentable Lynda Tabuya, the Coalition's Minister for Disinformation, Bonking and Weed. It is
- [# MARK ZUKERBERG'S META CONSPIRES WITH A CORRUPT COALITION TO SILENCE FREE EXPRESSION IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mark-zukerbergs-meta-conspires-with-a-corrupt-coalition-to-silence-free-expression-in-fiji/) - The Rabuka government's professed commitment to free expression has been exposed as a sick joke of Orwellian proportions as it works with the Meta corporation - the owners of Facebook - to shut down the accounts of Fijians trying to hold it to account for its increasing dysfunction and corruption. Meta's owner, Mark Zukerberg, has
- [# AUSTRALIA FEARS THE FIJI POLICE CANNOT BE TRUSTED IN THE REGIONAL FIGHT AGAINST THE DRUG TRADE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/australia-fears-the-fiji-police-cannot-be-trusted-in-the-regional-fight-against-the-drug-trade/) - The extent of the infiltration of the Fiji Police by drug kingpins has cast doubt in the minds of Australian Federal Police officers about whether the force can be trusted with information sharing, according to a new report by The Australian newspaper. The story - by the paper's New South Wales Editor, Stephen Rice -
- [# A COMPLETE FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP NOW POSES A DIRECT THREAT TO THE SECURITY AND WELL-BEING OF THE FIJIAN PEOPLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-complete-failure-of-leadership-now-poses-a-direct-threat-to-the-well-being-of-the-fijian-people/) - Simmering community resentment about the performance of the nation's MPs has spilled over into the Parliament itself with a extraordinary intervention by the Speaker of the House castigating the nation's representatives for their indolence and collective dereliction of duty. It is bound to fuel a nascent but growing belief that Fiji's problems are beyond the
- [# PIO TIKODUADUA'S EFFORTS TO CONTAIN THE MILITARY REVEALED IN MAJOR AUSTRALIAN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DRUG TRADE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pio-tikoduaduas-efforts-to-contain-the-military-revealed-in-major-australian-investigation-into-the-drug-trade/) - The Defence Minister reveals his behind-the-scenes role in opposing the declaration of a state of emergency in Fiji in a candid interview with The Australian newspaper that points to tensions within the government over the extent of the RFMF's participation in the drug fight. In a lengthy article today by the paper's Asia Pacific correspondent,
- [# BREAKING...THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS ARE OFF. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST 14 MONTHS AGO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-the-local-government-elections-are-off-you-heard-it-here-first-14-months-ago/) - Charlie Charters taunts me on Facebook for usually being wrong. But there's another thing I got right in March 2025 when I predicted that local government elections wouldn't be held before the national election. And whaddayaknow? The Prime Minister announced this morning that the September local government elections are off. He gives a number of
- [# "SMALL BUSINESSES WILL PERISH". THE DIRE WARNING AS LYNDA TABUYA PUTS THE OLD FOOL OVER A BARREL ON THE "LIVING WAGE"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/small-businesses-will-perish-the-dire-warning-as-lynda-tabuya-puts-the-old-fool-over-a-barrel-on-the-living-wage/) - Sitiveni Rabuka is in all sorts of trouble across a broad front - his "hands up" gesture on the front page of today's Fiji Times a metaphor for a Prime Minister totally out of his depth and too weak politically to govern effectively. The economic crisis triggered by events in the Middle East now includes
- [# EGG ON SOME VERY EXPENSIVE FACES AFTER THE PRIZE COCKS OF THE BAR FAIL TO PERSUADE JUDGE BULL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/egg-on-some-very-expensive-faces-after-the-prize-cocks-of-the-bar-fail-to-persuade-judge-bull/) - "You win some, you lose some" is an adage that applies as much to celebrity lawyers as it does to anyone else who takes their chances in the courts. And Richard "I have the means" Naidu and Wylie "Coyote" Clarke - along with their star Kings Counsel, Martin Daubney - have sure had a big
- [# THE CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE REDUCES FIJI TO A JUDICIAL SH*THOLE WHERE THE TOP JUDGE PLAYS WITH THE ACCUSED LIKE A CAT WITH MICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-chief-justice-reduces-fiji-to-a-judicial-shthole-where-the-top-judge-plays-with-the-accused-like-a-cat-with-mice/) - Once again, Salesi Temo has demonstrated misbehaviour on an industrial scale that more than warrants his suspension yet an equally corrupt President who happens to be his relative plus a corrupt Prime Minister conspire to keep him in office. It wasn't enough for Temo to be accused of perjury and obstructing and perverting the course
- [# THE PULPIT AS A PR TOOL. COMMANDER KALOUNIWAI COMPOUNDS HIS FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pulpit-as-a-pr-tool-commander-kalouniwai-compounds-his-failure-of-leadership/) - There is something distasteful, especially for people of faith, about the RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, choosing to use a church service to make some of his first public comments about the murder of Jone Vakarisi - a "house of God" as a venue to address a sordid crime committed by elements of
- [# THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS IMAGES THAT ARE UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN AND MAY BE DISTRESSING FOR OTHERS. READER DISCRETION ADVISED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/this-article-contains-images-that-are-unsuitable-for-children-and-may-be-distressing-for-others-reader-discretion-advised/) - Grubsheet is today taking the unprecedented step of publishing photographs of the body of the accused drug dealer, Jone Vakarisi, who was tortured and beaten to death while in the custody of the RFMF three weeks ago. We are doing so in the public interest and having established that this is with the knowledge and
- [# IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID*. THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS WILL DETERMINE THE ELECTION RESULT (ASSUMING IT HAPPENS)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/its-the-economy-stupid-the-cost-of-living-crisis-will-determine-the-election-result-assuming-it-happens/) - The extent of the challenge facing the Coalition parties as they seek a second term in government is laid bare in a landmark report by the nation's foremost policy institute - Dialogue Fiji - that reveals cost-of-living pressures are the top priority of most Fijians. Not crime and drugs. Not iTaukei rights. Not changing the
- [# COULD THESE TWO IMAGES PERCHANCE BE RELATED? ALL EYES ARE ON FIJILEAKS AS WE WAIT TO BE TOLD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/could-these-two-images-perchance-be-related-all-eyes-are-on-fijileaks-as-we-wait-to-be-told/) - In other news, the perennial grin has been wiped off Manoa Kamikamica's face and his political career is in tatters as his perjury trial gets the green light and other charges are pending. It is also a disaster for the likes of Biman Prasad, Barbara Malimali/Tanya Waqanika and Charlie Charters as a High Court judge
- [# YES, NO NEED FOR A STATE OF EMERGENCY. THE MILITARY IS ALREADY IN CONTROL AND THE MEDIA IS UNDER CONTROL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/yes-no-need-for-a-state-of-emergency-the-military-are-already-in-control/) - Without in any way diminishing the importance of tackling the drug threat, there are some deeply disturbing aspects to the current crackdown on criminals way beyond the extrajudicial killing by the RFMF of the accused drug kingpin, Jone Vakarisi. As the police "investigate" (yeah, sure) the circumstances in which Vakarisi was tortured and beaten to
- [# TAKING THE PISS. WHOSE URINE SAMPLE WAS IT? YES, REALLY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/taking-the-piss-whos-urine-sample-was-it-yes-really/) - Lynda Tabuya has lied about her drug use before but her own party found her guilty two years ago of a "sex and Illicit drug scandal" and stripped her of the deputy leadership of the People's Alliance. So we are entitled to be extremely skeptical about her latest stunt - supposedly submitting herself to a
- [# WHY WAS RFMF MURDER VICTIM JONE VAKARISI CRYING OUT LYNDA TABUYA'S NAME AS HE WAS TORTURED? (AND OTHER UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-was-rfmf-murder-victim-jone-vakarisi-crying-out-lynda-tabuyas-name-as-he-was-tortured-and-other-unresolved-questions/) - Reports are emerging that during the prolonged beating of Jone Vakarisi at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks that led to his murder, one name was continually being cried out as he begged for mercy. Lynda Tabuya. Why? Was Vakarisi pleading with his torturers to contact the Minister for Information, Environment and Climate Change in the hope
- [# MAULED BY HOMER SIMPSON IN A MUMU AS THE THREE AMIGOS GO QUIET ON TORTURE AND MURDER AT THE CAMP (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mauled-by-homer-simpson-in-a-mumu-as-the-three-amigos-go-quiet-on-torture-and-murder-at-the-camp/) - Woo hoo!, as the famous cartoon character, Homer Simpson, is fond of saying. It's a red letter day when the "citizen journalist" and fashion plate, Charlie Charters, gives Grubsheet a plug on his Facebook page. And that day has come as Charlie praises the excellent article we featured yesterday by our mutual friend, Richard Thomson,
- [# A BURNING ISSUE LIGHTS UP FIJI. GUEST WRITER RICHARD THOMSON ON THE PROPOSED CONTROVERSIAL WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY AT SAWENI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-burning-issue-lights-up-fiji-guest-writer-richard-thomson-on-the-proposed-controversial-waste-disposal-facility-at-saweni/) - On April 1 The Australian newspaper * reported on a plan by two Australians to ship 700,000 tons a year of Sydney’s waste to Fiji, and along with 200,000 tonnes from Fiji and other Pacific Islands, to burn it for energy on a small peninsula in mangroves next to an iconic beach. Hardly a good look, and
- [# "WELCOME TO THE NOTHING TO SEE HERE WORLD OF OUR NEWEST COMRADES-IN-ARMS". THE AUSTRALIAN'S WITHERING JUDGMENT ON FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/welcome-to-the-nothing-to-see-here-world-of-our-newest-comrades-in-arms-the-australians-withering-judgment-on-fiji/) - The Australian newspaper - the nation's most influential - has updated its front page print story on the killing of Jone Vakarisi (see previous article) with an Internet version that is even more pungent and is a PR disaster for the RFMF and Fiji's image as a whole. The timing couldn't be worse, as public
- [# MURDER AT THE CAMP. THE COMMANDER IS FORCED TO CHANGE HIS STORY AFTER A SCANDALOUS COVER-UP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/murder-at-the-camp-the-commander-is-forced-to-change-his-story-after-a-scandalous-cover-up/) - The death in RFMF custody of the accused drug overlord, Jone Vakarisi, is now being officially called what it is - murder - after the disgraceful attempt by Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai to portray it as having been triggered by natural causes - a "sudden medical emergency" caused by a "pre-existing condition". The Commander's
- [# NOWHERE TO HIDE. THE PRESSURE MOUNTS ON THE RFMF COMMANDER TO FINALLY TELL THE TRUTH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/nowhere-to-hide-the-pressure-mounts-on-the-rfmf-commander-to-finally-tell-the-truth/) - When Grubsheet starts fielding calls from the Australian media about the extrajudicial killing by the RFMF of the accused drug overlord, Jone Vakarisi, we can be sure that this scandal is also about to become a diplomatic issue, with a range of potential implications, none of them good. Why? Because whatever the circumstances, Australia isn't
- [# BOMBSHELL. RFMF COVER-UP. WHY MAJOR GENERAL RO JONE KALOUNIWAI MUST RESIGN OR BE SACKED (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-rfmf-cover-up-why-major-general-ro-jone-kalouniwai-must-resign-or-be-sacked/) - Grubsheet returns from medical leave temporarily with a sensational story - conclusive evidence that the RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, is a proven liar who has tried to cover-up the killing of a detainee in military custody and in doing so, is unfit to head the nation's military and must resign or be
- [# GRUBSHEET IS DOWN BUT NOT OUT. HAPPY EASTER AND SOTA TALE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/grubsheet-is-down-but-not-out-happy-easter-and-sota-tale/) - There is no good time to suspend a news blogsite and least of all this one in the lead-up to an election in Fiji. But GD is about to have major surgery - the replacement of my entire left shoulder - and I will be unable to use a keyboard, on doctor's orders, for the
- [# THE SUDDEN PAIN AT THE PUMPS IN FIJI IS JUST THE START. THE NATION IS ABOUT TO PAY DEARLY FOR THE COALITION'S ORGY OF SPENDING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-sudden-pain-at-the-pumps-in-fiji-is-just-the-start-the-nation-is-about-to-pay-dearly-for-the-coalitions-orgy-of-spending/) - The Fijian people are in for an unprecedented period of hardship after Donald Trump has told the world to "go and get its own oil" - indicating that he is going to walk away from the war he is losing in the Middle East. There has been shock in Fiji at the sudden extent of
- [# FIJI SIDES WITH AUSTRALIA IN A HISTORIC UNION THAT WILL "DIRECT RELATIONS FOR CENTURIES"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-sides-with-australia-in-a-historic-union-that-will-direct-relations-for-centuries/) - Fiji and Australia are elevating their current "Vuvale Partnership" to a "Vuvale Union" as the two nations join forces across a broad front in a major strategic alignment that will have far-reaching consequences for the bilateral relationship and the region as a whole. Eager not to alienate China as it steps up its engagement with
- [# CHARLIE CHARTERS CHANNELS CHURCHILL IN A "V FOR VICTORY" SIGN AS HE COCKS HIS LEG IN THE COURTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/charlie-charters-channels-churchill-in-a-v-for-victory-sign-as-he-cocks-his-leg-in-the-courts/) - The personality cult that Charlie Charters is crafting around himself as he casts himself as a FICAC victim has taken a fresh twist with his revelation to a breathless nation that he has the bladder of a Labrador. Charlie praises the FICAC investigator who detained him in Nadi and brought him to Suva last month
- [# THE CONDUCT OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE OUTRAGEOUS. HE MUST BE SUSPENDED IMMEDIATELY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-conduct-of-the-chief-justice-has-become-more-and-more-outrageous-he-must-be-suspended-immediately/) - Once again, Salesi Temo has deferred his verdict in the trial of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem five months after the hearing ended. He now says he will deliver the verdict on May 14 because he "needs more time" - the second occasion he has given the same excuse, having said precisely the same thing
- [# THE COALITION REWRITES HISTORY TO JUSTIFY CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION BEFORE THE COMING ELECTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-rewrites-history-to-justify-changing-the-constitution-before-the-coming-election/) - So finally the deceitful, corrupt, scandal-ridden Coalition government - through its lame-duck Acting Attorney General, Siromi Turaga - comes clean about its timetable to change the 2013 Constitution. It will happen before the coming election which is due, at the very latest, on February 6, 2027. Which means either of two things: 1/ The changes
- [# VALE RATU EPELI NAILATIKAU. SOLDIER, STATESMAN, SPEAKER, HEAD OF STATE. AND A GENUINE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS FRIEND TO ALL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/vale-ratu-epeli-nailatikau-soldier-statesman-speaker-head-of-state-and-a-genuine-gentleman-who-was-friend-to-all/) - 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
- [# WHAT FRANK'S NEW PARTY LACKS. A CHARISMATIC LEADER CAPABLE OF CAPTURING THE NATION'S IMAGINATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-franks-new-party-lacks-a-charismatic-leader-capable-of-capturing-the-nations-imagination/) - So the new FijiansFirst Party has finally broken cover, though without any mention of what Grubsheet reported 12 days ago - that the man behind it is Frank Bainimarama. The announcement in today's Fiji Sun of some of the (proposed) party's founding members doesn't include the biggest founding member of all - the former Prime
- [# HE'S BACK AND VERY GRUMPY. THE "CITIZEN JOURNALIST" AND FASHION TRENDSETTER RETURNS TO FACE THE MUSIC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hes-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 would have
- [# THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HIS JSC FINALLY BOW TO THE INEVITABLE AFTER A TWO WEEK STANDOFF WITH THE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/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
- [# A GRUBSHEET GOLD STAR FOR THE FIRST SIGHTING OF CHARLIE CHARTERS RETURNING TO FACE THE MUSIC (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-grubsheet-gold-star-for-the-first-sighting-of-charlie-charters-returning-to-face-the-music/) - 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
- [# BRITAIN - "MOTHER OF THE FREE" - ASSISTS FIJI TO COMBAT THE ALLEGED DISINFORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CRITICS IN A GROSS PERVERSION OF DEMOCRACY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-says-communication-includes-body-language-heres-what-grubsheet-thinks-about-his-new-anti-disinformation-strategy/) - 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 none-too-subtle signal of the
- [# BIMAN PRASAD WANTS TO FORCE THE MOTHER TONGUE OF INDIA ON EVERY FIJIAN CHILD. WHAT ABOUT THE MOTHER TONGUE OF ENGLAND?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/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
- [# WHEN A "VISITING JUDGE" ISN'T A VISITING JUDGE BUT THE FIJIAN JUDICIARY PASSES HIM OFF AS ONE ANYWAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-a-visiting-judge-isnt-a-visiting-judge-but-the-fijian-judiciary-passes-him-off-as-one-anyway/) - “On 19 and 21 March 2026, Grubsheet Feejee published two articles concerning The Honourable Martin Daubney AM KC. Those articles falsely asserted that Mr Daubney is a Judge of the Fiji Court of Appeal and that, in conflict of his duties as a judicial officer, Mr Daubney was improperly appearing in other courts in Fiji.
- [# THE SWINGING DICK (NAIDU) CELEBRATES. BUT IS JUSTICE BEING SERVED BY THE RAT PACK AT THE SUVA BAR? (AMENDED 2100 SATURDAY FIJI TIME)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-swinging-dick-naidu-celebrates-but-is-justice-being-served-by-the-rat-pack-at-the-suva-bar/) - NOTE TO READERS: The following article has been altered to remove any reference to Martin Daubney KC being a visiting judge of the Fiji Court of Appeal. We have received the following information from lawyers acting for Martin Daubney: "Our client is not a Judge of the Fiji Court of Appeal and his appearance in
- [# "GROG SWIPE"- GATE. A BLATANT CONSPIRACY TO DECEIVE (AMENDED 2100 SATURDAY FIJI TIME)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/grog-swipe-gate-a-shocking-perversion-of-justice-plus-a-blatant-conspiracy-to-deceive/) - NOTE TO READERS: The following article has been altered to remove any reference to Martin Daubney KC being a visiting judge of the Fiji Court of Appeal. We have received the following information from lawyers acting for Martin Daubney: "Our client is not a Judge of the Fiji Court of Appeal and his appearance in
- [# IS CHARLIE CHARTERS - "CITIZEN JOURNALIST" AND FASHION TRENDSETTER - ABOUT TO BECOME A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-charlie-charters-citizen-journalist-and-fashion-trendsetter-about-to-become-a-fugitive-from-justice/) - Suva is abuzz with speculation that Charlie Charters is about to "do a runner" - to be "off like a robber's dog", in the parlance of his English homeland - rather than return to Fiji later in the month to face trial for allegedly aiding and abetting a whistleblower at FICAC. Yes, bets are reportedly
- [# FRANK BAINIMARAMA'S NEW PARTY, FIJIANSFIRST, APPLIES FOR REGISTRATION FOR THE COMING ELECTION (UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-frank-bainimaramas-new-party-fijiansfirst-applies-for-registration-for-the-coming-election/) - The proposed FijiansFirst Party has submitted its application for registration to the Elections Office - a vehicle for Frank Bainimarama to use his continuing popularity to re-enter the political fray and become a major player again in the lead-up to the coming election. Bainimarama can't be parliamentary leader of FijiansFirst - as he was for
- [# THE CHIEFS DON'T WANT THE 2013 CONSTITUTION REVIEWED. THEY WANT IT ABOLISHED. AND THAT IS A THREAT TO THE MINORITIES AND ENLIGHTENED ITAUKEI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-chiefs-dont-want-the-2013-constitution-reviewed-they-want-it-abolished-and-that-is-a-threat-to-the-minorities-and-enlightened-itaukei/) - With the swearing in of a Constitutional Review Commission on Friday, the Fijian people are being hoodwinked into thinking that mere changes are being contemplated to the document that the Supreme Court has ruled remains the supreme law in Fiji. Not so. The secret agenda of nationalist elements of the Coalition government - backed by
- [# IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER, PK DAVIS. A KAIVALAGI FIJIAN AT HEART BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/in-memory-of-my-father-pk-davis-a-kaivalagi-fijian-at-heart-born-100-years-ago-today/) - Many older Fijians will remember my late father, the Reverend Peter Davis, who led the Methodist Church in Fiji as its president at a time when more than 80 per cent of iTaukei were Methodists and before Christians splintered into a multitude of smaller churches and religious groups. It made him a national figure in
- [# WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS SET TO WORSEN FIJI'S ALREADY PARLOUS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/war-in-the-middle-east-is-set-to-worsen-fijis-already-parlous-economic-outlook/) - To all intents and purposes, Fiji is already a beggar nation dependent on foreign aid and remittances from the diaspora, which are now the country's second biggest revenue earner after tourism. We have a shrinking population and a shrinking tax base. Yet having already lived beyond our means for years, the current government engaged in
- [# THE "CROCODILES" THOUGHT THEY HAD WON. THE SNAKE HAS (FINALLY) CHOSEN TO PROVE THEM WRONG (UPDATED 8.30 PM FIJI TIME WITH PM'S STATEMENT)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-crocodiles-thought-they-had-won-the-snake-has-finally-chosen-to-prove-them-wrong/) - Once again, Sitiveni Rabuka has stunned his opponents with a political and legal manoeuvre that has suddenly turned the tables on them and will have massive ramifications in the countdown to the coming election. The Prime Minister is being widely derided on Facebook as someone chronically unable to make up his mind because of his
- [# BREAKING NEWS...THE PRIME MINISTER APPEALS THE TUIQEREQERE DECISION ON THE REMOVAL OF BARBARA MALIMALI AND THE APPOINTMENT OF LAVI ROKOIKA TO FICAC (UPDATED 2100 FIJI TIME)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-the-prime-minister-appeals-the-tuiqereqere-decision-on-the-removal-of-barbara-malimali-and-the-appointment-of-lavi-rokoika-to-ficac/) - More details to come but Grubsheet understands that lawyers acting for Sitiveni Rabuka will seek a stay on all the forthcoming proceedings relating to the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry until after the appeal is heard. A sensational development that will have the broadest ramifications for the position of the President and Prime Minister, the Chief
- [# NOW FIJI'S BUSINESS COMMUNITY WANTS THE TAXPAYER TO BAIL THEM OUT OF DONALD TRUMP'S WAR AGAINST IRAN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/now-fijis-business-community-wants-the-taxpayer-to-bail-them-out-of-donald-trumps-war-against-iran/) - The begging bowl in the Beggar Nation is out again - this time the fat cats of the business community demanding that the government come up with a "financial support package" to get them through the fallout from the Middle East War. Is there no-one in modern-day Fiji willing or able to stand on their
- [# THE ESCALATING HIV CRISIS IN FIJI. A GUARDIAN VIDEO REPORT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-escalating-hiv-crisis-in-fiji-a-guardian-video-report/) - Plus the latest local coverage of the epidemic from the Fiji Sun:
- [# WHERE'S RICHARD? MAKING MILLIONS PROTECTING HIS BILLIONAIRE CLIENTS AND DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wheres-richard-making-millions-protecting-his-billionaire-clients-and-defending-the-indefensible/) - There's something decidedly pathetic about the latest Facebook posting by lawyer Richard "I have the Means" Naidu as he tries valiantly to polish the steaming turd that is his Coalition government. He says it's ours as if it belongs to the rest of us as well. No mate, don't try to drag us into this
- [# "FIJI WATCHER" REPRISED AS THE WEEK CULMINATES IN THE SACKING OF THE SPORTS MINISTER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-watcher-reprised-at-the-end-of-a-week-culminating-in-the-sacking-of-the-sports-minister/) - We continue to get reader feedback about the value of the comments section on Grubsheet, which isn't offered by Victor Lal at Fijileaks and allows contributors here to say as much or as little as they like about my articles or whatever other issues might take their fancy. Amid the customary scathing outbursts or expressions
- [# DEMOCRACY FIJI STYLE. A MAN IS BEHIND BARS FOR INSULTING THE COALITION'S RESIDENT DRUG-TAKING SLUT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/democracy-fiji-style-a-man-is-behind-bars-for-insulting-the-coalitions-resident-drug-taking-slut/) - Lynda Tabuya - the Minister for Information, Environment and Climate Change - is an amoral, lying strumpet who was found guilty by her own party of a sex and illicit drugs scandal yet has prospered under the equally amoral leadership of "Rolex Rambo" - the Prime Minister who continues to refuse to disclose the source
- [# THE MYSTERY OF THE STANDOFF BETWEEN THE JSC AND THE PRESIDENT DEEPENS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-mystery-of-the-standoff-between-the-jsc-and-the-president-deepens/) - The Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, inexplicably failed to turn up for a scheduled meeting of the Judicial Services Commission yesterday to discuss the continuing stand-off between it and the President, Ratu Naqama Lalabalavu, over the JSC's demand that he remove Lavi Rokoika as Acting FICAC Commissioner. The result was that the much-trumpeted meeting didn't take
- [# SOCIAL CRUSADER AND JSC MEMBER VANI CATANASIGA VIOLATES THE INDEPENDENCE OF FIJI'S MOST IMPORTANT INSTITUTION OF STATE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/social-crusader-and-jsc-member-vani-catanasiga-violates-the-independence-of-fijis-most-important-institution-of-state/) - The assault on the independence of Fiji's offices of state under the Coalition government poses a grave threat to our institutions and democracy itself. And regrettably that assault extends to someone who should know better - Vani Catanasiga, the Executive Director of the Fiji Council for Social Services who also happens to be a sitting
- [# VAKA MALUA (AS USUAL). BUT WHAT GAME IS THE PRIME MINISTER REALLY PLAYING IN THE STAND-OFF BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE JSC?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/vaka-malua-as-usual-but-what-game-is-the-prime-minister-really-playing-in-the-stand-off-between-the-president-and-the-jsc/) - Once again, like the Kremlin watchers of old, we are reduced to having to read between the lines about what Sitiveni Rabuka is planning to do to break the impasse over the Judicial Services Commission's demand for the removal of Lavi Rokoika as FICAC Commissioner and the President's refusal to do so. The immediate answer
- [# AS WAR ERUPTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE INNOCENTS ON ALL SIDES (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/as-war-erupts-in-the-middle-east-our-thoughts-are-with-the-innocents-on-all-sides/) - Donald Trump's "Operation Epic Fury" against Iran has already triggered retaliatory missile attacks against Israel and America's other allies in the region, including the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. We think not only of the people of Iran, Israel and those other nations but any Fijians living in the region, who along
- [# "BARBWIRE" AND "HIPPO". ON THE RAMPAGE AND GUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENT AS THEY UPEND TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF HOW ITAUKEI WOMEN SHOULD BEHAVE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbwire-and-hippo-on-the-rampage-and-gunning-for-the-president-as-they-upend-traditional-notions-of-how-itaukei-women-should-behave/) - The traditional image of iTaukei women as dignified, demure, warm-hearted, stoic, resilient, hard-working, shoulders to cry on for their children, loyal to their menfolk even when they don't deserve it and the backbone of their families and the vanua is taking a real battering at the hands of Barbara Malimali and Tanya Waqanika. With their
- [# QUESTION: IS THE PRESIDENT ABOUT TO SUSPEND THE CHIEF JUSTICE, AS HE SHOULD HAVE DONE ALL ALONG?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/question-is-the-president-about-to-suspend-the-chief-justice-as-he-should-have-done-all-along/) - Things are not going Salesi Temo's way, with the President - his old friend and relative by marriage - refusing to bow to the Chief Justice's demand that he remove the Acting FICAC Commissioner, Lavi Rokoika. Amid the clamour for action from the likes of Richard Naidu, Graham Leung, Tanya Waqanika and now the Fiji
- [# CHARLIE CHARTERS EXPOSES HIS SON TO PROSECUTION IN OPEN DEFIANCE OF THE LAWS OF CONTEMPT (UPDATED 0700 THURS)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/charlie-charters-exposes-his-son-to-prosecution-in-open-defiance-of-the-laws-of-contempt/) - Most fathers do everything they can to protect their sons from being caught up in any trouble they find themselves in but not our heroic "citizen journalist and publisher", Charlie Charters. Fresh from being charged with aiding and abetting an unnamed FICAC whistleblower, appearing a court as his case is heard and being bound by
- [# MEMO H.E THE PRESIDENT. REAPPOINT BARBARA MALIMALI AND YOU DESERVE TO BE REMOVED YOURSELF. WHY? READ ON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/memo-h-e-the-president-reappoint-barbara-malimali-and-you-deserve-to-be-removed-yourself-why-read-on/) - As the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, considers the recommendation by the Judicial Services Commission headed by the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to remove Lavi Rokoika as FICAC Acting Commission, he needs to tread carefully. Very carefully indeed. And especially on whether to accept any recommendation that Rokoika be replaced by her predecessor, Barbara Malimali,
- [# CHARLIE CHARTERS BAILED ON A CHARGE OF AIDING AND ABETTING AN UNNAMED PERSON AT FICAC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/charlie-charters-bailed-on-a-charge-of-aiding-and-abetting-an-unknown-person-at-ficac/) - The "citizen journalist and publisher" Charlie Charters - who also happens to be Fiji's latest fashion plate - has appeared in court charged with aiding and abetting an unnamed person at FICAC in violation of the Crimes Act. Despite an attempt by his lawyers to get special bail provisions that would allow him to travel,
- [# THE REAL REASON CHARLIE CHARTERS WAS DETAINED. AND THE CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE LEADS A CONSPIRACY TO REMOVE THE HEAD OF FICAC (UPDATED MONDAY 0600)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-real-reason-charlie-charters-was-detained-and-the-corrupt-chief-justice-leads-a-conspiracy-to-remove-the-head-of-ficac/) - Extraordinary details are emerging of a plot involving senior figures in the institutions of state, politics, Suva's legal elite and a compliant media to use the FICAC detention of the newly designated "citizen journalist/ publisher", Charlie Charters, to fast-track the removal of Lavi Rokoika as FICAC Acting Commissioner and reinstall the tainted Barbara Malimali as
- [# CHARLIE CHARTERS FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN. NOW HE IS IN ALL SORTS OF BOTHER (REVISED AND UPDATED MIDDAY FIJI TIME)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/charlie-charters-flew-too-close-to-the-sun-now-he-is-in-all-sorts-of-bother/) - The newly described "citizen journalist/publisher", Charlie Charters, expected a pleasant flight out of Fiji last night on FJ915 and to be tucked up in bed in Sydney after a few inflight drinks. Instead he was detained at Nadi Airport, driven to Suva and spent the night at FICAC - the corruption watchdog whose legal powers
- [# GRUBSHEET ANSWERS THE QUESTION THE WHOLE NATION IS ASKING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/grubsheet-answers-the-question-the-whole-nation-is-asking/) - ANSWER: Because Charlie Charters is easily the most irritating know-it-all in Fiji. He has been detained purely on the grounds of taste. Seriously though. Do we need any further proof that Fiji has gone completely mad under the Coalition government? Charlie has been one of its principal cheerleaders. And if he is to be arrested,
- [# A QUESTION OF TIMING. WHY HAS IT TAKEN THREE YEARS TO CHARGE FRANK BAINIMARAMA WITH INCITING MUTINY IN THE RFMF? (UPDATED FRI 1130)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-question-of-timing-why-has-it-taken-three-years-to-charge-frank-bainimarama-with-inciting-mutiny-in-the-rfmf/) - Let's get one thing straight, Dear Reader. I am not condemning the charges laid against Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho for allegedly inciting mutiny in the RFMF. If crimes have been committed, justice must obviously take its course. But it is legitimate and certainly in the public interest to raise a number of questions about
- [# MORE DETAILS OF THE CHARGES AGAINST FRANK BAINIMARAMA AND SITIVENI QILIHO. BAILED TO APPEAR AGAIN ON MARCH 5 ( FURTHER UPDATE 1500 FIJI TIME)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-details-of-the-charges-against-frank-bainimarama-and-sitiveni-qiliho/) - More revelations in the case against Frank Bainimarama of inciting mutiny in the RFMF, including details of a "grog session" at the former prime minister's home in July 2023 in which Bainimarama allegedly encouraged senior officers present to remove the Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai. It still doesn't explain why it has taken almost
- [# THE RFMF COMMANDER RATS ON FRANK BAINIMARAMA AND SETS HIM UP FOR ANOTHER JAIL SENTENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-rfmf-commander-rats-on-frank-bainimarama-and-sets-him-up-for-another-jail-sentence/) - Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai must be pretty confident of containing restiveness in the ranks of the RFMF to be engineering the prosecution of his former commander and prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, on charges of inciting a mutiny in the military in the wake of the 2022 elections. Let's be in no doubt. This would
- [# "YOU PUNCH ME AND I PUNCH YOU". YES, WE KNOW BARBARA. THAT'S WHY YOU'RE UNFIT FOR PUBLIC OFFICE (UPDATED 1100 WED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/you-punch-me-and-i-punch-you-yes-we-know-barbara-thats-why-youre-unfit-for-public-office/) - The deluded duo of Barbara Malimali and Tanya Waqanika just can't keep their big mouths shut as the Judicial Services Commission convenes to receive submissions from them and from the Prime Minister about whether it ought to exercise its claimed right to reappoint Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. (see below) In any other country, the answer
- [# HELL HATH NO FURY. THE HUMAN CAR CRASH THAT IS BARBARA MALIMALI AND TANYA WAQANIKA IS REPORTEDLY COMING FOR THE PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hell-hath-no-fury-the-human-car-crash-that-is-barbara-malimali-and-tanya-waqanika-is-reportedly-coming-for-the-prime-minister-and-president/) - "Let's get this car back on the road", says Barbara Malimali's lawyer, Tanya Waqanika, as she insists that the Judicial Services Commission must reinstate her client as FICAC Commissioner after Justice Dane Tuiqereqere ruled that the Prime Minister removed her unlawfully. It is an unfortunate analogy when it is clear to almost everyone but Tanya
- [# THE STING IN THE TAIL OF THE TUIQEREQERE RULING THAT CHECKMATES SALESI TEMO AND BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-sting-in-the-tail-of-the-tuiqereqere-ruling-that-checkmates-salesi-temo-and-barbara-malimali/) - All of the focus thus far arising from Justice Dane Tuiqereqere's judgment in the Malimali Affair has been his (contested) ruling that her dismissal was unlawful because it was recommended to the President by the Prime Minister and not the Judicial Services Commission headed by the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo. But dig deeper into the
- [# EXCLUSIVE: THE SECRET FILE ON PRECISELY WHO WAS INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE ARISING FROM THE COI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exclusive-the-secret-file-on-precisely-who-was-investigated-by-the-police-arising-from-the-coi/) - Grubsheet today publishes a leaked document that reveals what the Opposition has so far been unable to get the government to produce - information that is clearly in the public interest on the police investigations into those named in the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. It reveals who was investigated by the
- [# COMING SOON...WHAT THEY TRIED TO KEEP SECRET. THE LIST OF PRECISELY WHO THE POLICE INVESTIGATED ARISING OUT OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-what-they-tried-to-keep-secret-the-list-of-precisely-who-the-police-investigated-arising-out-of-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry/) - Shocking revelations about the lack of transparency of the nation's offices of state under Sitiveni Rabuka. And which raise serious questions about the conduct of the Police under Rusiate Tudravu and the ODPP under Nancy Tikoisuva. Required reading as the Fijian people begin to weigh up who to vote for in the coming election and
- [# COMMONMAN ON THE " PUTRESCENT LAYERS OF CORRUPTION" IN RABUKA'S FIJI (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonman-on-the-putrescent-layers-of-corruption-in-rabukas-fiji/) - GD writes: We now know that Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is going to jail at the end of March irrespective of the evidence against him because of the sweetheart deal between the Chief Justice and the Prime Minister and President that the CJ will convict him in exchange for the PM not lodging an appeal against Justice
- [# BOMBSHELL: DID THE CHIEF JUSTICE THREATEN NOT TO CONVICT AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM IF THE PRIME MINISTER APPEALED THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT IN THE MALIMALI AFFAIR? (UPDATED SAT AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-did-the-chief-justice-threaten-not-to-convict-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-if-the-prime-minister-appealed-the-tuiqereqere-judgment-in-the-malimali-affair/) - Grave allegations are emerging of a conspiracy between the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka and the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to thwart any appeal against the finding by the High Court Judge, Justice Dane Tuiqereqere, that the Prime Minister's dismissal of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner was unlawful. The allegations -
- [# SITIVENI RABUKA BETRAYS THE NATION AND SIDES WITH THE CROCODILES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-sitiveni-rabuka-betrays-the-nation-and-sides-with-the-crocodiles/) - "PRESS STATEMENT – HBJ 5/2025 Barbara Malimali v The President of Fiji and Ors The Government acknowledges the ruling recently delivered by the High Court in HBJ 5/2025 Barbara Malimali v The President of Fiji and Ors (‘Ruling’) and expresses its appreciation to the Judiciary for its careful and independent adjudication of the matter. Following
- [# WHY THE NATIONAL INTEREST DEMANDS THAT BARBARA MALIMALI MUST NOT BE REINSTATED AS FIJI'S CORRUPTION WATCHDOG (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-the-national-interest-demands-that-barbara-malimali-must-not-be-reinstated-as-fijis-corruption-watchdog/) - As Grubsheet recovers from surgery on Monday, I am beginning to grasp the magnitude of the events taking place in the wake of the ruling by the High Court judge, Justice Dane Tuiqereqere, that the former FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, was unlawfully dismissed and that her reinstatement is being considered by the Judicial Services Commission
- [# SITIVENI RABUKA: THE GREAT DIVIDER. A STARTLING DEBUT BY COMMONMAN FOR ELECTION YEAR 2026](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sitiveni-rabuka-the-great-divider-a-startling-debut-by-commonman-in-election-year-2026/) - GD writes: CommonMan - our grassroots columnist in the vanua - returns for election year with a thought-provoking, even incendiary, article that demolishes the carefully-crafted image of the Prime Minister as having empowered and unified the iTaukei. Read on for the harsh pronouncement on Sitiveni Rabuka by a largely self-educated farmer and villager from Nadroga
- [# BIMAN PRASAD'S MONUMENTAL OWN GOAL THAT WILL HAUNT HIM ALL THROUGH ELECTION YEAR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/biman-prasads-monumental-own-goal-that-will-haunt-him-all-through-election-year/) - There's an unwritten rule in politics just as there is in journalism - politicians and journalists shouldn't sue. Because rectitude isn't the preserve of either, neither enjoy the public's trust, reputations are as easily lost as made and litigation is a lottery in which nothing that happens in a defamation action is guaranteed. We know
- [COMING SOON... COMMONMAN RETURNS AND JOINS THE PILE-ON OF THE PRIME MINISTER, ACCUSING SITIVENI RABUKA OF BEING THE GREAT DIVIDER OF THE ITAUKEI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-commonman-returns-and-joins-the-pile-on-of-the-prime-minister-accusing-sitiveni-rabuka-of-being-the-great-divider-of-the-itaukei/)
- [# "A DOOMED CHAOTIC GOVERNMENT". A DEVASTATING CRITIQUE OF THE COALITION BY INIA SERUIRATU - LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION AND THE NEW PEOPLE FIRST](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-doomed-chaotic-government-a-devastating-critique-of-the-coalition-by-inia-seruiratu-leader-of-the-opposition-and-the-people-first-party/) - As the first month of the year comes to an end, the people of Fiji can now officially declare this Coalition administration what it truly is, a Government of Chaos. From the Prime Minister down, every major decision, policy direction and administrative action of this Government has descended into confusion, controversy, legal dispute and institutional
- [# THE USUAL FIJI-STYLE DELAY. BUT WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-the-usual-fiji-style-delay/) - Barbara Malimali's judicial review ruling that was due this afternoon has been pushed into next week and will be delivered by Justice Dane Tuiqereqere on Monday. It will now coincide with the verdict by the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, in the case against Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem. Justice Tuiqereqere said he was 90 per
- [# RABUKA'S GREAT BETRAYAL. THE SECRET - NOW NOT SO SECRET - SETTLEMENT WITH THE CHIEF CROCODILE TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED 1030 FIJI TIME FRIDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rabukas-great-betrayal-the-secret-now-not-so-secret-settlement-with-the-chief-crocodile-to-crush-the-coi/) - It is extraordinary enough that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, engaged a private lawyer in the form of Isireli Fa to represent him as he tries to escape the damning finding by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry that he committed perjury and obstructed and perverted the course of justice in the scandalous Malimali affair. Yet
- [# THE NFP BEGINS TO SHOW SIGNS OF PANIC AS BIMAN PRASAD'S CASE IS SET TO DRAG THROUGH ELECTION YEAR (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-nfp-begins-to-show-signs-of-panic-as-biman-prasads-case-drags-through-election-year/) - Four months after the NFP pledged "full and unwavering support" for its leader and sidelined deputy prime minister Biman Prasad over the criminal charges he is facing, that support is starting to waver. The latest developments in the case - that the pretrial conference won't be held until April 20 - have only increased the
- [# "TABLES TURN!", CRIES THE FIJI TIMES, AS RICHARD NAIDU USES THE PAPER HE ADVISES AS A WEAPON TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/tables-turn-cries-the-fiji-times-as-richard-naidu-uses-the-paper-he-advises-as-a-weapon-to-crush-the-coi/) - Even before all investigations arising from the Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair are completed, the forces who have conspired to trash its recommendations are claiming victory and want anyone fingered by Justice David Ashton-Lewis absolved. Well they would, wouldn't they? Some very big reputations have been severely dented by the CoI's findings.
- [# FIJI DEMEANS ITSELF BY ACCEPTING THE 21ST CENTURY EQUIVALENT OF BEADS AND MIRRORS TO BUY THE NATIVE'S FAVOURS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-demeans-itself-by-accepting-the-21st-century-equivalent-of-beads-and-mirrors-to-buy-the-natives-favours/) - It isn't enough for the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, to be an accused paedophile who impregnated a 15 year old girl with "special needs" who was the daughter of one of his retainers. It isn't enough for Sitiveni Rabuka to have made his chief the nation's Head of State when Lalabalavu is a convicted treasonist
- [# JUSTICE MUST NOT ONLY BE DONE BUT SEEN TO BE DONE*. AND THAT ISN'T HAPPENING IN SITIVENI RABUKA'S FIJI (UPDATED SATURDAY PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/justice-must-not-only-be-done-but-seen-to-be-done-and-that-isnt-happening-in-rabukas-fiji/) - The announcement by the corrupt and conflicted Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, that not one of the 12 police investigations arising from the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair is to result in prosecutions is shocking enough in itself. Yet it was accompanied on the same day by the Solicitor General, Ropate Green
- [# BREAKING NEWS... THE ODPP DECIDES NOT TO PROSECUTE ANY OF THE 12 POLICE CASES ARISING FROM THE COI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-the-odpp-decides-not-to-prosecute-any-of-the-12-police-cases-arising-from-the-coi/) - Incredibly, none of the 12 cases referred by police to the ODPP arising from the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair are to be prosecuted. Yet it isn't the end of the matter - far from it - as FICAC independently continues its pursuit of a number of cases involving prominent individuals. Detailed
- [# ASERI RADRODRO TAKES HIS BEATING FROM THE PRIME MINISTER TO AVOID SODELPA BEING CUT LOOSE. PLUS THE SECRET FNU REPORT (UPDATED WED PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/aseri-radrodro-takes-his-beating-from-the-prime-minister-to-avoid-sodelpa-being-cut-loose/) - There's an exquisite irony in the Education Minister and SODELPA leader, Aseri Radrodro, being humiliated by the Prime Minister in having the Fiji National University stripped from him and taken into the Prime Minister's office despite the fact that it is completely against the law. The move effectively protects his former wife, the Prime Minister's
- [# PEOPLE FIRST COMES OUT FIGHTING AS THE NEW PARTY OF FORMER FIJIFIRST MPS IS GIFTED THE "FAMILY FIRST" SHENANIGANS AT FNU](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/people-first-comes-out-fighting-as-the-new-party-of-former-fijifirst-mps-is-gifted-with-the-family-first-shenanigans-at-fnu/) - Whatever the precise reasons that have prompted the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, to seize control of the Fiji National University from his Education Minister, Aseri Radrodro, it has given the new People First Party of former Frank Bainimarama loyalists a gold-plated issue to run with on the same day it was formally registered. The election
- [# FAMILYFIRST: THE PM REMOVES THE FNU FROM ASERI RADRODRO'S CONTROL REPORTEDLY BECAUSE HE TRIED TO SACK HIS DAUGHTER (UPDATED TWICE)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-family-first-the-pm-removes-the-fnu-from-aseri-radrodros-control-because-he-reportedly-tried-to-sack-his-daughter/) - Vijay Narayan calls it a shocking move - the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, seizing control of the Fiji National University from his Education Minister, Aseri Radrodro, in a manner that breaches all convention and has plunged the Coalition into yet another crisis. Yet more shocking are reports of what has evidently triggered the move -
- [# WHAT THE CHIEF JUSTICE, THE ACTING DPP AND THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY PRESIDENT DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW AS THEY TRY TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED SUNDAY PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-the-chief-justice-the-acting-dpp-and-the-fiji-law-society-president-dont-want-you-to-know-as-they-try-to-crush-the-coi/) - While desperate attempts are being made behind the scenes to throttle the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair, the forces trying to manipulate the course of justice to spare the likes of Barbara Malimali herself and senior politicians Manoa Kamikamica and Biman Prasad are finally meeting a degree of resistance. It isn't nearly
- [# THE WORKPLACE ETHNIC CLEANSING UNDER THE COALITION CONTINUES APACE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-workplace-ethnic-cleansing-under-the-coalition-continues-apace/) - After 14 years as a permanent secretary across two governments, Shaheen Ali has been removed and been replaced by an iTaukei as the government steps up its purge of the minorities from the civil service and offices of state. There is no question about Ali's competence. Indeed I know from personal experience that he was
- [# DOES "MANAGING" THE DRUGS CRISIS JUSTIFY THE POLICE COMMISSIONER MEETING AN ALLEGED "MR BIG" OF THE DRUG TRADE?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/does-managing-the-drugs-crisis-justify-the-police-commissioner-meeting-an-alleged-mr-big-of-the-drug-trade/) - The Police Commissioner, Rusiate Tudravu, has some serious explaining to do over the revelation that he has had meetings with Zhao Fugang, the self-confessed Chinese Communist Party agent and owner of Suva's Yue Lai Restaurant, who has been identified by intelligence agencies as an alleged key figure in the regional drug trade. Tudravu has admitted
- [# A MAJOR SCANDAL BREWS AS THE ODPP REFUSES TO ACTION POLICE INVESTIGATIONS ARISING FROM THE COI (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-major-scandal-brews-as-the-odpp-refuses-to-action-police-investigations-arising-from-the-coi/) - Why is the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, sitting on 12 files containing recommendations from the police about who should be charged and tried arising from the revelations unmasked by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair? It is inconceivable that none of the dozen police "dockets" meets the traditional standard of a prosecution
- [# GRUBSHEET RETURNS TO ANNOUNCE OUR CHOICE FOR 2025's FIJIAN OF THE YEAR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/grubsheet-returns-to-announce-our-choice-for-2025s-fijian-of-the-year/) - At a time when the nation is wallowing in crisis - wracked by chaotic and dysfunctional governance, a drug threat that threatens the integrity of the state and a widespread breakdown in basic standards of conduct and morality - we have chosen someone we described last August as "Fiji's forgotten woman" as worthy of being
- [# COMING SOON...OUR FIJIAN OF THE YEAR FOR 2025](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-our-fijian-of-the-year-for-2025/) - Who has best displayed character, integrity, honour and commitment to the truth in our national life over the past 12 months when these qualities have never been more desperately needed in Fiji? Grubsheet will soon be announcing our own choice of Fijian of the Year for 2025. But in the meantime, we're inviting you to
- [# HAPPY NEW YEAR, DEAR READERS! ON HOLIDAYS WITH MY ESTEEMED MARAMA. BACK SOON (UPDATED JAN 5 )](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/happy-new-year-dear-readers-on-holidays-with-my-esteemed-marama-back-soon/) - UPDATE JANUARY 5: Someone has interrupted my holiday with news that the lamentable Yorkshireman, Charlie Charters, has launched yet another attack on me on Facebook, which he knows I cannot respond to because I am banned from the social media platform where I once had 30,000 "followers" on a formal complaint by the Coalition skank,
- [# MERRY CHRISTMAS. UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN AND THE SILLY SEASON IN FIJI IS IN FULL SWING.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/merry-christmas-unto-us-a-child-is-born-and-the-silly-season-in-fiji-is-in-full-swing/) - For the second year in a row, Christmas Eve in Fiji and the days immediately before it have gone way beyond the usual preparations for feasting and worship to provide us all with some startling distractions. Last Christmas Eve, it was the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, confirming his relative by marriage, Salesi Temo, as Chief
- [# CHRISTOPHER PRYDE GETS A PRE-CHRISTMAS WIN IN THE COURTS - A JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE SUSPENSION OF HIS SALARY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/christopher-pryde-gets-a-pre-christmas-win-in-the-courts-a-judicial-review-of-the-suspension-of-his-salary/) - The self-exiled substantive DPP, Christopher Pryde - who has had his salary unlawfully severed since August - has had an important win in the courts, with a High Court Judge, Justice Savenaca Banuve, granting him leave for a judicial review of the decision by the President on the advice of the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi
- [# COMMONMAN WAGES AN EXTRAORDINARY CAMPAIGN ON BEHALF OF ORDINARY ITAUKEI FOR REFORM OF THE CHIEFLY SYSTEM IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonman-wages-an-extraordinary-campaign-on-behalf-of-ordinary-itaukei-for-reform-of-the-chiefly-system-in-fiji/) - GD writes: I gave CommonMan - our grassroots columnist in the vanua - anonymity for a very good reason - so that without fear of retribution, he could speak plainly on behalf of common people about the power structures that govern iTaukei life. Whether they are working, whether they are benefiting the majority and not
- [# THE RFMF COMMANDER THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET TO MANOA GADAI TO QUELL RESTIVENESS IN THE MILITARY OVER HIS RESPONSE TO THE DRUGS CRISIS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-rfmf-commander-throws-down-the-gauntlet-to-manoa-gadai-to-quell-restiveness-in-the-military-over-his-response-to-the-drugs-crisis/) - The Commander of the RFMF, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, has confirmed a showdown with one of his most senior officers, Brigadier General Manoa Gadai, by announcing that he has reprimanded Gadai for calling for an increased role for the RFMF in combating the drug trade. It is a double-edged sword for Kalouniwai. He is
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER SLAPS DOWN MANOA GADAI'S PROPOSAL FOR A MILITARY ROLE IN THE WORSENING DRUGS CRISIS  (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pm-rabuka-slaps-down-manoa-gadais-proposal-for-a-military-role-in-the-worsening-drugs-crisis/) - With ample evidence that the Fiji Police are struggling to contain the drugs threat and amid allegations that senior police are involved in the drugs trade, the Prime Minister is defying pressure from elements in the military for the RFMF to take a lead role in the fight. Sitiveni Rabuka has ruled out an offer
- [# SITIVENI RABUKA REARRANGES THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC. BUT THE SHIP OF STATE IS STILL SINKING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sitiveni-rabuka-re-arranges-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic-but-the-ship-of-state-is-still-sinking/) - The Prime Minister has announced a cabinet reshuffle in a desperate attempt to breathe life into his chaotic and dysfunctional government as the nation is poised to enter Election Year 2026. But it isn't going to work. On the contrary. It just confirms that the PM has lost the plot and that he and his
- [# THE ODPP DESCENDS INTO MORE DYSFUNCTION UNDER DRUNKEN NANCY'S ITAUKEI CABAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-odpp-descends-into-more-dysfunction-under-drunken-nancys-itaukei-cabal/) - Yet again, the nation's prosecutors at the ODPP are claiming "oversight" as an excuse for their incompetence in delaying yet another criminal trial - underlining the folly of having sidelined the substantive DPP, Christopher Pryde. The ODPP's failure to meet court deadlines in the drugs case against Hari Punja's grandson comes on top of repeated
- [# WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING IN THE BIZARRE CASE OF THE DPP, CHRISTOPHER PRYDE (UPDATED SUNDAY WITH AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO READERS)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whats-really-happening-in-the-bizarre-case-of-the-dpp-christopher-pryde/) - Having trouble separating fact from fiction? You're not alone. It would all be very simple if not for an extraordinary degree of disinformation being peddled by the offices of state and if the Fijian media did its job properly. But here's a brief tour of the horizon of where things stand with the self-exiled substantive
- [# FIJI VIOLATES NEW ZEALAND SOVEREIGNTY BY DEPLOYING AGENTS IN CHRISTCHURCH TO HARASS CHRISTOPHER PRYDE AND HIS NEIGHBOURS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-fiji-violates-new-zealand-sovereignty-by-deploying-agents-in-christchurch-to-harass-christopher-pryde-and-his-neighbours/) - In an astonishing move that will have serious diplomatic consequences if the New Zealand government cares about its sovereignty and territorial integrity, Fiji has sent Fijian agents to pursue the exiled substantive DPP, Christopher Pryde, at his home in suburban Christchurch and also harass his neighbours. The neighbours were so disturbed by the presence of
- [# WOULD THE AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER PLEASE PUT HIS TROUSERS BACK ON? THE SULU IS EMBARASSING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/would-the-australian-high-commissioner-please-put-his-trousers-back-on-the-sulu-is-embarassing/) - We all know that the Aussies and Kiwis are falling over themselves to suck up to Fiji to keep it out of the clutches of the Chinese and inside the orbit of the democracies. But does the Australian High Commissioner to Fiji, Peter Roberts, really have to wear a sulu to official functions at which
- [# BIRDS OF A FEATHER. ANOTHER EPISODE OF THE TANYA AND BARBIE SHOW.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/birds-of-a-feather-the-tanya-and-barbie-show/) - So Barbara Malimali's loquacious lawyer during the Ashton- Lewis Commission of Inquiry, Tanya Waqanika, appears before a corruption court represented by... wait for it... Bad Barbie herself. It really is a tiny crocodile pond in the legal fraternity in Suva, with Tanya flashing a brilliant crocodile smile while doing the traditional walk of shame for
- [# ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE INVOLVEMENT IN THE DRUG TRADE SHATTER THE ILLUSION OF UNITY IN THE RFMF](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/allegations-of-police-involvement-in-the-drug-trade-shatter-the-illusion-of-unity-in-the-rfmf/) - In an extraordinary series of events, one of the most senior officers in the RFMF, Brigadier General Manoa Gadai, has broken ranks and demanded action on allegations of police involvement in the drug trade, prompting a very public reprimand from the Minister for Defence, the NFP's Pio Tikoduadua. The Brigadier General's intervention was prompted by
- [# GONE TO WATER. LOOK WHO SPONSORED THE ORGY OF SELF-CONGRATULATION BY THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS POSEURS OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/gone-to-water-look-who-sponsored-the-orgy-of-self-congratulation-by-the-self-righteous-poseurs-of-the-mainstream-media/) - The British satirical magazine, Private Eye, used to cry "Pass the sick bag, Alice" whenever a story emerged that triggered a bout of collective gagging because it was so brazen and shameful. In Fiji at the weekend, it was "Pass the sick bag, Rosi" as the Fiji Sun's Rosi Doviverata - the President of the
- [# COMMONMAN LIFTS THE VEIL ON A GRASSROOTS ITAUKEI REBELLION AGAINST THE CHIEFS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonman-lifts-the-veil-on-a-grassroots-itaukei-rebellion-against-the-chiefs/) - GD writes: The notion of indigenous Fijians as a monolithic, indivisible racial entity - a people united behind their chiefs - is turned on its head in a startling new article by CommonMan, Grubsheet's columnist in the vanua, which points to deep divisions among the iTaukei about the conduct of the GCC. It is startling
- [# THE PROVOCATIONS THAT TRIGGERED THE 2006 COUP RE-EMERGE BUT WITH NO-ONE TO STAND UP FOR THE MINORITIES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-provocations-that-triggered-the-2006-coup-re-emerge-but-with-no-one-to-stand-up-for-the-minorities/) - Fiji's minorities have cause to be afraid - very afraid - as Sitiveni Rabuka's Coalition government - in an unholy alliance with the Great Council of Chiefs - steps up its attempt to assert indigenous supremacy and marginalise other citizens. We long ago realised that we were all conned by Rabuka's assurance that he had
- [# COMMONMAN HIT A RAW NERVE WHEN HE CRITICISED THE RFMF MATANIGASAU TO THE GCC. HE IS UNREPENTANT (UPDATED SAT AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonman-hit-a-raw-nerve-when-he-criticised-the-rfmf-matanigasau-to-the-gcc-he-is-unrepentant/) - The GCC Chairman’s comments about how he found criticism of the RFMF’s matanigasau to the Great Council of Chiefs ‘unfortunate’ is thought provoking as it reveals the tension between culture and politics. Even more interesting is that this controversy persisted for a full week after the actual event concluded, especially on social media where given
- [# A NEW MARA ERA LOOMS AS RATU TEVITA CONTEMPLATES WIELDING HIS POWER AS THE SOLE D'HONDT "BIG MAN" CAPABLE OF DISLODGING SITIVENI RABUKA (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-new-mara-era-looms-in-fiji-as-ratu-tevita-contemplates-wielding-his-power-as-the-sole-dhondt-big-man-capable-of-dislodging-sitiveni-rabuka/) - The assumption that the removal of Frank Bainimarama from being able to contest next year's election means the inevitable triumph of Sitiveni Rabuka has been turned on its head with speculation that Ratu Tevita Mara - the newly-installed high chief of Lau - is destined to enter the political fray and take up the mantle
- [# STATE CAPTURE. COMMONMAN REFLECTS ON THE DOMINANT NARRATIVE IN FIJI FOR THE PAST 38 YEARS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/state-capture-commonman-reflects-on-the-dominant-narrative-in-fiji-for-the-past-38-years/) - Three events have dominated the political discourse this week and have social media abuzz with discussion and debate - the gathering of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga (Great Council of Chiefs), the RFMF matanigasau (traditional apology) to the GCC and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Their importance given their relation
- [# COMING TOMORROW (SUNDAY). COMMONMAN'S WITHERING CRITIQUE OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S APPEARANCE AT THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-tomorrow-sunday-commonmans-withering-critique-of-the-prime-ministers-appearance-at-the-truth-and-reconciliation-commission/) - "Sitiveni Rabuka’s submission to the T & R C was to be the crowning event of the last few days. His submission was supposed to cleanse his plate and free his name from blame. Everyone waited with bated breath, hoping that Rabuka would name names and bring some sort of closure to the 38-year guessing
- [# PLAY CALLED OFF DUE TO INJURY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/play-called-off-due-to-injury/) - GD has been sidelined by an injury which prevents me from using a computer keyboard for the moment. It means that I am unable to post my usual articles until further notice. I very much regret the temporary suspension of service but please look out for CommonMan's articles on weekends. I seek the understanding of
- [# AN ENDURING SYMBOL OF THE DEGENERACY OF THE ITAUKEI ESTABLISHMENT UNDER SITIVENI RABUKA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-enduring-symbol-of-the-degeneracy-of-the-itaukei-establishment-under-sitiveni-rabuka/) - A year after their drunken escapade at the annual conference of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, and her Deputy, John Rabuku, are still in place and the substantive DPP, Christopher Pryde, remains in exile facing trumped-up charges of expenses fraud. It beggars belief that this is the
- [# WE'RE TAKING THE WEEKEND OFF](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/were-taking-the-weekend-off/) - Grubsheet and CommonMan are both taking a break. Back next week with startling revelations about parliamentary expense rorts that lay bare the lack of integrity at the top in Fiji. Where is the official investigation? There isn't one. The law is being openly flouted yet there is one rule for those in power and one
- [# ATTENTION ALL MPs. HANDS UP THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER DOUBLE DIPPED ON THEIR EXPENSES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/attention-all-mps-hands-up-those-who-have-never-double-dipped-on-their-expenses/) - We're giving Fiji's 55 members of parliament the opportunity here to declare whether they have cheated those who put them there - the nation's voters - by claiming per diem expenses for travel when it has already been paid for by their hosts. Grubsheet will soon be revealing widespread abuse of the law that prevents
- [# ANOTHER COALITION DEBACLE. PROFESSOR WADAN NARSEY GOES ROGUE AND UNILATERALLY RELEASES THE ELECTORAL REFORM COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/another-coalition-debacle-professor-wadan-narsey-goes-rogue-and-unilaterally-releases-the-electoral-reform-commission-recommendations/) - The government has lurched into a fresh crisis, with Professor Wadan Narsey losing patience with the four-month delay in releasing the Electoral Law Reform Commission recommendations for changing the electoral system and taking it upon himself to do so. The Commission's Report was presented to the government back in July but has been sitting on
- [# JUDGMENT DAY APPROACHES. IN THE CORRUPTION COURT AND THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/judgement-day-approaches-in-the-corruption-court-and-the-court-of-public-opinion/) - The NFP leader, Biman Prasad, along with his family and supporters, try to put on a brave face as he appears in court in Suva - the once powerful deputy prime minister and minister of finance now sidelined, relegated to the backbench of parliament and facing a lengthy trial. Why is his lawyer, Richard Naidu,
- [# COMMONMAN ON THE DIGITAL VANUA AND 21ST CENTURY "SOLESOLEVAKI" (UPDATED SUNDAY PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonman-on-the-digital-vanua-and-21st-century-solesolevaki/) - GD writes: In the space of a month, CommonMan - our weekly voice from the grassroots in the vanua - is already making an impact on the national debate. And this week, he dedicates his column to the increasing power of the Internet in iTaukei society. It includes a remarkable event that has gone unnoticed
- [# WHILE SH*T SEEPS INTO THE OPERATING THEATRES OF THE CWM, AN INCONSEQUENTIAL SH*TSTORM ERUPTS AMONG THE GLITTERATI ON FACEBOOK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/while-sht-seeps-into-the-operating-theatres-of-the-cwm-an-inconsequential-sht-storm-erupts-among-the-glitterati-on-facebook/) - The disconnect between the lives of ordinary Fijians and some of those who dominate the national debate has never been so stark than in the case of Imrana "Patricia" Jalal - the international lawyer who picks up a multi six figure US dollar salary working for the Asian Development Bank in Manila while many of
- [# WHEN THE CROCODILES IN THE POND TURN THE HUNTER INTO PREY (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-the-crocodiles-in-the-pond-turn-the-hunter-into-prey/) - We are precisely four weeks out from the High Court hearing on the application by some of those adversely named in the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair for a judicial review to overturn its findings. And shocking evidence is emerging that the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has engineered a series
- [# COMING SOON. IS JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS FACING ARREST ON ARRIVAL IN FIJI FOR THE COI JUDICIAL REVIEW HEARING?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-is-justice-david-ashton-lewis-facing-arrest-on-arrival-in-fiji-for-the-coi-judicial-review-hearing/) - The integrity of the judicial system in Fiji hangs in the balance as the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, turns the tables on the Supreme Court Judge who has accused him of perjury and perverting the course of justice and is pressing for Justice Ashton-Lewis to be charged with fraud. The shocking saga of how
- [# ONLY IN FIJI, EH? THE MAN WHO CAN'T BE ATTORNEY GENERAL DUE TO MISCONDUCT IS NOW ACTING PRIME MINISTER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/only-in-fiji-eh-the-man-who-cant-be-attorney-general-due-to-misconduct-is-now-acting-prime-minister/) - With two of the three deputy prime ministers sidelined after having been charged with serious criminal offences and awaiting trial, we now have an Acting Prime Minister in the absence of Sitiveni Rabuka in Japan who has had multiple findings against him for professional misconduct. Yes, folks, the Prime Minister's nephew, Filimoni Vosarogo - the
- [# TALKING SH*T. PEDDLING SH*T. THE COALITION'S COVER-UP OF THE GRAVITY OF THE SPILL AT CWM (UPDATED THURSDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/talking-sht-peddling-sht-the-coalitions-cover-up-of-the-gravity-of-the-spill-at-cwm/) - The government has been in full-blown damage control over reports of a sewage spill at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital that the Fiji Sun said had shut down operating theatres and cost lives. The response of the Ministry of Health has studiously avoided the issue of casualties as the result of the spill, which suggests
- [# CWM. A METAPHOR FOR AN ENTIRE NATION THAT HAS GONE TO SH*T](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/cwm-a-metaphor-for-an-entire-nation-that-has-gone-to-sht/) - So sewage - raw excrement - has leaked into the operating theatres of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva and patients there have died, according to a truly shocking report in the Fiji Sun. Grubsheet can scarcely believe that the place where I was born and later got my teeth straightened (sort of )
- [# COMMONMAN'S TRAIN OF THOUGHT ON A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonmans-train-of-thought-on-a-visit-to-australia/) - GD writes: After his three part series on identity and belonging in Fiji, CommonMan turns more whimsical this week as he reflects on a recent visit to Australia and his enjoyment of traveling by train. Australian railways are a far cry from the sugar trains that used to pass by CommonMan's village in Nadroga. Not
- [# THE FINAL STRAW. LYNDA TABUYA HAS FINANCIALLY EXPLOITED THE HOSPITALITY OF ORDINARY FIJIANS AND MUST GO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-final-straw-lynda-tabuya-has-exploited-the-hospitality-of-ordinary-fijians-and-must-go/) - Everything that is wrong with the Coalition government - its amorality, greed and disregard for proper conduct and the feelings of the Fijian people - are encapsulated in the admission by Lynda Tabuya that she claimed taxpayer's money as per diems or daily living allowances for her recent visit to South Australia and was then
- [# THE QUEEN OF TARTS WITH THE CHEATING HEART. DOUBLE DIPPING AS WELL AS SKINNY DIPPING? (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-queen-of-tarts-with-the-cheating-heart-double-dipping-as-well-as-skinny-dipping/) - Lynda Tabuya's file at FICAC for allegedly under-reporting her income to the Elections Office was closed by her friend Barbara Malimali in highly questionable circumstances that are still resonating many months later. Yet not only has FICAC reportedly re-opened its investigation, the corruption watchdog is also destined to be slavering all over La Tabuya's ample
- [# IS HE EVEN GOING TO MAKE IT TO THE NEXT ELECTION, LET ALONE LEAD THE NATION FOR ANOTHER TERM? (UPDATED WEDNESDAY PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-he-even-going-to-make-it-to-the-next-election-let-alone-lead-the-nation-for-another-term/) - The Prime Minister is suddenly looking a shadow of his former self and the antithesis of a virile, commanding national leader. And in response to a reader request for my favourite photo of the Pedophile President on his parambulations around Europe and the Gulf, here he is - stick in hand like his protégé, the
- [# THE PHANTOM FACEBOOK WARRIORS PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE IN BIMAN PRASAD'S FAVOUR (UPDATED WEDNESDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-phantom-facebook-warriors-perverting-the-course-of-justice-in-favour-of-biman-prasad/) - Hot on the heels of the bizarre allegation by the NFP General Secretary, Kamal Iyer, of a conspiracy led by Alexandra Forwood to derail the government and bring down Biman Prasad comes a counteroffensive on social media on the NFP leader's behalf. A new Facebook page calling itself "Heart of Nation" is extolling Biman Prasad's
- [# YAY! HAPPY TO SHARE THAT I'VE BEEN CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION AND FACE A POSSIBLE 12-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/yay-happy-to-share-that-ive-been-charged-with-corruption-and-face-a-possible-12-year-jail-sentence/) - Manoa Kamikamica and Biman Prasad have both adopted a posture of nonchalance about being charged by FICAC and forced to relinquish their positions as deputy prime ministers and senior cabinet ministers. But Kamikamica has gone to absurd lengths to make light of the charges against him of perjury and giving false information to the Ashton-Lewis
- [# KAIVITI - WHAT'S IN A NAME. PART THREE OF COMMONMAN'S SERIES ON IDENTITY AND BELONGING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/kaiviti-whats-in-a-name-part-three-of-commonmans-series-on-identity-and-belonging/) - GD writes: In three short weeks, our new columnist from the vanua, CommonMan, has established himself as a Sunday "must read" - a font of commonsense to a great many, an irritation to some but always relevant and thought-provoking. Some of the controversy comes from a sense of disbelief on the part of some readers
- [# TWO YEARS AGO TODAY, RICHARD NAIDU THREATENED TO SUE ME. 730 DAYS LATER, I AM STILL WAITING FOR HIS WRIT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/two-years-ago-today-richard-naidu-threatened-to-sue-me-730-days-later-i-am-still-waiting-for-his-writ/) - We all know that the wheels of justice turn at a snail's pace at the best of times but the celebrated lawyer and NFP stalwart, Richard "I have the means" Naidu, has set a new record worthy of a slug for threatening legal action for defamation and not following through. On November 2, 2023, Naidu
- [# COMING TOMORROW (SUNDAY). COMMONMAN ON WHY IT IS SO HARD FOR THE ITAUKEI TO SHARE THE NAME KAI VITI OR FIJIAN WITH THE REST OF US...](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-tomorrow-sunday-commonman-on-why-it-is-so-hard-for-the-itaukei-to-share-the-name-kai-viti-or-fijian-with-the-rest-of-us/) - ...and why in the end he came to accept that he should share it himself. Part three of CommonMan's series on the vexed question of a common national identity and the issue of belonging. One man's view from the grassroots in the vanua. Coming here after midday tomorrow. Don't miss it.
- [# THE ONCE MIGHTY NFP VENTS ITS FRUSTRATION WITH A PARANOID ATTACK THAT EXPOSES ITS UTTER DESPERATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-once-mighty-nfp-vents-its-frustration-with-a-paranoid-attack-that-exposes-its-utter-desperation/) - Grubsheet recently described Alexandra Forwood as the "bane of Sitiveni Rabuka's existence - a one-woman whirlwind bombarding his government with a constant stream of emails demanding action or answers as it lurches from crisis to crisis and scandal to scandal". It is, of course, Alex Forwood's democratic right. But the way the NFP tells it,
- [# THE SECOND MOST DELUDED MAN IN FIJI. YOU ALREADY KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE FIRST](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-second-most-deluded-man-in-fiji-you-already-know-the-identity-of-the-first/) - The NFP leader, Biman Prasad, has been charged with serious criminal conduct and his Coalition partner, the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says his trial may still be going by the time next year's election comes around. It is a political nightmare - the prospect of the NFP having to campaign for re-election with its leader
- [# CAN IT POSSIBLY BE TRUE? SOMEONE WITH INTEGRITY AND JUDGMENT AS  ATTORNEY GENERAL?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/could-it-possibly-be-true-someone-with-integrity-and-judgment-as-attorney-general/) - The coconut wireless is crackling with reports that Luke Daunivalu - one of the finest Fijians of his generation - is about to be announced as AG to replace the hapless and perennially accident-prone Siromi Turaga. If it is true - and pray God it is - then it is cause for national celebration. Because
- [# PROFESSOR NEVER-SAY-DIE MAKES LIGHT OF BEING CHARGED WITH SERIOUS CRIMINAL CONDUCT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/professor-never-say-die-makes-light-of-being-charged-with-serious-criminal-conduct/) - Like the Black Knight in the Monty Python skit who insists "tis but a scratch" when his limbs have been severed (see below), Biman Prasad is adopting the absurd posture that the FICAC charge against him of corruption is just a temporary setback. Quote: "One thing I have learned in eleven years of political leadership
- [# THE COALITION GOVERNMENT TRIES TO SPIN ITS WAY OUT OF CATASTROPHE (UPDATED TUESDAY EVENING)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-government-tries-to-spin-its-way-out-of-a-catastrophe/) - Today's Fiji TImes carries easily one of the most ludicrous front page headlines in the entire 156-year history of the nation's favourite fish wrapping - "Stable and focused", it proclaims, quoting the Prime Minister about his government, when the whole country can see that it is neither stable nor focused and instead, is in a
- [# BREAKING NEWS...COALITION ROCKED AS BIMAN PRASAD IS CHARGED BY FICAC.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-coalition-rocked-as-biman-prasad-is-charged-by-ficac/) - Biman Prasad - the NFP leader and Finance Minister - has joined his fellow deputy prime minister, Manoa Kamikamica, in being charged by FICAC with corruption-related offences and is expected to resign tomorrow (Tuesday). The move - predicted by Grubsheet - has rocked the government to the core and robs it of two of its
- [#  COMMONMAN. VULAGI PART TWO. BELONGING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonman-vulagi-part-two-belonging/) - GD writes: CommonMan's explanation last week of the true concept of vulagi and the way a bastardised version has been weaponised for political purposes to divide the nation has attracted a great deal of impassioned debate, as evidenced from the comments on Grubsheet. In essence, he described the original meaning of vulagi as being honoured
- [# A PRIME MINISTER FROZEN WITH INERTIA WHEN HE MUST ACT DECISIVELY TO SAVE HIMSELF](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-prime-minister-frozen-with-inertia-when-he-must-act-decisively-to-save-himself/) - There are currents swirling within the Rabuka government that are starting to spill over even into the supine mainstream media as those around the Prime Minister begin to acknowledge that he is losing his grip. Take the following article, for instance - Sitiveni Rabuka's former communications handmaiden turned Fiji Times journalist, Cheerieann Wilson - turning
- [# COMING ON SUNDAY (AFTER MIDDAY) COMMONMAN ANSWERS THE QUESTION HE POSED LAST WEEK. WHEN DOES A "VULAGI" BORN IN FIJI BECOME A KAI VITI?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-tomorrow-commonman-answers-the-question-he-posed-last-week-when-does-a-vulagi-born-in-fiji-become-a-kai-viti-dont-miss-it/)
- [# RARELY IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICS HAS ANYONE HAD LESS REASON TO BE SMILING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rarely-in-the-history-of-politics-has-anyone-less-reason-to-be-smiling/) - Manoa Kamikamica's co-accused in the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry - his lawyer, Wylie Clarke - has put on a brave face at Kamikamica's first court appearance to obtain bail as he awaits trial on the charge against him of perjury and giving false evidence to the Inquiry. But as we explained in our earlier article
- [# WYLIE CLARKE AND RICHARD NAIDU'S DESPERATE THROW OF THE DICE (AMENDED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wylie-clarke-and-richard-naidus-desperate-throw-of-the-dice/) - Why was Biman Prasad's lawyer, Richard Naidu, down at the courts with Manoa Kamikamica's lawyer, Wylie Clarke, for the first mention of the FICAC prosecution of Kamikamica arising out of the Ashton-Lewis Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali Affair? It's a question Grubsheet highlighted yesterday when we canvassed why a posse of lawyers
- [# WHY IS ANOTHER POSSE OF LAWYERS TRYING TO DERAIL THE FICAC CASE AGAINST MANOA KAMIKAMICA?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-is-yet-another-posse-of-lawyers-trying-to-derail-the-ficac-case-against-manoa-kamikamica/) - One of the most startling aspects to emerge from the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair is how Wylie Clarke - the President of the Fiji Law Society - summoned a posse of lawyers on September 5 last year and descended on the headquarters of FICAC to free Barbara Malimali from arrest
- [# BREAKING NEWS...FRANK BAINIMARAMA SPARED ANOTHER JAIL TERM...](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-frank-bainimarama-spared-another-jail-term/) - ...but we can be sure that the corrupt ODPP will appeal the sentence after the "sacked by Christopher Pryde but reinstated by Nancy Tikoisuva" Assistant DPP, Laisani Tabuakoro, broke with convention and demanded a custodial sentence at the end of the former prime minister's trial. ------------------------ Watch as the renegade Assistant DPP appeals the sentence
- [# MANOA KAMIKAMICA STEPS DOWN AS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AS THE COI BEGINS TO BITE (FURTHER UPDATE WEDNESDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-manoa-kamikamica-steps-down-as-deputy-prime-minister-and-minister-for-trade/) - The Ashton-Lewis Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry has claimed its first scalp with the announcement by the Prime Minister that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Manoa Kamikamica, has relinquished his positions after being charged by FICAC with corruption-related offences. Faced with a choice of standing aside voluntarily or being pushed - because
- [# SIROMI TURAGA. UNDEMOCRATIC, MENDACIOUS AND JUST PLAIN DUMB. (UPDATED )](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/siromi-turaga-undemocratic-mendacious-and-just-plain-dumb/) - The effective end of Manoa Kamikamica's campaign to replace Sitiveni Rabuka as Prime Minister - if not his political career - is the dominant political narrative now that Kamikamica has been charged by FICAC and will be subjected to a lengthy criminal trial extending into election year. Will Kamikamica stand aside as Deputy Prime Minister
- [# MANOA KAMIKAMICA CHARGED BY FICAC (UPDATED MONDAY PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-manoa-kamikamica-charged/) - There has yet to be a formal announcement but the court record shows that the Deputy Prime Minister, Manoa Kamikamica, has been charged with corruption-related offences and will appear in court on Wednesday. While it has been an open secret in some quarters and Grubsheet has alluded to it in several articles, the news is
- [# IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE THIS WEEK, AT LEAST READ THIS. THE REAL IMPACT OF THE MASS EXODUS FROM FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/if-you-dont-read-anything-else-this-week-at-least-read-this-the-real-impact-of-the-mass-exodus-from-fiji/) - The Coalition government continues to play down the significance of the fact that an estimated 114,000 Fijians have left the country since 2018 and has certainly done nothing to provide them with an incentive to stay, such as assuring the minorities that they are valued members of the community, with equal rights that will be
- [# COMMONMAN WADES INTO THE VULAGI DEBATE WITH A PLEA FOR LESS DIVISIVE POINT-SCORING AND MORE UNDERSTANDING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/commonman-wades-into-the-vulagi-debate-with-a-plea-for-less-divisive-point-scoring-and-more-understanding/) - GD writes: This week, our new columnist, CommonMan, explains the iTaukei concept of vulagi, which he says has been widely misunderstood and deliberately politicised to create ethnic division in Fiji. He says vulagi actually means "honoured guest" more than foreigner or visitor. But he goes on to raise a question many non-iTaukei are also asking:
- [# 'EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST. EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE". AND EVERY VOTER HAS A VOTE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/every-saint-has-a-past-every-sinner-has-a-future-and-every-voter-has-a-vote/) - Once again, the Coalition's new Minister for Information, Lynda Tabuya, has become the story herself at yet another Fiji Media Association "town hall" meeting that is meant to be giving the public fresh insights into national issues but is dishing out more of the same. Alone in the democratic world, only in Fiji would a
- [# COMING TOMORROW (SUNDAY), COMMONMAN ON THE VULAGI DEBATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-tomorrow-sunday-commonman-on-the-vulagi-debate/) - What does our new columnist think about the vulagi debate that has become one of the nation's most divisive issues, with its implication that non-iTaukei citizens are merely visitors to Fiji and don't really belong? CommonMan is a 45 year old iTaukei farmer who has lived in the vanua all his life- a village in
- [# AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT TO "SAME SUIT, DIFFERENT COUNTRY. BRUTUS LEAVES THE ROMAN FORUM FOR THE WELLINGTON FORUM TO DRUM UP BUSINESS FOR FIJI".](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/same-suit-different-country-brutus-leaves-rome-for-wellington-to-drum-up-business-for-fiji/) - The Fiji Times e-edition carried a lead story this morning about a speech by Manoa Kamikamica to the Fiji-New Zealand Business Forum. A keen-eyed reader points out that the accompanying photo shows the date on the slide behind the Minister as September 8. Yet here's how it appeared in today's Fiji Times with yesterday's date
- [# MANOA KAMIKAMICA PLAYS BRUTUS, WITH ALL ROADS LEADING TO ROME AS HE UNDERMINES CAESAR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/manoa-plays-brutus-with-all-roads-leading-to-rome-as-he-undermines-caesar/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, was making it known that he had no idea where his Deputy, Manoa Kamikamica, was going when he ran into him as "Mr Sweet" boarded the same plane at Nadi Airport on Saturday - in the PM's case, to attend Fiji Day commemorations in Sydney. And in Kamikamica's case, to
- [# POOR KING CHARLES. FORCED BY PROTOCOL TO DEAL WITH ANOTHER PAEDOPHILE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/poor-king-charles-forced-by-protocol-to-deal-with-another-pedophile/) - You really have to have sympathy for Charles III when he is obliged to set the highest standards of conduct as King of the United Kingdom and its realms, as well as Head of the Commonwealth, yet is beset by the quandry of having to deal with individuals accused of having sex with minors. The
- [# APPLICATIONS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE COI SET DOWN FOR HEARING ON DECEMBER 12 (UPDATE THURSDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/applications-for-judicial-review-of-the-coi-set-down-for-hearing-on-december-12/) - The High Court judge, Justice Dane Tuiqereqere, will start hearing the applications for judicial review of the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair in just under two month's time - on December 12. The Judge has evidently consolidated all applications into a single hearing - that of Barbara Malimali herself, the Judicial
- [# JUDGING FROM THIS ASTONISHING VERBAL ASSAULT, THE 2026 ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS GOING TO BE MORE BRUTAL THAN LYNDA'S ROGERING IN ROOM 233](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/judging-from-this-astonishing-verbal-assault-the-2026-election-campaign-is-going-to-be-more-brutal-than-lyndas-rogering-in-room-233/) - Is the NFP terrified that Mahendra Chaudhry's Labour Party is going to pose an existential threat to it when voters go to the polls next year? It's a fair bet given the extreme language employed by Biman Prasad's General Secretary, Kamal Iyer, against the Labour leader and former prime minister. "Caught with his pants down",
- [# WHY IS MANOA KAMIKAMICA IN DUBAI? THE PRIME MINISTER, FOR ONE, WOULD LIKE TO KNOW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-is-manoa-kamikamica-in-dubai-the-prime-minister-for-one-would-like-to-know/) - We now know that seven members of the government - the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, and six of his ministers - were overseas on the Fiji Day weekend. But there is an eighth we don't know about. And neither, reportedly, did the Prime Minister until he saw him board the same flight to Australia on
- [# A PHOTO YOU WON'T SEE ON THE GOVERNMENT'S FACEBOOK PAGE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-photo-you-wont-see-on-the-governments-facebook-page/) - Alexandra Forwood is the bane of Sitiveni Rabuka's existence - a one-woman whirlwind bombarding his government with a constant stream of emails demanding action or answers as it lurches from crisis to crisis and scandal to scandal. Alex marks all of these emails "without prejudice" as an apparent device to minimise the threat of defamation
- [# INTRODUCING OUR NEW COLUMNIST. COMMONMAN. AN ITAUKEI FARMER AND AUTHENTIC VOICE FROM THE VANUA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/introducing-our-new-columnist-commonman-an-itaukei-farmer-and-authentic-voice-from-the-vanua/) - GD writes: Who most has their finger on the pulse of grassroots opinion in Fiji? Certainly not commentators like Grubsheet or columnists in the mainstream media. It is someone sharing the everyday experiences of ordinary people who are sometimes living extraordinary lives. And Grubsheet has found that someone. He's a farmer working his teitei in
- [# WE KNOW ELECTION PANIC IS TAKING HOLD WHEN THE FINANCE MINISTER SAYS "VOTE FOR US AND WE CAN BE JUST LIKE OVERSEAS". WE'VE SEEN IT ALL BEFORE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/we-know-election-panic-is-taking-hold-when-the-finance-minister-says-vote-for-us-and-we-can-be-just-like-overseas/) - What do Biman Prasad and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum have in common? A great deal of lasulasu-jhoot when they hold out the prospect of Fiji joining the first world if only voters are smart enough to keep them in office. You'll remember how we all laughed and laughed when Aiyaz said before the last election that Fiji
- [# SITIVENI RABUKA'S BIG EFF YOU TO FIJI ON THE 55TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sitiveni-rabukas-big-eff-you-to-fiji-on-the-55th-anniversary-of-independence/) - It simply beggars belief that as the Opposition calls for him to remove the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, the Prime Minister is not only unmoved but inflicts Temo on the nation as Acting President for the Independence Day commemorations in Suva. Feast your eyes on the following photos, Fiji, and keep in your mind's
- [# HAPPY FIJI DAY! IF YOU CAN BEAR TO CELEBRATE A NATION THAT IS BROKEN AND IN DECLINE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/happy-fiji-day-if-you-can-bear-to-celebrate-a-nation-that-is-broken-and-in-decline/) - So, Fiji. We now have an accused perjurer and obstructor of justice as the nation's head of state as the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, takes over as Acting President during Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu's absence in the United States. It ought to be the cause of national shame. But such is the perverse nature of governance
- [# VICTOR LAL EMERGES FROM THE SWAMP ON THE SIDE OF THE CROCODILES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/victor-lal-emerges-from-the-swamp-on-the-side-of-the-crocodiles/) - The expatriate Fiji-born journalist and academic, Victor Lal, casts himself as "Editor-in-Chief of Fijileaks' when like Grubsheet, his is a one-man operation from his home on the outskirts of the famous British university city of Oxford. But he is still a powerhouse of information and specialises in material leaked to him by his many sources
- [# PORTRAIT OF A THUG ACTING ON BEHALF OF A ROGUE CHIEF JUSTICE WHO IS UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/portrait-of-a-thug-acting-on-behalf-of-a-rogue-chief-justice-who-is-undermining-democracy-and-the-rule-of-law/) - It is disgraceful enough that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is using the Judicial Services Commission, which he heads, as a vehicle to defend himself against the Supreme Court CoI finding that he allegedly committed perjury and obstructed and perverted the course of justice in the Malimali affair. Temo is using public money to engage
- [# AN OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY AS THE COALITION THREATENS THE OPPOSITION FOR CALLING FOR THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-outrageous-assault-on-democracy-as-the-coalition-threatens-the-opposition-for-calling-for-the-suspension-of-the-chief-justice/) - The call by the Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, for the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, to finally "man up" and advise the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, to suspend the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is perfectly legitimate and demonstrably in the national interest. Temo has been accused of perjury and obstructing and perverting the course of justice
- [# REVEALED. JOHN RABUKU'S $100,000 "COMPENSATION" PAYMENT WHEN HE SUFFERED NO LOSS (UPDATED TUESDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/revealed-john-rabukus-100000-compensation-payment-when-he-suffered-no-loss/) - There is a supreme irony in the fact that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is currently sitting in judgment of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum in the High Court for having allegedly given Mohammed Saneem an unlawful payment when Temo has done the same for John Rabuku, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions. Evidence has emerged that the
- [# THE USUAL REWARD FOR TREACHERY. MAKE THEM MINISTERS AT THE TAXPAYER'S EXPENSE. (UPDATED MONDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-usual-reward-for-treachery-make-them-ministers-at-the-taxpayers-expense/) - Sachida Nand and Shalen Kumar must be feeling very pleased with themselves, having been announced as assistant ministers by Sitiveni Rabuka on the very day their former leader, Frank Bainimarama - to whom they owe their political careers - was again convicted and is set to serve another prison term. Yet many Fijians will hold
- [# THE CONCERTED ATTEMPT, LET'S CALL IT THE CONSPIRACY, TO DESTROY THE SUPREME COURT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-concerted-attempt-lets-call-it-the-conspiracy-to-destroy-the-supreme-court-commission-of-inquiry/) - The news that the Fiji Law Society and the sacked attorney general, Graham Leung, have joined Barbara Malimali and the Judicial Services Commission headed by the rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, in filing applications for judicial reviews to quash the findings of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry is startling but predictable. There is now a
- [# BREAKING NEWS...FRANK HEADING BACK TO PRISON AND ANY NOTION OF A POLITICAL COMEBACK SCUTTLED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-frank-heading-back-to-prison-and-any-notion-of-a-political-comeback-scuttled/)
- [# WELL NO SURPRISES HERE. BUT WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR ABOUT THE SKELETON IN SALESI TEMO'S CLOSET THAT IS THE SAME ALLEGATION OF ABUSE OF OFFICE FACING AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/well-no-surprises-here-but-wait-until-you-hear-about-the-skeleton-in-salesi-temos-closet-that-is-the-same-allegation-of-abuse-of-office-facing-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum/) - So as expected, the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has dismissed the application by lawyer Devanesh Sharma that there is insufficient evidence to uphold the case against Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem for alleged abuse of office. Unfortunately for Temo, he is about to be unmasked as a hypocrite and the entire state case is
- [# DO AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM AND MOHAMMED SANEEM HAVE A CASE TO ANSWER? SALESI TEMO DELIVERS HIS RULING AT 3.00PM TODAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/do-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-and-mohammed-saneem-have-a-case-to-answer-salesi-temo-delivers-his-ruling-at-3-00pm-today/) - All eyes will be on the courts today as the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, delivers his ruling on the application by lawyer Devanesh Sharma that his clients, the former attorney general and former supervisor of elections, have no case to answer on the charges against them of abuse of office. Grubsheet is reserving further comment
- [# WHEN BEING ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY AND OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR LEADING THE NATION'S LAWYERS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-being-accused-of-conspiracy-and-obstructing-justice-is-a-prerequisite-for-leading-the-nations-lawyers-in-private-practice/) - The news that Wylie Clarke has been reappointed President of the Fiji Law Society despite the grave allegations of criminal conduct against him by the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry says a great deal about the collapse of public standards of conduct in Fiji. It isn't in the least bit surprising because Clarke and the
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER PREACHES THE VIRTUES OF TRUTH TO THE WORLD YET LIES TO HIS OWN PEOPLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-preaches-the-virtues-of-truth-to-the-world-yet-lies-to-his-own-people/) - There's a striking passage in the speech Sitiveni Rabuka made to the UN General Assembly that is definitive proof of the chasm between what he says and what he does and the manner in which he is hoodwinking the Fijian people. And now that he is back from his personally lucrative swing through Solomon Islands,
- [# WHAT A WHOPPER! THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL'S TAMANI SIZE LASULASU-JHOOT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-a-whopper-the-acting-attorney-generals-tamani-size-lasulasu-jhoot/) - Siromi Turaga has his pants around his ankles and they are burning fiercely after he told a bald-faced lie denying that he had flagged the reintroduction of the death penalty for drug traffickers and was immediately exposed by the Fiji Times. It raises serious questions about his suitability to be the Coalition's chief legal advisor,
- [# THE SHOCKING PROSPECT LOOMS OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COI BEING QUASHED AND BARBARA MALIMALI BEING REINSTATED TO FICAC. (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-shocking-prospect-looms-of-the-ashton-lewis-coi-being-quashed-and-barbara-malimali-being-reinstated-to-ficac/) - The "crocodiles" who the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, wanted cleared from the pond when he commissioned the Supreme Court Judge, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, to carry out his inquiry into the Malimali Affair are poised for victory as the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, appoints a High Court judge to hear his own application for a
- [# "WHEN AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM IS CONVICTED". THE ASSISTANT DPP CONFIRMS FEARS THAT THE FORMER AG'S TRIAL IS A STITCH-UP (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-is-convicted-the-assistant-dpp-confirms-fears-that-the-former-ags-trial-is-a-stitch-up/) - The Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has been at pains to give the appearance of evenhandedness as he presides over the trial of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem for alleged abuse of office, castigating the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, in open court over aspects of her prosecution of the case. But it is evidently all a
- [# AN ASTONISHING BETRAYAL. THE RFMF COMMANDER WHO HAS MADE FIJIAN PEACEKEEPERS LESS SAFE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-astonishing-betrayal-the-rfmf-commander-who-has-made-fijian-peacekeepers-less-safe/) - The presence of the RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, in the official party that accompanied the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, to Israel for the opening of Fiji's controversial new embassy in Jerusalem has been a lapse of judgment that, pray God, does not have tragic consequences for his men and women on UN
- [# THE ENTIRE OPPOSITION (AMPLIFIED BY BOTH NEWSPAPERS) JOINS THE CLAMOUR FOR SALESI TEMO'S SUSPENSION AS CHIEF JUSTICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-entire-opposition-amplified-by-both-newspapers-joins-the-clamour-for-salesi-temos-suspension-as-chief-justice/) - Further to our previous story last night, the Opposition has since issued a strong statement calling for the removal of the Chief Justice and accusing the Prime Minister and the President of failing in their duty to do so. The statement has added potency because it is being given headline treatment today by both the
- [# "SUSPEND TEMO!" THE CLAMOUR BUILDS AND THE PRESSURE ON THE PRIME MINISTER INTENSIFIES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/suspend-temo-the-clamour-builds-and-the-pressure-on-the-prime-minister-intensifies/) - Two sitting politicians - Jone Usamate and Ketan Lal - have joined the Unity Party's Savenaca Narube in calling on the Prime Minister and President to suspend the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, over the allegations of criminal conduct made against him by the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. The three join
- [# A GOVERNMENT DYSFUNCTIONAL AND IN A STATE OF PANIC (WHEN IT'S AWAKE)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-government-dysfunctional-and-in-a-state-of-panic-when-its-awake/) - The sight of the Prime Minister asleep at a "Friends of Zion" function in Jerusalem before he flew to the United Nations for the next stage of his latest overseas odyssey pretty much sums up the state of the Coalition government. It is sleep walking through a minefield of its own making, triggering one crisis
- [# UNITY'S SAVENACA NARUBE FACES DOWN THE BULLY BOYS, SALESI TEMO AND ISIRELI FA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/unitys-savenaca-narube-faces-down-the-bully-boys-salesi-temo-and-isireli-fa/) - It is a shocking reflection of the state of the judiciary in Fiji that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has hired a private lawyer to threaten the nation's politicians into silence over the criminal accusations against him by the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. At the same time, it is an
- [# THE CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE TRIGGERS A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS TO SAVE HIS JOB (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-chief-justice-triggers-a-constitutional-crisis-to-save-his-job/) - One individual - Salesi Temo - masquerading as the Judicial Services Commission as a whole - is using a private law firm of dubious repute to seek a judicial review of the findings of the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. In truth, they are the findings against Temo himself - that
- [# BIBI AND LYNDA. THE ALLEGED WAR CRIMINAL AND FIJI'S ROVING INTERNATIONAL TART (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bibi-and-lynda-the-alleged-war-criminal-and-fijis-roving-international-tart/) - We predicted that Lynda Tabuya would push herself to the forefront of the Prime Minister's visit to Israel and use it as a self-promotion tool but even Grubsheet is shocked by the conduct of the brazen hussy in appearing to put her arm around the Israeli leader, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. She is the Information Minister,
- [# A NEW BEST SELLER. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LYNDA TABUYA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-new-best-seller-the-amazing-adventures-of-lynda-tabuya/) - Who is the Fijian government Minister who is now so powerful that with one phone call, she can get a TikTok user thrown into prison? ... The woman who is so untouchable that she can be both co-Chair of the government's Anti-Porn Task Force and make a pornographic video...or take drugs in a Melbourne hotel
- [# THE CROOK IN CHARGE OF THE JUDICIARY REFUSES TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM THE TRIAL OF AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM DESPITE CLEAR EVIDENCE OF BIAS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-crook-in-charge-of-the-judiciary-refuses-to-recuse-himself-from-the-trial-of-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-despite-clear-evidence-of-bias/) - The rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has refused an application by Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, to recuse himself from the trial of the former attorney general and that of his co-accused, Mohammed Saneem, despite being demonstrably unfit to judge the case. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Salesi Temo has refused to budge because
- [# AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM. WHY I CAN'T GET A FAIR TRIAL WITH THE CHIEF JUSTICE AS THE PRESIDING JUDGE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-why-i-cant-get-a-fair-trial-with-the-chief-justice-as-the-presiding-judge/) - The trial of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem for abuse of office was due to begin in Suva this afternoon with a sensational twist - the former attorney general lodging a formal request for the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to recuse himself and appoint another judge on the grounds that he is biased against Khaiyum.
- [# PNG REACHES A 'BITE LIKE A CROCODILE" DEFENCE AGREEMENT WITH AUSTRALIA FOR A "VERY BAD DAY". IS FIJI NEXT?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/png-signs-a-bite-like-a-crocodile-defence-agreement-with-australia-for-a-very-bad-day-is-fiji-next/) - Extraordinary details are emerging of a new defence agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea which like the ANZUS Treaty involving the US and New Zealand, would require PNG to fight with Australia against any external aggressor, including China. The big question that arises for Fiji is whether this would be the same obligation placed
- [# LYNDA TABUYA'S PAST CATCHES UP WITH HER AND SHE "WON'T RISK GOING TO THE US WITH THE PM"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuyas-past-catches-up-with-her-and-she-wont-risk-going-to-the-us-with-the-pm/) - Amid seething resentment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over Lynda Tabuya's prominent role on the Prime Minister's overseas visits, reports are reaching Grubsheet that while she is still going to Israel this week at the PM's side, her plan to go on to New York for the UN General Assembly has been cancelled. Why?
- [# THE EMPEROR WHO SEEMS DETERMINED TO FIGHT THE 2026 ELECTION WITH HIS CONCUBINE BY HIS SIDE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-emperor-determined-to-fight-the-2026-election-with-his-concubine-by-his-side/) - There is already deep dissatisfaction on the part of the nation's senior diplomats with the decision by the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sitiveni Rabuka, to place the scandal-prone Lynda Tabuya at his right hand for his visits overseas. And that dissatisfaction is set to intensify as the Prime Minister doubles down on
- [# THE NIGHTMARE PROSPECT FOR SITIVENI RABUKA. A COURT CHALLENGE COSTS HIM HIS CURRENT NUMBERS IN THE PARLIAMENT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-nightmare-prospect-for-sitiveni-rabuka-a-court-challenge-costs-him-his-current-numbers-in-the-parliament/) - Was the defection of the Group of 11 former FijiFirst MPs to the ranks of the Coalition as "independents" after the implosion of Frank Bainimarama's party illegal? Are they in danger of being throw out of parliament so that the Coalition no longer has any hope of securing the two-thirds majority now needed to pass
- [# THE PERVERSION OF JUSTICE AT THE HEART OF THE COI INVESTIGATION PROCESS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-perversion-of-justice-at-the-heart-of-the-coi-investigation-process/) - The Fiji Police are making a virtue of taking their time to investigate cases arising out of the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry because of their importance. Yet the whole process is compromised because any decision to prosecute is going to be taken by individuals adversely named in the COI Report. First, here's what the
- [# SECURITY RISK. LYNDA TABUYA BY THE PM'S SIDE AS HE DISCUSSES A NEW SECURITY TREATY WITH AUSTRALIA (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/security-risk-lynda-tabuya-by-the-pms-side-as-he-discusses-a-new-security-deal-with-australia/) - Eyebrows will have been raised in the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance of Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain and Canada at the sight of Lynda Tabuya at Sitiveni Rabuka's right hand as he discussed an upgraded security arrangement with the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, during the Pacific Islands Forum in Honiara. Why? Because Fiji's
- [# FIJI STANDS SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH ISRAEL AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-stands-shoulder-to-shoulder-with-israel-at-the-worst-possible-time/) - Sitiveni Rabuka has upended decades of even-handedness in Fiji's foreign policy by siding resolutely with Israel as it shocks the world by bombing Qatar for the first time and prepares for a full invasion of Gaza. What happened to our policy of being "friends to all and enemies to none"? Flushed down the toilet as
- [# CHRISTIAN FREELOADERS, COALITION PONTIUS PILATES AND AN AIRLINE THAT SHOULD HAVE DEMANDED PAYMENT UP FRONT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/christian-freeloaders-coalition-pontius-pilates-and-an-airline-that-should-have-asked-for-payment-up-front/) - Fiji Airways was insisting back in October 2023 that its decision to fly a planeload of Christian pilgrims from Fiji to Israel to commemorate the Feast of the Tabernacle was strictly a commercial decision. Some decision. It has cost the majority public-owned national airline some $2-million in unpaid bills and triggered a wave of litigation.
- [# GOD HELP US, FIJI. THIS IS THE QUALITY OF OUR LEADERSHIP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/god-help-us-fiji-this-is-the-quality-of-our-leadership/) - So after having put his attendance at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Honiara in doubt, the lame Prime Minister arrives in the Solomons capital after all, with his "Minister for Bullsh*t, Bonking and Weed" in tow. What on earth was all the bullsh*t about last week of having an "important matter" to discuss with
- [# HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! TO BIOLOGICAL FATHERS AND STAND-INS ALIKE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/happy-fathers-day-to-biological-fathers-and-stand-ins-alike/) - A special shout-out to all Grubsheet readers who are fathers or anyone who is acting as a surrogate father to any young person, whether it is grandparents, uncles or extended family or friends. God knows our kids need positive role models more than ever in these challenging times. And this is a day to celebrate
- [# PETER SIPELI GIVES VISITORS A DOSE OF REALITY IN HIS TOURS OF THE UNDERBELLY OF FIJI'S CAPITAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/peter-sipeli-gives-visitors-a-dose-of-reality-in-his-tours-of-the-underbelly-of-fijis-capital/) - 13 years ago, I wrote an article about my place of birth entitled "Suva, City of Dreams". (See the link below) Even then, there was a degree of derision about the white man who had clearly had too much sun ( or strong drink) with his romanticised depiction of a city that few other people
- [# THE REAL OPPOSITION LEADER OUTSIDE THE PARLIAMENT SINKS THE KNIFE INTO THE COALITION'S ISRAELI JUNKET](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-real-opposition-leader-outside-the-parliament-sticks-the-knife-into-the-coalitions-israeli-junket/) - Mahendra Chaudhry once again demonstrates that he is far from a spent force in politics and will be the man to watch next year with his withering condemnation of the government's 17-member mission to Israel for the opening of Fiji's new embassy in Jerusalem. (see below) Chaudhry is a master strategist, beginning his assault with
- [# A GLOBAL OBSCENITY. WHILE ISRAEL IS ACCUSED OF GENOCIDE* IN GAZA, THE FIJIAN LEADERSHIP LIVES HIGH ON THE HOG OF ISRAELI HOSPITALITY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-global-obscenity-while-israel-commits-genocide-in-gaza-the-fijian-leadership-lives-high-on-the-hog-of-israeli-hospitality/) - It is a total disgrace that Fiji is sending no less than 17 officials - none of them Indo-Fijian - to Israel for the opening of the nation's new embassy in Jerusalem. Even if Israel is picking up the tab for this extravaganza - and it better be - it is the worst possible look
- [# POOR CHARLIE. A CLASSIC CASE OF OVERREACH (UPDATED THURSDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/poor-charlie-a-classic-case-of-overreach/) - We shall not be seeing Charlie Charters - the bête noire of the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair - back in Fiji anytime soon. Because he now faces the prospect of a two year jail sentence for insulting the Commissioner, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, and the Counsel Assisting the COI, Janet Mason.
- [# SOMETHING BIG IS BREWING. BUT WHAT? (UPDATED WED AM WITH THE PM SAYING THE COI FINDINGS STAND)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/something-big-is-brewing-but-what/) - Trying to decipher what is going on in the Coalition in Fiji is a bit like trying to decipher what was going on in the Kremlin during the Soviet era - a combination of getting small bits of information and piecing them together like a jigsaw puzzle to try to produce a complete picture or
- [# PROTECTING THE "VULAGI". WHO THE HELL IS THE PRIME MINISTER TRYING TO KID?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/protecting-the-vulagi-who-hell-is-the-prime-minister-trying-to-kid/) - "Trust me to ensure that the interests of all citizens are protected", says the Snake. Yeah, sure. Just like you protected them in 1987 and most recently when you allowed your supporters to call non-indigenous citizens "vulagi" - visitors in their country. Sitiveni Rabuka doesn't like the Labour Party leader and former prime minister, Mahendra
- [# THE FULL SUPREME COURT OPINION ON THE VALIDITY OF THE 2013 CONSTITUTION (UPDATED MONDAY PM WITH MISSING PAGES INSERTED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-full-supreme-court-opinion-on-the-validity-of-the-2013-constitution/) - As we have with the COI Inquiry and other important milestones, Grubsheet is publishing the full landmark Supreme Court decision that has rejected any return to the 1997 Constitution but has made it easier to amend the 2013 Constitution, which it has established as the legitimate supreme law of Fiji. We are doing so not
- [# OUCH. AN OBSCURE ARTICLE ON PAGE 49 STRIKES A RAW NERVE WITH THE NEW MINISTER FOR BULLSH*T, BONKING AND WEED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ouch-an-obscure-article-on-page-49-strikes-a-raw-nerve-with-the-new-minister-for-bullsht-bonking-and-weed/) - Grubsheet and Fijileaks are irritants that the Coalition largely ignores. But when two bright, young iTaukei who are clearly budding intellectuals pen a devastating portrait of a government wallowing in dysfunction, it's another matter altogether. It is sit-up time. This is a cancer that could easily metastasize and swamp the body politic as a whole.
- [# WHY THE PRIME MINISTER IS SO "HAPPY" ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. HE'S GOT EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-the-prime-minister-is-so-happy-about-the-supreme-court-decision-hes-got-exactly-what-he-wanted/) - Make no mistake. The last thing Sitiveni Rabuka wanted arising out of the Supreme Court review was a return to the 1997 Constitution, even though that was the position of his own party, the People's Alliance. As with Frank Bainimarama before him, he owes his position to the "big man" provisions of the d'Hondt electoral
- [# WHAT THE ROGUE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HEAD OF THE SUPREME COURT SAID ABOUT CHANGING THE 2013 CONSTITUTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-the-rogue-chief-justice-and-head-of-the-supreme-court-said-about-changing-the-2013-constitution/) - Plus the announcement live-streamed on YouTube: See previous analysis in our earlier "breaking news" article. More to come...
- [# BREAKING NEWS...THE 2013 CONSTITUTION CAN BE AMENDED WITH TWO THIRDS MAJORITY VOTE IN THE PARLIAMENT AND A MAJORITY OF VOTERS AT A REFERENDUM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-the-2013-constitution-can-be-amended-with-two-thirds-majority-vote-in-the-parliament-and-a-majority-of-voters-at-a-referendum/) - The Supreme Court says the 2013 Constitution is the legal supreme law of Fiji, rejecting the notion that the 1997 Constitution still stands. But it says the current threshold for change of a 75 per cent vote in the parliament and 75 per cent vote of all registered voters should be reduced to two thirds
- [# THE GRAND CONSPIRACY TO DENY JUSTICE TO FIJI'S FORGOTTEN WOMAN, FRANCIS PULEIWAI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-grand-conspiracy-to-deny-justice-to-fijis-forgotten-woman-francis-puleiwai/) - The Prime Minister talks about the "natural justice system" that gives the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, the right to stay in office and be free of a police or FICAC investigation into the COI allegations against him of perjury, obstructing and perverting the course of justice and abuse of office. Yet Sitiveni Rabuka displays no
- [# D-DAY ON THE CONSTITUTION. WE MUST FIGHT ANY NOTION THAT SOME FIJIANS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/d-day-on-the-constitution-we-must-fight-any-notion-that-some-fijians-are-more-equal-than-others/) - We will know this afternoon at 2.30 pm whether the Supreme Court is going to give the green light to changes to the 2013 Constitution and at least one third of the nation is very much on edge. Why? Because we know that the majority party in the Coalition, Sitiveni Rabuka's People's Alliance, is looking
- [# THE ULTIMATE IRONY. GET RID OF A WHOLE LOT OF INDO-FIJIANS AND THEN BRING IN INDIANS FROM INDIA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-ultimate-irony-get-rid-of-a-whole-lot-of-indo-fijians-and-then-bring-in-indians-from-india/) - The madness at the heart of the Coalition government is laid bare with the announcement that Fiji is looking for skilled workers from India to replace those Indo-Fijians who have given up on their country of birth and have moved overseas for good. More than 100,000 Fijians have joined the mass exodus from the country
- [# WHITE MISCHIEF. CHARLIE CHARTERS SIDES WITH THE CROCODILES TO BRING DOWN THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/white-mischief-charlie-charters-sides-with-the-crocodiles-to-bring-down-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry/) - History is repeating itself with Charlie Charters in his sustained campaign to destroy the credibility of Justice David Ashton-Lewis and Janet Mason - the iTaukei-speaking Fijian lawyer who was Counsel Assisting the landmark Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali Affair. We have seen it all before in the British-born expatriate's sustained campaign to
- [# WELCOME TO FIJI - A COUNTRY LED BY AN ALLEGED CROOK UNDER ACTIVE INVESTIGATION FOR CORRUPTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/welcome-to-fiji-a-country-led-by-an-alleged-crook-under-active-investigation-for-corruption/) - Only in Fiji would the Prime Minister embark on an overseas tour leaving the nation in the hands of one of his deputies who is being investigated by FICAC and is facing the prospect of years behind bars. Two of his fellow MPs have testified on oath that Manoa Kamikamica offered to use his friendship
- [# IN A STATE ROTTEN TO THE CORE, THE CHIEF JUSTICE SOOLS THE POLICE ONTO THE SUPREME COURT JUDGE WHO HAS ACCUSED HIM OF CORRUPTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/in-a-state-rotten-to-the-core-the-chief-justice-sools-the-police-onto-the-supreme-court-judge-who-has-accused-him-of-corruption/) - It is an outrageous perversion of justice that the rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has escaped being investigated by the police yet has persuaded them to investigate Justice David Ashton-Lewis - the Supreme Court Judge who has accused Temo of obstructing justice, perjury and abuse of office. The Chief Justice as head of the Judicial
- [# THE SNAKE SLITHERS HITHER AND THITHER WHILE THE CROCODILES REMAIN IN PLACE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-snake-slithers-hither-and-thither-while-the-crocodiles-remain-in-place/) - Our reptilian Prime Minister does what he always does in the face of Justice David Ashton-Lewis's withering criticism of his failure to act on the 17 recommendations of the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry. He plays the hurt victim ("I'm sad that he has spoken out") and slithers away to hide under the nearest camouflage
- [# IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO ACT NOW, COMMANDER, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/it-is-time-for-you-to-act-now-commander-before-it-is-too-late/) - Fiji is entering a period of great uncertainty and peril as the rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo - installed unlawfully by his friend and relative, the rogue President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu - promises a "judgment" on the 2013 Constitution "as soon as possible". "Judgment"? After its fast-tracked hearings over the past three days, the Supreme
- [# BOMBSHELL. JUSTICE ASHTON-LEWIS BLASTS THE PRIME MINISTER FOR FAILING TO IMPLEMENT HIS COI RECOMMENDATIONS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-justice-david-ashton-lewis-blasts-the-prime-minister-for-failing-to-implement-his-coi-recommendations/) - The Supreme Court Judge and COI Commissioner, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, says his confidence in the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has been "dented by his failure to act decisively" to implement the 17 recommendations of his Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry. In an extraordinary media statement that will rock the establishment and put it under unprecedented
- [# DESPITE THE DENIALS, WE WERE RIGHT. THE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE WANTS THE 1997 CONSTITUTION RESTORED (UPDATED WEDNESDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/despite-the-denials-we-were-right-the-peoples-alliance-wants-the-1997-constitution-restored/) - We now have conclusive proof that the PAP - the major party in the Coalition - is intent on betraying the minorities and delaying next year's election with its submission to the current Supreme Court hearing on the Constitution. Readers will recall that Grubsheet first reported this 13 days ago on August 6. --------------- --------------------
- [# THE BIGGEST STORY IN FIJI RIGHT NOW. WATCH THIS SPACE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-biggest-story-in-fiji-right-now-watch-this-space/) - Grubsheet has rarely has such a high-level response privately to any story than our article last week about how the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, has effectively seized executive control of the government from the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka. We have had senior people who are reputedly "in the know" contacting us to say that the
- [# THE CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE'S BIASED, HIGH-HANDED AND IGNORANT RULING THAT PUTS AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM'S LIFE IN DANGER (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-chief-justices-biased-high-handed-and-ignorant-judgment-that-puts-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyums-life-in-danger/) - We now have the formal judgment from the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, explaining his reasons for again denying the former attorney general permission to travel overseas for urgent medical treatment. And it is a shocking indictment of the judiciary in Fiji that someone who is so blatantly biased and ignorant can sit at its pinnacle.
- [# THE CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE AND ACTING DPP CONSPIRE TO DENY AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM MEDICAL TREATMENT THAT ISN'T AVAILABLE IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-chief-justice-and-acting-dpp-conspire-to-deny-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-medical-treatment-that-isnt-available-in-fiji/) - We said it was a foregone conclusion and so it has proved to be - proof conclusive that justice has taken second place to a determination by the corrupt "new order" to punish the former attorney general even if it means putting his life at risk. The opinions of three state medical officers - one
- [# THE BILLIONAIRES AT FIJI WATER CUT FIJIAN JOBS DESPITE THEIR SEVEN YEAR TAX HOLIDAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-billionaires-at-fiji-water-cut-fijian-jobs-despite-their-seven-year-tax-holiday/) - The owners of Fiji Water, Stewart and Faye Resnick of Beverly Hills, are the richest farmers in the United States, with a fortune of $F28.5-billion ($US12.6-billion), according to Forbes Magazine. But the poor dears are doing it tough. So tough that they are about to sack 51 people from their workforce in Fiji. So what
- [# YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS. WHEN THE STATE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOUR OWN DOCTORS AND JUSTICE DOESN'T COME INTO IT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/your-life-in-their-hands-when-the-state-knows-better-than-your-own-doctors-and-justice-doesnt-come-into-it/) - The rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, will give his ruling on Friday on the application from Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's lawyers to vary his bail conditions to allow him to receive urgent medical treatment overseas. And it speaks volumes about the state of the rule of law in Fiji that the result is a forgone conclusion. It
- [# THERE'S ALREADY BEEN ANOTHER COUP IN FIJI. EXCEPT THAT IT DOESN'T INVOLVE THE MILITARY AND THE FIJIAN PEOPLE AREN'T YET AWARE OF IT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/theres-already-been-another-coup-in-fiji-except-that-it-doesnt-involve-the-military-and-the-fijian-people-arent-yet-aware-of-it/) - Extraordinary details are emerging of the Head of State, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, seizing executive authority from the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, in a grave violation of his role under the Constitution that some are casting as treason. In a clear case of "state capture", the Tui Cakau has seized control of the reins of power
- [# "YOU HAVE BROKEN THE LAW". WHAT THE DPP HAS TOLD THE PRESIDENT AND WHAT THE PRESIDENT TOLD THE DPP (UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/you-have-broken-the-law-what-the-dpp-has-told-the-president-and-what-the-president-told-the-dpp/) - The stand-off between the State and the DPP, Christopher Pryde, has gone to a new level with the DPP releasing correspondence between him and the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, in which he tells the Head of State that he has unlawfully suspended his salary. Christopher Pryde says he is doing so because the State has
- [# THE DPP SAYS THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM ARE "BOGUS"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-dpp-says-the-charges-against-him-are-bogus/) - Christopher Pryde goes on the offensive, telling Radio New Zealand that he will fight hard against the government's continuing efforts to remove him as the nation's chief prosecutor. The DPP has engaged lawyers to seek a judicial review of the President's decision to suspend his salary and to sue the Fiji Sun for falsely reporting
- [# THE NEXT GOVERNMENT MUST STRIP THE MOTIBHAI PATELS OF THE FIJI TIMES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-next-government-must-strip-the-motibhai-patels-of-the-fiji-times/) - The Motibhai Patels of Ba led by the company's Chairman and CEO, Kirit Patel, are continuing to corrupt Fiji's traditional newspaper of record and first draft of history by using its editorial pages to shamelessly promote their commercial interests. Not content with manipulating and censoring the news, the Motibhai Group continually depicts the launch of
- [# MORE LIES, DISSEMBLING AND SHOOTING THE MESSENGER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-lies-dissembling-and-shooting-the-messenger/) - Sitiveni Rabuka and his governing People's Alliance are like slippery eels trying to escape the grasp of the PAP's submission to the Supreme Court Constitutional Review that calls for the 2026 election to be delayed, the Prime Minister and President to remain in power for three more years and for those who took part in
- [# COMING SOON... CHRISTOPHER PRYDE FIGHTS BACK HARD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-christopher-pryde-fights-back-hard/) - The DPP is applying for a judicial review of the decision by the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, to suspend his salary, becoming the second officer of state after Barbara Malimali to resort to the courts in a move that again calls into question the legality of the government's conduct. Christopher Pryde is also suing the
- [# THE PERSISTENT SCANDAL THAT WILL HAUNT LYNDA TABUYA ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHERS - THE VERY MARRIED "DIVORCED" MINISTER FOR INFORMATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-persistent-scandal-that-will-haunt-lynda-tabuya-along-with-all-the-others-the-very-married-divorced-minister-for-information/) - Lynda Tabuya has made a preposterous speech in the parliament dismissing her "brutal" sex encounter with Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 and her pornographic video as "personal matters" that have no bearing on her new role as Information Minister - the Coalition's face to the nation and Fiji's face to the world. It is delusion
- [# NO ELECTION NEXT YEAR AND A RETURN TO THE 1997 CONSTITUTION. THE PAP'S SHOCKING BLUEPRINT FOR FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-election-next-year-and-a-return-to-the-1997-constitution-the-paps-shocking-blueprint-for-fiji/) - We now have confirmation of what the Rabuka government is trying to engineer with the current constitutional review - an end to the common and equal citizenry, the common identity and the entrenchment of iTaukei supremacy with a return to the racially-weighted 1997 Constitution. There would be no election next year and the current duumvirate
- [# WHEN IT'S THE KAI IDIA WEARING THE SULU-I-RA (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-its-the-kai-idia-wearing-the-sulu-i-ra/) - Lynda Tabuya - the Slut from Room 233* - was sworn in as Minister for Information today by the Pedophile President*, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, wearing a garish red pantsuit - the perfect outfit for the scarlet woman now in charge of the Coalition's propaganda effort. Take a look at this photo and you'll notice that
- [# COMING SOON. THE SECRET COALITION PLAN TO CANCEL THE 2026 ELECTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-the-secret-coalition-plan-to-cancel-the-2026-election/) - Grubsheet has been flooded with public and private messages asking me not to permanently leave the field of play in the wake of the scandalous appointment of the Slut of Room 233, Lynda Tabuya, as Minister for Information. I admit to have been overwhelmed personally by a sense of hopelessness about the lawlessness and outrageous
- [# COULD THESE TWO PERCHANCE BE RELATED, FIJI? YOU BET.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/could-these-two-perchance-be-related-fiji-you-bet/) - So why is the new FICAC Commissioner, Lavi Rokoika, pursuing the DPP, Christopher Pryde, over trumped-up charges of expenses fraud but not investigating the source of the Prime Minister's $150,000 gold Rolex watch? Sitiveni Rabuka says he reserves the right to remain silent about where his Rolex came from. Was it a bribe? A reward
- [# THE DPP, CHRISTOPHER PRYDE, RESPONDS TO BEING CHARGED BY FICAC WITH ABUSE OF OFFICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-dpp-christopher-pryde-responds-to-being-charged-by-ficac-with-abuse-of-office/)
- [# TO STAY IN POWER, THE SNAKE APPOINTS A STREET-WALKING, LYING, DRUG-TAKING PORNOGRAPHER AND MAN-EATER AS MINISTER FOR INFORMATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/to-stay-in-power-the-snake-appoints-a-street-walkinglying-drug-taking-pornographer-and-man-eater-as-minister-for-information/) - Sitiveni Rabuka has confirmed his status as a totally amoral and conniving reptile with his appointment of the whore, Lynda Tabuya, as Fiji's MInister for Information. It is the most cynical of appointments - to buy off Lynda Tabuya so that she remains in the People's Alliance and doesn't follow through with her threat to
- [# ELEVEN MORE DAYS BEFORE A RULING! THE CORRUPT PIG, SALESI TEMO, PLAYS WITH AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM'S LIFE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/eleven-more-days-before-a-ruling-the-corrupt-pig-salesi-temo-plays-with-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyums-life/) - Could these two perchance be related? You bet, Fiji. Already facing Supreme Court COI allegations of perjury and obstructing and perverting the course of justice. Now a fresh charge in the court of public opinion - of being an absolute pig of a human being. What a horrible country we have become. Shame!
- [# RED LETTER DAY. FOR ONCE, RICHARD "I HAVE THE MEANS" NAIDU TAKES A STAND FOR PRINCIPLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/red-letter-day-for-once-richard-i-have-the-means-naidu-takes-a-stand-for-principle/) - As the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, starts hearing the application today from Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's lawyers for the former AG to be allowed to leave Fiji for medical treatment, the bully boys of the Coalition are clearly smarting from a reprimand from one of their own. The lawyer and NFP stalwart, Richard Naidu, has caused a
- [# HOW FAR THE NATION HAS FALLEN. THE CORRUPT FIJI TIMES (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/how-far-the-nation-has-fallen-part-one-the-corrupt-fiji-times/) - The Motibhai Patel family of Ba have strengthened the case for them to be stripped of the ownership of Fiji's traditional newspaper of record by a future incoming government by facilitating the blatant censorship of the statement yesterday by the DPP, Christopher Pryde, clarifying why he continues to be absent from Fiji. Every other media
- [# A SUNDAY REFLECTION: THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE BELONGS TO EVERYONE...](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-sunday-reflection-the-christian-message-belongs-to-everyone/) - ...but genuine Christians know that those who follow other spiritual paths are also God's children and must be respected and defended. All Fijians of goodwill will support the Prime Minister's call for the sanctity of all places of worship to be upheld. And we trust that his words in today's Weekend Times are accompanied by
- [# THE GESTAPO STATE HARASSES AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM ON HIS SICK BED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-gestapo-state-harasses-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-on-his-sick-bed/) - There is something deeply disturbing about the sight of police descending on the Aspen Hospital in Lautoka demanding to see the former attorney general, who has suffered a stroke and has applied to get medical treatment overseas. (see previous story) It is bad enough that the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, refuses to expedite a
- [# A CORRUPT CABAL TAKES ADVANTAGE OF AN AILING PRESIDENT AND SEVERELY COMPROMISES THE HEAD OF STATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-corrupt-cabal-takes-advantage-of-an-ailing-president-and-severely-compromises-the-head-of-state/) - It is becoming clear that by advising the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, to suspend the salary of the DPP, Christopher Pryde, the Acting Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, and the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, have led Ratu Naiqama into an ambush in which he now standards accused of again breaking the law. It is an astonishing
- [# THE CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE DENIES THE MOST BASIC NATURAL JUSTICE TO AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM (UPDATED FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-chief-justice-denies-the-most-basic-natural-justice-to-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum/) - We already know that the justice system in Fiji is in grave peril when the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, can be accused by a Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry of perjury and perverting the course of justice yet still remain at the pinnacle of the judiciary. But Temo's latest conduct towards the former attorney general,
- [# MAINSTREAM MEDIA SQUALOR. THE FIJI SUN IS AS CORRUPT AS THE FIJI TIMES (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mainstream-media-squalor-the-fiji-sun-is-as-corrupt-as-the-fiji-times/) - The Fijian people can no longer have any confidence at all in their mainstream media, judging from Tuesday's front page story in the Fiji Sun reporting that the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, has suspended the salary of the DPP, Christopher Pryde, even though Pryde remains in office. In an extraordinary lapse of all accepted journalistic
- [# THE CORRUPT STITCH-UP OVER THE COI NOW UNFOLDING AT GUNU HOUSE (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-stitch-up-over-the-coi-now-unfolding-at-gunu-house/) - The news that the DPP Christopher Pryde's salary has again been suspended to try to force him to resign has been accompanied by equally disturbing news for any Fijian looking for justice to be done in cases of wrongdoing exposed by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. The Police Commissioner, Rusiate Tudravu,
- [# HO HUM. SO NOW THE COALITION WANTS ME DEAD. JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE LAND WHERE HAPPINESS FINDS YOU](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ho-hum-so-now-the-coalition-wants-me-dead-just-another-day-in-the-land-where-happiness-finds-you/) - After half a century in journalism and having collected my fair share of enemies, death threats aren't par for the course but they have happened before. You just alert the relevant authorities, revise your personal security and press on. But the latest death threat is from Fiji and is more startling than usual because of
- [# THE FUTURE OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION PARTY? BECAUSE OF ITS MULTIPLE  BETRAYALS, IT DOESN'T HAVE ONE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-future-of-the-nfp-because-of-its-multiple-betrayals-it-doesnt-have-one/) - As well as being mired in alleged criminality and corruption, the NFP leader, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Biman Prasad, is the most deluded man in Fijian politics. Even more so than that other Deputy Prime Minister from the same swamp of crocodiles, Manoa Kamikamica, who thinks he can still be prime minister. With
- [# THE CONSPIRACY LED BY THE CHIEF CROCODILE, SALESI TEMO, TO KEEP CHRISTOPHER PRYDE AWAY FROM FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-conspiracy-led-by-the-chief-crocodile-salesi-temo-to-keep-christopher-pryde-away-from-fiji/) - Ever since he was suspended in early 2023 for consorting with Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum at a Japanese Embassy function, there has been a determined effort to keep Christopher Pryde from completing his term as DPP, which expires next March. The corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, waited for almost a year before fulfilling his constitutional duty to
- [# COMING SOON...HOW THE CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE IS KEEPING DPP CHRISTOPHER PRYDE OUT OF FIJI TO PROTECT THOSE UNDER POLICE INVESTIGATION FROM THE COI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-how-the-corrupt-chief-justice-is-keeping-dpp-christopher-pryde-out-of-fiji-to-protect-those-under-police-investigation-from-the-coi/)
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER IS IN A TERRIBLE BIND. AND ALL OF HIS OWN MAKING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-is-in-a-terrible-bind-and-all-of-his-own-making/) - Barbara Malimali's lawyer, Tanya "Try-on" Waqanika, is breaking all legal convention by continuing to comment publicly on the circumstances of her client's removal now that they have succeeded in obtaining leave to apply for a judicial review in the High Court from Justice Dane Tuiqereqere. It includes the astonishing spectacle of Waqanika calling for a
- [# THE MALIMALI APPEAL. IT'S THE STATE'S TO LOSE IF IT DOESN'T GET A BETTER LEGAL TEAM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-malimali-appeal-its-the-states-to-lose-if-it-doesnt-get-a-better-legal-team/) - Barbara Malimali has succeeded in securing a judicial review of the President's decision - acting on the advice of the Prime Minister - to dismiss her as FICAC Commissioner. And lawyers for both parties - Malimali and the State - are gearing up for the first stage of setting a timetable for the hearing next
- [# FIJI'S HEALTH SYSTEM WILL BE JUST LIKE OVERSEAS IN 4-7 YEARS. SOUND FAMILIAR?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fijis-health-system-will-be-just-like-overseas-in-4-7-years-sound-familiar/) - The embattled Deputy Prime Minister and MInister for Finance, Biman Pasad, has taken a page out of the playbook of his predecessor, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, in promising that things will be better if only the Fijian people stay the distance and give the Coalition another term or two. Back in 2018, much of the nation fell
- [# SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE. MORAL BANKRUPTCY AND LEAVING FUTURE GENERATIONS A RECORD $11.7 BILLION DEBT. (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/something-to-celebrate-moral-bankruptcy-and-leaving-future-generations-a-record-11-7-billion-debt/) - Only the Coalition ( oh, and Fred Wesley) are celebrating the passage through parliament of the 2025-26 national Budget. The rest of us know that it was always going to pass on the numbers - 36 to 12 - and there is nothing to celebrate about the fact that the Coalition's addiction to spending means
- [# QORI, PM. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT SIROMI TURAGA BACK IN THE JOB OF AG](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/qori-you-idiot-thats-what-happens-when-you-put-siromi-turaga-back-in-the-job-of-ag/) - The most famous ethnic African-American in Fiji - Acting Attorney General Siromi Turaga - has his head on the chopping block again as the Prime Minister very publicly cuts him loose over the out of court settlement negotiations with Barbara Malimali that have severely embarrassed the Coalition government. Sitiveni Rabuka should have known that if
- [# REPORT: GOVERNMENT BACKS OFF ON SETTLING THE MALIMALI CASE. NO $2-MILLION. NO REINSTATEMENT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/report-government-backs-off-on-settling-the-malimali-case-no-20-million-no-reinstatement/) - The pressure on the Coalition government not to settle the Barbara Malimali case seems to have worked (see previous story) with a report by Mai TV that the case will proceed to be heard in the High Court on Monday. If Tanya Waqanika's comments to Mai TV that settlement talks have collapsed is confirmed by
- [# WE ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE COALITION GOVERNMENT IS IRREDEEMABLY CORRUPT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/we-are-about-to-find-out-if-the-coalition-government-is-irredeemably-corrupt/) - The revelation that the Rabuka government has turned down an offer from the Luxon government in New Zealand to provide it with a Kings Counsel to argue its case against Barbara Malimali in the High Court tells us that a stitch-up is in the offing and Malimali is to be paid to keep her mouth
- [# THE CROCODILES ARE WINNING AS THE SNAKE BACKPEDALS FURIOUSLY ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COI. (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-crocodiles-are-winning-as-the-snake-back-peddles-furiously-on-the-recommendations-of-the-coi/) - Despite being exonerated of any wrongdoing by the Ashton- Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali Affair, the former acting deputy FICAC Commissioner, Francis Puleiwai is paying a heavy price for taking a stand for justice. Not only was she forced to flee Fiji just in time to avoid an illegal stop-departure order placed on
- [# SHOCK DAMAGES CLAIM: BARBIE AND TANYA'S $2-MILLION CON JOB ON THE FIJIAN PEOPLE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/shock-damages-claim-barbie-and-tanyas-2-million-con-job-on-the-fijian-people/) - It is easily the most audacious attempt to fleece the taxpayer in the broad sweep of Fijian history - the corrupt Barbara Malimali and her lawyer, Tanya Waqanika, trying to extract $2-million dollars in compensation from the state for Malimali's dismissal as FICAC Commissioner. As we reported yesterday, the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry has accused
- [# CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE PEOPLE. THE "UNIVERSALLY CORRUPT"* BARBARA MALIMALI IS OFFERED A TAXPAYER-FUNDED FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT TO GO AWAY QUIETLY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/conspiracy-against-the-people-the-universally-corrupt-barbara-malimali-is-offered-a-taxpayer-funded-financial-settlement-to-go-away-quietly/) - There appears to be no limit to the moral depravity of the Coalition government and its "drunken sailor" attitude to spending the Fijian people's money, judging from the disclosure before the courts that the sacked FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, has been offered a financial settlement if she will drop her current action for wrongful dismissal.
- [# WYLIE CLARKE MUST STAND ASIDE AS FIJI LAW SOCIETY PRESIDENT IF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION IS TO BE UPHELD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wylie-clarke-must-stand-aside-as-fiji-law-society-president-if-public-confidence-in-the-legal-profession-is-to-be-upheld/) - Just as it is a first in Fiji to have a Chief Justice who is accused by a Supreme Court Inquiry of having perverted the course of justice yet remains in office, so too is it a first for the same allegation to be leveled against a sitting President of the Fiji Law Society and
- [# BASTILLE DAY NEWS. NEW CALEDONIA TO BECOME A "STATE" BUT WILL REMAIN PART OF FRANCE.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bastille-day-news-new-caledonia-to-become-a-state-but-will-remain-part-of-france/) - Today's Fiji Times has four pages of articles and ads to commemorate Bastille Day - July 14 - the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille Prison in 1789 that was the climax of the French revolution. Yet characteristically there is no mention of a major development "just down the road" in neighbouring New Caledonia,
- [# CHARLIE CHARTERS CONSPIRES WITH A CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART TWO)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/charlies-charters-conspires-with-a-corrupt-establishment-to-destroy-the-credibility-of-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry/) - The author and rugby identity, Charlie Charters, has taken his campaign to undermine the Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair from the pages of Facebook to the pages of Saturday's Fiji Times with an extraordinary double-page feature that is a naked attempt to derail the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. Charters
- [# COMING SOON...WHY IS WYLIE CLARKE STILL PRESIDENT OF THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY WHEN HE STANDS ACCUSED OF PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-why-is-wylie-clarke-still-president-of-the-fiji-law-society-when-he-stands-accused-of-perverting-the-course-of-justice/)
- [#  A RIGHT CHARLIE'S* CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART ONE)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-right-charlies-campaign-to-destroy-the-credibility-of-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry/) - Charlie Charters is one of those End-of-Empire Englishmen like Jon Fraenkel and Matt Wilson who set out for the South Seas like their 19th century predecessors, marry local women, get involved in local politics and exploit the gormlessness of the natives to advance their own prejudices. Some of these English imports like Harry Dugdale -
- [# TIME TO BE GREAT AGAIN (UPDATED THURSDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/time-to-be-great-again/) - 56 years separates these images but there's a striking timelessness about father and son - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Ratu Tevita Mara - being installed as Tui Nayau, the high chief of Lau. It was a significant event in the vanua then - July 1969 - and it is a significant event now as
- [# HOW CENSORING THE COI REPORT IS ENABLING BIMAN PRASAD AND MANOA KAMIKAMICA TO LIE ABOUT ITS CONCLUSIONS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/how-censoring-the-coi-report-is-enabling-biman-prasad-and-manoa-kamikamica-to-lie-about-its-conclusions/) - The Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, is calling on the Coalition government to release the entire COI Report on the Malimali affair in unredacted or uncensored form. And for very good reason. Because the Fijian people are being deprived of vital information that is shielding some very important people from scrutiny and enabling them to hoodwink
- [# COMING SOON... BIMAN PRASAD'S FALSE BRAVADO AS THE NOOSE ALSO TIGHTENS AROUND HIS NECK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-biman-prasads-false-bravado-as-the-noose-also-tightens-around-his-neck/) - In an astonishing story in Tuesday's Fiji Times, the Deputy Prime Minister and NFP leader, Biman Prasad says he is "unfazed" by the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair. The man is totally delusional. Because at the heart of the Report's findings is an examination of how Biman Prasad managed,
- [# MANOA KAMIKAMICA CONTINUES TO LIE ABOUT HIS ROLE IN THE MALIMALI AFFAIR AND THE FIJIAN MEDIA IS ENABLING THOSE LIES.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/manoa-kamikamica-continues-to-lie-about-his-role-in-the-malimali-affair-and-the-fijian-media-is-enabling-those-lies/) - Manoa Kamikamica, has responded to the seizure of his mobile phone by FICAC by doubling down on his preposterous claim that he had nothing to do with influencing the appointment of his friend, Barbara Malimali, as FICAC Commissioner. Worse, the Deputy Prime Minister exploits the gormlessness of the Fijian media by avoiding altogether the main
- [# HOW MUCH LONGER CAN JUDGES REMAIN SILENT AS THE INTEGRITY OF THE JUDICIARY IS UNDERMINED?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/how-much-longer-can-judges-remain-silent-as-the-integrity-of-the-judiciary-is-trashed/) - Judges generally do not issue public statements and traditionally keep their opinions to themselves. But we can be sure that there is widespread dismay in their ranks as the Prime Minister and President double down on their refusal to suspend the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo. For the first time in Fijian judicial history, a chief
- [# THE LOATHSOME MANOA KAMIKAMICA DRIVES ANOTHER NAIL INTO HIS POLITICAL COFFIN BY ATTACKING AN INNOCENT WHISTLEBLOWER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-loathsome-manoa-kamikamica-drives-another-nail-into-his-political-coffin-by-attacking-an-innocent-whistleblower/) - True to form, the corrupt Fiji Times allows the Deputy Prime Minister, Manoa Kamikamica, to manipulate the truth about the devastating findings against him by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali Affair. And even more unforgivably, gives him a platform to attack Alexandra Forwood - the whistleblower and Commission witness without whom a
- [# THE COI REPORT ON MANOA KAMIKAMICA. WHY MR SWEET MUST NEVER BE PRIME MINISTER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coi-report-on-manoa-kamikamica-why-mr-sweet-must-never-be-prime-minister/) - As long ago as May last year, Grubsheet was opining that Manoa Kamikamica had demonstrated that he was unfit to succeed Sitiveni Rabuka as prime minister because of his craven support for the 138-per cent average pay rises that MPs had awarded themselves when more than half the nation lives in poverty. Grubsheet readers will
- [# THE NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SALESI TEMO, AND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MANOA KAMIKAMICA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-noose-tightens-around-the-chief-justice-salesi-temo-and-deputy-prime-minister-manoa-kamikamica/) - The Opposition Leader, Inia Seruiratu, has called for the suspension of the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, in a dramatic escalation of the pressure on the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, and the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, to remove the head of the judiciary over the adverse findings against him by the Commission of Inquiry into the
- [# RAMBO DROPS HIS GUARD AND DEMONSTRATES THAT THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION IS ONE BIG LIE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rambo-drops-his-guard-and-demonstrates-that-the-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-is-one-big-lie/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, had the normally hard-bitten Australian media eating out of his hand at his National Press Club appearance in Canberra yesterday by saying "no" to Chinese bases in the region and offering to fill the current shortfall of 5000 troops in the Australian military with Fijians. Grubsheet was again struck by
- [# COMING SOON...MR SWEET'S* POLITICAL CAREER TURNS SOUR. BUT HIS BATI ARE FIGHTING BACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-mr-sweets-political-career-turns-sour-but-his-bati-are-fighting-back/) - Manoa Kamikamica is getting off very lightly so far in the mainstream media in Fiji over the devastating findings against him by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. But his once promising political career is dead in the water as the police now investigate him for the alleged corruption exposed in the
- [# THE DISGRACED FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTACKS THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. WELL HE WOULD, WOULDN'T HE?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-disgraced-former-attorney-general-attacks-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry-well-he-would-wouldnt-he/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, sacked Graham Leung as attorney general in brutal fashion a month ago when he read the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Malimali affair and saw the AG accused of alleged abuse of office, conspiracy, perjury and obstructing and perverting the course of justice. It was brutal because Leung
- [# CORRUPTION, INJUSTICE AND RACISM NOW UNDERPINS THE STATE IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/corruption-injustice-and-racism-now-underpins-the-state-in-fiji/) - A supine and hopelessly-compromised mainstream media means that Biman Prasad has been able to flash broad smiles as he markets his big-spending Budget, with no media attention whatsoever on the elephant in the room - that the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister is again being formally investigated for corruption. At the urging of the
- [# THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN'S BIG CON. PART TWO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-2025-26-budget-bimans-big-con-2/) - It's a sign of the climate of fear under the Coalition that a respected national figure with no political allegiance has sent the following analysis of Friday's Budget to Grubsheet with the specific request that their identity be kept secret. As senior government figures from the Prime Minister down keep saying that Fijians now have
- [# THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN'S BIG CON. PART ONE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-2025-26-budget-bimans-big-con/) - As the dust settles from the Coalition's budget announcement for 2025-26, the hype of providing relief for the Fijian people from cost-of-living pressures is giving way to some disturbing conclusions for anyone concerned about the proper management of the economy. The embattled Finance Minister, Biman Prasad, may be a professor of economics but he is
- [# VOX POPULI. A SALUTE TO MY READERS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/vox-populi-a-salute-to-my-readers/) - A corrupt leadership, the trashing of our institutions of state, heightened racism and a pre-election budget yesterday that sends the nation's debt soaring have combined to give Grubsheet a sense of despair this weekend about the nation's future. But then I read some of the comments of my readers and realise that not all hope
- [# THE CORRUPT TRIUMVIRATE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF JUSTICE TEAR DOWN THE RULE OF LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-the-corrupt-triumvirate-of-the-prime-minister-president-and-chief-justice-tear-down-the-rule-of-law-in-fiji/) - For the first time in Fijian judicial history, a sitting Chief Justice who has been accused by a Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry of lying under oath, perverting the course of justice and abusing his office is being allowed to remain in office. And worse, now sits in judgment in a criminal trial of national
- [# ROLL UP, ROLL UP! WHEN THE COALITION RELEASES A CENSORED VERSION OF THE COI REPORT, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO READ THE UNCENSORED VERSION HERE. GO FIGURE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/roll-up-roll-up-when-the-coalition-releases-a-censored-version-of-the-coi-report-youll-be-able-to-read-the-uncensored-version-here-go-figure/) - The Prime Minister has given Grubsheet a massive free kick with his announcement that the government is to allow "electronic" public access to a redacted version of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair. You will soon be able to read a censored version presumably on a Department of Information website.
- [# PONTIUS SITI WASHES HIS HANDS OF HAVING TO DEAL WITH SALESI TEMO WITH A BIG LASULASU-JHOOT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pontius-siti-washes-his-hands-of-having-to-deal-with-salesi-temo-with-a-big-lasulasu-jhoot/) - So Fiji is to be saddled with a corrupt Chief Justice who stands accused by a judicial inquiry of abuse of office and obstructing and perverting the course of justice because the Prime Minister says he is powerless to remove him. Sitiveni Rabuka does a Pontius Pilate and washes his hands of any responsibility to
- [# DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WITH SITI, THE CHIEF JUSTICE GETS A NEW "PRESIDENTIAL" VEHICLE DESPITE FACING CORRUPTION CHARGES AND BEING JUST PLAIN DUMB](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/down-the-rabbit-hole-with-siti-the-chief-justice-gets-a-new-presidential-vehicle-despite-facing-corruption-charges-and-being-just-plain-dumb/) - It beggars belief that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is still in place despite the devastating findings against him by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali Affair. But community incredulity will soar to an entirely new level with the news that the CJ is getting a new SUV to carry him around in
- [# ADVENTURES IN LA-LA LAND. THE MADNESS DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WITH SITI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/adventures-in-la-la-land-the-madness-down-the-rabbit-hole-with-siti/) - So the leak of the COI Report that Grubsheet readers have been digesting for the past week has "triggered a political reckoning" that has forced the Prime Minister into an undertaking that the government will release the unredacted version. That's what the Fiji Times is reporting on this morning's front page at the same time
- [# YOUR WEEKEND READ. A POTTED VERSION OF THE COI REPORT WITH THE MAIN POINTS YOU NEED TO KNOW (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/your-weekend-read-a-potted-version-of-the-coi-report-with-all-you-need-to-know/) - This is an abbreviated version of the contents of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair. It is authentic - 100 per cent genuine and unredacted - with the names of those under scrutiny exposed. Having published the various sections of the Report in full over recent days, Grubsheet is publishing
- [# THE MOTHER OF ALL LEAKS. WHAT ON EARTH DID THE PRIME MINISTER EXPECT? (UPDATED 1000 FIJI TIME)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-mother-of-all-leaks-what-on-earth-did-the-prime-minister-expect/) - It has now been seven weeks since Justice David Ashton-Lewis and Janet Mason handed their Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair to the President and Prime Minister and they have sat on it like two hens refusing to yield their eggs. Sitiveni Rabuka has flip-flopped between promising that the report would be
- [# NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. AND THE "ALCOHOLIC VIPER" IS IN TROUBLE AGAIN (UPDATED FRIDAY PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-alcoholic-viper-is-in-trouble-again/) - I invited Professor Jon Fraenkel to respond to my criticism yesterday of the front page Fiji Times story in which he was quoted as having slammed Justice David Ashton-Lewis for a "disgraceful interference with Fiji politics". Alas the Professor has a thin-skin and has taken particular exception to some of the comments by Grubsheet readers
- [# THE BIG ONE. CHAPTER SIX OF THE COI REPORT. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BARBARA MALIMALI WAS PARACHUTED INTO FICAC, INCLUDING THE DRAMA OF SEPT 5 2024](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-big-one-chapter-six-of-the-coi-report-what-happened-when-barbara-malimali-was-parachuted-into-ficac-including-the-high-drama-of-sept-5-2024/) - For Chapter Seven ( Possible Offences) and Chapter Eight ( the Judge's Recommendations), click here to go back to our first story on the COI leak on Tuesday.
- [# CHAPTER FOUR OF THE COI REPORT. THE MALIMALI INVESTIGATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/second-installment-of-the-coi-report-chapter-four-the-malimali-investigation/) - Barbara Malimali's reputation as been shredded by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry, so much so that in any other country, she would not only be barred from ever holding public office again but would lose her practicing certificate as a lawyer. Malimali emerges not only as a shameless law breaker but a thoroughly unpleasant person
- [# CHAPTER FIVE OF THE COI REPORT. JUSTICE ASHTON-LEWIS DETAILS THE EXTRAORDINARY INSIDE STORY OF BARBARA MALIMALI'S APPOINTMENT TO FICAC.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/chapter-5-of-the-coi-report-justice-ashton-lewis-details-the-extraordinary-inside-story-of-barbara-malimalis-appointment-to-ficac/) - One thing will be obvious to any Grubsheet reader taking the time to read the full Commission of Inquiry Report into the "rotten" circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner - the impressive ability of the Judge, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, to cut through the static and get to the core of this saga. Justice
- [# THE EMPIRE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST OBI-WAN KENOBI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-empire-fights-back-against-obi-wan-kenobi/) - It is an astonishing proposition that a legally constituted Commission of Inquiry by a judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji who happens to be Australian should be cast as " a disgraceful interference" in the domestic politics of Fiji. Yet that's the argument that appears to be mounted by the long-time Fiji commentator, Professor
- [# THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SALESI TEMO, MUST BE SUSPENDED AS THE FIRST STEP TO REBUILDING CONFIDENCE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-chief-justice-salesi-temo-must-be-suspended-as-the-first-step-to-rebuilding-confidence-in-the-criminal-justice-system/) - Of all the findings of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair, the most urgent for the state to action is the devastating findings against Salesi Temo, the Chief Justice and Head of the Judicial Services Commission. The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, must go to the President immediately, if he hasn't already
- [# THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORT IN FULL - CHAPTERS 1-3 OF EIGHT IN INSTALLMENTS OVER THE COMING DAYS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-commission-of-inquiry-report-in-full-chapters-1-3-of-eight-in-installments-over-the-coming-days/) - Grubsheet believes the Fijian people deserve access to the entire Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report to make up their own minds free from selective reporting and spin. It simply isn't possible to publish it it one hit so here's the first installment with the rest to follow over the coming days. So that by the
- [# "A DAMNING AND SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF INTEGRITY AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF FIJI'S GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE SYSTEMS"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-damning-and-systemic-failure-of-integrity-at-the-highest-levels-of-fijis-governance-and-justice-systems/) - The David Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair is a searing indictment of how the Coalition government has degraded Fiji's institutions of state during its two-and-a half years in power. And it simply isn't an option for the scandalous conduct it has exposed to be covered up and for it to
- [# FINALLY, THE DOCUMENT THEY'VE TRIED TO SUPPRESS - THE POSSIBLE OFFENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/finally-the-document-theyve-tried-to-suppress-the-possible-offences-and-recommendations-from-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry/) - Grubsheet is today publishing Chapters 7 and 8 of the Commission of Inquiry Report into the circumstances of Barbara Malimali’s appointment as FICAC Commissioner. These have been leaked to me and I strongly believe that publishing them is in the public interest, especially given the attempts to suppress the COI Report. It isn’t the entire
- [# IS THE PRESIDENT MOUNTING A CONSTITUTIONAL COUP? BECAUSE IF HE IS, HE MUST BE REMOVED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-the-president-carrying-out-a-constitutional-coup-because-if-he-is-he-must-be-removed/) - Disturbing reports are reaching Grubsheet that the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, is refusing to act on the advice of the Prime Minister to release the Commission of Inquiry Report into the Malimali affair and order that its recommendations be implemented. Some sensational developments are being alleged: That the Report has been leaked from the Office
- [# THE FIJI TIMES AGAIN CORRUPTS ITS "NATIONAL NEWS" COLUMNS WITH A BLATANT PROMOTION FOR THE MOTIBHAI PATEL'S COMMERCIAL INTERESTS (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-times-again-corrupts-its-national-news-columns-with-a-blatant-promotion-for-the-motibhai-patels-commercial-interests/) - Guess what, Fiji? India's Amrut whisky has arrived in the country. And it is "national news" in the nation's newspaper of record since 1869, which has been so corrupted by its current owners that they routinely and shamelessly use it to promote their commercial interests and political proclivities. In any other country, the Motibhai Patels
- [# RICHARD NAIDU COPS A BLAST FROM ANOTHER PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE INDO-FIJIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT OF 1987](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/richard-naidu-feels-the-heat-from-another-prominent-member-of-the-indo-fijian-resistance-movement-of-1987/) - As Grubsheet reported on the weekend, the man who was once a principled advocate for good governance and almost wound up in a lovo pit dug for him by ethno-nationalists in 1987 says he is "sick" of the Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali Affair and has defended the right of ethno-nationalists to stage marches
- [# RICHARD "I HAVE THE MEANS" NAIDU IS SICK OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. WELL HE WOULD BE, WOULDN'T HE? (UPDATED SUNDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/richard-i-have-the-means-naidu-is-sick-of-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry-well-he-would-be-wouldnt-he/) - There's nothing like a rush of adrenaline to rouse the sick from their beds and Grubsheet is suddenly feeling a lot less ill with the surge of anger that has been my response this morning to one of lawyer Richard Naidu's now very rare articles in the Fiji Times. The subject is the Ashton-Lewis Commission
- [# GD IS UNWELL. APOLOGIES TO MY READERS. BACK SOON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/gd-is-unwell-apologies-to-my-readers-back-soon/)
- [# THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY SIDES WITH ALLEGED LAWBREAKERS UNDER A PRESIDENT WHO IS HOPELESSLY COMPROMISED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-law-society-sides-with-lawbreakers-under-a-president-who-is-hopelessly-compromised/) - On September 5 last year, Wylie Clarke - the President of the Fiji Law Society - was in the room at FICAC when the Chief Registrar, Tomasi Bainivalu, conveyed a message from the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to the embattled deputy Commissioner, Francis Puleiwai, that no court in Fiji would hear any charge that Puleiwai
- [# "CORRUPT". THE DEVASTATING PRONOUNCEMENT BY JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS ON BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED WITH MEDIA COVERAGE)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/corrupt-the-devastating-pronouncement-by-justice-david-ashton-lewis-on-barbara-malimali/) - Without even seeing the report of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner, we now know from his astonishing radio interview what the judge has found - that the sacked head of the corruption watchdog is herself corrupt . And that she was specifically installed by an equally corrupt cabal
- [# THE " DISGRACEFUL WANNABE PRIME MINISTER". PILLORIED BY JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON LEWIS, MANOA KAMIKAMICA FIGHTS BACK. BUT HE IS TOAST](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-disgraceful-wannabe-prime-minister-pilloried-by-justice-david-ashton-lewis-manoa-kamikamica-fights-back-but-he-is-toast/) - Of the nine people Justice David Ashton Lewis says he has recommended should face serious charges in his Commission of Inquiry Report, only one does he out publicly, albeit indirectly, in his sensational 4CRB interview - the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Manoa Kamikamica. First, here's what he said in his interview in
- [# NINE PEOPLE - INCLUDING CABINET MINISTERS - FACING CHARGES, REVEALS JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS IN BOMBSHELL FIRST INTERVIEW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/nine-people-including-cabinet-ministers-facing-charges-reveals-justice-david-ashton-lewis-in-bombshell-first-interview/) - An obscure Queensland radio station - 4CRB Tweed Heads - has conducted the first interview with David Ashton-Lewis - the Fiji Supreme Court judge who conducted the Commission of Inquiry into "Barbara-gate", the Malimali affair at FICAC, and it is a jaw-dropping sensation. Revealing that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, asked him to expose the
- [# FACING ELECTORAL DESTRUCTION, THE BEST THE NFP CAN SAY IS THAT 'NO-ONE IS BEING TAKEN TO THE CAMP".](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/facing-electoral-destruction-the-best-the-nfp-can-say-is-that-no-one-is-being-taken-to-the-camp/) - Its leader, Biman Prasad, will be charged with abuse of office and be gone from politics if and when the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report ever sees the light of day and its recommendations are adopted. Fighting for his political life, Biman Prasad has resorted to repression by having the nation's perennial bad boy, Ben
- [# THE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE MOUNTS A FULL BLOWN ASSAULT ON THE MINORITIES AND THEIR RIGHT TO EQUALITY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-peoples-alliance-mounts-a-full-blown-assault-on-the-minorities-and-their-right-to-equality/) - So the lawyer for the People's Alliance - the dominant party in the Coalition government led by Sitiveni Rabuka - tells the Supreme Court that as far as the PAP is concerned, the 1997 Constitution giving paramountcy* to the iTaukei is still in force and it doesn't recognise the 2013 Constitution that gives the minorities
- [# THE RFMF INTERVENES TO PREVENT THE ASHTON-LEWIS REPORT FROM BEING SUPPRESSED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-rfmf-intervenes-to-prevent-the-ashton-lewis-report-from-being-suppressed/) - It is a sad reflection of the state of Fijian democracy that it has taken the intervention of the RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, to ensure that the Fijian people will get to see the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the scandalous circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner. Why is
- [# UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT THE POLICE HAVE SWEPT ON BIMAN PRASAD (BEING REGULARLY UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-unconfirmed-reports-that-the-police-have-swept-on-biman-prasad/) - Reports from Suva - so far unconfirmed - say that members of the CID went to pick up Biman Prasad - the Deputy Prime Minister, FInance Minister and leader of the NFP - for questioning this morning as part of their investigation into allegations of abuse of office against him. They arrived at his office
- [# DOBBY THE FORMER HOUSE ELF - REINVENTED AS LAWYER SANEEM -WIPES THE SMILE OFF LAISANI TABUAKURO'S FACE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/dobby-the-former-house-elf-reinvented-as-lawyer-saneem-wipes-the-smile-off-laisani-tabuakuros-face/) - The Assistant DPP, Laisani Tabuakuro, is so far out of control that she shamelessly taunts her substantive boss, Christopher Pryde, on social media as being too lamusona to return to Fiji to face a potential FICAC charge. Yet her big mouth seems set to cost her a great deal of money as she is sued
- [# THE NEW OLD AG. FROM ROOSTER TO FEATHER DUSTER TO ROOSTER AGAIN. THE MADNESS AT THE COURT OF KING SITI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-new-old-ag-from-rooster-to-feather-duster-to-rooster-again-the-madness-at-the-court-of-king-siti/) - Almost a year to the day after he was unceremoniously dumped as attorney-general in favour of the disgraced Graham Leung, Siromi Turaga is back in an acting capacity as the government's chief legal advisor. As a senior lawyer said in a message to Grubsheet this evening: "Is the Prime Minister mad? Answer: Well, yes. But
- [# THE LAST GASP OF THE CORRUPT CLIQUE IN THE ODPP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-last-gasp-of-the-corrupt-clique-in-the-odpp/) - The Assistant DPP, Laisani Tabuakuro, is insolent, intemperate and has no idea how to behave. She simply shouldn't be there. And her presence in the job - if it isn't strictly unlawful - contravenes all accepted practice in the civil service and offices of state and all employment practices. Tabuakoro was removed by the substantive
- [# NEXT!](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/next/) - Now that Barbara Malimali has been fired as FICAC Commissioner, the next logical step is the suspension of the man who appointed her, the man from whom all corruption and dysfunction in the criminal justice system in Fiji flows - the rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo. The CJ's suspension is reported to be one of
- [# THE BARBARA-GATE TAPE. LISTEN TO WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 5 AT VICTOR LAL'S FIJILEAKS.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-barbara-gate-tape-listen-to-what-really-happened-on-september-5-at-victor-lals-fijileaks/) - https://www.fijileaks.com/home/who-said-what-at-5-september-confrontation-listen-to-the-ficac-audio-recording-circulating-on-social-media-fijileaks-recording-is-authentic
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER HAS BEEN UTTERLY RUTHLESS WITH BARBARA MALIMALI AND GRAHAM LEUNG. BUT DID THE RFMF FORCE HIS HAND? (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-has-been-utterly-ruthless-with-barbara-malimali-and-graham-leung-but-did-the-rfmf-force-his-hand/) - Sitiveni Rabuka has reinforced his reputation for ruthlessness in his treatment of someone who has always displayed the greatest loyalty towards him - the now sacked Attorney General Graham Leung. Leung was out of the country in Hong Kong when he is said to have received a one-line text message from the Prime Minister that
- [# GRAHAM LEUNG DISMISSED AS ATTORNEY GENERAL AS RATU SUKUNA DAY TURNS INTO A BLOODBATH (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-graham-leung-dismissed-as-attorney-general-as-ratu-sukuna-day-turns-into-a-bloodbath/) - Graham Leung is the latest head to roll as the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, begins to conduct a purge of the government and institutions of state in the wake of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry. It is something of a surprise because none of Grubsheet's sources flagged Leung's departure in advance. So why has he
- [# CONFIRMED. BARBARA MALIMALI IS GONE AND THERE IS MUCH MORE UPHEAVAL TO COME. (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/confirmed-barbara-malimali-is-gone-and-there-is-much-more-upheaval-to-come/) - Waves of fear and trepidation are sweeping over much of officialdom in Suva as confirmation comes that Barbara Malimali has been suspended as FICAC Commissioner and will be tried for alleged misbehaviour. It is reportedly only the start of a massive purge as the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, implements the recommendations of the Ashton-Lewis Report
- [# UNCONFIRMED REPORTS: MOMENTOUS EVENTS UNFOLDING IN SUVA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/unconfirmed-reports-momentous-events-unfolding-in-suva/) - Reports are reaching Grubsheet that the decision has been made to remove Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. There are also reports that the government intends to release the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report as early as next week and act on all of its recommendations. This is rumoured to include a clean sweep of the
- [# RICHARD NAIDU'S ROLE IN PROTECTING BIMAN PRASAD AGAIN COMES UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/richard-naidus-role-in-protecting-biman-prasad-again-comes-under-the-spotlight/) - Precisely what role did the Munro Leys lawyer, NFP stalwart and Chair of the government's Fiscal Review Committee, Richard "I have the means" Naidu, play in protecting the Deputy Prime Minister and NFP leader, Biman Prasad, from being charged by FICAC for allegedly making a false declaration to the Elections Office? We know that Richard
- [# THE REAL GEORGE SPEIGHT SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-real-george-speight-sets-the-record-straight/) - Regular readers of Grubsheet will have noticed that a George Speight has been commenting on some of our stories. Many of us will have been wondering if it is THE George Speight. Well now we know. It isn't. In response to the latest "George Speight" comment, the real George Speight has written to Grubsheet setting
- [# WELL HE WOULD, WOULDN'T HE? BIMAN THE BETRAYER HAS MORE TO LOSE FROM THE COI REPORT BEING RELEASED THAN ANYONE ELSE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/well-he-would-wouldnt-he-biman-the-betrayer-has-more-to-lose-from-the-coi-report-being-released-than-anyone-else/) - For the second time in 24 hours, a Coalition government minister who was under FICAC investigation and had that investigation quashed by Barbara Malimali has welcomed the Prime Minister's decision not to publish the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the "rotten circumstances" of her appointment. First it was Manoa Kamikamica and now it his
- [# OOH- AHH. SAVAGED BY A FIJI FANTASTIC SHEEP NAMED MANOA (UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ooh-ahh-savaged-by-a-fiji-fantastic-sheep-named-manoa/) - Grubsheet's Facebook spies have sent me reaching for the champagne this afternoon to celebrate being mauled by no less than the Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji, Manoa Kamikamica, within hours of me accusing him of being the Number Two Snake in the Coalition government after Sitiveni Rabuka. On the basis of that mauling, I have
- [# SNAKE NUMBER TWO. MANOA KAMIKAMICA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/snake-number-two-manoa-kamikamica/) - It is a national tragedy that the person regarded as the putative successor to Sitiveni Rabuka as People's Alliance leader and prime minister, Manoa Kamikamica, appears to be as self-serving as the present incumbent. Beyond his beatific smile, there is nothing sweet about Kamikamica - the meaning of his surname in iTaukei. Indeed he is
- [# SITIVENI RABUKA. TWO FACED, SPINELESS AND CORRUPT (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sitiveni-rabuka-two-faced-spineless-and-corrupt/) - Any Prime Minister who accepts a $150,000 gold Rolex as a gift and refuses to disclose its source is on the prima facie evidence, corrupt. But we now know (or have had it confirmed) that Sitiveni Rabuka is also two-faced, spineless and once again, a genuine threat to democracy in Fiji. Just three weeks separates
- [# WHETHER IT IS CORRUPTION OR INCOMPETENCE, THE DITHERING OVER THE COI REPORT POINTS TO A GOVERNMENT MIRED IN DYSFUNCTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whether-it-is-corruption-or-incompetence-the-dithering-over-the-coi-report-points-to-a-government-mired-in-dysfunction/) - It beggars belief that the Attorney General, Graham Leung, is so ignorant of the law that he doesn't understand that he can play no role whatsoever in the government's decision-making on whether to release the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry report into the "rotten circumstances" of the appointment of FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali. Why? Because he
- [# WHY SHOULD ANYONE CONTINUE TO HAVE PATIENCE WITH THIS OLD FOOL?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-should-anyone-continue-to-have-patience-with-this-old-fool/) - Sitiveni Rabuka really is past his used-by date as a Prime Minister and politician when he treats the Fijian people with such contempt. His latest prevarication and dissembling over the release of the Ashton-Lewis Commission into the "rotten circumstances" of the appointment of Barbara MalImali as FICAC Commissioner is the final straw. This is an
- [# THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY URGES "MORE TIME" FOR THE PM TO DO THE RIGHT THING OR FACE THE PEOPLE'S WRATH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-commission-of-inquiry-urges-more-time-for-the-pm-to-do-the-right-thing-or-face-the-peoples-wrath/) - It is now more than a week since the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, received two copies of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the "rotten circumstances" of the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner - one the full report with legally-sensitive content and two, a redacted version for immediate public consumption. How are
- [# MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY FINGERS BIMAN PRASAD AS HE ALLEGES "SINISTER COLLUSION" IN RELATION TO FICAC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mahendra-chaudhry-fingers-biman-prasad-as-he-alleges-sinister-collusion-in-relation-to-ficac/) - The Labour Party leader and former prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, has renewed his call for the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, to release the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry report into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner, saying its findings uncover "sinister collusion between officials high up in the executive, the judiciary and the legal
- [# UNDER INTENSE POLITICAL PRESSURE, SITIVENI RABUKA APPEARS TO BOW TO THE INEVITABLE (UPDATED SUN AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/under-intense-political-pressure-sitiveni-rabuka-appears-to-bow-to-the-inevitable/) - The Prime Minister has given his strongest indication yet that he will authorise the release of the findings of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the "rotten circumstances" of the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. His constant toing and froing and changes of mind on his public positions across the board means that
- [# WHAT THE JUDGE HAS FOUND. THE PRESSURE MOUNTS (UPDATED SAT AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-the-judge-has-found-the-pressure-mounts/) - One man and one man alone has the power to decide whether to release the reportedly explosive Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry report on the "rotten circumstances" of the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commisioner - the man who commissioned it in the first place, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. Wild rumours are circulating of attempts
- [# DECISION TIME ON THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/decision-time-on-the-ashton-lewis-commission-of-inquiry-report/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, is grappling with one of the toughest decisions of his political career - whether to publicly release the findings of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the "rotten circumstances" of Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner or bury it in the certain knowledge that it will eventually be leaked. There
- [# CAN FIJI'S OBI WAN KENOBI SAVE US FROM A CORRUPT CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT THREATENS THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY ITSELF?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/can-fijis-obi-wan-kenobi-save-us-from-a-corrupt-criminal-justice-system-that-threatens-the-rule-of-law-and-democracy-itself/) - Suva is abuzz with rumours about the imminent release of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry report into the "rotten" circumstances surrounding the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner, with some reports saying it could come as early as tomorrow (Friday). Yet such is the confusion about whether the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, will advise
- [# WE INTERRUPT OUR INTERRUPTION TO BRING YOU O'REILLY-GATE. A METAPHOR FOR A GOVERNMENT AND A NATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/we-interrupt-our-interruption-to-bring-you-oreilly-gate-a-metaphor-for-a-government-and-a-nation/) - The shocking spectacle of the Acting Commissioner for Corrective Services, Sevuloni Naucukidi, brawling in O'Reilly's Nightclub couldn't come at a worse time for the Rabuka government as rumours swirl about even more shocking revelations in the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry report. A number of very big names could be about to lose their heads if
- [# GRUBSHEET IS GETTING SOME MAINTENANCE. NORMAL TRANSMISSION WILL RESUME SOON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/grubsheet-is-getting-some-maintenance-normal-transmission-will-resume-soon/)
- [# PANIC GRIPS THE NFP AND ITS SUPPORTERS AS THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK WORSENS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/panic-grips-the-nfp-and-its-supporters-as-the-economic-outlook-worsens/) - Grubsheet's last article on Biman Prasad's travails being far from over despite being "cleared" by FICAC because of the impending Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry report has struck a raw nerve with his closest supporters, including the Chair of the Fiji Sugar Corporation, Nitya Reddy. The NFP leader plucked the former politician and accountant from retirement
- [# HE MAY HAVE BEEN "CLEARED" BY FICAC BUT BIMAN PRASAD IS STILL ON THE RUN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/he-may-have-been-cleared-by-ficac-but-biman-prasad-is-still-on-the-run/) - It beggars belief that before the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner delivers its long-awaited report, Malimali should choose to "clear" the Deputy Prime Minister and NFP leader, Biman Prasad, of wrongdoing when his case was examined by the COI. It is a travesty of justice that again
- [# THE MINISTER FOR ITAUKEI AFFAIRS BLAMES THE ITAUKEI FOR THEIR OWN POVERTY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-minister-for-itaukei-affairs-blames-the-itaukei-for-their-own-poverty/) - If the iTaukei are poor, it's their own fault. So says the Minister for iTaukei Affairs, Ifereimi Vasu - the man who has made himself rich by going into business with the convicted Chinese drug and people trafficker, Jason Zhong. Vasu - who met Zhong when the Chinese gangster and accused Triad member was in
- [# WELL, WELL, WELL. THINGS COULD BE ABOUT TO GET VERY INTERESTING. UNLESS "PONTIUS" RABUKA WASHES HIS HANDS AGAIN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/well-well-well-things-could-be-about-to-get-very-interesting-unless-pontius-rabuka-washes-his-hands-again/) - Can it really be true that the Prime Minister genuinely wants to release the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner? With all that would mean for the reputations of Malimali herself and a slew of government ministers and prominent lawyers? That's the "face value" takeaway of Sitiveni
- [# SO NOW WE KNOW HOW THEY ARE GOING TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION. BUT THEY STILL WON'T SAY TO WHAT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/so-now-we-know-how-they-are-going-to-change-the-constitution-but-they-still-wont-say-to-what/) - It takes the Prime Minister's pet Fiji Times journalist and former media advisor, Cheerieann Wilson, to extract the disclosure that "legal experts are working with State lawyers to finalise the questions that will be presented to the Supreme Court" asking if the Coalition can ignore the 75/75 requirement to change the 2013 Constitution. Why we
- [# WITHHOLDING THE ASHTON-LEWIS REPORT IS NOT AN OPTION. IT MUST BE RELEASED (UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/withholding-the-ashton-lewis-report-is-not-an-option-it-must-be-released/) - The report of the Commission of Inquiry by the Australian judge, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, into the "rotten" circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner is finally due to be handed to the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, and the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, tomorrow (April 23). UPDATE: Reports reaching Grubsheet say the handover has evidently
- [# THE "ALPINE" MISSIONARY BOLTHOLE IN VITI MAKAWA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-alpine-missionary-bolthole-in-viti-makawa/) - It isn't often that Grubsheet is delighted by a Fiji Times front page but one item on the banner of this week's Sunday edition triggered a flood of personal memories from more than half a century ago - a story by reporter Ana Madigibuli about the history of the derelict Methodist Church "rest house" at
- [# LYNDA TABUYA'S PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR. A QUESTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuyas-personal-relationship-with-the-chinese-ambassador-a-question-of-national-security/) - Is Lynda Tabuya an agent of influence for the Chinese Communist Party? We first asked the question last June when it emerged that the Chinese Ambassador to Fiji, Zhao Jian, had given $172,000 to Tabuya's home village of Tiliva/Jiliva in Kadavu. And we are asking it again now that she and the Ambassador have appeared
- [# COMING SOON. CHINA IS BYPASSING NORMAL AID PROTOCOLS TO DIRECTLY FUND LYNDA TABUYA'S PET PROJECTS. BUT WHAT WILL THE CHINESE DEMAND IN RETURN? AND HOW MUCH IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-china-is-bypassing-normal-aid-protocols-to-directly-fund-lynda-tabuyas-pet-projects-but-what-will-the-chinese-demand-in-return/)
- [# FIJI'S MEDIA WATCHDOGS. SUPPOSEDLY "FREE" BUT MANGY, TOOTHLESS AND ON THE TAKE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fijis-media-watchdogs-supposedly-free-but-mangy-toothless-and-on-the-take/) - How do you buy off a bunch of local journalists, including three of the biggest names in the Fijian media - Fred Wesley of the Fiji Times, Vijay Narayan of CFL-Fiji Village and Stanley Simpson of Mai TV? When you're the Wonderful company and its billionaire owner, Stewart Resnick, you put them on your private
- [# COMING SOON. AN EASTER TREAT. AS THE GOVERNMENT SAYS "NO" TO ANY REDUCTION IN VAT, THE TWO BIG SWINGING DICKS OF THE FIJIAN MEDIA - VIJAY NARAYAN AND STANLEY SIMPSON - LIVE IT UP IN CALIFORNIA WITH "MR NO TAX" STEWART RESNICK, THE BILLIONAIRE OWNER OF FIJI WATER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-an-easter-treat-as-the-government-says-no-to-any-reduction-in-vat-the-two-big-swinging-dicks-of-the-fijian-media-vijay-narayan-and-stanley-simpson-live-it-up-in-california-wit/)
- [# SUCK IT UP FIJI. YOUR 15 PC VAT STAYS. ALONG WITH TAX CONCESSIONS FOR FOREIGN BILLIONAIRES AND GRANTS TO LOCAL MILLIONAIRES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/suck-it-up-fiji-your-15-pc-vat-stays-along-with-tax-concessions-for-foreign-billionaires-and-grants-to-local-millionaires/) - Did you ever think we would see the day, Fiji, when a Prime Minister with a $150,000 gold Rolex would have the gall to dismiss the possibility of tax relief for ordinary Fijians while shamelessly feathering the nests of the fabulously wealthy? Well that day has come as Sitiveni Rabuka dishes up a local version
- [# THE QARANIVALU. GONE AND BEST FORGOTTEN (UPDATED WED PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-qaranivalu-gone-and-best-forgotten/) - On the old adage that if you don't have anything nice to say about someone, you should say nothing, Grubsheet has been tempted to ignore the death of the Qaranivalu and Paramount Chief of Naitasiri, Ratu Inoke Takiveikata. Because I don't have anything nice to say about him and personally believe the nation is better
- [# LYNDA TABUYA - THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING - LAYS HER OWN TRAP (UPDATED WED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuya-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-lays-her-own-trap/) - The notorious Queen of Tarts and former minister for bonking and weed is, on the evidence, as thick as the proverbial two planks, despite having acquired a law degree from Bond University on the Gold Coast. Bond is named after its founder, Alan Bond - one of Australia's biggest conmen - who apart from fleecing
- [# "PUPU" AND VIJAY ON THEIR $1.7 MILLION PUBLIC DRIP (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pupu-and-vijay-on-their-1-7-million-public-drip/) - The owner of Communications Fiji Limited, William Parkinson, got the nickname "Pupu" or "Poo Poo" Parkinson - depending on your ethnic upbringing - for his uncertain control over his bowels when he was at primary school in Fiji. But he is inflicting veka of a more pungent kind on the nation as a whole now
- [# NANCY THE PARTY GIRL AND ACTING DPP. A MENDACIOUS, MANIPULATIVE DISGRACE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/nancy-the-party-girl-and-acting-dpp-a-mendacious-manipulative-disgrace/) - The response of the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, to the strong criticism from the substantive but absent DPP, Christopher Pryde, of her re-engagement of Laisani Tabuakuro as an Assistant DPP after Pryde sacked Tabuakuro for misconduct is easily the most outrageous travesty of the truth Grubsheet has ever witnessed from someone in a position of
- [# CHRISTOPHER PRYDE: WHY I AM ABSENT FROM FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/christopher-pryde-why-i-am-absent-from-fiji/) - The DPP has issued a public statement to the media in response to the Fiji Sun report today (see previous article) suggesting that he is responsible for being "paid to do nothing" in which he lays the blame for the impasse over his reappointment with the Judicial Services Commission. He also reveals that he has
- [# THE DPP IS BEING "PAID TO DO NOTHING" BECAUSE THE JSC WON'T RESPOND TO HIS CORRESPONDENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-dpp-is-being-paid-to-do-nothing-because-the-jsc-wont-respond-to-his-correspondence/) - The Fiji Sun carries a front page story today reporting that the DPP, Christopher Pryde, is continuing to be paid despite being absent from Fiji for more than 100 days after being cleared of misbehaviour and reinstated. FACT: The Judicial Services Commission headed by the man who falsely branded Pryde a thief - the Chief
- [# CHINA MOVES TO DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN FIJI AND THE US OVER TARIFFS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/china-moves-to-drive-a-wedge-between-fiji-and-the-us-over-tariffs/) - There's an old saying stretching back to ancient Greece that "those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"*. And there's no doubt that the United States is in the grip of madness under Donald Trump. Trump's "America First" tariff policy is an unmitigated disaster for the West's relations with developing countries such as
- [# PLEASE GET BACK TO BASICS AND STOP THE NEVER ENDING BLAH, BLAH, BLAH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/get-back-to-basics-and-stop-the-blah-blah-blah-or-else/) - In December 2021 - a full year before the election he eventually won and when we were still on cordial terms - Grubsheet sent Sitiveni Rabuka a list of suggestions on which to campaign and close to the top of that list was to concentrate on service delivery. I'm sure I wasn't alone but here's
- [# WHO IS THE MYSTERY PERSON TRYING TO SECURE DONATIONS WITHOUT RECEIPTS WHO ALSO SAYS SITIVENI RABUKA IS TOO OLD TO BE PM?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/who-is-the-mystery-person-trying-to-secure-donations-without-receipts-who-also-says-sitiveni-rabuka-is-too-old-to-be-pm/) - We will soon know now that Shailendra Raju has made good on his Facebook undertaking to hand an explosive recording he says is in his possession to the Supervisor of Elections, Ana Mataiciwa.* The disillusioned former People's Alliance stalwart and social media warrior has caused a minor sensation with the following posting that threatens to
- [# CFL'S IDEA OF PUBLIC SERVICE. "THE TRIBUTE TO OUR OWN RADIO STAR WAS THE BIGGEST SINCE MICHAEL JACKSON'S" (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/cfls-idea-of-public-service-the-funeral-of-our-own-radio-star-was-the-biggest-since-michael-jacksons/) - Everything that is wrong with the Fijian media and the way it allows itself to be used as a PR tool for powerful vested interests is encapsulated in today's Fiji Sun story on the Coalition gifting $1.7-million of taxpayer funds to Communications Fiji Limited under the guise of "public service" broadcasting. The Sun's Managing Editor,
- [# DIALOGUE FIJI'S NILESH LAL BUSTS THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM MYTH BEING PEDDLED BY RICHARD NAIDU](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/dialogue-fijis-nilesh-lal-busts-the-electoral-system-myth-being-peddled-by-richard-naidu/) - There is a lot of nonsense being spread about the failings of Fiji's electoral system, just as there is a lot of nonsense being spread about the failings of the 2013 Constitution. And by people who should know better, such as the lawyer and NFP stalwart, Richard Naidu. The (now very) occasional Fiji Times columnist
- [# ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF GENUINE MEDIA FREEDOM. THE COALITION BUYS OFF CFL-FIJI VILLAGE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-genuine-media-freedom-the-coalition-buys-off-cfl-fiji-village/) - There is genuine media freedom in any democracy in which a vibrant, independent media fulfils its duty to the public to hold elected governments to account. And there is the bullshit version of "media freedom" in Fiji, in which the Coalition government uses taxpayer funds to buy off commercial, non-government media outlets to secure their
- [# THE COALITION. DANGEROUSLY COMPLACENT AND HOPELESSLY NAIVE (UPDATED SATURDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-dangerously-complacent-and-hopelessly-naive/) - For weeks, even months, the world has known that Donald Trump intended to introduce wide-ranging tariffs to punish America's trading partners for what he depicts as their ripoff of American consumers and their unfair advantage in the global marketplace. The only question has been which countries would be hit hardest and by how much. So
- [# SO ARE WE RETURNING TO RACE-BASED VOTING OR AREN'T WE? PRIME MINISTER, THE MINORITIES DESERVE TO KNOW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/so-are-we-returning-to-race-based-voting-or-arent-we-prime-minister-the-minorities-deserve-to-know/) - Poor Dan Fatiaki. The former chief justice spent years in the judicial and political wilderness until the Coalition recently appointed him Chair of the Electoral Reform Commission to review the nation's electoral laws. His contributions to the national debate thus far have been confined to his prolific letters to the editor of the Fiji Times,
- [# DONALD TRUMP DEALS FIJI WATER A HUGE BLOW WITH HIS 32 PER CENT TARIFF ON FIJIAN IMPORTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/donald-trump-deals-fiji-water-a-huge-blow-with-his-32-per-cent-tariff-on-fijian-imports/) - Stewart and Faye Resnick - the billionaire owners of Fiji Water - were presumably looking to Donald Trump to improve trading conditions in America for their Wonderful Company and will have been pole-axed by his new administration's decision today to charge a 32 per cent tariff on every Fijian item imported into the United States.
- [# THE QUEEN OF TARTS GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT IN LONDON AS A SUPPOSEDLY HUMBLE BACKBENCHER. BUT WHO IS PAYING? (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-queen-of-tarts-gets-the-royal-treatment-in-london-as-a-humble-backbencher-but-who-is-paying/) - The orgy of Coalition self-entitlement continues as the sole People's Alliance backbench member of parliament - the porn star and ex-Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya - lives it up in far-off London. She is being squired around in the official diplomatic BMW - registration number "FIJI" - by the nation's High Commissioner to
- [# COALITION OF BLING. WHAT MAKES THESE POLITICIANS THINK IT'S OK TO FLAUNT EXPENSIVE JEWELLERY WHEN MOST FIJIANS LIVE IN POVERTY? (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coalition-of-bling-what-makes-these-politicians-think-its-ok-to-wear-expensive-jewellery-when-most-fijians-live-in-poverty/) - The minimum wage in Fiji goes up 50 cents to $5 an hour today. That's $40 for an eight-hour day, $200 for a five-day week, $10,400 for a 52-week year. More than half the nation officially lives in poverty. Yet on the front page of today's Fiji Times, the FijiFirst "rat" and Minister for Immigration,
- [# EID MUBARAK!](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/eid-mubarak/) - We send warm greetings to our Muslim brothers and sisters as they celebrate the end of Ramadan. Image: Times of India. Plus a shout-out for the Fiji Sun's award-winning photographer, Ronald Kumar, for two wonderful Eid images in Tuesday's edition of the paper. Brilliant. The Sun's Ronald Kumar.
- [# JUST REPEATING FOR THOSE WHO THINK MY PREDICTION THAT ROLEX RAMBO WILL WIN THE NEXT ELECTION IS AN ENDORSEMENT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/just-repeating-for-those-who-think-my-prediction-that-rolex-rambo-will-win-the-next-election-is-an-endorsement/) - Some people have misconstrued my last article predicting that Sitiveni Rabuka will win next year's election as an expression of support for the Prime Minister when it is definitely NOT. Incredibly, word has reached me that this misapprehension evidently extends to certain individuals believing that Grubsheet has been the recipient of a gold Rolex to
- [# AND THE WINNER OF THE 2026 ELECTION IS? THE SOLE"BIG MAN"STANDING, ROLEX RAMBO (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/and-the-winner-of-the-2026-election-is-the-solebig-manstanding-rolex-rambo/) - The announcement that 14 new "proposed" political parties have declared their interest with the Elections Office in contesting the 2026 election has set off a wave of speculation in the national media about what it all means. Yet the answer is very simple. Nothing. Assuming, that is, that we go to the polls next year
- [# "FIJI IS IN A MESS",  SAYS KAMIKAMICA. WELL HE'S RIGHT ABOUT THAT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-is-in-a-mess-says-kamikamica-well-hes-right-about-that/) - Manoa "I'll work harder if you pay me more" Kamikamica - the putative prime minister-in- waiting - has given an extraordinary interview to Radio New Zealand in which he acknowledges that Fiji "is in a mess" but blames it all on the Bainimarama "dictatorship'. Never mind that the Coalition has been in government for almost
- [# MISSING. ONE GOLD ROLEX. REWARD FOR ENSURING IT IS NOT RETURNED UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. VINAKA VAKALEVU. NA NOMU PARAIMINISITA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/missing-one-gold-rolex-reward-for-ensuring-it-is-not-returned-until-after-the-election-na-nomu-paraiminisita/) - Oh, and here comes another Khaiyum. Bigger than the other two and smarter. (He thanks his mother for a start). Never a dull day in Fiji, eh? Father Time just keeps on giving! Good night!
- [# IN ANOTHER GALAXY, LONG, LONG AGO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/in-another-galaxy-a-long-long-time-ago/) - It is both amazing and sobering that Fiji was once so respected in the world that we were held up as a beacon of progress among the developing nations and a beacon of democracy - amazing because it was out of all proportion to our size and importance and sobering because most of that reputation
- [# THE COALITION'S BIG CON THAT FIJI'S MINORITIES MUST FIGHT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalitions-big-con-that-fijis-minorities-must-fight/) - The unholy alliance between the Fiji Times and the Coalition government has produced another attempt to hoodwink the minorities with a misleading front page headline today trumpeting that the "PM backs equality" when in the body of the accompanying stories, he does anything but. Once again, the Prime Minister dodges the issue of whether the
- [# MANOA KAMIKAMICA LAUNCHES A SCATHING ATTACK ON GRUBSHEET IN THE LATEST SIGN THAT THE GOLD ROLEX SAGA ISN'T GOING AWAY (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/manoa-kamikamica-launches-a-scathing-attack-on-grubsheet-in-the-latest-sign-that-the-gold-rolex-saga-isnt-going-away/) - The Fijian mainstream media may have largely lost interest in where the Prime Minister got his $150,000 "plus" solid gold Rolex but not the overseas media, judging from the latest report on Radio New Zealand, which has been leading its Pacific coverage with it. The latest story has the Deputy Prime Minister, Manoa Kamikamica, denying
- [#100,000 REASONS WHY ANTI-DISCRIMINATION DAY HOMILIES CAN BE SO MUCH BLAH, BLAH, BLAH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/100000-reasons-why-anti-discrimination-day-homilies-are-just-so-much-blah-blah-blah/) - What is it about Fiji and its relentless observance of United Nations "International Days" for every conceivable cause? They are invariably accompanied by full page ads in the paper, messages from assorted worthies and functions where someone delivers a speech. And so it has been with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER SUES MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY OVER HIS CRITICISM OF THE GOLD ROLEX (UPDATED SAT PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-sues-mahendra-chaudhry-over-his-criticism-of-the-gold-rolex/) - In an extraordinary "eff you" to all principles of transparency and accountability in public life in a democracy, Sitiveni Rabuka has begun legal proceedings against the Labour Party leader and former prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, over his criticism of the Rabuka's $150,000 "plus" solid gold Rolex wristwatch. It simply beggars belief that Rabuka not only
- [# WHERE'S WADAN? SUDDENLY BACK IN FIJI IN THE TIGER'S DEN (UPDATED FRI PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wheres-wadan-suddenly-back-in-fiji-among-some-people-he-detests/) - Professor Wadan Narsey told Grubsheet back in September that he, me and Sashi Singh (host of the SS Talking Point program) "have a lot of grovelling to do to the Fiji voters for our support of Rambo before the 2022 elections". He also said that he had stopped writing his once weekly column in the
- [# THE THREAT TO FIJI OF DEMANDS TO LOCALISE CRITICAL NATIONAL JOBS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-threat-to-fiji-of-demands-for-localising-critical-national-jobs/) - The former trade unionist and Airports Fiji staffer, Ben Kush, has long been waging an intense campaign on social media to localise the two most critical jobs in Fijian tourism and the national economy - the leadership of Fiji Airways and Tourism Fiji. He wants the CEO of the national airline, South African André Viljoen,
- [# WHY WOULD ROKO ULUI - RATU TEVITA MARA - NEED A GUN AND 600 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION? (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-would-roko-ului-ratu-tevita-mara-need-a-gun-and-600-rounds-of-ammunition/) - Fiji has been ablaze with speculation about the seizure of weapons and ammunition from an incoming vessel, with memories of weapons shipments after the 1987 coups raising fears of a concerted attempt to stage some kind of takeover in the febrile atmosphere of the Coalition's campaign to change the Constitution. It turns out to be
- [# KAMIKAMICA CONFIRMS CONSTITUTION PLANS. SWEET FOR THE ITAUKEI, BITTER FOR THE REST (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/kamikamica-confirms-constitution-plans-sweet-for-the-itaukei-bitter-for-the-rest/) - The Deputy Prime Minister, Manoa Kamikamica, has told an iTaukei radio program that the government is going to the Supreme Court to try to restore the provisions of the 1997 Constitution, which would mean the end of the common and equal citizenry and the common identity. It would also end dual nationality, with vast implications
- [# OH DEAR. NO RETURN TO CABINET FOR THE QUEEN OF TARTS UNTIL SHE LEARNS "HOW TO BEHAVE" (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/oh-dear-no-return-to-cabinet-for-the-queen-of-tarts-until-she-learns-how-to-behave/) - What has prompted the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, to do a complete backflip on appointing Lynda Tabuya as minister for information? Last week it was all in the bag, with the Prime Minister expressing the view that she would be good in the job and PAP's Vice President, Ratu Josefa Dimuri, endorsing the idea. And
- [# KAMIKAMICA'S SLIP OF THE TONGUE THAT EXPOSES THE COALITION'S SECRET AGENDA (UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/kamikamicas-slip-of-the-tongue-that-exposes-the-coalitions-secret-agenda/) - It was Manoa "I'll work harder if you pay me more" Kamikamica's job last week to obtain and secure the numbers in the parliament to pass the Coalition's bill to change the 2013 Constitution. He failed. And in humiliation and frustration, Kamikamica is lashing out at the Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, for merely doing his
- [# THE SPOTLIGHT FALLS ON LYNDA TABUYA OVER THE PRIME MINISTER'S GOLD ROLEX ( UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-spotlight-falls-on-lynda-tabuya-over-the-prime-ministers-gold-rolex/) - The celebrated coconut wireless in Fiji is on the brink of meltdown as reports circulate that the Deputy Prime Minister and heir apparent to Sitiveni Rabuka - Manoa Kamikamica - is telling his PAP colleagues that Lynda Tabuya gave the Prime Minister his $150,000 "plus" gold Rolex as a gesture of thanks for her rehabilitation.
- [# WHAT'S COMING IF THE CHIEFS GET THEIR WAY. A QOLIQOLI BILL AND "FIJIAN" RESERVED FOR THE ITAUKEI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whats-coming-if-the-chiefs-get-their-way-a-qoliqoli-bill-and-fijian-reserved-for-the-itaukei/) - We are only now starting to realise what the Coalition government and the iTaukei establishment mean by changing the 2013 Constitution as the veil begins to lift on precisely what changes they have in mind. And it is deeply disturbing for the future of non-iTaukei citizens in the country. Grubsheet has been asking for months
- [# RICHIE RICH IS BACK AGAIN SINGING FOR HIS SUPPER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/richie-rich-is-back-again-singing-for-his-supper/) - Seven months after he last appeared in the opinion columns of the Fiji Times (aside from an obituary of Barrie Sweetman in December), the paper's lawyer, Richard "I have the means" Naidu, is back singing from the same song sheet as his proprietor, Mahendra "Mac" Patel - the FT's "Chairman Emeritus", the first Fijian criminal
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER OF BLING IS "APPALLING", "DODGY"AND "CORRUPT": CHAUDHRY (UPDATED SAT AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-of-bling-is-appalling-dodgyand-corrupt-chaudhry/) - The Fijian media may be underplaying the provenance of Sitiveni Rabuka's $150,000 "plus" gold Rolex watch but the Labour Party leader and former prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, isn't going to let him off the hook and is pressing home the political advantage of having his opponent hopelessly pinned on the ropes. The Prime Minister and
- [# 150,000 PLUS REASONS WHY THE PRIME MINISTER MUST BE REFERRED TO FICAC (UPDATED FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/150000-plus-reasons-why-the-prime-minister-must-be-referred-to-ficac/) - In a tacit admission of guilt, Sitiveni Rabuka acknowledges that he has been wearing a "$150,000 plus" gold Rolex watch but he "has he right to remain silent" over allegations that he received it from a local businessman (Mahendra "Mac" Patel) and "those making the allegations must prove what they are saying". The old man
- [# THE LOSERS SHOW THEIR CONTEMPT FOR DEMOCRACY AND THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-losers-show-their-contempt-for-democracy-and-the-peoples-house/) - Parliament is the supreme authority in any democracy - the place where the elected representatives of the people gather to make the laws that govern our lives and that we are obliged to obey for the common good. Yet what happens when certain of those elected representatives don't get what they want because they can't
- [# O SOBO! THE MYSTERY OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S GOLD ROLEX DEEPENS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/o-sobo-the-mystery-of-the-prime-ministers-gold-rolex-deepens/) - We can be certain that Sitiveni Rabuka is having the day from hell, first licking his wounds over the humiliation of the Coalition's Bill to change the Constitution being defeated in Parliament last night and now fresh questions about the gold Rolex watch that he has been flashing on his wrist. The saga of the
- [# COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH THE MAN. RINESH SHARMA TORPEDOS THE BILL TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION (UPDATED 0800 WED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/cometh-the-hour-cometh-the-man-rinesh-sharma-torpedos-the-bill-to-change-the-constitution/) - An obscure Opposition backbencher has shot to national prominence by destroying the Coalition's hopes of changing the Constitution for the foreseeable future by switching his "yes" vote at the first reading of the parliamentary bill to "no' at the second reading and producing a humiliating defeat. Whether Rinesh Sharma's change of heart was determined by
- [# BREAKING NEWS...HUMILIATION FOR SITIVENI RABUKA AND THE COALITION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-humiliation-for-sitiveni-rabuka-and-the-coalition/)
- [# THE BIG STITCH-UP. HOW THE COALITION PLANS TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION WITHOUT YOU HAVING ANY SAY AT ALL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-big-stitch-up-how-the-coalition-plans-to-change-the-constitution-without-you-having-any-say-at-all/) - So we now know the game-plan Sitiveni Rabuka and his Attorney General, Graham Leung, intend to use to alter the 2013 Constitution without having to fulfil its requirement for a referendum of voters, which would need to meet an approval threshold of 75 per cent to achieve lawful change. As Grubsheet has reported for months,
- [# THE EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF PRAMESH SHARMA, COALITION CHEERLEADER AND DOGLA (TRAITOR) TO THE RULE OF LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-extraordinary-conduct-of-pramesh-sharma-coalition-cheerleader-and-dogla-traitor/) - As Fiji's minorities brace themselves for the historic betrayal that is threatened by Sitiveni Rabuka's attempt to change the Constitution to entrench indigenous rights, Indo-Fijians in particular are turning their attention to those within their ranks who are aiding and abetting the process. First and foremost of these, of course, is the NFP leader, Biman
- [# "DETERMINED IN HER PURSUIT FOR JUSTICE", LYNDA TABUYA TELLS ANOTHER PACK OF LIES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/determined-in-her-pursuit-for-justice-lynda-tabuya-tells-another-pack-of-lies/) - Fresh from being saved by the Prime Minister, the Queen of Tarts and prospective Minister for Information, Lynda Tabuya, still can't lie straight in bed at night and tells the gullible Fiji Times Coalition propagandist, Cheerieann Wilson, a fresh set of lies on the front page of Monday's paper. CLAIM: Lynda Tabuya says she has
- [# THE EX-FIJIFIRST DOGLAS (TRAITORS) DOUBLE DOWN AS OVERT RACISM ERUPTS AGAINST THE MINORITIES.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-ex-fijifirst-dogla-traitors-double-down-as-overt-racism-erupts-against-the-minorities/) - As a furore rages in the Indo-Fijian community over four former FijiFirst MPs siding with the Coalition to change the 2013 Constitution, a disturbing video clip has emerged on social media showing an iTaukei man telling an Indo-Fijian to "go back to India". Suddenly, the pretence of multiculturalism and inclusion under Sitiveni Rabuka's leadership has
- [# LYNDA TABUYA'S ADMISSION OF GUILT FOR THE DRUGS AND SEX IN ROOM 233 AND MAKING PORN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuyas-admission-of-guilt-for-the-sex-and-drugs-in-room-233-and-making-pornography/) - The Queen of Tarts is in a terrible bind as she tries to explain why she has made a formal apology to the government as part of her campaign to weasel her way back into the affections of her Prime Minister and party and return to the Coalition ministry. Because even the dumbest Fijian knows
- [# FATHER TIME IS TICKING ON THE MAN WITH THE GOLD ROLEX](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/father-time-is-ticking-on-the-man-with-the-gold-rolex/) - Alone of the political parties and the media, Mahendra Chaudhry's Fiji Labour Party is demanding answers about the circumstances of the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, sporting a $150,000 solid gold Rolex watch and signing his signature with a $1600 gold-coated Montblanc fountain pen. In doing so, Chaudhry has again established himself as the genuine opposition
- [# DIALOGUE FIJI: THE GOVT'S BILL TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION ANTI-DEMOCRATIC AND A THREAT TO THE MINORITIES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/dialogue-fiji-the-govts-bill-to-change-the-constitution-anti-democratic-and-a-threat-to-the-minorities/) - Dialogue Fiji and its head, Nilesh Lal, have thrown a big spanner into the Coalition government's blueprint to change the 2013 Constitution with a statement criticising its plan to remove the requirement for a referendum of voters and rely solely on a vote in Parliament to push through its agenda. It is clear that however
- [# MR MAGOO'S BILL TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION IS UNLAWFUL, EVEN IF THE COALITION CAN GET THE NUMBERS IN PARLIAMENT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mr-magoos-bill-to-change-the-constitution-is-unlawful-even-if-the-coalition-can-get-the-numbers/) - Much of the legal profession is in shock at the Bill introduced in the parliament on Wednesday night by the Attorney General, Graham Leung, to alter the 2013 Constitution. It isn't just the shoddy drafting, including a numbering mistake in the margin. The entire document is illegal. That's right, folks. Unlawful. Why? Because it takes
- [# MULTIPLE REPORTS THAT LYNDA TABUYA IS TO BE APPOINTED MINISTER FOR INFORMATION (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-multiple-reports-that-lynda-tabuya-is-to-be-sworn-in-tomorrow-friday-as-minister-for-information/)
- [# THE WORLD'S FIRST MINISTER FOR PORN IS SET TO SOON TAKE OFFICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-worlds-first-minister-for-pornography-is-set-to-soon-take-office/) - The Prime Minister signals in a front page story in today's Fiji Sun that the former Minister for Bonking and Weed - who was sin-binned for making a pornographic video - is about to return as a minister in the Coalition government as it prepares to face the Fijian people at the 2026 election. And
- [# TRAITORS TO THEIR PARLIAMENTARY COLLEAGUES AND THEIR OWN PEOPLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/traitors-to-their-parliamentary-colleagues-and-their-own-people/) - Remember these faces, Fiji. They are the faces of the traitors who were carried into parliament clinging to the coat-tails of Frank Bainimarama at the last election and without any mandate from the majority of Fijians who voted for FijiFirst, have voted with Sitiveni Rabuka and his government to change the 2013 Constitution. The Bill
- [# WHERE DID THE GOLD ROLEX AND THE GOLD MONTBLANC PEN COME FROM?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/where-did-the-gold-rolex-and-the-gold-montblanc-pen-come-from/) - Sitiveni Rabuka has travelled a long way in the past two years as Prime Minister - from someone who said he was so hard up that he had to collect bottles to accumulating tens of thousands of dollars every month in salary and benefits and publicly sporting two of the most coveted luxury items on
- [# THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICIAL SECRETARY REPORTEDLY HAULED BEFORE THE MALIMALI COMMISSION OF INQUIRY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-presidents-official-secretary-reportedly-hauled-before-the-malimali-commission-of-inquiry/) - Could the following stories perchance be related, Fiji - the allegations Grubsheet reported eight days ago that someone in the President's office didn't pass on a letter from the Prime Minister to Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu advising him to suspend Barbara Malimali and instead presented him with a letter from the Chief Justice advising him to
- [# IS THIS MAN DEVIOUS, DUMB OR BOTH?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-this-man-devious-dumb-or-both/) - Like a pouting drama queen who told everyone she didn't want flowers for her birthday and then complains that she didn't get any, the Attorney General, Graham Everett Leung, complains that the Malimali Commission of Inquiry didn't send him the advice from the New Zealand King's Counsel, Professor Philip Joseph, that Barbara Malimali can be
- [# THE COI DOESN'T GET ITS "URGENT" MEETING WITH THE PM BUT THE FICAC ACTING DEPUTY COM GETS A THREE YEAR CONTRACT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coi-doesnt-get-its-urgent-meeting-with-the-pm-but-the-ficac-deputy-com-reportedly-gets-a-3-year-contract/) - It beggars belief that the supposedly free Fijian media has allowed the "Snake" - Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka - to slither out of granting the request by the Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner for an "urgent meeting" to appeal for her suspension to prevent her intimidating FICAC witnesses.
- [# BIMAN PRASAD. UNDER SEIGE AND LOSING IT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/biman-prasad-under-seige-and-losing-it/) - We know that Biman Prasad is under intense pressure when he threatens to use Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's law making it a crime to "undermine or sabotage" the national economy against the Unity Party leader, Savenaca Narube. But that's how paranoid the NFP leader and Deputy Prime Minister has become as the noose tightens around his political
- [# A SATURDAY SNAPSHOT. DESPERATE TIMES OF CHRONIC HOPELESSNESS AND DESPAIR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-saturday-snapshot-desperate-times-of-chronic-hopelessness-and-despair/) - Things couldn't be much worse in Fiji as the collapse of government services worsens and our politicians are locked in a blame game while our institutions crumble and ordinary people suffer. Hope is in very short supply as we go further and further down the Zimbabwe road of failed infrastructure, a failed criminal justice system
- [# ALL EYES ARE ON THE PM TO BREAK THE MALIMALI SUSPENSION DEADLOCK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/all-eyes-are-on-the-pm-to-break-the-malimali-suspension-deadlock/) - The Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner has sought an urgent meeting with the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, as its demand for the suspension of Malimali to protect FICAC witnesses from intimidation continues to be ignored. At the time of writing in the early hours of this morning, we
- [# HOW MUCH LONGER IS THIS FARCE GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE? (UPDATED THURS PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/how-much-longer-is-this-farce-going-to-be-allowed-to-continue/) - So after having been sent on leave when the Commission of Inquiry into her appointment as FICAC Commissioner instead asked for her suspension, Barbara Malimali is still interfering with the conduct of the Commission and its FICAC witnesses. Bad-ass Barbie is brazenly giving the middle finger to Justice David Ashton-Lewis. And if the Prime Minister
- [# THE WAVE OF FEAR RUNNING THROUGH THE PM'S POLITICAL RIVALS. IN HIS OWN TEAM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-wave-of-fear-running-through-the-pms-political-rivals-in-his-own-team/) - The biggest political unknown in Fiji is why the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, set up the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali when by its very nature, it was bound to apply the blowtorch to members of his own government. Grubsheet has remarked before that the cardinal rule in politics the
- [# BOMBSHELL. WAS THE PRESIDENT MANIPULATED INTO NOT SUSPENDING BARBARA MALIMALI?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-was-the-president-manipulated-into-not-suspending-barbara-malimali/) - There's an astonishing story doing the rounds in Suva to explain the account by Janet Mason - the Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner - that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, recommended to the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, that Malimali be suspended before she was sent
- [# WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THE MUZZLED QUEEN OF TARTS AND HER IDLE THREATS?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whats-happened-to-the-muzzled-queen-of-tarts-and-her-idle-threats/) - It has been almost two weeks since there has been any mention in these columns of the Fallen Woman of the Coalition, Lynda Tabuya, who has vanished into relative obscurity after being constantly in the news for months. The Queen of Tarts and former Minister for Bonking and Weed finally seems to be taking notice
- [# A FISH ROTTING FROM THE HEAD DOWN AND A STENCH THAT CAN NO LONGER BE IGNORED (UPDATED SUN AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-fish-rotting-from-the-head-down/) - More details are emerging of the circumstances of the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, being sent on leave instead of being suspended, as requested by the Commission of Inquiry into her appointment. And they raise alarming questions about the integrity of the three people at the apex of the state - the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu,
- [# HE'S BACK AND HAS SOME SERIOUS EXPLAINING TO DO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hes-back-and-has-some-serious-explaining-to-do/) - When Christopher Pryde goes on leave as DPP to answer the allegations of financial misconduct against him, the Judicial Services Commission appoints an Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, to assume his powers and he is sidelined. But when Barbara Malimali goes on leave as FICAC Commissioner with her reputation under a cloud, she remains in the
- [# BARBARA MALIMALI HAS "VOLUNTARILY TAKEN LEAVE" BUT HAS NOT BEEN SUSPENDED. SO WHAT GAME ARE THESE JOKERS PLAYING?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-barbara-malimali-has-voluntarily-taken-leave-but-has-not-been-suspended-so-what-game-are-these-jokers-playing/) - So the FICAC Commissioner has gone on leave with her full powers intact and a magistrate - a member of the judiciary - has been appointed as Acting Deputy Commissioner in the executive ( the government) in complete defiance of the traditional convention of the separation of powers between the legislature (parliament) the executive (government)
- [# REVEALED: THE KC'S LEGAL ADVICE THAT CONTRADICTS THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND PAVES THE WAY FOR THE SUSPENSION OF BARBARA MALIMALI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/revealed-the-kcs-legal-advice-that-contradicts-the-chief-justice-and-paves-the-way-for-the-suspension-of-barbara-malimali/) - Grubsheet has obtained a copy of the advice from the New Zealand King's Counsel, Professor Philip Joseph, requested by the Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner that gives the lie to the claim by the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, that the state doesn't have the legal power to suspend
- [# DECISION TIME ON WHETHER THE RULE OF LAW STILL APPLIES IN FIJI (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/decision-time-on-whether-the-rule-of-law-applies-in-fiji/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, and his Attorney General, Graham Leung, face the mother of all decisions now that they have the advice from the New Zealand King's Counsel, Professor Philip Joseph, that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, and the Judicial Services Commission have the legal authority to suspend the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, after
- [# MAD MO BULITAVU. A 24 CARAT NUTCASE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mad-mo-bulitavu-a-24-carat-nutcase/) - The Coalition's new Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Mosese Bultitavu, is suddenly being touted by his uncle - the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka - as a potential candidate for national leadership. It is something that has clearly gone to Bultitavu's head. Because he is now trying to trash what remains of the former FijiFirst
- [# A "BOMBSHELL LEGAL OPINION"? ONLY FOR THE IDIOTS AT THE FIJI TIMES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-bombshell-legal-opinion-only-for-the-idiots-at-the-fiji-times/) - Since February 1 - 15 days ago - Grubsheet has been reporting that the Judicial Services Commission has the power to suspend Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner and we have repeated this in several articles since. But it has taken all this time for the dullards at Butt Street to tell the Fijian people the
- [# WHERE'S THE DPP'S MONEY THE PRESIDENT PROMISED, BIMAN? (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wheres-the-dpps-money-the-president-promised-biman/) - Biman Prasad once told Grubsheet in writing that he and Sitiveni Rabuka intended to make Christopher Pryde chief justice. Instead the NFP leader remained silent while Rabuka appointed Salesi Temo to the apex of the judiciary and has enabled Temo's full-blown assault on the rule of law in Fiji. It is entirely typical of Baimaan
- [# ANOTHER WEEK OF INSTABILITY AND UNCERTAINTY COMING UP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/another-week-of-instability-and-uncertainty-coming-up/) - So the distinguished New Zealand Kings Counsel, Professor Philip Joseph, has produced his advice on whether the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, is wrong to insist that he doesn't have the power to suspend the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali. And while the official verdict is being withheld until the
- [# BOMBSHELL. THE DPP BREAKS HIS SILENCE (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-the-dpp-breaks-his-silence/) - Christopher Pryde has issued a formal statement to the media in which he makes some astonishing revelations about the circumstances in which the Judicial Services Commission has sidelined him and reappointed Nancy Tikoisuva as Acting DPP. 1/ He reveals that Nancy Tikoisuva has filed a number of fresh allegations against him on top of those
- [# SALESI TEMO'S BLACK FRIDAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/salesi-temos-black-friday/) - The Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is already having a bad day - waking to find himself splashed all over today's Fiji Sun accused of presiding over dysfunction and incompetence as head of the Judicial Services Commission. The JSC is slammed by the Opposition's Jone Usamate and the Labour Party leader and former prime minister, Mahendra
- [# WELCOME TO FIJI. WHERE A JUDICIAL RULING AND PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE ARE WORTHLESS (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/welcome-to-fiji-where-a-judicial-finding-and-presidential-directive-are-worthless/) - The party resumes at the ODPP, where a month after being exonerated and reinstated, Christopher Pryde is again sidelined and Nancy Tikoisuva is back in charge of the bottles. So, Fiji. We have more trumped up charges against the DPP on top of the refusal to suspend Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner for being in
- [# WHEN THE ONLY THING BEING CRUCIFIED IS THE TRUTH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-the-one-thing-getting-crucified-is-the-truth/) - It is easily one of the most bizarre spectacles in Fijian political history - the Co-Chair of the Coalition government's Task Force on Pornography, Lynda Tabuya, making a pornographic video herself and then claiming to be "crucified" when it goes public because either the person who took it leaked it or someone close to her
- [# THANK GOD SHE FINALLY SEEMS TO BE GETTING HELP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/thank-god-she-finally-appears-to-be-getting-help/) - The sight of Lynda Tabuya in earnest conversation with Fiji's only (or is it first?) psychotherapist, Selina Kuruleca, is giving the nation hope that maybe she is starting to realise she needs help. Or is it that Selina - the new Permanent Secretary for Justice - has heard the same rumours we have that the
- [# WHAT'S THE LAST THING JESUS SAID TO THE ITAUKEI? DON'T DO ANYTHING TILL I GET BACK*](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whats-the-last-thing-jesus-said-to-the-itaukei-dont-do-anything-till-i-get-back/) - The iTaukei lazy? No. Come on. Stop it. Surely not? How could you possibly say that? You just can't do that in Fiji. Er, but it's not some disaffected "vulagi" saying so this time. It's an iTaukei and someone at the pinnacle of the government and the establishment. None other than Ioane Naivalurua, the new
- [# IS THE FIJI TIMES DELIBERATELY TRYING TO DAMAGE LYNDA TABUYA?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-the-fiji-times-deliberately-trying-to-damage-lynda-tabuya/) - The first rule of crisis management is to staunch the bleed. Which when it comes to politics, means starving a negative story of oxygen. To shut it down so that it is out of the headlines and you can begin the task of saving the rest of the furniture and moving on. It is why
- [# EXPOSED: HOW GRACE ROAD HAS FIJI BY THE THROAT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exposed-how-grace-road-has-fiji-by-the-throat/) - A major investigation for The Economist - one of the world's most prestigious magazines - has revealed the full extent of the hold on Fiji of the South Korean doomsday cult, Grace Road. As Daniel Kim - the local leader of Grace Road and son of its founder - continues to chalk up wins in
- [# A SUNDAY REFLECTION. LUKE 1:42 "BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN" (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-sunday-reflection-luke-142-blessed-are-you-among-women/) - The normal rules simply don't apply to the Queen of Tarts. Found guilty of drug-taking and illicit sex by her own party, stripped of its deputy leadership, stripped of her position as minister for women and children after making a pornographic video, and with evidence that she lied about her marital status to avoid declaring
- [# THE CORRUPT FIJI TIMES AGAIN TRIES TO REWRITE HISTORY (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-fiji-times-again-tries-to-rewrite-history/) - The decision by the ODPP to discontinue its prosecution of the Fiji Times over the vile hate speech against Muslims that it published in its iTaukei vernacular paper, Nai Lalakai, in 2016 has triggered more self-righteousness from the paper's Editor, Fred Wesley, and a tamani-sized lie. Here's what Fred Wesley says in today's edition in
- [# COULD THESE TWO PUBLICITY ADDICTS PERCHANCE BE RELATED?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/could-these-two-publicity-addicts-perchance-be-related/) - Much of the world was startled last week when rapper Kayne West's wife - the Australian model Bianca Censori -stripped off on the Red Carpet at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. But the decidedly odd couple didn't seem to realise it had all been done before. "Yo Dude, what's up man? Are you so
- [# THE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE GIVES THE QUEEN OF TARTS FREE REIN TO WAGE A VENDETTA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-peoples-alliance-gives-the-queen-of-tarts-free-rein-to-wage-a-vendetta/) - It beggars belief that the People's Alliance didn't gag Lynda Tabuya from further comment in exchange for keeping her in the Party and the parliament after the public furore over her pornographic nude video. Instead she is all over the media in Fiji and overseas threatening those she accuses of leaking the video with legal
- [# WHAT IS ON THE "SMOKING GUN" RECORDING THAT COST FICAC'S CHIEF INVESTIGATOR HIS JOB?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-is-on-the-smoking-gun-recording-that-cost-ficacs-chief-investigator-his-job/) - Answer: Something a number of prominent people who were present at FICAC on September 5, 2024, evidently don't want revealed. They include the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, her then lawyer and President of the Fiji Law Society, Wylie Clarke, and the Chief Registrar, Tomasi Bainivalu, making a rare visit to FICAC on behalf of the
- [# A MONUMENTAL POLITICAL OWN GOAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-monumental-political-own-goal/) - Well at least, Fiji, we now know why the People's Alliance and Coalition generally are so chronically hopeless at governing the country. The PAP can't even govern itself and the conclusive proof of that is its decision to allow Lynda Tabuya to remain a member and an MP and be part of its team to
- [# COMING SOON. THE EXTRADITEABLES. BUT WHY DID I MISS OUT ON A PART?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-the-extraditeables-but-why-did-i-miss-out-on-a-part/) - Grubsheet is seeking legal advice as to whether I can lodge a formal complaint with the authorities about the collateral damage of the Queen of Tarts, Lynda Tabuya, pursuing legal action against Victor Lal in Britain and Alex Forwood in Australia over her leaked video and not me. It is patently unfair that they get
- [# THE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE. THE PARTY OF DRUG TAKERS, ADULTERERS, LIARS AND HARLOTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-peoples-alliance-the-party-of-drug-takers-adulterers-liars-and-harlots/) - Well, Fiji, this is what we expected and this is what we got - the main political party in the country as a refuge for behaviour that would not pass muster outside a Texas whorehouse. Lynda Tabuya has been saved. But the People's Alliance has consigned itself to the outer reaches of the moral wilderness
- [# THE FIJI TIMES CARPETED FOR ITS AXE JOB ON JANET MASON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-times-carpeted-for-its-axe-job-on-janet-mason/) - Reports reaching Grubsheet say that the lawyer for the Fiji Times, Richard "I have the means and make mine Fiji Water" Naidu, has been given a hard time by Justice David Ashton Lewis at the Malimali Commission of Inquiry over the paper's disgraceful front page attack yesterday on the Counsel Assisting, Janet Mason. Richard Naidu
- [# THE CORRUPT FIJI TIMES PLAYS LAPDOG FOR A CORRUPT SYSTEM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-fiji-times-plays-lapdog-for-a-corrupt-criminal-justice-system/) - The corruption of Fiji's traditional newspaper of record under the Motibhai Patel family of Ba has reached a new low with an extraordinary front page attack on Janet Mason - the Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the "rotten " circumstances of the appointment of the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali. It is crude propaganda
- [# IN THE FACE OF GROSS INTIMIDATION, THE DPP AGAIN DELAYS HIS RETURN TO FIJI (UPDATED MON AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/in-the-face-of-gross-intimidation-the-dpp-again-delays-his-return-to-fiji/) - The vile threat by the rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to again suspend the DPP, Christopher Pryde, for misbehaviour on trumped-up charges of financial misconduct have had their inevitable conclusion, with Pryde declining to return to Fiji until the threat is lifted. The New Zealander was meant to return to Gunu House tomorrow to resume
- [# REVEALED. PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS IN THE BARBARA-GATE SCANDAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/revealed-primary-source-documents-in-the-barbara-gate-scandal/) - Grubsheet readers have a front row seat to aspects of the biggest showdown in recent Fijian judicial history - the request by Justice David Ashton-Lewis for the suspension of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner and the refusal by the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, to do so. As we
- [# THE CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF THE STATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corruption-at-the-heart-of-the-state/) - We now have a stand-off in the judiciary as the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, digs in to refuse the request by Justice David Ashton-Lewis of the Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner to suspend Malimali after she fired one of his witnesses.
- [# HEY FIJI. LOOK WHO'S "SUFFERING" BECAUSE OF THE 1987 COUPS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hey-fiji-look-whos-suffering-because-of-the-1987-coups/) - Not content with lying his way into power, presiding over a chaotic and dysfunctional government that is chronically unable to provide basic services and is mounting a full-blown assault on the integrity of the nation's institutions of state, Sitiveni Rabuka adds insult to injury by saying that he is personally "suffering" because of the 1987
- [# IS THE CHIEF JUSTICE SETTING A TRAP FOR THE DPP?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-the-chief-justice-setting-a-trap-for-the-dpp/) - Highly disturbing reports are reaching Grubsheet that the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, is telling associates that he intends to prevent the reinstated DPP Christopher Pryde's scheduled return to Gunu House on Monday at all costs. These reports are from credible sources and cannot be ignored. And one thing
- [# THE MALIMALI SUSPENSION REQUEST. HIS LORDSHIP AGAIN DRAGS HIS FEET](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-malimali-suspension-request-his-lordship-again-drags-his-feet/) - Just as it took him two weeks to decide whether to uphold the Pryde Tribunal ruling that the DPP be reinstated, the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, is stalling on agreeing to the request by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry to suspend the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali. The issues
- [# THE SIREN OF TUVALU HITS THE ROCKS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-the-siren-of-tuvalu-hits-the-rocks/) - The Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner has requested her immediate suspension after she fired her chief investigator over evidence he gave in four days of questioning at the Commission. The COI has also reported Barbara Malimali to the police for alleged breaches of the Crimes Act. Her
- [# SALESI TEMO AND BARBARA MALIMALI. BOTH OF THEM MUST GO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/salesi-temo-and-barbara-malimali-both-of-them-must-go/) - The revelation that the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the "rotten" circumstances of the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner requested that Malimali be stood down while it investigated her but that request was denied throws searing scrutiny on the role of the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo.
- [# BARBARA MALIMALI SACKS FICAC'S MANAGER INVESTIGATIONS (UPDATED TUES PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-malimali-sacks-ficacs-manager-investigations/) - There are reportedly sensational developments at the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. We are bound by law not to report the actual evidence, which Justice David Ashton-Lewis has declared secret and confined to the courtroom so as not to compromise a number of criminal investigations. But there
- [# "EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE". SITIVENI RABUKA POISED TO SAVE LYNDA TABUYA. AGAIN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/every-sinner-has-a-future-sitiveni-rabuka-poised-to-save-lynda-tabuya-again/) - With one pornographic nude video on thousands of Fijian phones and reportedly two more in existence but yet to publicly surface, the Prime Minister has given his strongest indication yet that he intends to keep Lynda Tabuya in the People's Alliance and will not expel her from the Party and the parliament. In an interview
- [# CORRECTION. GRUBSHEET WAS WRONG. MY APOLOGIES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/correction-grubsheet-was-wrong-my-apologies/) - We erroneously reported last Thursday (Jan 23) that John Rabuku was back running the ODPP in Christopher Pryde's absence despite the fact that three Supreme Court judges had ruled that he was unfit to head the state's prosecution service because he has been found guilty of professional misconduct. It transpires that while John Rabuku as
- [# MOSESE BULITAVU GIVES THE FINGER TO THE PRESIDENT, THE PRYDE TRIBUNAL JUDGES AND THE RULE OF LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mosese-bulitavu-gives-the-finger-to-the-president-the-pryde-tribunal-judges-and-the-rule-of-law/) - There is a stench of racism and lawlessness around the newly-created Minister for Environment and Climate, Mosese Bulitavu - who has flounced from party to party like the political whore that he is - as he sides with the notorious ODPP party animals, John Rabuku and Nancy Tikoisuva, against the newly reinstated DPP, Christopher Pryde.
- [# THE TIME BOMB TICKING UNDER LYNDA TABUYA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-time-bomb-under-lynda-tabuya/) - As the Prime Minister and the leadership of the People's Alliance make the agonising choice whether to risk splitting the party to accommodate the Queen of Tarts, Lynda Tabuya, the Oxford-based Victor Lal at Fijileaks reminds us of several issues bubbling under the surface of Tabuya's sordid life that threaten to erupt into fresh scandal.
- [# IS THE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE A MORAL SEWER AS WELL AS BEING INCOMPETENT?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-the-peoples-alliance-a-moral-sewer-as-well-as-being-incompetent/) - The moral authority of the People's Alliance to govern Fiji is very much on the line this weekend as the Fiji Times reports that the party is to retain the Queen of Tarts, Lynda Tabuya, as a member of the party and an MP despite her pornographic video, drug-taking, adultery with a married fellow minister
- [# THE MANGY OLD OWL AND THE SIMPERING PUSSYCAT (UPDATED FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-mangy-old-owl-and-the-simpering-pussycat/) - For everything that is wrong with Fiji, try wresting yourself away from reality from a moment to join the fantasy world of Sitiveni Rabuka and Vijay Narayan. The so-called "Straight Talk" program consists of a limp-wristed interviewer holding his subject "accountable" with such probing questions as "what are your thoughts on that?" And then the
- [# MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR THE QUEEN OF TARTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/moment-of-truth-for-the-queen-of-tarts/) - Speculation is rife that Lynda Tabuya is to be expelled from the People's Alliance and will lose her seat in parliament when the party's disciplinary committee reports today to the party leadership, including Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, on its deliberations over her infamous nude video. The former Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection was
- [# GUESS WHO'S BACK RUNNING THE ODPP? THE "CROONING STALLION" HIMSELF](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/guess-whos-back-running-the-odpp-the-crooning-stallion-himself/) - Back in June, three Supreme Court judges ruled that John Rabuku was ineligible to be acting DPP because he had been found guilty of professional misconduct and Rabuku was forced to relinquish the position. But seven months on, he is back running the ODPP in defiance of the Supreme Court while the substantive DPP, Christopher
- [# WHAT GAME IS WYLIE CLARKE PLAYING?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-game-is-wylie-clarke-playing/) - A statement by the President of the Fiji Law Society, Wylie Clarke, calling for the removal/stepping aside of Janet Mason - the Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the "rotten" circumstances of the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner - has raised a number of questions about Wylie Clarke's motives. Ever since the
- [# "BARBARA-GATE". AN OPEN LETTER TO WYLIE CLARKE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-gate-an-open-letter-to-wylie-clarke/) - Who is standing up for the rule of law in Fiji? Well, evidently not the Fiji Law Society when two of its luminaries - the current President, Wylie Clarke, and former President, Laurel Vaurasi, - were reportedly part of the gang of enforcers that descended on FICAC on "Black Thursday "(September 5) to strong-arm Francis
- [# EXPOSED. THE COALITION TRIES TO SHUT DOWN THE MALIMALI COMMISSION OF INQUIRY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exposed-the-coalition-tries-to-shut-down-the-malimali-commission-of-inquiry/) - The attempts to remove the Fiji-born New Zealand lawyer, Janet Mason, as Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the "rotten" circumstances surrounding the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner masks a much bigger story. That the government is trying to shut down the inquiry by Justice David Ashton-Lewis altogether. Yes, folks. Put an
- [# A DISGRACEFUL ATTEMPT TO HOODWINK THE FIJIAN PEOPLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-disgraceful-attempt-to-hoodwink-the-fijian-people/) - What game is the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, playing? He writes to the DPP, Christopher Pryde, giving him 14 days to respond to a request from the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, to suspend Pryde for misbehaviour. Under the constitution, that would, or at least should, result in the setting up of a judicial tribunal to
- [# DPP CANCELS RETURN TO FIJI AFTER THE CHIEF JUSTICE AGAIN THREATENS SUSPENSION FOR MISBEHAVIOUR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-christopher-pryde-cancels-return-after-the-chief-justice-again-threatens-suspension-for-misbehaviour/) - In a stunning last-minute development, the rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has given the DPP, Christopher Pryde, 14 days to give cause as to why he should not be suspended for a second time for misbehaviour on a complaint from Nancy Tikoisuva, the Acting DPP who is leading a mutiny in the ODPP and has
- [# LOOK WHO'LL BE BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT NEXT WEEK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/look-wholl-be-back-in-the-spotlight-next-week/) - Hands up those of you who've enjoyed the brief respite from having the Queen of Tarts, Lynda Tabuya, in your face on a daily basis, and especially her "bush" and butt. Ever since the People's Alliance began its disciplinary hearing into whether the ex-minister for bonking and weed should be expelled from the party, Tabuya
- [# IS THE CHIEF JUSTICE ABOUT TO SUSPEND THE DPP AGAIN FOR ALLEGED MISBEHAVIOUR?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-the-chief-justice-about-to-suspend-the-dpp-again-for-alleged-misbehaviour/) - As the furore rages over the senior staff rebellion at the ODPP over the reinstatement of Christopher Pryde, attention is starting to focus on the behind-the-scenes role of the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, and whether he is colluding with the acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, and the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, to thwart Pryde's return. The
- [# WHO'D HAVE THUNK...](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whod-have-thunk/) - ...that little old me would still be worthy of being attacked by the Office of the Director of Prosecutions when I am a grumpy septuagenarian with a modest little unpaid sidekick as a commentator on events in my country of birth. Mind you, they did get my surname wrong. -------------- ------------- No matter. My new-found
- [# THE AG TELLS JOHN AND NANCY TO SHUT UP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-ag-tells-john-and-nancy-to-shut-up/) - The Attorney General, Graham Leung, has ended his glaring silence on the reinstatement of Christopher Pryde as DPP to say that Pryde has been exonerated by the Tribunal that investigated allegations of misbehaviour against him and that his detractors in the ODPP must accept the fact that he is returning to Gunu House on Monday.
- [# THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY CUTS NANCY AND THE "CROONING STALLION" LOOSE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-law-society-cuts-nancy-and-the-crooning-stallion-loose/) - Wylie Clarke - the President of the Fiji Law Society representing the nation's lawyers in private practice - has strongly criticised the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, and her Deputy, John Rabuku, over their conduct in referring the substantive DPP, Christopher Pryde, to FICAC with unproven allegations after he was exonerated by a judicial Tribunal of
- [# NANCY (AND JOHN'S) ATTEMPTED COUP AT THE ODPP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/nancy-and-johns-attempted-coup-at-the-odpp/) - Much of the legal profession is aghast at events at the Office of the Director of Prosecutions, where a senior staff rebellion is in full swing against the exoneration of Christopher Pryde by the judicial Tribunal investigating him for misbehaviour and his reinstatement by the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu. The conduct of the Acting DPP,
- [# DEVELOPING STORY. THE PARTY DUO AT THE ODPP DIG IN (UPDATED WED PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/developing-story-the-party-duo-at-the-odpp-dig-in/) - An astonishing front-page story in today's Fiji Times suggests that the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, and her deputy, the Deputy DPP, John Rabuku, are not intending to meekly yield to the authority of the reinstated DPP, Christopher Pryde, who is scheduled to recommence work next Monday having been cleared of misbehaviour. The Fiji Times reveals
- [](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/23050-2/) - My apologies but preparations for the building work on our apartment have reached a critical stage and I will be unable to post for the time being. Please feel free to contribute anything of interest in the comments section below and I will endeavour to clear those comments when I can. Rest assured the interruption
- [# MUTINY ON THE SHIP OF FOOLS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mutiny-on-the-ship-of-fools/) - As the Coalition government drifts towards the rocks of next year's election, the Fiji Sun does us all a service today by identifying the 35 crew members of Sitiveni Rabuka's ship of state - his vastly expanded ministry - amid clear signs that leaks have sprouted in the vessel and some of the crew are
- [# AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED. UNTIL WE THREW THEM OUT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/and-we-laughed-and-we-laughed-and-we-laughed-until-we-threw-them-out/) - Guess what Fiji? As the Coalition government lurches from crisis to crisis and wallows in chaos and dysfunction, its supporters are starting to realise that the clock is ticking towards its day of judgment next year and are coming up with the most bizarre excuses for its failure. Mick "The Mouth" Beddoes - the one-time
- [# FOR FIJI'S MINORITIES, WE ARE NOW FOUR VOTES AWAY FROM CATASTROPHE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/for-fijis-minorities-we-are-four-votes-from-catastrophe/) - Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's tactic of using taxpayer funds to acquire the votes of previously independent former members of FijiFirst by buying them off with ministerial positions has now given him control of 70 per cent of the parliament. And he is just four votes short of the magic 75 per cent that will enable
- [# SITIVENI RABUKA BUYS SEVEN POLITICAL WHORES WITH YOUR MONEY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sitiveni-rabuka-buys-seven-political-whores-with-your-money/) - The Prime Minister confirms that Siromi Turaga is being removed as Justice Minister in today's cabinet reshuffle as he takes ministerial responsibility, among other things, for the Christopher Pryde debacle. But by far the most notable aspect of the reshuffle is that Sitiveni Rabuka is using your money to buy off seven members of the
- [# THE GRIN GETS WIPED OFF SIROMI TURAGA'S FACE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-grin-gets-wiped-off-siromi-turagas-face/) - Can you believe it, Fiji? As the Coalition government wallows in chaos and dysfunction, the man with the supercilious grin has succeeded in putting Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Christopher Pryde back on the front pages of both dailies today, with the ousted AG and the reinstated DPP on the front foot. It is the biggest resurrection
- [# A STUNNING VINDICATION. NOW FOR THE FALLOUT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-stunning-vindication-now-for-the-fallout/) - Christopher Pryde is preparing to return to Suva to resume his position as DPP after the belated release yesterday of the Tribunal Report finding him not guilty of misbehaviour. The report has sent shockwaves waves through the establishment but a great many Fijians have welcomed it as a much-needed reassurance that the rule of law
- [# CHRISTOPHER PRYDE REINSTATED AS DPP (UPDATED WITH LINK TO TRIBUNAL REPORT)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-christopher-pryde-reinstated-as-dpp/) - In sensational news, the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, has written to the DPP, Christopher Pryde, telling hm that the allegations of misbehaviour that have seen him suspended for the past 21 months have not been proven and that he is expected back in Suva to resume duty at Gunu House as the nation's Chief Prosecutor.
- [# THE SECRET INQUIRY WHOSE FINDINGS WE MAY NEVER KNOW (UPDATE: THOUGH WE KNOW WHO'S APPEARING AND WHEN)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-secret-inquiry-whose-findings-we-may-never-know/) - Just as we can have no confidence that Christopher Pryde will be reinstated as DPP after he was reportedly exonerated by the Tribunal investigating him for misbehaviour (see previous story), we can have no confidence that we will ever know the results of the current inquiry into the allegedly "rotten" circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment
- [# 14 DAYS OF CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION AND COUNTING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/14-days-of-constitutional-violation-and-counting/) - As the judicial inquiry begins today into the allegedly "rotten" circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner, it is also precisely two weeks (Dec 23) since the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, received the findings of the judicial inquiry into the allegations of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde. The reports that Christopher Pryde has
- [# THE OLD CROOK HAS GONE COMPLETELY BONKERS (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-old-crook-has-gone-completely-bonkers/) - Mahendra "Mac" Motibhai Patel - the "Chairman Emeritus" of the company that owns the Fiji Times - is back for the New Year continuing to misuse the nation's traditional newspaper of record to push his personal and political agenda. In today's edition, the only man in Fijian history never to serve the jail sentence he
- [# LOOK AT THE STATE OF THE FIJIAN MEDIA AND WEEP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/look-at-the-state-of-the-fijian-media-and-weep/) - 22 months ago, Stanley Simpson - the doyen of Fijian journalism and Secretary General of the Fiji Media Association - made an astonishing spectacle on what was then Twitter and is now "X" of shedding tears of joy over the abolition of the FijiFirst government's media laws. It was meant to herald in a new
- [# THE VIRGIN RAPE AND BASHING. A SHOCKING ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-virgin-rape-and-bashing-a-shocking-attempt-to-deceive/) - The charging of a Fijian man with one count of rape and one count of sexual assault puts an end to the pretence that the attacks on members of a visiting Virgin Airlines crew in Martintar on New Year's Eve were being sensationalised by the international media and weren't as serious as they were being
- [# BARBARA MALIMALI MUST BE STOOD DOWN IMMEDIATELY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-malimali-must-be-stood-down-immediately/) - There are a number of deeply troubling aspects about the announcement that the Commission of Inquiry into the allegedly "rotten" circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner begins its hearings on Monday with the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, as the first witness. For a start, the inquiry is being held in secret. No media,
- [# VIRG'IN ON THE RIDICULOUS. "BLINKY BILL" WARNS THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA NOT TO SENSATIONALISE THE RAPE OF AIRLINE PERSONNEL IN NADI (UPDATED FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/virgin-on-the-ridiculous-blinky-bill-warns-the-international-media-not-to-sensationalise-the-rape-of-airline-personnel-in-nadi/) - Within a month of castigating the international media for sensationalising the poisoning of guests at the Warwick Resort, the Minister for Tourism, "Blinky Bill" Gavoka, is at it again, warning them not to sensationalise the assault and rape of Virgin Airlines personnel visiting Nadi. Rather than expressing profound regret, apologising to the victims and saying
- [# MEMO PM: IF YOU WANT A FUTURE IN POLITICS, YOU'D BETTER STOP PLAYING VICTIM AND LEAD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/memo-pm-if-you-want-a-future-in-politics-youd-better-stop-playing-victim-and-lead/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, is on the front page of today's Fiji Sun with an astonishingly self-indulgent piece in which he ruminates about whether he will lead the People's Alliance into the next election. Self-indulgent because he is ultimately responsible for everything the Coalition touches turning to sh*t - whether it is the current
- [# A GOVERNMENT THAT PROMISED BETTER SHAMELESSLY UNDERMINES THE RULE OF LAW (UPDATED WED PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-government-that-promised-better-shamelessly-undermines-the-rule-of-law/) - FACT: At 3.30PM on Monday December 23, 2024 - nine days ago today - the Tribunal judges hearing the charge of misbehaviour against the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, presented their findings to the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu. FACT: The Constitution - the supreme law - stipulates that those findings must be made public and that
- [# THE PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT. TARDY, HEARTLESS AND CORRUPT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pedophile-president-tardy-heartless-and-corrupt/) - The President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, has waited for eight days to acknowledge receiving the recommendations of the Judicial Tribunal that investigated the allegations of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde. He received them at 3.30PM on Monday December 23. But it is only after Christopher Pryde wrote to him today asking him to make the
- [# THE DPP TO THE PRESIDENT: WHERE'S MY VERDICT?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-the-dpp-to-the-president-wheres-my-verdict/) - As if the Coalition doesn't have enough on its hands with one scandal in the form of Lynda Tabuya, a second scandal threatens to envelope it as it sits on the findings of the Tribunal that investigated the charge of misbehaviour against the Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde. Grubsheet reported two days ago that
- [# THE BIG LIE REACHES THE BIG APPLE. AND THE REST OF THE WORLD AS WELL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-big-lie-reaches-the-big-apple-and-the-rest-of-the-world-as-well/) - Lynda Tabuya's monstrous lasulasu-jhoot that her scandalous nude video was meant for her husband and is a private matter is now news across the globe in media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, including the New York Post and papers in Britain, Australia and elsewhere. So the disrepute that she has brought to the
- [# IT WASN'T FOR HER "HUSBAND" (THE ONE SHE TOLD FICAC SHE WAS DIVORCED FROM). IT WAS FOR A NEW LOVER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/it-wasnt-for-her-husband-the-one-she-told-ficac-she-was-divorced-from-it-was-for-a-new-lover/) - Guess what, Fiji. Lynda Tabuya wants you to believe that the nude video of her that half the country has seen, along with much of the diaspora and the world, was a private act for her "husband" - who she once claimed she had been divorced from for eight years but who she now calls
- [# THE DPP HAS BEEN "EXONERATED". SO WHERE IS THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-dpp-has-been-exonerated-so-where-is-the-official-announcement/) - The Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde - who has been suspended for the past 20 months - has been found "not guilty" of misbehaviour by the Tribunal judges investigating him led by Justice Anare Tuilevuka. According to an impeccable legal source, the tribunal members formally handed their finding to the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu,
- [# THE MUDDLE-HEADED THINKING OF CERTAIN OPINION LEADERS IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-muddle-headed-thinking-of-certain-opinion-makers-in-fiji/) - Lynda Tabuya as victim? That's the astonishing position being taken by a brace of prominent opinion leaders in Fiji who are arguing that she has been hard-done by. In doing so, they display a distinct lack of appreciation for the reality of modern-day politics and a very selective application of the facts. I hesitate to
- [# LYNDA'S PROBLEMS ARE ONLY JUST BEGINNING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lyndas-problems-are-only-just-beginning/) - Publicly humiliated and stripped of her cabinet position, the ex-Minister for Bonking and Weed has paid a heavy price for her inability to keep her clothes on and faces the ignominy of being the only People's Alliance MP on the backbench of the parliament - her salary more than halved to $95,000* and none of
- [# BREAKING NEWS... FINALLY THE QUEEN OF TARTS IS BEHEADED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-finally-the-queen-of-tarts-is-beheaded/) - The Prime Minister bows to the inevitable and sacks the Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, from the portfolio of Women, Children and Social Protection. Her latest sex video has been the final straw. It was always going to end this way. Because while Sitiveni Rabuka tried as hard as he could to keep
- [# THAT VIDEO. THE SHAMELESS HUSSY* "FORGIVES" US!](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/that-video-the-shameless-hussy-forgives-us/) - In an astonishing display of brazen arrogance, the Queen of Tarts and Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, has invoked the name of Jesus on the sacred commemoration of his birth to say that she "forgives" those who have shared the video of her cavorting stark naked that has gone viral and has been
- [# THE QUEEN OF TARTS. A CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-queen-of-tarts-a-christmas-gift-that-keeps-giving/) - I honestly thought I had seen it all with the outlaw and thug, Salesi Temo, confirmed this morning and sworn in as Chief Justice when he is a serial violator of the Constitution and totally unfit to be at the apex of the judiciary and the state. But no. We have a fresh scandal in
- [# LYNDA TABUYA SUNK BY A BIG LIE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuya-sunk-by-a-big-lie/) - As the nation gets into a Christmas tizz over the pornographic video of herself made by the Co-Chair of the Anti-Porn Task Force, Lynda Tabuya, there's a bigger story that is about to sink her political career once and for all - proof from her own mouth that she lied when she told FICAC and
- [# EXPOSED: LYNDA TABUYA AND BARBARA MALIMALI'S BIG LIE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exposed-lynda-tabuya-and-barbara-malimalis-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
- [# AT 10.00AM ON CHRISTMAS EVE, ALL HOPE FOR FIJI WAS LOST](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/all-hope-for-fiji-is-lost-at-10-00am-on-christmas-eve-2024/) - So the outlaw and thug, Salesi Temo, was sworn in as Chief Justice by the pedophile president, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, at State House at 10.00am this morning, confirming once and for all that an independent judiciary in Fiji is dead. It was the most perverse of occasions - Salesi Temo swearing on the Bible to
- [# AN URGENT PUBLIC APPEAL FOR INFORMATION ABOUT SALESI TEMO'S SHADOWY PAST](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-urgent-public-appeal-for-information-about-salesi-temos-shadowy-past/) - With the prediction by the prominent lawyer, Imrana Jalal, that the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is about to be confirmed in the substantive position as head of the judiciary, it has become a national imperative to establish the veracity of the widespread rumours about Temo's past before he entered the law. There are allegations,
- [# AS THE WOLVES CIRCLE FOR SALESI TEMO, THE SHE-WOLF, IMRANA JALAL, GOES IN FOR THE KILL (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/as-the-wolves-circle-for-salesi-temo-the-she-wolf-imrana-jalal-goes-in-for-the-kill/) - In an astonishing assault on the "New Order", the human rights lawyer, women's advocate and Asian Development Bank staffer, Imrana Jalal, has alleged corruption at the pinnacle of the state involving the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, and the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, that is sending shockwaves through the establishment and wider community. Jalal has
- [# A NAVY ALL AT SEA AND AN RFMF COMMANDER MORE INTO HUGS THAN DISCIPLINE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-navy-all-at-sea-and-an-rfmf-commander-more-into-hugs-than-discipline/) - Disturbing reports are reaching Grubsheet of widespread drunkenness on board the new Australian-donated Fiji Navy vessel that crashed into the dock in Suva at the end of its delivery voyage in a major embarrassment to the military and every Fijian. The majority of the ship's complement is said to have been so intoxicated that the
- [# NOSTALGIA AND VENDETTA. A SIGN OF THE TIMES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/nostalgia-and-vendetta-a-sign-of-the-times/) - More than four months after he last appeared in the opinion columns of the Fiji Times, lawyer Richard "I have the means" Naidu is back today with an extract of his eulogy at the funeral during the week of Barrie Sweetman - the lawyer who was once one of the luminaries at the law firm
- [# BARBIE'S NEW LOOK. HAUNTED. THE GAME IS UP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbies-new-haunted-look-the-game-is-up/) - Barbara Malimali has made the fatal mistake of believing the widespread stories that she is a protected species and will survive the current blowtorch being applied to her - frolicking in the pages of the mainstream media seemingly without a care in the world. But it is clearly starting to dawn on her that the
- [# FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS. RUSIATE TUDRAVU IS BACK (UPDATED FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/finally-some-good-news-rusiate-tudravu-is-back/) - The announcement that long-time career policeman Rusiate Tudravu is back as Commissioner of the Fiji Police is welcome news amid a tsunami of negative developments in the criminal justice system, which has been trashed by the Coalition government and the rogue head of the Judicial Services Commission, Acting Chief Justice Salesi Temo. Tudravu is a
- [# JUSTICE TUILEVUKA'S MOMENT OF TRUTH. PLUS THE LATEST ON BARBARA-GATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/justice-tuilevukas-moment-of-truth/) - The High Court judge, Justice Anare Tuilevuka, enjoys a reputation for competence and integrity that has long marked him out as an exceptional appointment to the bench. But he faces the biggest test of his career as head of the Tribunal investigating the allegation of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde, which will present its
- [# THE DANGER OF BEING OVERLY DEFENSIVE ABOUT THOSE PINA COLADAS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-danger-of-being-over-defensive-about-those-pina-coladas/) - In public relations, honesty is always the best policy, just as it is in every other facet of life. So kudos to the Tourism Minister, Viliame Gavoka, for not falling for the trap, in an ABC interview last night, of giving a blanket all clear for every Fijian resort after the poisoned drinks saga at
- [# AUSTRALIA ISSUES TRAVEL ALERT ABOUT CONTAMINATED DRINKS THREAT IN FIJI (UPDATED MON PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/australia-issues-travel-alert-about-contaminated-drinks-threat-in-fiji/) - A call to Grubsheet by a journalist from one of Australia's biggest media outlets about the "poisoned" drinks saga at the Warwick Hotel that has left four Australians critically ill underlines the vulnerability of Fiji's biggest revenue earner. Because one of the first questions is whether this was a one-off event or could visitors to
- [# WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture/) - Well, look at the empty pews in Centenary Methodist Church for a service of thanksgiving to mark the second anniversary of the Coalition government. The Prime Minister does a Semesa Karavaki and appears all in white as some kind of messiah but his followers seem to have better things to do. At the half way
- [# ANA V BARBARA. AND BOO BOO TO YOU*](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ana-v-barbara-and-boo-boo-to-you/) - The Ana-Barbara showdown reduces the criminal justice system in Fiji to a Hanna Barbera-like cartoon for kids and is highly damaging to public confidence in our institutions of state. Seriously. How much longer can this go on before the Coalition government brings an end to this sorry farce? I had planned not to post this
- [# THE OLD CROOK KEEPS SINGING FOR HIS PARDON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-old-crook-keeps-singing-for-his-pardon/) - Mahendra "Mac" Patel - the only person in Fijian history to be pardoned for a crime he committed without ever serving his prison sentence - is at it again, repaying the Coalition government that did so with yet another diatribe against the 2013 Constitution as part of its agenda to jettison the current supreme law.
- [# ON THE WARPATH. THE DPP SAYS THE OUTCOME OF HIS TRIAL IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/on-the-warpath-the-dpp-says-the-outcome-of-his-trial-is-a-foregone-conclusion/) - Fiji's international reputation and its ability to attract foreign investment and workers has taken a huge hit with the Coalition's treatment of the DPP, Christopher Pryde, who gives a "gloves off" interview to Radio New Zealand almost a week after the conclusion of the judicial Tribunal hearing into the allegations of misbehaviour against him that
- [# SALESI TEMO AND THE JSC NOW IN THE FIRING LINE OVER BARBARA-GATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/salesi-temo-and-the-jsc-now-in-the-firing-line-over-barbara-gate/) - For the first time, a senior public figure in the form of the Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, has raised questions in public about the failure of the Judicial Services Commission under its head - the rogue Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo - to properly manage the offices of state under its jurisdiction. It has been
- [# BYE-BYE BARBIE. A DEAD WOMAN WALKING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bye-bye-barbara-a-dead-woman-walking/) - The ongoing upheavals in the criminal justice system simply cannot continue if the Coalition is to have any chance of retaining public confidence in the rule of law, let alone of winning the 2026 election. And that means replacing Barbara Malimali, the one-woman stumbling disaster at FICAC, as well as the "guilty of professional misconduct"
- [# THE FACE OF A SHOCKING COLLAPSE OF GOVERNANCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-face-of-a-shocking-collapse-of-governance/) - The antics of the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, go from bad to worse as she breaks every single convention expected of those in high office and of someone currently under judicial investigation. The record shows that whatever emerges about the "rotten" circumstances of her appointment - the Prime Minister's description, not mine - Barbara Malimali
- [# WANT TO KNOW WHY STANDARDS OF PUBLIC CONDUCT HAVE COLLAPSED? IT STARTS AT THE TOP. (UPDATED TUES AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/want-to-know-why-standards-of-public-conduct-have-collapsed-it-starts-at-the-top/) - The Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has compounded the outrage of his false allegation of stealing against the DPP, Christopher Pryde, with an astonishing speech in which he defends the notion of convicted criminals becoming lawyers. The following is what Temo told the legal profession in remarks at the annual Attorney General's Conference that are
- [# REALITY CHECK. THE CONSTITUTION WILL NOT BE CHANGED ANY TIME SOON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/reality-check-the-constitution-will-not-be-changed-any-time-soon/) - The Attorney General, Graham Leung, reaches for the Bible for inspiration to tell the nation through both dailies today that it will be easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than to change the 2013 Constitution. The AG goes on to say that constitutional change is still on the "front burner"
- [# EXPOSED. THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE'S LIE ABOUT THE DPP "STEALING".](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-the-acting-chief-justices-lie-about-the-dpp-stealing-exposed/) - Of all the long line of witnesses at the Tribunal hearing the allegations of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde - from Pryde's driver to Charan Jeath Singh - the most important came late in the proceedings on Friday in the form of the Permanent Secretary for Finance, Shiri Gounder. Because in testimony that has
- [# THE FIJI SUN SHINES. SELECTIVELY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-sun-shines-selectively/) - Today's Fiji Sun carries a stinging editorial about the woeful performance of the Coalition government at the half-way point of its four year term that will be causing a great deal of consternation at the top. Because the next election is hurtling towards us and could potentially be held within 18 months. Sitiveni Rabuka's dream
- [# BOMBSHELL. CHRISTOPHER PRYDE FIGHTS BACK (UPDATED FRIDAY PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-christopher-pryde-fights-back/) - The suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, has reacted furiously to being cast as a thief by the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, at the Tribunal hearing into the allegations of misbehaviour against him, releasing hard evidence that Temo tried to pay him off with $200,000 of taxpayer funds to prevent the Tribunal from going ahead. In
- [# HIS LORDSHIP THE RESIDENT IMBECILE HAS THE TEMERITY TO TALK ABOUT FAIRNESS (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/his-lordship-the-resident-imbecile-has-the-temerity-to-talk-about-fairness/) - Salesi Temo - the Acting Chief Justice - already has a reputation for cantankerous outbursts and abject stupidity in the courts* and has put that reputation beyond doubt with his astonishing evidence to the Tribunal investigating the allegations of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde. It beggars belief that the most senior judge in the
- [# THE SHOW TRIAL AT THE KANGAROO COURT* CONTINUES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-show-trial-at-the-kangaroo-court-continues/) - The Christopher Pryde Tribunal has everything. Three judges who were told by the nation's lawyers that proceeding with the trial would be unfair but went ahead anyway. Those judges reportedly "stunned" by "evidence" that cannot be tested under normal cross-examination. And mainstream media outlets already spinning the proceedings or ignoring the trial altogether. Yet the
- [# AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM BACKS CHRISTOPHER PRYDE ON JAPANESE EMBASSY CONVERSATION (UPDATED 0200 TUES)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-backs-christopher-pryde-on-japanese-embassy-conversation/) - The ousted attorney general has given evidence at the judicial Tribunal hearing into the allegations of misbehaviour against the suspended DPP that at no stage did he discuss the CID investigation into him during their conversation secretly photographed by government informants at a Japanese Embassy function in February 2023. Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's evidence under oath at
- [# PRYDE TRIBUNAL DEFIES THE NATION'S LAWYERS AND PROCEEDS WITH HEARING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pryde-tribunal-defies-the-nations-lawyers-and-proceeds-with-hearing/) - In an astonishing and unprecedented step, the judicial Tribunal investigating the allegations of misbehaviour against the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, went ahead with its hearing today despite being told by the Fiji Law Society that it was "unfair" and violated his rights under the Constitution. The three judges led by Justice Anare Tuilevuka ignored a
- [# FIJI LAW SOCIETY REFUSES TO TAKE PART IN PRYDE TRIBUNAL HEARING (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-law-society-refuses-to-take-part-in-pryde-tribunal-hearing/) - With all eyes in the legal fraternity on whether the judicial Tribunal investigating the allegations of misbehaviour against Christopher Pryde will proceed with its scheduled hearing today without him after he withdrew from the process, another major obstacle has emerged at the last minute to throw the proceedings in doubt. Grubsheet understands that the Fiji
- [# THE ODPP 20 MONTHS AFTER CHRISTOPHER PRYDE WAS SUSPENDED. DYSFUNCTIONAL, UNDISCIPLINED, CHAOTIC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-odpp-20-months-after-christopher-pryde-was-suspended-dysfunctional-undisciplined-chaotic/) - Christopher Pryde is finally meant to have had his day in court tomorrow (Monday Dec 2) after he was suspended as DPP in April 2023 for alleged misbehaviour. But he won't be there when the investigating Tribunal of judges gathers at Veiuto and neither, Grubsheet understands, will the Fiji Law Society, which was invited to
- [# BEHIND THE TIMES BUT BETTER LATE THAN NEVER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/behind-the-times-but-better-late-than-never/) - The Fiji Times Sunday edition breathlessly splashes something we have all known since the middle of 2023 (or at least those who read Grubsheet) - the business relationship between the Minister for iTaukei Affairs, Ifereimi Vasu, and the convicted Chinese gangster - drug and people trafficker Jason Zhong. It's as if the whole story is
- [# STRANGE TIMES AT THE FIJI TIMES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/strange-times-at-the-fiji-times/) - How hard is it to find out who has written one of your main features? Insurmountably hard for the dear old things at Butt Street led by editor Fred Wesley. Today's front page tells us that Professor Wadan Narsey is going to give us his wisdom on "The Father of all Coups". But turn to
- [# THE PRYDE DEBACLE WORSENS AS RADIO NZ CASTS IT AS ANTI FOREIGNER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pryde-debacle-worsens-as-radio-nz-casts-it-as-anti-foreigner/) - As Grubsheet predicted, Fiji is now getting a caning in the international media for its treatment of the suspended DPP - New Zealander Christopher Pryde - who is alleging a conspiracy to remove him as part of a wider agenda to remove expatriates from the pubic sector in Fiji. And he clearly has a point,
- [# FAST-TRACK TO A DUMB COUNTRY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fast-track-to-a-dumb-country/) - It says a great deal about the lack of home-grown expertise in Fiji that the greatest living authority on the iTaukei language is a "vulagi" - the distinguished Dr Paul Geraghty, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of the South Pacific. As the nation from the top down wrings its hands about the miserable
- [# BOMBSHELL. DPP WITHDRAWS FROM TRIBUNAL PROCESS UNTIL HIS SALARY IS RESTORED (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-dpp-withdraws-from-tribunal-process-until-his-salary-is-restored/) - Christopher Pryde has released an explosive letter he has sent to the judicial Tribunal examining the allegations of misbehaviour against him, telling it that he won't be present or represented at the hearing that is finally scheduled to commence next Monday, December 2. The DPP says he cannot afford to adequately defend himself against what
- [# SEVEN DAYS TO THE PRYDE TRIBUNAL HEARING. YET MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/seven-days-to-the-pryde-tribunal-hearing-yet-many-questions-remain-unanswered/) - We are now a week out from the commencement of the Tribunal hearing into the allegations of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde, (Monday December 2), who was suspended an astonishing 20 months ago and is only now having his day in court. But will the hearing be going ahead? Because seven days out from
- [# YOUR TAXES AT WORK. JOHN AND NANCY LIVING IT UP AT THE ODPP'S CONFERENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/your-taxes-at-work-john-and-nancy-living-it-up-at-the-odpps-conference/) - It's a sign of how far standards of conduct have fallen under the Coalition that this is what occurred at the ODPP's Conference at week's end - the Deputy DPP, John Rabuku, "singing" while his ostensible boss, the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, lolls drunkenly beside him with a stack of liquor bottles in front of
- [# MAC THE CROOK SINGS FOR HIS PARDON AGAIN (UPDATED SUNDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mac-the-crook-sings-again-for-his-pardon/) - The most corrupt relationship in Fiji is arguably that between the Coalition and its principal media cheerleader, the Fiji Times, which routinely ignores or distorts legitimate news unfavourable to the government and has become a strong advocate for its agenda to junk the 2013 Constitution. This effort is led by the owners of the Fiji
- [# IS THIS THE WORST INSTANCE OF CORRUPTION IN FIJI?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/but-before-i-go-is-this-the-worst-instance-of-corruption-in-fiji/) - Most people who engage in corrupt conduct make some attempt to hide it but not Mahendra "Mac" Patel - the "Chairman Emeritus" of the Motibhai Group of companies who was recently pardoned by Sitiveni Rabuka's government without having to face punishment after being found guilty of abuse of office. As Grubsheet has detailed in several
- [# CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF THE STATE. PART TWO (UPDATED FRI PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/corruption-at-the-heart-of-the-state-part-two/) - Barbara Malimali - the FICAC Commissioner - and her friend John Rabuku - the Deputy DPP - have again shown the nation the middle finger and violated all accepted practice by appearing in public at the ODPP's annual conference when Rabuku is supposed to be investigating Malimali for alleged abuse of office. It beggars belief
- [# CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF THE STATE. PART ONE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/corruption-at-the-heart-of-the-state-part-one/) - The shocking revelation that Fijian passports have been issued to the children of Grace Road members without official authorisation is rocking the government to its core. But for once, the responsible minister, Pio Tikoduadua, is giving the nation a masterclass in proper conduct vastly at odds with others in the "New Order". Last night, the
- [# NO ROOM IN FIJI FOR BONNIE BLUE. BUT STILL ROOM IN THE CABINET FOR BONNIE BLACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-room-in-fiji-for-bonnie-blue-but-still-room-in-the-cabinet-for-bonnie-black/) - The hullabaloo over the presence in Fiji of two porn stars who invite 18-year olds to have sex with them for free as long as they are willing to be filmed in the act has brought out all the usual hypocrisy in a society that is obsessed with pornography. Poor Bonnie Blue - the professional
- [# THE COUNTDOWN TO 2026 BEGINS. BUT CAN OLD DOGS LEARN NEW TRICKS?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-countdown-to-2026-begins-but-can-old-dogs-learn-new-tricks/) - I don't know about you, Fiji, but my first reaction to the news that Mahendra Chaudhry and Savenaca Narube are joining forces for the 2026 election was decidedly "ho-hum". Neither Chaudhry's Labour Party nor Narube's Unity Party managed to scrape together the 5 per cent share of the vote needed to secure any seats in
- [# EXPOSED. THE CHIEFS USING THE 2013 CONSTITUTION AS A SCAPEGOAT FOR THEIR OWN FAILINGS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exposed-the-chiefs-using-the-2013-constitution-as-a-scapegoat-for-the-own-failings/) - It has taken an indigenous commoner, Jiaoji Savou, to call out the chiefs for their failures in the vanua and the way they are now blaming the 2013 Constitution for the ills of the iTaukei (see previous article). The following posting on Facebook is being widely shared, including beyond the favoured social media platform of
- [# THE HEREDITARY SWILL WANT TO WIND BACK THE CLOCK. THEY MUST BE RESISTED (UPDATED SUNDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-hereditary-swill-want-to-wind-back-the-clock-they-must-be-resisted/) - We asked yesterday for a precise explanation of the 33 clauses in the 2013 Constitution that the Chair of the Great Council of Chiefs, Ratu Viliame Seruvakula, says adversely affect the iTaukei and that the GCC wants altered. Well now we know two of them and there are 31 left to be explained. Yet already
- [# CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THESE (MOSTLY) OLD MEN ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/can-someone-please-explain-what-these-mostly-old-men-are-complaining-about/) - We know that many Fijians are unhappy that they didn't get the opportunity to be consulted about the contents of the 2013 Constitution - our supreme law. Before it was promulgated, the then attorney general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, held meetings all over the country telling people what was in it but no-one was given the opportunity
- [# THE ENABLERS WHO HAVE BROUGHT US A MONSTER AS HEAD OF STATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-enablers-that-have-brought-us-a-monster-as-head-of-state/) - The images of Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu's installation as President are stomach-churning for anyone with a sense of decency, as is the appalling hypocrisy of his inaugural address in which he said the chiefs should be "setting an example" to the Fijian people. The example the Tui Cakau has set is one that no Fijian should
- [# THE "PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT" TAKES OFFICE WITH A GROTESQUE MANIPULATION OF THE TRUTH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pedophile-president-takes-office-with-a-grotesque-manipulation-of-the-truth/) - The corruption of the nation's traditional newspaper of record, the Fiji Times, by its owners, the Motibhai family, that Grubsheet has repeatedly detailed has reached a new level of depravity with an astonishing front page "curtain raiser" on the installation today of the Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, as president of the Republic. It is
- [# NICE HAT. SHAME ABOUT THE HYPOCRISY (UPATED TUES)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/nice-hat-shame-about-the-hypocrisy/) - The Attorney General, Graham Leung, startled lawyers at the annual conference of the Fiji Law Society by saying there are far too many of them, many of them aren't any good and far too many of them are badly behaved. He revealed that 3,915 lawyers have had complaints lodged against them with the Legal Practitioners
- [# EXCLUSIVE: BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCKING AT STATE HOUSE, THE PALACE OF SLEAZE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exclusive-birds-of-a-feather-flocking-at-state-house/) - There seems to be no end to the unprincipled conduct of the Coalition government as reports reach Grubsheet that the serial sexual harasser, Pita Wise, has been earmarked for the job of official secretary to the incoming "pedophile president", Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu. Removed from the job of permanent secretary to the Prime Minister after Sitiveni
- [# EXCLUSIVE: THE CLANDESTINE PHOTOS THAT NAILED CHRISTOPHER PRYDE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exclusive-the-clandestine-photos-that-nailed-christopher-pryde/) - It has taken 21 months for the "smoking gun" photos to emerge of the conversation between Christopher Pryde and the ousted attorney general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, that triggered Pryde's suspension as DPP. But here they are - obtained by Grubsheet the best part of two years later and when there is still no judicial Tribunal hearing
- [# COMING TOMORROW. A SENSATIONAL NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE CHRISTOPHER PRYDE SUSPENSION SAGA, WHICH IS NOW ENTERING ITS 20TH MONTH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-tomorrow-a-sensational-new-development-in-the-christopher-pryde-suspension-saga-which-is-now-entering-its-20-month/)
- [# WITH RICHARD NAIDU AND THE NFP, THE JOKE IS ON US](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/with-richard-naidu-and-the-nfp-the-joke-is-on-us/) - The lawyer and NFP stalwart, Richard Naidu, isn't happy with Donald Trump's election victory and asks whether the American people are joking. Yet the Fijian people are equally entitled to ask Naidu whether he and his colleagues in the NFP are joking when they promised better standards of governance yet have fallen so woefully short
- [# THE RATS COME WITH THE TERRITORY. IN PRISON AND POLITICS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-rats-come-with-the-territory-in-prison-and-politics/) - Our "Afro-Fijian" Minister for Justice has given short shrift to the complaint by Mohammed Saneem - the former elections supervisor - of inhumane treatment while being held on remand, including rats running over him in a police cell. The following is the astonishing response from the human rodent, Siromi Turaga, to Saneem's complaint: "Everyone else
- [# THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION PROCESS BEGINS WITH A BIG LIE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-truth-and-reconciliation-process-begins-with-a-big-lie/) - The government's truth and reconciliation process is floundering even before it begins as today's Fiji Sun confirms the worst fears of those who are sceptical about Sitiveni Rabuka's own commitment to the truth and whether he can be trusted to fully account for his own role in the events of 1987 and 2000. It transpires
- [# WHY ARE INDO-FIJIANS LEAVING? IT ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-are-indo-fijians-leaving-it-isnt-rocket-science/) - Charan Jeath Singh has been warning privately for some time that Fiji is steadily being "depopulated" by the exodus of skilled workers and faces a crisis as the tax base needed to pay for everything steadily shrinks. Now the multi-millionaire Minister for Multi-Ethnic Affairs has gone public with those concerns, speaking of a "troubling decline"
- [# HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM MISS TRICK OR TREAT AND DRACULA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/happy-halloween-from-miss-trick-or-treat-and-dracula/) - Like many Fijians, I am still struggling to come to terms with why on earth the Assistant Minister for Women and Children would pose with a misogynist who compared a female predecessor as speaker of the parliament to anal sex and called her retarded and stands accused of defiling and impregnating a 15 year old
- [# SO A CONVICTED CRIMINAL AND ALLEGED CHILD ABUSER BECOMES OUR HEAD OF STATE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/so-the-pedophile-president-is-now-our-head-of-state/) - I have never been more ashamed to be Fijian. In fact it is the first time I have ever been ashamed to be Fijian in my seven decades on this earth. To have a convicted criminal at the apex of the state is intolerable. And I am speechless with rage that a government that promised
- [# TO YOU AND YOURS, DEAR READERS. MAY THERE BE LIGHT AMID THE DARKNESS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/19714-2/)
- [# WE HAVE BEEN BETRAYED, FIJI, BY THE VERY PEOPLE WE ELECTED TO KEEP THE BASTARDS HONEST. (UPDATED FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/we-have-been-betrayed-fiji-by-the-very-people-we-elected-to-keep-the-bastards-honest-naiqama-lalabalavu-will-be-the-next-president/) - So we are now set to get a convicted criminal, racist, misogynist and alleged child abuser as our next president and head of state when parliament meets to vote this morning. (11.00am) A curse on the NFP and those members of the former FijiFirst who have joined the People's Alliance in inflicting this monster on
- [# AN APPEAL TO EVERY MP. NAIQAMA LALABALAVU IS UNWORTHY TO BE HEAD OF STATE. YALO VINAKA, PLEASE REJECT HIM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-appeal-to-every-mp-naiqama-lalabalavu-is-unworthy-to-be-head-of-state-yalo-vinaka-please-reject-him/) - As members of parliament prepare to vote on a new president tomorrow, they have the fate of the nation in their hands and the solemn task of defining the kind of Fiji they and their fellow citizens who put them there will bequeath to our young people. Our Head of State ought to embody the
- [# IS JONE KALOUNIWAI THE MOST NAIVE MAN IN FIJI?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-jone-kalouniwai-the-most-naive-man-in-fiji/) - The RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, has long been raising eyebrows for the quality of some of his speeches, which are often laced with received "management speak" and lack the directness that is normally characteristic of military leaders. His recent public utterances about "leadership" have left many people shaking their heads wondering what
- [# JUST WHAT FIJIAN YOUNG PEOPLE NEED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/just-what-fijian-young-people-need/) - Brought to you by the makers of Coca Cola. A new Bounty Rum and Cola with 10 per cent alcohol by volume and a massive sugar hit. A great way to deal with problem drinking among the young and an explosion in the incidence of diabetes. The liquor companies are obliged by law to carry
- [# VALE LANCE SEETO. A CULINARY GIANT IN FIJI (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/vale-lance-seeto-a-culinary-giant-in-fiji/) - Chef Lance Seeto's many friends and admirers have been devastated by the news of his sudden passing and are anxiously awaiting a post mortem to establish the precise cause. Pray God that there are "no suspicious circumstances" - as the police parlance routinely puts it - because anxiety about security in Suva is ever present
- [# USP UNIONS SLINK BACK TO WORK (UPDATED TUE 29TH)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-usp-unions-slink-back-to-work/) - They have been very good at trumpeting their cause to local politicians and a pliant media. But the unions at the Wonderland of USP - led by Alice (Rosie Fatiaki) and the White Rabbit ( Reuben Colata) have been less keen to trumpet the fact that they have advised their members to return to work.
- [# RABUKA LEADS US INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rabuka-leads-us-into-the-heart-of-darkness/) - On Thursday, barring a miracle, parliament will vote for Fiji to have a convicted criminal, racist, misogynist and alleged child abuser as its next head of state. The determination of the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka to install his own chief - the Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu - as president and representative of all Fijians
- [# WHAT'S IN AN ENGLISH WORD? EVERYTHING. (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whats-in-an-english-word-everything/) - The word "Fijian" does not belong to the iTaukei. It is an English language word to describe people from Fiji, the place. Just as people from Australia are Australian, people from Canada are Canadian, people from America are American and so on. So it is bereft of logic for iTaukei to claim the word "Fijian"
- [# THE "OUCH" FACTOR BEGINS TO BITE AT USP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-ouch-factor-begins-to-bite-at-usp/) - At the end of the first week of the strike by USP unions pressing for the removal of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, even union leaders themselves are openly expressing their fear of the stoppage fizzling out. Why? Because as the days pass, it is starting to dawn on many of those on strike
- [# A RACIST, MISOGYNIST AND ALLEGED CHILD ABUSER FOISTED ON THE NATION AS HEAD OF STATE (UPDATED THURS)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-a-racist-misogynist-alleged-pedophile-foisted-in-the-nation-as-head-of-state/) - Fiji continues its march into the abyss as the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, confirms that he is proposing his own chief - the Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu - to be president of the republic after the incumbent, the Tui Macuata, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, withdrew from contesting a second term. Unless there is a rebellion
- [# TIS THE SEASON TO STRIKE AND GRUBSHEET IS GOING OUT TOO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/tis-the-season-to-strike-and-grubsheet-is-going-out-too/) - Powering down my laptop, packing my bag and heading off into the New South Wales "bush" for some R&R and to clear my head. It isn't strictly a strike because this worker doesn't get paid. But when you run a one man operation, it's important to occasionally walk away. And especially when the news is
- [# TODAY'S STRIKE AND DEMONSTRATION AT USP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/todays-strike-and-demonstration-at-usp/) - A video clip of the turnout at USP this morning as the two staff unions go on strike to demand the removal of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Posted without too much detail because Grubsheet has given the unions enough stick for withdrawing their services without rubbing it in by making the observation that
- [# USP UNIONS TO STRIKE ON FRIDAY. UPDATED THURS EVENING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-usp-unions-to-strike-tomorrow-friday/) - The two staff unions at USP haven't wasted any time in announcing strike action tomorrow, including a demonstration at the university's Laucala campus. The announcement - circulated to union members today - doesn't say whether it is a one day stoppage or the commencement of wider action. But USP is making it clear that salaries
- [# IT ISN'T ME, SAYS MANOA, AS SPECULATION RAGES (COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/it-isnt-me-says-manoa-as-speculation-rages/) - Manoa Kamikamica goes public saying he is sweet with the Prime Minister as the nation speculates about the identities of those Sitiveni Rabuka was referring to when he revealed a split in the ranks of the People's Alliance. So who are the rebels and would-be defectors? In the absence of them being outed or identifying
- [# THE PM REVEALS A SPLIT IN THE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE (UPDATED THURS PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pm-reveals-a-split-in-the-peoples-alliance/) - It cannot be a surprise to anyone given the chaos in the Coalition government that even some members of the dominant partner - the People Alliance - have had enough. But it's certainly surprising that the Prime Minister himself has gone public revealing that some PAP members are intending to leave and form an alternative
- [# USP. UTTERLY SELFISH PEOPLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/usp-utterly-selfish-people/) - So the unions at USP are going ahead with their strike demanding the removal of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia - jeopardising the education of the region's young people to assert their right to choose their boss. The Fat Cats have got their pay rises but it isn't enough. So they are withdrawing their
- [# THE ACTING CJ STEPS UP HIS ASSAULT ON THE RULE OF LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-acting-cj-steps-up-his-assault-on-the-rule-of-law/) - Not content with debasing the entire criminal justice system, the Acting Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, now wants to debase the standards of conduct of members of the legal profession. The increasingly erratic Justice Temo says the Legal Practitioners Act is unnecessarily punitive, "is very much against lawyers" and
- [# HAVE THE RUMBLINGS IN THE RFMF BEGUN AGAIN?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/have-the-rumblings-in-the-rfmf-begun-again/) - Long-time readers of Grubsheet will recall that I came under withering attack in the aftermath of the 2022 election for suggesting that elements in the RFMF were extremely unhappy about some of the new government's policies and conduct. I came in for particular criticism for publishing (on my old Facebook page) a series of purported
- [# SELF-DELUSION WELL AND TRULY SETS IN (UPDATED SUN AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/self-delusion-well-and-truly-sets-in/) - What are we to make of Saturday's address by the Prime Minister to the annual conference of the National Federation Party? One word sums it up: DESPERATION. The NFP leader, Biman Prasad, is desperate to keep Sitiveni Rabuka on side so that the Prime Minister throws him a life-line in any inquiry into the circumstances
- [# SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH. SITIVENI RABUKA'S ROLE IN THE 2000 MUTINY (A DETAILED WEEKEND READ)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/search-for-the-truth-sitiveni-rabukas-role-in-the-2000-mutiny-a-detailed-weekend-read/) - A Truth and Reconciliation Commission is one of the Coalition's signature policies as its constituent parties turn their attention to the 2026 elections. Yet few people believe we will ever get to the truth about precisely who was behind the three major upheavals in national life since Independence - the Sitiveni Rabuka-led coups of 1987,
- [# BARBARA-GATE. RIDING IT OUT ISN'T AN OPTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-gate-riding-it-out-isnt-an-option/) - To its credit, the Fiji Sun rips into the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, in its Saturday editorial, accusing him of dragging his heels in fulfilling his promise to conduct an official inquiry into what Rabuka himself has described as the "rotten" process associated with the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. Clearly, the government's
- [# NO HEALING WITHOUT JUSTICE AND PROPER CONDUCT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-healing-without-justice-and-proper-conduct/) - The former prime minister and Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, nails it when he suggests the "nation is in denial" about a "government rocked by scams and scandals" that has left the electorate in "utter disgust". To underline his point came confirmation of Grubsheet's report three days ago that Lynda Tabuya would be guest of
- [# FIJI DAY. HERE'S TO SOME REFLECTION ALONG WITH THE CELEBRATIONS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/happy-fiji-day-heres-to-a-day-of-celebration-and-reflection/) - Wherever you are in Fiji or the diaspora, Grubsheet sends greetings to every Fijian on the occasion of our national day. This is not a time for politics but to make a concerted effort, irrespective of our differences, to think of the things that bind us together as a nation and how we can all
- [# THE CORRUPT DRUNK WISHES US ALL HAPPY FIJI DAY. SERIOUSLY, BARBARA. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-corrupt-drunk-wishes-us-all-happy-fiji-day-seriously-barbara-who-the-hell-are-you/) - Barbara Malimali is under investigation for abuse of office as Chair of the Electoral Commission after a colourful career that includes a drunken episode on a beach in Tuvalu and in a judge's bed that led to a criminal trial being aborted. She has also displayed corrupt conduct as the newly-appointed Commissioner of FICAC in
- [# THAT PHOTO AND A GOVERNMENT IN TOTAL DISARRAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/that-photo-and-a-government-in-total-disarray/) - For the second day running, the Fiji Sun has devoted its front page to "that photo" - the scandal of Siromi Turaga, John Rabuku and Barbara Malimali socialising with each other when they are investigating each other for alleged abuse of office. Or more specifically, John Rabuku - the Deputy DPP - is meant to
- [# IS THIS TO BE THE LATEST INSULT FROM THE COALITION? (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-this-to-be-the-latest-insult-from-the-coalition/) - Reports from Levuka speak of community disquiet and outrage that Lynda Tabuya - the multi-millionaire Queen of Tarts and Minister for Bonking and Weed - is to be the official guest at Fiji Day celebrations where it all began - the site of the signing of the Deed of Cession in 1874. Grubsheet can't find
- [# "STAND THEM DOWN". TURAGA, RABUKU AND MALIMALI AT THE CENTRE OF A FRESH COALITION SCANDAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/stand-them-down-turaga-rabuku-and-malimali-at-the-centre-of-a-fresh-coalition-scandal/) - Grubsheet's story on Sunday about the Minister for Justice, the Deputy DPP and the Commissioner of FICAC fraternising socially amid official investigations involving all three has triggered a call by the Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, for their suspension. Seruiratu says the same standard that applied to DPP Christopher Pryde when he was suspended for holding
- [# COMING SOON. WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT RABUKA'S ROLE IN 2000. BUT WILL HE TELLS US THE WHOLE TRUTH?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-what-we-already-know-about-rabukas-role-in-2000-but-will-he-tells-us-the-whole-truth/) - The plans for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hide an uncomfortable fact - that many people involved in the events of 1987, 2000 and 2006 don't want the truth revealed at all. Because it would expose a whole lot of hitherto secret agendas and unmask some of the plotters who have yet to be unmasked.
- [# CAUGHT ON CAMERA TOGETHER. THE INVESTIGATOR AND THE INVESTIGATED (UPDATED SUN PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/caught-on-camera-together-the-investigator-and-the-investigated/) - There is one rule in Fiji for the white man and another for the iTaukei luminaries of the Coalition. And here's the absolute proof - the Deputy DPP, John Rabuku, consorting with the new FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, who he is currently "investigating" for alleged abuse of office. 18 months ago, Christopher Pryde was suspended
- [# THE COMING WHITEWASH OF A VERY BLACK EPISODE (UPDATED SAT PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coming-whitewash/) - So next Tuesday, Cabinet will decide precisely who is going to investigate the "rot" over the appointment of Barbara Malimali at FICAC and the terms of reference of the "inquiry" into the sensational allegations of ministerial interference at the corruption watchdog. In the cabinet room will be the seven ministers who were being investigated under
- [# READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY, LYNDA?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/read-any-good-books-lately-lynda/) - Headline of the week was surely the Fiji Times front page revealing that the data Fijians chew up watching pornography is the equivalent of reading 100-million books. We keep using the old term "only in Fiji" in all sorts of contexts these days. Yet only in Fiji would the Co-Chair of the government's Task Force
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER'S ASSURANCES ARE WORTHLESS (UPDATED FRIDAY LUNCHTIME)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-ministers-assurances-are-worthless/) - Francis Puleiwai would do well to take no notice of the Prime Minister's assurances that she would be safe returning to Fiji to give evidence at the forthcoming inquiry into the "rot" of Barbara Malimali's appointment at FICAC. There is ample evidence that Sitiveni Rabuka doesn't have control over instruments of state such as the
- [# MANOA KAMIKAMICA'S SUBTLE BRAND OF INTIMIDATION (UPDATED THURS PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/manoa-kamikamicas-subtle-brand-of-intimidation/) - 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 that
- [# PLEASE EXPLAIN. AN OPEN LETTER TO RICHARD NAIDU](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/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
- [# TO STOP THE "ROT", THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE MUST BE REMOVED (UPDATED MON PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/to-stop-the-rot-the-acting-chief-justice-must-be-removed/) - 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
- [# 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)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-times-devotes-three-pages-to-the-ficac-scandal-which-must-mean-barbie-is-toast/) - 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
- [# SCANDAL. THE PAST CATCHES UP WITH BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED SAT AM AS FRANCIS PULEIWAI SPEAKS OUT FROM AUSTRALIA)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sex-scandal-the-past-catches-up-with-barbara-malimali/) - 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
- [# MEMO COMMANDER CUDDLY: NEVER SAY "NEVER AGAIN"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/memo-commander-cuddly-never-say-never-again/) - 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
- [# JUSTICE FIJI STYLE. JUDGES "INVITING OPINIONS FROM SELECTED STAKEHOLDERS" (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/justice-fiji-style-judges-inviting-opinions-from-selected-stakeholders/) - 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 (September 23) - has now been
- [# A NATION THAT DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR THROW UP (UPDATED TUES PM WITH SENSATIONAL FURTHER DETAIL)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-nation-that-doesnt-know-whether-to-laugh-or-throw-up/) - 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
- [# THE CROOK "MAC" PATEL, HIS CORRUPT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PM AND HIS CORRUPT NEWSPAPER, THE FIJI TIMES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/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"
- [# H.E THE PRESIDENT HUMILIATED BY HIS LORDSHIP THE HUMAN CAR CRASH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/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
- [# WHO IS RUNNING THE NATION? RABUKA OR RABUKU?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/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
- [# GEORGE SPEIGHT: THE FIRST PHOTO. AND A PACK OF LIES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/george-speight-the-first-photo-and-a-pack-of-lies/) - This is the first photo of the 2000 rebellion leader, George Speight, after his release from prison as the police issue a statement reassuring the Fijian people about their safety amid widespread fear and apprehension about what happens next. The Coalition government has clearly been stung by community reaction to the freeing of Speight -
- [# THE SPEIGHT RELEASE. MORE CAUSE FOR DIVISION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-speight-release-more-cause-for-division/) - The notion that a process of national healing will be triggered by the release of George Speight, Shane Stevens and the other low-lifes associated with the rape of democracy and the killing of innocent soldiers in 2000 is both a fantasy and shockingly naive. Because public reaction to freeing these murderous thugs is already sparking
- [# GEORGE SPEIGHT PARDONED AND RELEASED. THE FINAL STRAW. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN. IF YOU CAN (UPDATED FRI AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/george-speight-pardoned-and-released-the-final-straw-get-out-while-you-can-fiji-is-finished/) - So the leader of the 2000 rebellion who stormed the parliament and held the then prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, and other MPs hostage for 56 days is a free man, again walking the streets of Suva. So is Shane Stevens, the leader of the 2000 mutiny in the RFMF in which three loyalist soldiers were
- [# A FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN, PRIME MINISTER (UPDATED THURS AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-fish-rots-from-the-head-down-prime-minister/) - Sitiveni Rabuka has developed a particular talent for distancing himself from any of the Coalition government's successive disasters and "Barbara-gate" - the scandal at FICAC - is no exception. As usual, it is everyone else's fault but his own. "Shock, horror. I had no idea what was going on. Why didn't anyone tell me? Now
- [# THE CHEEK OF THESE BASTARDS. NOW THEY'VE SOOLED THE POLICE ONTO FRANCIS PULEIWAI. CORRUPT TO THE CORE (UPDATED WED PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-cheek-of-these-bastards-they-are-corrupt-to-the-core/) - Imagine a bunch of political mobsters busting their way into any nation's "independent" corruption watchdog, installing one of their own at the top and forcing the resignation of the existing head who was investigating nine of these mobsters and was about to charge one of them and put him before a judge. Welcome to Fiji,
- [# BARBARA-GATE. PREMILA TAKES A BLOWTORCH TO THE COALITION'S CORRUPTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-gate-premila-takes-a-blowtorch-to-the-coalitions-corruption/) - Premila Kumar has established herself as definitely someone to watch as other former FijiFirst politicians struggle to carve out meaningful roles as independents in this parliament following the party's implosion and position themselves for the next election. The former senior minister has gone on the attack against the Coalition's conduct in a well argued article
- [# BARBARA-GATE. IT ISN'T GOING AWAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-gate-it-isnt-going-away/) - Except over at the Fiji Times, which doesn't mention it at all and is more interested in the man who was about to be charged by FICAC and was spared by Barbara Malimali wanting the rest of us to be as rich as he is. That body language. Oh dear. Below is the petition for
- [# RAMBO'S PLAN TO GO ON AND ON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rambos-plan-to-go-on-and-on/) - Manoa Kamikamica will be in despair at the Prime Minister's announcement that he intends to contest the 2026 election - assuming there isn't one before that - because his own leadership aspirations have been scuttled by the old man for the foreseeable future. Sitiveni Rabuka turned 76 on Friday and will be 78 when the
- [# GRUBSHEET IS TRAVELLING. BACK MONDAY.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/grubsheet-is-travelling-back-monday/)
- [# THE COALITION AND ITS FICAC STOOGE. STUPID AS WELL AS SINISTER (UPDATED FRI PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-and-its-ficac-stooge-stupid-as-well-as-sinister/) - The FICAC scandal is now front page news in the two main dailies on Friday, though neither have Grubsheet's exclusive from yesterday that using her multiple entry visa for Australia, the former FICAC deputy commissioner has fled Fiji and is now reportedly in Brisbane beyond the reach of her tormentors. (see previous story) Francis Puleiwai
- [# EXCLUSIVE: FRANCIS PULEIWAI REPORTEDLY FLEES FIJI AS THE NET CLOSES IN ON HER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/francis-puleiwai-flees-fiji-as-the-net-closes-in-on-her/) - Confirmation from multiple sources that the former Deputy Commissioner of FICAC, Francis Puleiwai, fled Fiji soon after she resigned last Thursday, fearing arrest and following threats against her family. In response to a Grubsheet appeal for information about her whereabouts, we are told that she is now in Brisbane, Australia, as the Minister for Justice,
- [# AND THESE PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS. SAVAGES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/and-these-people-call-themselves-christians-savages/) - NOTE TO READERS: Grubsheet is seeking confirmation of the rumours that Francis Puleiwai has left for Australia. There must someone who reads GS who knows her and her movements. Siromi Turaga is making threatening noises in today's Fiji Sun about charging someone over leaks from FICAC. And anything can happen now given the government's desperation.
- [# THE SCARY BARBIE DOLL CONFIRMS OUR WORST FEARS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-scary-barbie-doll-confirms-our-worst-fears/) - In the latest grim instalment of Barbara-gate - the unrelenting and depressing assault on the integrity of the criminal justice system in Fiji - the newly installed FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, confirms that she and she alone will decide which cases already before the corruption watchdog will proceed and which she will terminate. No-one in
- [# THE SHOCKING DOUBLE STANDARDS OF THE COMMANDER OF THE RFMF (UPDATED WED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-shocking-double-standards-of-the-commander-of-the-rfmf/) - Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai - the RFMF Commander - increasingly gives the appearance of being a tin soldier* who seems obsessed with truth and reconciliation within his own ranks in which hard men sit around in tears apologising for their mutinous activities and are then forgiven. I kid you not. Because by Jone Kalouniwai's
- [# THE FACTS. WHY THE COALITION SENT THEIR GOON INTO FICAC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-facts-why-the-coalition-sent-their-goon-into-ficac/) - There is a great deal misinformation being wilfully spread by the Coalition government and its supporters about its shameless attack on FICAC, the installation of one of its stooges, Barbara Malimali, as Commissioner and the resignation of the estimable Francis Puleiwai as Deputy Commissioner because she refused to serve someone under active FICAC investigation. The
- [# BARBARA-GATE. THE FINAL STRAW FOR MANY OF THE NATION'S MOVERS AND SHAKERS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-gate-the-final-straw-for-many-of-the-nations-movers-and-shakers/) - There's a delicious irony in the owner of Fantasy Island going public in spectacular fashion on the front page of Tuesday's Fiji Sun to shake the Coalition government out of its fantasy that it can get away with installing its hand-picked lackey, Barbara Malimali, as FICAC Commissioner and destroy any semblance of independence at the
- [# OUR BANANA REPUBLIC IN THE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT 2](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/our-banana-republic-in-the-global-spotlight-2/) - Information is starting to flow into Grubsheet in response to our appeal for whistleblowers to join us in exposing the corruption of the Coalition government in the wake of its assault on FICAC and the installation of its stooge, Barbara Malimali, to block the investigations of Coalition ministers. We will be publishing these stories -
- [# OUR BANANA REPUBLIC IN THE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT 1](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/our-banana-republic-in-the-global-spotlight-1/) - The BBC - the world's most trusted information source and Grubsheet's former employer - turns its spotlight on the debacle over the Miss Universe competition in Fiji and its overtones of racism and corruption. Every time an article like this appears in the global media, Fiji's reputation takes a battering . And as successive readers
- [# LET'S DO IT FOR FRANCIS! GRUBSHEET LAUNCHES A NETWORK OF WHISTLEBLOWERS TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lets-do-it-for-francis-grubsheet-launches-a-network-of-whistleblowers-to-protect-our-democracy/) - Sunlight is the best disinfectant, goes an old saying. And as Fiji descends into a dark new era of corruption with the Coalition's naked attack on FICAC by installing one of its stooges as Commissioner, it is time to shine a more powerful light on the darkest recesses of government - our offices of state
- [# THE GAME IS UP, PRIME MINISTER. BACK OFF OR DIE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-game-is-up-back-off-or-die/) - Saturday's editorial in the Fiji Sun is a red letter day for Fiji - the first time one of the two daily national newspapers has called for the "power-drunk" Coalition government to step down and for the Prime Minister to be removed, describing him as "no longer fit for the job". 21 months into its
- [# BARBARA-GATE. THE " NEW BROOM" AG TURNS OUT TO BE DR EVIL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/barbara-gate-the-new-broom-ag-turns-out-to-be-dr-evil-personified/) - The Attorney General, Graham Leung, has raised serious doubts about his commitment to the rule of law with a naked attack on the independence of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption, accusing it of a "witch-hunt" against its new Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, who was installed despite being the subject of a FICAC investigation herself. Leung
- [# BOMBSHELL RESIGNATION OF FICAC DEPUTY COMMISSIONER. WHO FORCED HER OUT? AND WHO TOLD HER TO "LAY OFF" CHARGING BIMAN PRASAD?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bombshell-resignation-of-ficac-deputy-commissioner-who-forced-her-out-and-who-told-her-to-lay-off-charging-biman-prasad/) - The Deputy FICAC Commissioner, Francis Puleiwai, has resigned at the end of a tumultuous day in which she ordered the arrest of her new boss, Barbara Malimali, said she was planning to arrest Biman Prasad and then told the media that she had been ordered to "lay off' charging the Deputy Prime Minister and NFP
- [# THE INDEPENDENCE OF FICAC SHAMELESSLY VIOLATED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-independence-of-ficac-shamelessly-violated/) - We now know that the State is rotten to the core in Fiji as the FICAC Deputy Commissioner tells the nation that she has been told to "hold off" on charging the Deputy Prime Minister and NFP leader, Biman Prasad, with abuse of office. No-one has the right to tell FICAC anything. It is an
- [# BREAKING NEWS...BIMAN PRASAD IS REPORTEDLY BEING CHARGED BY FICAC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-leaked-letter-circulating-in-suva-says-biman-prasad-is-being-charged-by-ficac/) - The Deputy Prime Minister and NFP leader, Biman Prasad, is being charged by FICAC, according to a letter sent by the corruption watchdog to the Minister for Justice, Siromi Turaga, that has been leaked to Grubsheet. It follows a FICAC investigation into allegations that have been comprehensively covered by Victor Lal at Fijileaks over Biman
- [# QUESTIONS FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/questions-for-the-attorney-general/) - The Coalition government is maintaining the pretence that it has nothing to do with appointments made by the Judicial Services Commission * amid a national furore over the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner when she is under active investigation by the corruption watchdog. It is a complete nonsense and a smoke screen behind
- [# THE COALITION'S CORRUPTION JUST GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalitions-corruption-just-goes-from-bad-to-worse/) - So Barbara Malimali has been appointed Commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption when she is actively under investigation by FICAC for alleged abuse of office. O vinaka Prime Minister and Coalition government. Is this really the change we voted for? You mangy, mongrel dogs are much worse than the people you replaced when
- [# YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT AS FRANK AND AIYAZ FIGHT BACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/your-front-row-seat-as-frank-and-aiyaz-fight-back/) - As he indicated publicly last month, the prominent lawyer, Devanesh Sharma, has commenced proceedings on behalf of Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum challenging the prosecutions against them as unlawful on the basis that the Acting DPP, John Rabuku, was illegally appointed last October and his successor, Nancy Tikoisuva, is also not entitled to hold her
- [# TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION? LET'S JUST BLAME THE BRITISH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/truth-and-reconciliation-lets-just-blame-the-british/) - Regular readers of Grubsheet may have realised by now because of my silence on the issue that I have little or no time for a national truth and reconciliation commission as a panacea for the nation's ills. For a start, Fiji is too much of a nation of liars and practitioners of liumuri and masi
- [# ONLY IN FIJI, EH? A NATION THAT CAN'T EVEN ORGANISE A BEAUTY PAGEANT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/only-in-fiji-eh-a-nation-that-cant-even-organise-a-beauty-pageant/) - We've all heard the old sayings. Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. Couldn't organise a f**k in a brothel. Couldn't organise a bunfight in a bakery. Couldn't run a bath. But a new standard of breathtaking incompetence has been set in Fiji with the failure of the local Miss Universe people to properly organise
- [# THE PACIFIC'S BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pacifics-betrayal-of-democracy-and-what-happens-next/) - The decision by the 18 members of the Pacific Islands Forum to give in to the bully boy tantrum by the Chinese dictatorship to remove all reference to Taiwan in the final communique of its Nuku'olofa summit is a new low for the region. Not least because we cannot credibly oppose the imposition of dictatorships
- [# THE KALAVATA KILLER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-kalavata-killer/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has just embarrassed several of his senior ministers including Manoa Kamikamica and Siromi Turaga by effectively signalling the end of the practice of them dressing in matching outfits with their work colleagues and wives. In doing so, the PM has done a huge service to the cause of good taste
- [# UNCLE COLIN HITS BACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/uncle-colin-hits-back/) - It is decidedly odd that it has taken so long for Colin Deoki "of Australia" to respond to Grubsheet's criticism of his call for the paramountcy of the iTaukei to be reestablished in a revised Constitution and for non- indigenous Fijians to again be known as Fiji Islanders. Yes, I hit him hard in these
- [# PIF LEADERS CAVE IN TO CHINA'S DEMAND TO ALTER FINAL COMMUNIQUE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pif-leaders-cave-in-to-chinas-demand-to-alter-final-communique/) - An update to our previous story...the 18 members of the Pacific Islands Forum have bowed to China's demand to alter their final communique from their Nuku'olofa summit to remove a reference to Taiwan as a development partner after a tantrum by the Chinese Special Envoy to the Pacific. Qian Bo angrily demanded that the communique
- [# BALD-FACED LIES AND A BIG TANTRUM. WHY CHINA CANNOT BE TRUSTED IN THE PACIFIC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bald-faced-lies-and-a-big-tantrum-why-china-cannot-be-trusted-in-the-pacific/) - An extraordinary drama is being played out at the end of the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Tonga as China demands that the PIF leaders remove all reference to Taiwan in the final communique despite the fact that one has been there in every communique for the past three decades. The Chinese Special Envoy to
- [# ROLLED GOLD AMID THE MOUNTING DESPAIR (UPDATED SATURDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rolled-gold-amid-the-mounting-despair/) - Vinaka, Truth for Fiji, for a brilliant cartoon and a big laugh to stave off the national gloom. TGIF. Thank God it's Friday, Fiji. Because I don't know about you but this week has been the utter pits. T4F - the veteran cartoonist - has produced a cracker here. What about the photo of Aseri
- [# THE NEW KING AND QUEEN OF PORN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-new-king-and-queen-of-porn/) - The People's Alliance is set to become the Porn Alliance and the Hangman's Alliance as the Queen of Porn, Lynda Tabuya, joins her death penalty facilitator, Manoa "I'll work harder if I'm paid more" Kamikamica, as co-leaders of a new National Porn Task Force. Kamikamica's expertise isn't immediately obvious unless check suits are your thing.
- [# WHEN ONE PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-one-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/) - This is the image that shows just how far Australia is prepared to go to ingratiate itself with the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, after he praised China at the Pacific Islands Forum and against all the evidence, said it had no designs in the region. The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is doubtless grateful to
- [# JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED. A MAGISTRATE SPEAKS OUT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/justice-delayed-is-justice-denied-a-magistrate-speaks-out/) - It is seven weeks tomorrow since the Prime Minister said the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, was entitled to continue to be paid his salary - which was summarily cut off by the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo - and it still hasn't been restored. It is almost 17 months since Christopher Pryde was suspended for
- [# PRESSURE MOUNTS ON THE PM TO REMOVE LYNDA TABUYA (UPDATED WED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pressure-builds-on-the-pm-to-remove-lynda-tabuya/) - The clamour for the removal of the Minister for Bonking and Weed for defying Sitiveni Rabuka and doubling down on her call for the death penalty for drug traffickers now extends to two of the country's veteran politicians - the former prime minister and Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, and more critically in terms of
- [# AN UNCLE TOM* SHELTERING UNDER A DIRTY MAC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-uncle-tom-sheltering-under-a-dirty-mac/) - Colin Deoki of Australia thinks Grubsheet is "stupid" for taking him to task for betraying Fiji's minorities by calling for indigenous paramountcy instead of a common and equal citizenry and for non iTaukei to be called Fiji Islanders instead of Fijians. From the luxury of three decades of enjoying equal rights with other Australians in
- [# THE USP VICE CHANCELLOR FIGHTS BACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-usp-vice-chancellor-fights-back/) - Professor Pal Ahluwalia has gone on the offensive against union demands that he be removed by writing to nearly 30 members of the University of the South Pacific Council encompassing the island nations plus Australia and New Zealand, its principal funders. The Vice Chancellor underlines the fact that only 26 per cent of the total
- [# LYNDA TABUYA OPENLY DEFIES THE PRIME MINISTER'S AUTHORITY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuya-openly-defies-the-prime-ministers-authority/) - The shameless Minister for Bonking and Weed has doubled down on her call for the restoration of the death penalty for drug trafficking, triggering a crisis at the top of government as she acutely embarrasses the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, and refuses to acknowledge his authority. Rabuka told the Fiji Sun from Tonga in a
- [# A CROOK AND HIS SHOCKING ABUSE OF POWER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-alleged-crook-and-his-shocking-abuse-of-media-ownership/) - Mahendra "Mac" Patel is a fugitive from Fijian justice who fled to Australia rather than face trial in Fiji on charges of corruptly using his position as Chair of Post Fiji to instruct the Post Office to buy a clock for the Suva GPO from his own business. Motibhai and Company. The Motibhais from Ba
- [# IS THIS THE END FOR THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-this-the-end-for-the-minister-for-bonking-and-weed/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, appears to have finally lost patience with the Queen of Tarts and Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, over her call for the death penalty to be reintroduced for drug traffickers, which he indicates has been made without consulting him and her other cabinet colleagues and has drawn widespread
- [# THE ASTONISHING SAGA OF SITIVENI RABUKA'S GOLD ROLEX](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-the-astonishing-story-of-the-gold-rolex/) - The sudden reappearance on the national scene of the fugitive "Chairman Emeritus" of the Motibhai Group, Mahendra "Mac" Patel, (see previous article) has given fresh resonance to an obscure event 37 years ago that goes to the heart of his relationship with the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka. Because soon after Rabuka's two coups of 1987,
- [# HANG 'EM. CRUSH 'EM. THE MINISTER FOR WEED TRIGGERS A FLOOD OF "VERBAL DIARRHOEA" (UPDATED SATURDAY)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hang-em-crush-em-the-minister-for-weed-triggers-a-flood-of-verbal-diarrhoea/) - Proof conclusive that Manoa Kamikamica is unfit to ever be prime minister - his endorsement of Lynda Tabuya's latest "look at me, look at me" suggestion that Fiji reintroduce the death penalty for drug traffickers. Not content with having endorsed her unconscionable salary increases for MPs ("We'll work harder if we get more money") the
- [# DOES THE "MARAMA WALLAH" ALSO SUPPORT THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG DEALERS?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/does-the-marama-wallah-sashi-kiran-also-support-the-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers/) - Sashi Kiran - the NFP's Assistant Minister for Women and Children - happily sat next to Lynda Tabuya, her principal, yesterday as the Minister for Bonking and Weed publicly advocated the death penalty for drug dealers in one of the most astonishing interventions yet by any Coalition minister on the national drugs crisis. Does Sashi
- [# TRIBUNAL JUDGES ACKNOWLEDGE DPP'S DEFENCE IS CRIPPLED BY SALARY SUSPENSION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/tribunal-judges-acknowledge-dpps-defence-is-crippled-by-salary-suspension/) - It is a shocking denial of natural justice that the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, has been denied the ability to adequately defend himself against allegations of misbehaviour through the unilateral decision by the head of the Judicial Services Commission, the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to terminate his salary. Yet there are clear signs of
- [# ONE TOKE TOO MANY FOR THE CRAZED, WEED-ADDLED QUEEN OF TARTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/one-toke-too-many-for-the-crazed-weed-addled-queen-of-tarts/) - Lynda Tabuya has well and truly lost the plot. Did she clear this madness with the Prime Minister before she shot her mouth off calling for drug dealers to be hanged? ( The method of execution in Fiji until George Speight was pardoned) The woman is clearly nuts. Off with her head. Or at least
- [# THE BIG KOWTOW. WHEN ONE PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-big-kow-tow-when-one-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/) - Like a QVS schoolboy receiving a prize from the headmaster, Sitiveni Rabuka grasps the hand of the Chinese dictator in a manner that indicates deep respect and subservience. It says everything about the Coalition's kowtowing to China at the same time as it takes hundreds of millions of dollars from Australia to meet its budget
- [# THE APPALLING HYPOCRISY OF THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-appalling-hypocrisy-of-the-minister-for-bonking-and-weed/) - There is no way the Coalition government can restore its dismal fortunes with the Fijian people while it keeps Lynda Tabuya in the cabinet and allows her to publicly draw attention to the chasm between her personal conduct and calls for national action to tackle the drugs crisis. Twelve months after she boasted of having
- [# SELLING OUT FIJI'S MINORITIES FROM MELBOURNE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/selling-out-fijis-minorities-from-melbourne/) - The battle for equality in Fiji is already lost when Indo-Fijians like the ubiquitous "Colin Deoki from Australia" send letters to the Fiji Times saying, among other things, that iTaukei interests must be paramount and only iTaukei should be designated "Fijians". In other words, he opposes the common and equal citizenry and the common identity
- [# THE POOR STATE OF OUR HEAD OF STATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-poor-state-of-our-head-of-state/) - Grubsheet cannot be alone in being concerned about the burgeoning frame of H.E the President, the Tui Macuata, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, who has returned to Fiji after competing in the culinary olympics in Paris. Even before he left for France, we were comparing H.E in his latest official portrait to a cream puff. But he
- [# A CORRUPT ITAUKEI CABAL SPITS IN THE FACE OF THE LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-corrupt-itaukei-cabal-spits-in-the-face-of-the-law/) - Just when you think that things under the Coalition government can't get any worse. something always happens to set a new low and make a sick joke of the promises of the "new order" to be better than the old order when it is turning out to be infinitely worse. It may have been legal
- [# THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE FACES THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-acting-chief-justice-faces-the-law-of-unintended-consequences/) - The sustained assault on the integrity of the criminal justice system by the Coalition and its hand-picked Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has been one of the worst betrayals of a government that lied its way into power by one vote and thinks that constitutes a mandate to trash the constitutional furniture. Two years ago,
- [# HIS LORDSHIP'S PANTS ARE ON FIRE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/his-lordships-pants-are-on-fire/) - As if it isn't enough to have an Acting Chief Justice who is an outlaw - with his multiple violations of the Constitution and the chaos it is causing in the criminal justice system. Salesi Temo is now exposed as having misled the nation. In a published statement on July 25 in response to the
- [# USP: LIES, DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/usp-lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/) - It is in the nature of industrial disputes for wild claims to be made and those who inhabit the lofty heights of academia are no different from even the most menial workers in sometimes gilding the lily to support their position. What are ordinary Fijians to make of the campaign by the two staff unions
- [# SO MUCH FOR AN EARLY REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/so-much-for-an-early-review-of-the-constitution/) - Yes, let's talk about coups. All of them. Plus the mutiny in the RFMF in 2000. Because that's the pre-condition that Inia Seruiratu -the formally designated Opposition Leader and head of the "Bloc of 16" former FijiFirst MPs in the Parliament - has set for any review of the 2013 Constitution. Which has effectively blocked
- [# DECISION DAY ON STRIKE ACTION AT USP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/decision-day-on-strike-action-at-usp/) - So members of the two staff unions at the University of the South Pacific will vote later today (Wednesday) on a motion calling for strike action in support of their demand for the removal of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. The Coalition government has given permission for a union ballot on Professor Ahluwalia's position
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER WRITES EXCLUSIVELY FOR GRUBSHEET AS HE BEGINS HIS 10-DAY CHINA ODYSSEY.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-writes-exclusively-for-grubsheet-on-his-upcoming-ten-day-chinese-odessy/) - Some killjoys have been emailing me asking rudely why I have to spend 10 days in China when most other leaders only spend two or three days at most on official visits to other countries. My answer is: Because I can! Now that there is effectively no opposition in Fiji and I have bought most
- [# COMING SOON...THE LOOMING CHAOS IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-the-looming-chaos-in-the-judicial-system/) - A rogue Acting Chief Justice and the law of unintended consequences. How the Supreme Court decision to overturn the unlawful appointment of John Rabuku as Acting DPP now calls into question the legality of any case the ODPP prosecuted under his leadership. The dominos are beginning to fall as lawyers around the country consider challenging
- [#  A SUNDAY PRAYER FOR FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-sunday-prayer-for-fiji/) - Oh God, we confess to you our failure as a nation to protect our children from the sexual predators and pedophiles among us. We have sinned as a people in the most grievous manner imaginable. And we come to you in the utmost shame asking for your assistance to tackle our national epidemic of child
- [# WELL AT LEAST WE NOW KNOW WHERE THE NFP STANDS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/well-at-least-we-now-know-where-the-nfp-stands/) - Biman Prasad, the NFP leader, has been very quiet about the party's attitude to the Coalition's current push to fast-track changes to the 2013 Constitution with a wafer-thin electoral mandate of one vote on the floor of the parliament. But we now know a great deal about the NFP's position from reading between the lines
- [# A PRIME MINISTER BEREFT OF JUDGMENT, HONOUR AND INFLUENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-prime-minister-bereft-of-judgment-and-influence/) - It is precisely four weeks today (Friday) since Sitiveni Rabuka told the media that the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, was entitled to continue to be paid his salary, as the law prescribes, while he awaits the judicial tribunal hearing into the allegation of misbehaviour against him. In other words, it was wrong for the Judicial
- [# FOR ALL THE SPIN, THE COALITION IS DECIDEDLY ON THE NOSE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-is-decidedly-on-the-nose/) - Remember not so long ago when Grubsheet was pretty much the Coalition's sole critic? And the searing vituperation that came my way anytime I said something critical? Like "shut up you white c**t", "You're an irrelevant, sad old man" or "why don't you butt out of Fiji? You might have been born here but you
- [# THE TRAITOR JOINS FORCES WITH THE SNAKE TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-traitor-joins-forces-with-the-snake-to-change-the-constitution/) - Viliame Naupoto has twice sworn on oath on the Bible ( "So Help me God") to "obey, observe, uphold and maintain" the Constitution - first when he was appointed RFMF Commander and then when he left the military to enter parliament as a FijiFirst MP. On both occasions, he rode on the coat-tails of Frank
- [# ANOTHER HYPOCRITE WHO THINKS WE'VE FORGOTTEN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/another-hypocrite-who-thinks-weve-forgotten/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, sat in the audience for Professor Anthony James Regan's lecture on changing the Constitution at FNU last week taking the occasional note but giving nothing away - his face as inscrutable as a poker player. As speculation rages about what changes the Coalition wants to make to the 2013 Constitution,
- [# SUDDENLY PROFESSOR WHAT'S HIS NAME IS EVERYWHERE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/suddenly-professor-whats-his-name-is-everywhere/) - It's always been said in Fiji that the locals will invariably tell you what you want to hear. But the same applies when an outsider tells the locals what they want to hear. So that when an obscure Australian academic constitutional lawyer says the 2013 Constitution must be changed, he is suddenly feted as a
- [# FIJI'S MOST DELUDED MAN. AND A PRIZE HYPOCRITE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fijis-most-deluded-man-and-a-prize-hypocrite/) - It was meant to be a celebration of the government’s success – the taxpayer-funded party at the GPH that has again triggered national outrage close on the heels of the public revolt over the massive pay and benefits increases our politicians gave themselves, which had them already branded as greedy pigs. Biman Prasad cuts a
- [# YES, BUT CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION TO WHAT?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/yes-but-change-the-constitution-to-what/) - You can be sure that the Coalition government is intent on fast- tracking changes to the Constitution when it wheels in a tame academic from Australia to sing from the same song sheet about how the 2013 Constitution was imposed by Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and should be changed. Anthony James Regan - who
- [# HERE'S TO US. AND UP YOURS, FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/heres-to-us-and-up-yours-fiji/) - What do you do when you've just got $86-million from the taxpayers of Australia to support your budget because you haven't got enough money yourself? You throw a big party at the GPH for all your ministers to celebrate how stupid the Aussies are and rub it into your own people's faces that you are
- [# STRAIGHT TALK ON THE LOOMING STRIKE AT USP (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/straight-talk-on-the-looming-strike-at-usp/) - Will tonight’s Straight Talk on CFL-Fiji Village reveal the secret plan by unions at the University of the South Pacific for strike action to remove the Vice Chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia? There’s been nothing whatsoever in the mainstream media to this point. But Grubsheet can reveal that it is definitely happening – an uprising by
- [# MORE AUSSIE ASSISTANCE FOR THE BEGGAR NATION...](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-aussie-assistance-for-the-beggar-nation/) - ...and to keep Fiji out of the clutches of the Chinese. Fiji is like an impecunious good-time girl at Traps on a Friday night. In one corner is a Chinese guy. In the other, an Aussie. Who is more likely to give her a good night out? Or does she cuddle up to one as
- [# FIJI SUPPORTS A MILITARY THAT INTIMIDATES ITS NEIGHBOURS AND MASSACRED ITS CITIZENS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-supports-a-military-that-intimidates-its-neighbours-and-massacred-its-own-people/) - The People's Liberation Army is the blunt instrument of repression of the Chinese Communist Party. It massacred anywhere between several hundred and several thousand Chinese citizens who took part in the demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. It is engaged in mounting harassment and intimidation of the democracy of Taiwan. It threatens China's neighbours
- [# HEARTBREAK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/heartbreak/)
- [# JUSTICE FIJIAN STYLE. THE TURAGA AND TEMO STITCH-UP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/justice-fijian-style-the-turaga-and-temo-stitch-up/) - An "all you need to know" guide to the 15 month-long Christopher Pryde affair. WHAT THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, SIROMI TURAGA, DID : 1/ You have a DPP in the form of Christopher Pryde you want to get rid of. 2/ You get photos of him talking to your predecessor, Aiyaz Sayed -Khaiyum, at a
- [# THE ACTING CJ PREJUDICES A CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL HEARING. HE MUST GO. (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-acting-cj-prejudices-a-constitutional-tribunal-hearing-he-must-go/) - Two weeks after the Prime Minister said the Acting Chief Justice had been wrong to cut off Christopher Pryde’s salary in advance of a tribunal hearing into the charge against him of misbehaviour, Salesi Temo doubles down and issues an astonishing statement that completely prejudices the DPP’s case. Justice Temo says that Christopher Pryde’s salary
- [# AT LAST! AND GRUBSHEET COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/at-last-and-grubsheet-couldnt-have-said-it-better/) - The grave injustice and illegality of the treatment metered out to the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, has been like a "broken record" in these columns in recent weeks - to use the description of one of our critics - but finally our campaign to get the local mainstream media in Fiji to embrace the story
- [# FIJI TO TURN UGLY AT THE OLYMPICS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-to-turn-ugly-at-the-olympics/) - So Fiji's Rugby Sevens team is going to have to be ready to "win ugly" at the Paris Olympics. What about winning fair and square? What about relying on skills and teamwork? What about setting an example to the world of sportsmanship, dignity and fair play? Do these guys intend to "play ugly" while wearing
- [# FINALLY, SOMETHING WE CAN ALL AGREE ON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/finally-something-we-can-all-agree-on/) - The Joe Biden of Fiji states the bleeding obvious - that the prissy New Zealand Foreign Minister was crazy to side with Sitiveni Rabuka's government in blatantly violating Fijian law in its treatment of a New Zealand citizen. Winston Peters's petulant attack on Christopher Pryde for not complying with the letter-writing etiquette that Miss Peters
- [# THE STATE TOTTERS AS AN OUTLAW TAKES CHARGE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-state-totters-as-an-outlaw-takes-charge/) - The Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has been guilty of repeated breaches of the Constitution - the latest when he unlawfully cut off the salary of the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, two weeks ago and left him unable to defend himself. Yet it is a sign of Fiji's steady progress down the Zimbabwe Road to
- [# CRITICISM OF WINSTON PETERS OVER THE DPP GOES PACIFIC WIDE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/criticism-of-winston-peters-over-the-dpp-goes-pacific-wide/) - Any hope the Fijian government might have had to spare the New Zealand Foreign Minister embarrassment over his inaction in coming to the assistance of the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, has been dashed, with strong criticism of Winston Peters going Pacific-wide on Radio New Zealand. The NZ public broadcaster has picked up Grubsheet's weekend comments
- [# TOP GUN DEVANESH SHARMA SPEAKS UP FOR CHRISTOPHER PRYDE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/top-gun-devanesh-sharma-speaks-up-for-christopher-pryde/) - Devanesh Sharma is one of the big guns of the legal profession in Fiji - the "go to" lawyer for a host of big individuals and corporates because of his ability to cut through the detail of even the most complex cases and provide his clients with the maximum opportunity of winning. It's a sign
- [# PAY DEAL AT USP ADDS TO INFLATIONARY PRESSURES AND THREATENS JOBS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pay-deal-at-usp-adds-to-inflationary-pressures-and-threatens-jobs/) - The recent national uproar over the salary increases Fiji’s members of parliament gave themselves has overshadowed another significant sector pay rise – an unpublicised deal last month that removed the threat of strike action at the University of the South Pacific. The deal was done at the beginning of June (see below) but has had
- [# GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALANDERS. FROM THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/god-defend-new-zealanders-from-their-own-government/) - Winston Peters is named after the famous wartime leader, Winston Churchill. Yet rather than being the lion that roared over one of his own citizens being treated unlawfully by a foreign government, this Winston is a Neville Chamberlain-style appeaser - a man willing to hang a Kiwi out to dry if it placates a regional
- [# SO MUCH FOR A NEW BROOM COMMITTED TO THE RULE OF LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/so-much-for-a-new-broom-committed-to-the-rule-of-law/) - The suspended DPP Christopher Pryde’s decision to appeal to the New Zealand government to assist him after his salary was illegally cut off is producing fresh information that throws new light on what appears to be an astonishing conspiracy at the highest level in Fiji to deprive him of his right to justice. A New
- [# THE LAST WHITE MAN STANDING LEAVES THE ODPP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-last-white-man-standing-leaves-the-odpp/) - The last non-iTaukei in the senior ranks of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Assistant DPP, Lee Burney, has left, depriving the ODPP of its best prosecutor and propelling Fiji further down the Zimbabwe road. There has been no official announcement but the Facebook posting below of Burney's farewell tells us that
- [# COMING SOON. SHOCKING NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE ROLE OF GRAHAM LEUNG IN THE UNLAWFUL SEVERANCE OF CHRISTOPHER PRYDE'S SALARY.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-shocking-new-information-about-the-role-of-graham-leung-in-the-unlawful-severance-of-christopher-prydes-salary/)
- [# FIJI BUCKS THE TREND ON HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-bucks-the-trend-on-hereditary-privilege/) - The news that the new Labour Government in Britain intends to abolish the remaining hereditary peers in the House of Lords - the upper house of the British Parliament - shows just how backward Fiji has been in restoring the Great Council of Chiefs. This is especially so when chiefs like the Qaranivalu - the
- [# STRANGE BEDFELLOWS ON THE PUBLIC TEAT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/strange-bedfellows-on-the-public-teat/) - Fiji is such a broadminded place that no-one thinks anything of the Minister for iTaukei Affairs, who is in business with a convicted Chinese gangster, appearing in public with the chief who instigated the 2000 mutiny in which seven people died, the Education Minister who almost beat the Prime Minister’s daughter to death in a
- [# MORE STAFF-INDUCED TURMOIL AT USP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-staff-induced-turmoil-at-usp/) - All institutions have rules about the leaking of confidential internal information and the University of the South Pacific is no exception. So that when Dr Tamara Osborne – a USP lecturer and President of the Association of USP Staff – went on the record in an Islands Business article back in March with internal deliberations
- [# TUPENI BABA. A BETTER ACADEMIC THAN POLITICIAN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/tupeni-baba-a-better-academic-than-politician/) - As a journalist, Vijay Narayan - the News Director at CFL-Fiji Village - is showing clear signs of erratic conduct, as well as being demonstrably biased in favour of the Coalition. But did he really have to kill off Professor Tupeni Baba twice when reporting his death at the age of 81? As in "the
- [# JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/justice-delayed-is-justice-denied/) - Christopher Pryde has been kept waiting for justice to be dispensed for 15 months in violation of the Constitution since he was suspended as DPP. Sharvada Sharma - the former solicitor general - has been kept waiting six months as the Coalition government refuses to comply with a High Court order that he receive $3-million
- [# ONE SEARING IMAGE CAPABLE OF CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-searing-image-capable-of-changing-the-course-of-history/) - A 20 year-old registered Republic wearing a T shirt from a pro-gun Youtube channel sets out from home carrying an automatic rifle and tries, and very nearly succeeds, to assassinate Donald Trump. A press photographer carrying a camera sets out at the same time to cover Trump's rally without knowing that he or she is
- [# CHRISTOPHER PRYDE "EXPRESSES GRATITUDE" TO THE PRIME MINISTER (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/christopher-pryde-expresses-gratitude-to-the-prime-minister/) - The suspended DPP tells the Sunday Times that he is grateful to the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, for his public statement that his salary should be restored but is awaiting a response from the Judicial Services Commission, which unlawfully recommended to the President that Christopher Pryde's income be suspended in the first place. Let's hope
- [# VALE ESALA, NA "RANADI KEI VITI". YOU DESERVED BETTER IN A NATION THAT HAS LOST ITS WAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-vale-esala-na-ranadi-kei-viti-you-deserved-better-in-a-nation-that-has-lost-its-way/) - A wave of rage and grief has swept through Fiji and the diaspora over the online bullying that triggered the suicide during the week of Esala Yalewamama, the social media influencer and LGBTQIA* activist known as Ranadi Kei Viti (Queen of Fiji). The blame for Esala’s death is being laid squarely at the feet of
- [# THE FIJI SUN MANIPULATES A STORY OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. WHY?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-sun-manipulates-a-story-of-national-importance-why/) - There are 143 pages in today's Fiji Sun but on none of them does the paper report the Prime Minister saying that the Judicial Services Commission was wrong to unlawfully cut off the salary of the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, after he formally complained about the prejudicial effect this would have on defending himself in the case
- [# "THE DPP SHOUD CONTINUE TO BE PAID". THE PM BOWS TO THE INEVITABLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-dpp-shoud-continue-to-be-paid-the-pm-bows-to-the-inevitable/) - The Chair of the Judicial Services Commission, the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has been humiliated in spectacular fashion by public comments by the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, that the JSC was wrong to cut off the salary of the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, before a Tribunal hearing is held into the allegations of misbehaviour
- [# RACE AGAIN DETERMINES THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW ACTING DPP (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/race-again-determines-the-appointment-of-a-new-acting-dpp/) - The choice of Nancy Tikoisuva to replace the disgraced John Rabuku as Acting DPP has once again been made on the basis of ethnicity, with the best candidate in the ODPP - long-time Assistant DPP Lee Burney - being passed over because he is white. It doesn't take a genius to come to the conclusion
- [# THE DPP APPEALS TO NZ FOR HELP AFTER HIS SALARY IS UNLAWFULLY CUT OFF](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-dpp-appeals-to-nz-for-help-after-his-salary-is-unlawfully-cut-off/) - It has been 15 months since Christopher Pryde famously left Gunu House after being suspended for alleged misbehaviour carrying the “Keep Calm and Carry On” sign that had been on his office wall. Since then he has kept calm and said nothing as the Judicial Services Commission - led by Acting Chief Justice Salesi Temo
- [# THE SCENTED, BESPECTACLED QUEEN OF TARTS COPS A DRUBBING (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-scented-bespectacled-queen-of-tarts-cops-a-drubbing/) - It's easy when you're a multi-millionaire who fled the United States owing creditors more than $F100-million to lecture the one third of Fijians who live in poverty about the importance of relying on family support. The Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya, is already rich beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Yet
- [# WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE JUDICIAL SERVICES COMMISSION?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-is-going-on-at-the-judicial-services-commission/) - It took 12 days for the Head of the Judicial Services Commission - the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo - to finally advise the President to remove the illegal Acting DPP, John Rabuku, after three Supreme Court judges stated the bleeding obvious - that Rabuku's appointment last October was unconstitutional because he had been found
- [# NEGLIGENCE GROUNDS THE NAVY'S FLAGSHIP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/negligence-grounds-the-navys-flagship/) - Full marks to the RFMF, its Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, and the head of the Navy, Commodore Humphrey Tawake, for their speedy inquiry into the cause of the grounding of RFNS Puamau in Lau last month. They have done what the Coalition government invariably fails to do - face up to their responsibility
- [# AFTER 12 DAYS, IT'S FINALLY BYE BYE JOHNNY!](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/after-12-days-its-finally-bye-bye-johnny/) - The illegal Acting DPP, John Rabuku, has finally received a letter from the President dismissing him, bring an end to the farce of having been declared ineligible for the role by three Supreme Court judges the best part of two weeks ago but hunkering down and refusing to go. The Fiji Sun reports exclusively this
- [# "NO RETURN TO THE DARK DAYS OF TYRANNY". BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-return-to-the-dark-days-of-tyranny-but-what-about-the-tyranny-of-the-present/) - The new Attorney General, Graham Leung, is proving to be embarrassingly impotent in his ability to remove the unlawfully-appointed Acting DPP, John Rabuku. Yet he is proving to be just as adept at spin as his predecessor during the FijiFirst years, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. Graham Leung isn't an elected politician. He has been appointed from outside
- [# IMRANA WEEPS FOR THE RULE OF LAW. WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF IT? (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/imrana-weeps-for-the-rule-of-law-what-about-the-rest-of-it/) - The lawyer, women's rights advocate and Asian Development Bank staffer, Imrana Jalal, says she "weeps for the rule of law in Fiji" as the Acting DPP, John Rabuku, continues to defy calls for his resignation after three Supreme Court judges found that he is "ineligible" to hold the position because of professional misconduct. It is
- [# THE PM GETS THE NUMBERS TO JETTISON THE COALITION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pm-gets-the-numbers-he-needs-to-jettison-the-coalition/) - Both daily newspapers in Fiji are reporting this morning that nine of the former FijiFirst MPs who are now independents after the party's implosion have decided to back the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka. They will evidently remain as independents as opposed to joining the People's Alliance but will support the PAP in the parliament. As
- [# VALE VIJENDRA KUMAR. SELECTIVELY REMEMBERED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/vale-vijendra-kumar-selectively-remembered/) - Grubsheet - like many old-timers in the media - has been saddened by the death of arguably Fiji's finest journalist, Vijendra Kumar, who was the first local to edit one of our newspapers and presided over the Fiji Times during some of the nation's most turbulent events. Saturday's edition of the paper rightly published a
- [# PM: "MY NEPHEW IS BRINGING EX-FIJIFIRST MPs TO SEE ME"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pm-my-nephew-is-bringing-ex-fijifirst-mps-to-see-me/) - The revelation by Sitiveni Rabuka that Mosese Bulitavu is his nephew and they have long been communicating adds a whole new layer of intrigue to this weekend's meeting between the Prime Minister and former FijiFirst MPs who are interested in joining or supporting his government. Has Bulitavu been a rat in the ranks of FijiFirst
- [# ONE LAST SWING OF THE HANDBAG. ER, MAN-BAG (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/one-last-swing-of-the-handbag/) - John Rabuku really is a nasty piece of work. We know he is a racist because he told his Assistant DPP, Elizabeth Rice, that he was sacking her because she was "white". We know that he had no compunction about taking up the job of Acting DPP despite the fact that the Constitution specifically prohibits
- [# A DAY IN THE LIFE OF "A DRIVEN OLD MAN"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-driven-old-man/) - The government's propaganda people have gone into overdrive trying to enhance the Prime Minister's standing with a special Youtube video entitled "A Day in the Life of Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka". We learn, among other things, that he is a "driven old man" who has always set his sights on getting what he wants. But
- [# HEY JOE, WHAT TO DO WHEN PEOPLE SAY YOU ARE GAGA.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hey-joe-what-to-do-when-people-say-you-are-gaga/) - Dear Mr President, I am slightly younger than you but still get unkind people saying I am too old to do the job of running Fiji. I am sorry that you are coming under pressure not to stand again in the November election. I saw you debate Donald Trump and I know the Fijian people
- [# THE LOATHSOME WORM CLINGS ON (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-loathsome-worm-clings-on/) - The Attorney General, Graham Leung, calls on the illegal Acting DPP, John Rabuku, to resign, saying that "he should do the honourable thing and stand aside". If he doesn't, the stage is set for a full-blown crisis in the criminal justice system in Fiji. But the Worm tells the Attorney General to butt out. I
- [# THE FACE OF A TRAITOR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-face-of-a-traitor/) - Viliame Naupoto - the former Commander of the RFMF - came into parliament on the coat-tails of Frank Bainimarama and those who voted for FijiFirst at the last election. Now in a disgraceful betrayal of both his former leader and more importantly those ordinary Fijians who voted for him, Naupoto is transferring his allegiance to
- [# IT’S OFFICIAL. ITAUKEI BUSINESS WANNABES JOIN MPs AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/its-official-itaukei-business-wannabes-join-mps-at-the-public-trough/) - It is back to the 1990s with a vengeance as Sitiveni Rabuka and his puppet, the “Nutty Professor” *, allocate taxpayer funds to give tax breaks to iTaukei wanting to start or develop businesses. The Fiji Development Bank and Merchant Finance become the new National Bank of Fiji in giving interest free loans to wannabe
- [# TICK, TICK, TICK (UPDATED WED AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/tick-tick-tick-2/) - It is now five days since three Supreme Court judges told the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, that he was wrong to appoint John Rabuku Acting DPP because Rabuku was found guilty of professional misconduct and punished by the Independent Legal Services Commission and his appointment violates the Constitution. Both the current Attorney General, Graham
- [# THE END OF AN ERA. FIJIFIRST GOES NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-end-of-an-era-fijifirst-goes-out-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/) - And so, as expected, the party with the most number of seats in the parliament is no more - the once mighty FijiFirst dead and buried and its remaining MPs merely to decide whether they will stick together as an informal bloc of independents in the parliament or join Sitiveni Rabuka in government. Today's de-registration
- [# THE INK IS DRY. NOW GET ON WITH IT (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-ink-is-dry-now-get-on-with-it/) - The new Attorney General, Graham Leung, responded to the Supreme Court “opinion” on Friday that the Acting DPP, John Rabuku, is ineligible to hold the position by asking everyone to “wait until the ink is dry” before expecting anything to happen. Well it is now Monday morning. And the ink is well and truly dry
- [# THE HORROR OF THE NATIONAL BANK SCANDAL SUDDENLY REVIVED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-horror-of-the-national-bank-scandal-suddenly-revived/) - Alarm bells have been triggered in senior business circles about a little known aspect of the Budget announced on Friday in which iTaukei will evidently be able to have access to tax free incentives for business ventures. In an interview with the Fiji Times on Saturday, the Minister for iTaukei Affairs, Ifereimi Vasu, said he
- [# ANSWER. NO!](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/answer-no/) - The Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, reminds us that Biman Prasad was advocating a $5-an hour minimum wage six years ago in opposition yet has failed to fully deliver that again in his second budget since he gained control of the economy. The nation's lowest paid workers are getting a 50 cents an hour increase
- [# ENOUGH SAID](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/enough-said/)
- [# A DISGRACEFUL BETRAYAL. THE COALITION PUTS MPs BEFORE THE POOR (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-puts-mps-before-the-poor/) - The stage is set for prolonged industrial conflict as the Coalition government raises MPs salaries by as much as 100 per cent yet has failed to agree to union demands for the minimum wage to be increased to $6 an hour. The Finance Minister, Biman Prasad, has announced in the Budget that the minimum wage
- [# JOHN RABUKU "INELIGIBLE TO BE ACTING DPP" (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-john-rabuku-ineligible-to-be-acting-dpp/) - The Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, and the ousted attorney general, Siromi Turaga, have been humiliated by a finding by three Supreme Court Judges that their choice of Acting DPP, John Rabuku, is ineligible to hold the position, having been found guilty and punished for professional misconduct. The three judges ruled simultaneously that the judge,
- [# NOT YOUR USUAL END OF WEEK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/not-your-usual-end-of-week/) - Today is certainly a "red letter day" in Fiji - with three major events locally and one overseas that will resonate in the coming days and weeks and beyond. 1/ At 10.00am, the Minister for Finance, Biman Prasad, gets up in parliament to deliver the 2024-2025 annual budget. He is under more pressure than usual,
- [# HYDRA-HEADED GOVERNANCE ON DRUGS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hydra-headed-governance-on-drugs/) - Question: How many ministers does it take to give birth to a Counter Narcotics Strategy? In the case of the Coalition, three - Biman Prasad to announce it, Pio Tikoduadua to say it will need millions to be adequately funded and Siromi Turaga to say he hopes it will be adequately funded. Don't take my
- [# MORE DEBT TO PAY FOR FRIDAY'S BUDGET (UPDATED WED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-debt-to-pay-for-fridays-budget/) - Biman Prasad has gone cap-in-hand to the World Bank to obtain an extra $214.6 million in "budget support" to pay for the initiatives he will unveil in Friday's budget, including an increase in the national wage and pay rises for civil servants. Funny, isn't it, that in the fancy wording of the announcement, there is
- [# "QUITE HAPPY" PUBLICLY BUT SEETHING WITH RESENTMENT BEHIND THE SCENES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/quite-happy-publicly-but-seething-with-resentment/) - Barely 72 hours since Grubsheet's article on Siromi Turaga white-anting his successor as Attorney General, Graham Leung, Turaga is at it again - parading his resentment at being removed by the Prime Minister as chief law officer of the state. He tells the Fiji Times that his supporters have questioned the reshuffle on the basis
- [# LYNDA TABUYA. A CHINESE AGENT OF INFLUENCE?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuya-a-chinese-agent-of-influence/) - It beggars belief that the already embattled Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya, should be enveloped in a fresh scandal on top of her sex and drug escapade in Melbourne and her savage attack on the Deputy Prime Minister, Biman Prasad. Yet she now faces serious questions about her relationship with the
- [# THE COALITION'S FESTERING WOUND](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalitions-festering-wound/) - Yet again, the embattled Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya, has had to be sidelined from the offical photo of an event at which she presided to save the other participants from embarrassment. Readers of the Sunday Times were treated to prominent coverage of Lynda Tabuya's speech at a Pacific Women's Leaders
- [# RALLY AGAINST THE PAY RISE. 0900 SATURDAY, SUVA CIVIC CENTRE CARPARK. BE THERE!](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/dear-readers-postings-are-suspended/) - GD is unwell. But before I take to my sick bed with the flu, here's an important message: Vani for prime minister! She is wiping the floor with Sitiveni Rabuka and the other moral pygmies in government and the opposition. She is fearless, articulate and has the moral clarity the nation needs to really start
- [# THE ODIUS RICHARD NAIDU HURLING BOULDERS FROM A GLASS HOUSE.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-odius-richard-naidu-hurling-boulders-from-a-glass-house/) - Saturday’s Fiji Times contains a great deal of hagiography about the former publisher of the paper, the late Hank Arts – who died last weekend in Australia. Some of it is deserved. Hank Arts was an old school gentleman who was unfailingly courteous and was extremely popular, not only with Fiji Times staff but in
- [# THE PUBLIC WHITE ANTING OF GRAHAM LEUNG](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-public-white-anting-of-graham-leung/) - It has taken just two weeks for the ousted attorney general, Siromi Turaga, to muscle in on his successor, Graham Leung, and reopen a can of worms that no longer concerns him – publicly canvassing the prospect of changing the 2013 constitution. Turaga’s comments about the Coalition now being within reach of getting the 75
- [# THE HEAD OF STATE UTTERLY COMPROMISED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-head-of-state-totally-compromised/) - Does Fiji now have three foreign ministers – the main Foreign Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, his deputy, Lenora Qereqeretabua and H.E the President, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere? It sure looks that way when the President – who is meant to be above politics - represents Fiji at a political gathering of world leaders to muster support for
- [# IS THIS WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS? AIYAZ DIES IN JAIL AND GEORGE BECOMES PRIME MINISTER?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-this-what-the-future-holds-aiyaz-dies-in-jail-and-george-becomes-prime-minister/) - So Magistrate Yogesh Prasad (any relation?) denies Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum permission to travel to Singapore for further medical treatment. Oh well. At least I get to keep my own kidney in my rash bet that if he was allowed to leave, the ousted AG would return. (see previous stories). The learned Magistrate disagrees.
- [# HERE WE GO AGAIN. MORE INSTABILITY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/here-we-go-again-more-instability/) - The Fiji Times is a miserable rag of a newspaper at the best of times. But it totally crosses the line today by using a convicted felon who took part in the 2000 coup to call for the release of the coup frontman, George Speight. Journalist Joe Nata spent 23 years in prison for his
- [# BIB 'N' BUB. THEY REALLY DO THINK WE ARE STUPID](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bib-and-bub-they-really-do-think-we-are-stupid/) - It is astonishing that Biman Prasad and Richard Naidu hold the Fijian people in such contempt that they maintain the pretence of that they are independent of each other when they are one and the same. The Fiscal Review Committee - which is chaired by NFP stalwart Richard Naidu - is a creation of Biman
- [# JUST LET HIM GO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/just-let-him-go/) - There was an ugly element to yesterday's attempt by Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum to get permission to travel to Singapore for medical treatment - the conduct of the state prosecutor, Nancy Tikoisuva, one of the also-rans who have been elevated in the ODPP by the illegally appointed Acting DPP, John Rabuku. It is perfectly acceptable in any
- [# DON'T WORRY. THE AUSSIES WILL FIX IT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/dont-worry-the-aussies-will-fix-it/) - Everything that is wrong with modern-day Fiji is encapsulated in one story in today's Fiji Times - the nonchalance of our authorities about running a brand new naval patrol boat onto a reef in Lau because someone else is going to pay for it. Never mind the chronic blame game in national life in which
- [# A PROUD MILITARY TRADITION SUNK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-proud-military-tradition-sunk/) - No Fijian with a pulse watching last night’s Trooping the Colour spectacle in London to celebrate the birthday of King Charles can fail to have been proud to see so many of our fellow citizens on parade – just some of the 1500 Fijians serving in the British armed forces. They included the impressive sight
- [# CREDIBILITY AS PAUCE AS HIS PATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/credibility-as-sparse-as-his-pate/) - It has taken more than three weeks for the NFP stalwart, Richard “I have the means” Naidu – wearing his hat as Chair of the government’s Fiscal Review Committee – to enter the contentious public debate about the justification of MPs awarding themselves massive salary and benefits increases. And to his credit, he does so
- [# IS THAT ALL THERE IS?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-that-all-there-is/) - Fourteen months after he was suspended on full pay, the Fijian people are finally being told the precise details of the accusations of "misbehaviour" against the Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde. However there is still no date set for the judicial tribunal hearing into the allegations against him which, if proven, could see him
- [# THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED PLAYS THE GENDER CARD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-minister-for-bonking-and-weed-plays-the-gender-card/) - As often happens, the Fiji Times has played catch-up with the Fiji Sun today in reporting Lynda Tabuya’s first formal public comment on her drug-fuelled sexcapade 10 months ago with fellow minister Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne. In the Fiji Times version of the story, the embattled Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection doesn’t specifically “deny” what
- [# EXPOSED: THE LIES OF LYNDA TABUYA AND SITIVENI RABUKA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exposed-the-lies-of-lynda-tabuya-and-sitiveni-rabuka/) - EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS: PROOF OF THE "SEX AND ILLICIT DRUG SCANDAL" IN ROOM 233 LAST AUGUST. EVIDENCE OF A PREVIOUS ALCOHOL-FUELLED ENCOUNTER WITH ASERI RADRODRO IN KADAVU TWO MONTHS BEFORE. PROOF THAT IT WAS THE PM WHO SACKED LYNDA TABUYA AS DEPUTY LEADER OF THE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE YET KEPT HER AS MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
- [# COMING SOON ON GRUBSHEET... LYNDA TABUYA. THE PROOF. PLUS AN UNREPORTED FRESH SCANDAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/coming-soon-on-grubsheet-lynda-tabuya-the-proof-plus-an-unreported-fresh-scandal/)
- [# THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED'S DESPERATE LIE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-minister-for-bonking-and-weeds-desperate-lie/) - The bigger the lie, the more believable was the advice the Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, gave to Adolf Hitler in World War Two. And someone has evidently been giving the same advice to the Queen of Tarts, Lynda Tabuya, as she fights to salvage her shredded reputation after her "brutal" rogering by her fellow minister,
- [# THE FIJIFIRST SHIP GOES DOWN AND IT'S EVERY MAN (AND ONE WOMAN) FOR THEMSELVES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fijifirst-ship-goes-down-and-its-every-man-and-one-woman-for-themselves/) - It beggars belief that the main political bloc in the parliament that fell short by just one vote from forming government on the floor of the House 18 months ago could now be on the verge of extinction. But it now seems almost certain that the once mighty FijiFirst will be deregistered by the Supervisor
- [RFNS PUAMAU. A METAPHOR FOR THE ENTIRE NATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/rfns-puamau-a-metaphor-for-the-entire-nation/) - It has taken less than a month for the newly-commissioned pride of the Fiji Navy - the patrol boat, RFNS Puamau – to run aground In Lau on effectively its maiden voyage. How the Navy could be so incompetent as to ram a brand new Australian-supplied vessel with state-of-the-art navigation aids onto Fulagi Reef is
- [# OLD PREJUDICES HAUNT THE VOU](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/old-prejudices-haunt-the-vou/) - The growing chauvinism and cultural arrogance among certain iTaukei has reared its ugly head on social media about a performance at the 13th Pacific Festival of Arts and Culture in Honolulu by the celebrated dance group, Vou. ("new" in iTaukei) Never mind that the third of Fijians who aren't iTaukei don't get a look-in at
- [# THE BEST NEWS FOR A LONG TIME](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-best-news-for-a-long-time/) - The announcement that officers of the Australian Federal Police are going to be embedded in the Fiji Police Force and that the AFP will mentor the new police commissioner will be welcomed by all Fijians except the "bad apples" that Pio Tikoduadua says are undermining local law enforcement. Thank God the Home Affairs Minister -
- [# A BRIDGE ACROSS EIGHT DECADES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-bridge-across-eight-decades/) - Grubsheet has spent much of Saturday watching the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944 that turned the tide of World War Two and eventually led to the defeat of Nazi Germany the following year. There has been a great deal of emotional and inspiring material. But one moment
- [# CHAOS AS A PERMANENT WAY OF LIFE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/chaos-as-a-permanent-way-of-life/) - It is nearly 18 months since the Coalition came to power and they have had plenty of time to get their act together. Yet recent events tell us that the "three-legged stool" - which has been wobbly from day one - cannot be relied on by the Fijian people as a safe place to sit.
- [# THE NEW AG. CAN HE STOP THE ROT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-new-ag-can-he-stop-the-rot-in-the-criminal-justice-system/) - It has been more than six months since Sitiveni Rabuka promised the Fiji Law Society that he would make changes to the criminal justice system to end the legal mayhem wrought by Siromi Turaga and his handpicked Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo. And finally it has happened with Turaga’s removal as Attorney General and his
- [# WHAT THE COALITION HASN'T TOLD YOU ABOUT STARLINK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-the-coalition-hasnt-told-you-about-starlink/) - Manoa Kamikamica has led the charge in government to sell the virtues of Elon Musk's Starlink in opening up more remote areas of Fiji to internet services. But what isn't mentioned is the downside - the effect on isolated communities of suddenly being connected to the outside world and the sometimes negative impact of instant
- [# GRAHAM LEUNG REPLACES SIROMI TURAGA AS AG](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-graham-leung-replaces-siromi-turaga-as-attorney-general/) - Never a dull moment in Fiji, that's for sure, with the shock announcement of the removal of the Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, and his replacement from outside the parliament by the veteran lawyer, Graham Leung. The move has long been mooted but Graham Leung continually played down the speculation. But now he moves into the
- [# FRESH REGIONAL CONCERNS ABOUT POLITICAL STABILITY IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fresh-concerns-about-political-stability-in-fiji/) - The upheaval in FijiFirst triggered by the rebellion of more than half of its MPs against a party directive to vote against the parliamentary pay rise is causing concern in Australian policy circles, according to an article in the journal of the country's foremost foreign affairs think-tank - the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The
- [# GIVE ME A HUG. BAIMAAN ROLLS OVER FOR THE QUEEN OF TARTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/give-me-a-hug-baimaan-rolls-over-for-the-queen-of-tarts/) - Lynda Tabuya has publicly accused Biman Prasad of lying. She has publicly accused him of trying to do a deal with FijiFirst behind the Coalition's back. She has ruined his budget strategy by requiring him, at the last minute, to find an extra $8.1-million for increased salaries and benefits for the nation's pampered MPs. She
- [# O SORRY, EH? BUT WE'RE STILL TAKING THE MONEY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/o-sorry-eh-but-were-still-getting-the-money/) - The utter cynicism and insincerity of this Prime Minister and this government screams from the contents of extraordinary statements made by Sitiveni Rabuka this afternoon in which he apologises to the Fijian people for "not having handled the MP's pay rise issue well" but also insists that his Finance Minister, Biman Prasad, just has to
- [# IS THERE NO LIMIT TO THE HUMILIATION THIS MAN WILL TAKE? (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-there-no-limit-to-the-humiliation-this-man-will-take/) - Biman Prasad makes much every Girmit Day of the humiliation the British and Australian colonials visited on the first indentured labourers. But the "kuli", "yes, sahib" mentality evidently lingers on as the NFP leader happily munches the shit sandwiches continually dished out to him by Sitiveni Rabuka, Lynda Tabuya and his other Coalition colleagues. While
- [# THE TRAGEDY OF A FIT BODY AND AN UNSOUND MIND](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-tragedy-of-a-fit-body-and-unsound-mind/) - Sitiveni Rabuka is the opposite of Joe Biden - seemingly fit in body yet losing his marbles one by one as the months progress, as opposed to the physically frail US President who appears, from this distance at least, to remain sound in mind. Today's Fiji Times not surprisingly makes a virtue of the Prime
- [# FRANK BAINIMARAMA "CANNOT BE LEADER OF FIJIFIRST"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/frank-bainimarama-cannot-be-leader-of-fijifirst/) - We now know why there is a standoff between FijiFirst and the Speaker of the Parliament, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, and the Supervisor of Elections, Ana Mataiciwa, over the status of Frank Bainimarama as party leader and why the 17 MPs ousted from the party for supporting the emoluments increases are stubbornly insisting they are still
- [# THE FIJIFIRST LEADERSHIP FIGHTS BACK. IN A WEAKENED STATE.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fijifirst-leadership-fights-back/) - FijiFirst issues a statement amid the standoff between its leadership and the Speaker of the Parliament, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, over the status of the 17 of its MPs who have been expelled from the party and the standoff with the Supervisor of Elections, Ana Mataiciwa, over the position of Frank Bainimarama as leader. The statement
- [# ANOTHER WEEK. MORE POLITICAL TURMOIL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/another-week-more-political-turmoil/) - So this week is set to be dominated by a burning question. Is the sacking of the 17 FijiFirst MPs illegal because Frank Bainimarama can't be the leader of FijiFirst when the electoral laws specify that no-one who is convicted and jailed for the length of time he has can preside over a political party?
- [# WADAN NARSEY. A SUNDAY MUST READ](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wadan-narsey-a-sunday-must-read/) - Yesterday's Fiji Times was notable for the dramatic front page photo of Inia Seruiratu trying to flee local journalists and for the return of the once ubiquitous Richard Naidu after many months. But buried in the paper is another gem from Professor Wadan Narsey, who deserves an Order of Fiji and the nation's gratitude for
- [# A LAST DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CLING TO OFFICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-last-desperate-attempt-to-cling-to-office/) - There is nothing "confidential" in Fiji, least of all the confidential letter from the Elections Office to FijiFirst demanding that it change its constitution within a month to allow the parliamentary leader to participate in leadership committee meetings. Nothing has been said by the ousted 17 FijiFirst MPs about the FijiFirst Constitution not allowing this
- [# THE NEPOTISM MAKING THE COALITION CRISIS WORSE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-nepotism-making-the-coalition-crisis-worse/) - Ever keen to pass the buck for any setback, the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, blames poor advice rather than telling a deliberate lie for the debacle in which he misled the nation by saying the parliamentary emoluments decision could be revisited when it has already been gazetted and become law. He doesn’t say where the
- [# WELL LOOK WHO'S BACK (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/well-look-whos-back/) - Richard "I have the means" Naidu says we need to keep the parliamentary emoluments scandal in perspective. For the first time in many months, the Chair of the government's Fiscal Review Committee deigns to give us his perspective in Saturday's Fiji Times. We've got "the rule of law now"? You mean the illegal appointments of
- [# THE QUEEN OF TARTS. LIES AND GROSS HYPOCRISY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-queen-of-tarts-lies-and-gross-hypocrisy/) - For the first time today, a Fijian mainstream media outlet - the Fiji Sun - makes reference to something that Grubsheet has long reported - the "drug-fuelled sex encounter" between Lynda Tabuya and Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne last August. (See previous posting) Despite a People's Alliance disciplinary committee
- [# SEVENTEEN IDIOTS WHO SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/17-idiots-who-should-have-known-better/) - Imagine the scene last night in the homes of the 17 FijiFirst MPs who have been expelled from the parliament for defying a party directive not to vote to enrich themselves with increased salaries and benefits - in the case of Inia Seruiratu, the parliamentary leader, an $80,000 salary hike plus a house. Imagine the
- [# "UNFIT TO LEAD". THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TURNS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/unfit-to-lead-the-mainstream-media-turns/) - Anyone reading today's editorial in the Fiji Sun might be excused for thinking that Grubsheet has taken over the paper. It pronounces Sitiveni Rabuka "no longer fit to run the nation" and lists a series of offences that has led the paper to the conclusion Grubsheet reached a long time ago. For the first time,
- [# BREAKING NEWS. THE AXE FALLS.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-the-axe-falls/)
- [# ONLY A FRESH ELECTION CAN END THIS FARCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/only-a-fresh-election-can-end-this-farce/) - Never before has the old saying about money being the root of all evil had more resonance than as both sides of politics in Fiji implode over the scandalous salary and benefits increases the pigs at the trough of our parliament approved for themselves last week and which triggered a national outcry. As the Fiji
- [# THE LEAST SURPRISING NEWS OF THE YEAR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-least-surprising-news-of-the-year/)
- [# A TAMANI-SIZED HYPOCRITE EXPOSED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-tamani-sized-hypocrite-exposed/) - There are times in politics when your past statements come back to haunt you and never more so than in the case of the sanctimonious wannabe prime minister, Manoa Kamikamica. In our previous article, we savaged him for his defence of the obscene salary and benefits package passed by the parliament last week. But that
- [# WHY MANOA KAMIKAMICA IS UNFIT TO LEAD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-manoa-kamikamica-is-unfit-to-lead/) - Manoa Kamikamica is the son of one of Fiji's finest civil servants and politicians - the late Josevata Kamikamica - who was renowned for his integrity both in government and when he broke away from Sitiveni Rabuka in the 1990s to form the Fijian Association with the late Ratu Finau Mara, son of founding prime
- [# GET SET FOR THE AXE TO FALL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/get-set-for-the-axe-to-fall/) - Grubsheet has no inside knowledge of what happens in FijiFirst, having fallen out with Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and having campaigned against them at the last election. But I know the inside workings of Khaiyum's mind almost as much as I know my own having worked intimately with him for six years. And I
- [# TIME TO MAN UP, BIMAN, AND FACE DOWN THE BULLY PM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/has-the-bully-boy-prime-minister-gone-mad/) - Now here's a turn-up, Fiji. Sitiveni Rabuka is threatening to "take action" against the NFP for not supporting its Coalition partners' unconscionable increases in MPs pay and conditions. He doesn't say precisely what action he intends to take. But fancy the Prime Minister threatening Biman Prasad for not diving into the fires of hell with
- [# DEAD MAN WALKING. FIJIFIRST REBELS FACING A PURGE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/on-the-cards-a-purge-of-fijifirst-mps/) - A great many people have been dissecting the statement by the President of FijiFirst, Ratu Jioji Satakala, that the 16 MPs who voted with the PAP and SODELPA for the controversial salary and benefit increases on Friday are to be disciplined. As the statement makes clear, the Acting General Secretary of the Party, Faiyaz Koya,
- [# "JEZEBEL" TOTALLY LOSES IT.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/jezebel-totally-loses-it/) - Just when you think you've seen it all, Fiji, something even more mind-boggling emerges to take your breath away - like Lynda Tabuya altering her Facebook page tonight to put up a new cover picture suggesting to the nation she deserves an award for being a lying, conniving, greedy, licentious piece of work. This woman
- [# BREAKING NEWS...FIJIFIRST IN TURMOIL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-fijifirst-in-turmoil/) - In an astonishing development, FijiFirst reveals that those of its MPs who voted for the controversial pay and allowance increases on Friday did so in direct contravention of an instruction from the Acting General Secretary of the Party, Faiyaz Koya. Koya, of course, will have been acting on the instructions of the Party leader, Frank
- [# MS PIGGY OF KADAVU SELF IMMOLATES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ms-piggy-of-kadavu-self-immolates/) - Lynda Tabuya might have survived in the cabinet after her antics in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel but on social media, she is burning to a crisp like overcooked bacon as Chair of the Special Committee on Emoluments that filled the trough for the parliamentary pigs on Friday. There has been an eruption of
- [# THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN AMONG THE SWINE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-magnificent-seven-among-the-grubby-swill/) - Yes, Fiji, just seven of the 55 members of the Fijian parliament who are worthy of the term "honourable" - those who voted against the obscene salary and benefits increases that were rammed through the House yesterday and have triggered a tsunami of public anger about pigs with their snouts in the trough as much
- [# GOVERNED BY THE GREEDY AND MORALLY CORRUPT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/governed-by-the-greedy-and-morally-corrupt/) - So Parliament has approved the motion introduced by the Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, for the nation's fat cat MPs to receive unprecedented salary increases and allowances that will cost the taxpayer millions when an estimated third of the country lives in poverty and struggles to put food on the table. 40 MPs
- [# "WHAT ABOUT ME?" THE NATION'S MPs TRIGGER A GADARENE* RUSH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-about-me-the-nations-mps-trigger-a-gadarene-rush/) - The public outcry over the proposed salary and allowance increases for the nation’s MPs is intense - uniting a coalition of the National Federation Party, the Labour Party, the Unity Party, the Fiji Council of Social Services and Dialogue Fiji in a chorus of angry condemnation. Yet in terms of the country’s economic stability, there’s
- [# THE QUEEN OF TARTS AND OTHER MPs WITH THEIR SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-queen-of-tarts-and-other-mps-with-their-snouts-in-the-trough/) - Read the accompanying articles, Fiji, and weep that our elected representatives are so hell-bent on destroying our economic future - the Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, her "brutal" sex toy boy and resident Minister for Bashing and Torture, Aseri Radrodro, plus the other members of the "Special Committee on Emoluments" dishing out more
- [# A SIGN OF UTTER DESPERATION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-sign-of-utter-desperation/) - It has now been more than 13 months since Siromi Turaga and the man he and Sitiveni Rabuka handpicked to be Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, suspended the DPP, Christopher Pryde, for alleged misbehaviour. And still they have failed to fulfil their constitutional duty to hold a judicial tribunal hearing into the allegation that Christopher
- [# NO LONGER PACIFIC](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-longer-pacific/) - Disturbingly similar. The skies above Nouméa. And the skies above Gaza. There goes the neighbourhood. A photo essay in the Guardian Australia of the unfolding tragedy in New Caledonia. Just 1300 kilometres from Fiji.
- [# PAL AHLUWALIA SAID “NO” TO A 30 PER CENT PAY RISE AT USP. THEN THE WHITE-ANTING BEGAN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pal-ahluwalia-said-no-to-a-30-per-cent-pay-rise-at-usp-then-the-white-anting-began/) - Universities the world over are hotbeds of competing egos, rivalries and jostling for positions. Academics by nature are smart, strategic and have a high opinion of themselves. And the vice chancellors who manage them are like trapeze artists on a high wire, constantly performing a delicate balancing act. They need to keep their staff happy
- [# EXPOSED: THE SECRET PLOT TO REMOVE PAL AHLUWALIA FROM USP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/exposed-the-secret-plot-to-remove-pal-ahluwalia-from-usp-part-one/) - An extraordinary conspiracy to oust the Vice Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has emerged in a confidential unsigned email circulating at the highest levels in Fiji and the region that has been leaked to Grubsheet. The author is someone using a pseudonym - "Hope Full" - at a "hopeful4change"
- [# DIPLOMATIC MANOEUVRES WITH THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/diplomatic-manoeuvres-with-the-minister-for-bonking-and-weed/) - Lynda Tabuya may have survived losing her ministerial position over her drug-fuelled sex romp with Aseri Radrodro because she has the Prime Minister over a barrel but she has become a vexing problem in diplomatic circles. The penalty for marijuana use in China ranges from 15 days in prison to a bullet in the back
- [# THE SLUG* OF SABETO'S BRAND OF JUSTICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-slug-of-sabetos-brand-of-justice/) - The old Mouth from the West, Mick Beddoes, is given the front page of today's Fiji Times to make some astonishing and highly provocative observations about the jailing of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho that have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with revenge. The former opposition leader and "brains" behind the
- [# MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY. A "WEAK-HEARTED, SELFISH" VISITOR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/mahendra-chaudhry-a-weak-hearted-selfish-visitor/) - The "vulagi" debate has erupted all over again in spectacular fashion with an astonishing attack on the Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, by the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, for having the temerity to object to the iTaukei term for visitor to describe Indo-Fijians who have been in Fiji since the arrival of the first Girmit
- [# NO, THERE ARE NEVER ANY SURPRISES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-there-are-never-any-surprises/) - What is it about the NFP and its propensity to threaten litigation? Six months after the Chair of the Coalition's Fiscal Review Committee, Richard "I have the means" Naidu, threatened to sue Grubsheet for defamation, the NFP leader, Biman Prasad, is threatening to sue a gaggle of opposition politicians for having the temerity to criticise
- [# THE SNAKE SHEDS HIS "MO" FOR THE 37TH COUP ANNIVERSARY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-snake-sheds-his-mo-for-the-37th-coup-anniversary/) - The moustache that has been Sitiveni Rabuka's trademark ever since he soared to national prominence with his first coup on May 14, 1987, has suddenly gone, as if by shaving the Prime Minister can somehow reinvent himself and get the nation to think about anything else than the horror he inflicted 37 years ago today.
- [# THE NATIONAL TRAUMA OF MAY 1987](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-national-trauma-of-may-1987/) - The 26th anniversary of the first 1987 Coup has revived some traumatic memories for many of us who lived through it – the shock, the air of menace, the violence, the feeling that Fiji would never be the same again. Tens of thousands of our best and smartest people simply decided there and then that
- [# A PRIME MINISTER UTTERLY WITHOUT SHAME](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-prime-minister-utterly-without-shame/) - It is 37 years today (Tuesday) since Sitiveni Rabuka carried out the first of his two coups to assert indigenous supremacy in Fiji, triggering an exodus of tens of thousands of the nation's best and brightest people. He has also condoned the use of the word "vulagi" among iTaukei to refer to the nation's minorities
- [# SIROMI TURAGA'S SPECTACULAR OWN GOAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/siromi-turagas-spectacular-own-goal/) - No wonder Sitiveni Rabuka wants to replace the Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, as soon as possible. It isn't just the complaints from the President down about Turaga's grave mishandling - before he became AG - of the divorce proceedings of a senior military officer that has resulted in the man's wife committing bigamy in the
- [# DISCOMBOBULATING RANDOM JOTTINGS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/discombobulating-jottings/) - It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to identify the source of the leaked image of the newly-jailed disgraced Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho, which surfaced on social media on Friday. It is clearly from a prison security camera, which tells us two things. The rotten apples violating Qiliho's privacy are warders in the control room of the
- [# ZHAO FUGANG'S CHINESE BURN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/zhao-fugangs-chinese-burn/) - The Yue Lai yum cha czar, Zhao Fugang, has been on a local PR blitz to rubbish the Nine Media's reporting that he is a priority target of Australia's intelligence services for allegedly running the region's biggest drug trafficking syndicate. But he has fallen at the first hurdle with his claim that Nick Mckenzie -
- [# IT ISN’T OVER FOR FRANK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/it-isnt-over-for-frank/) - Like many Fijians, Grubsheet has been in a mild state of shock at the sight of Frank Bainimarama trying to use what looked like a tea towel to cover up his handcuffs as he and Sitiveni Qiliho left the High Court yesterday for the journey to prison. It wasn’t as if we didn’t expect the
- [# BREAKING NEWS...FRANK BAINIMARAMA JAILED FOR ONE YEAR FOR PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE...SITIVENI QILIHO JAILED FOR TWO YEARS FOR ABUSE OF OFFICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-frank-bainimarama-jailed-for-one-year/) - Both sentences start immediately and the ousted prime minister and suspended Police Commissioner have been escorted to prison in handcuffs. For an educated guess about what happens next, please refer to our previous posting. Detailed analysis to come tomorrow (Friday).
- [# THURSDAY MAY 9. A MOMENTOUS DAY IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/11239-2/) - Security has been tightened in central Suva as Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho are re-sentenced by the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, and he imposes much harsher penalties than the effective acquittals pronounced on them by Magistrate Seini Puamau. The hearing was due to begin at 11.00am and local media reports that police are checking
- [# ZHAO FUGANG MUSTERS HIS LOCAL USEFUL IDIOTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/zhao-fugang-musters-his-local-useful-idiots/) - Imagine what it must be like to be a Fijian employee of the self-confessed Chinese Communist Party agent and alleged drug trafficker Zhao Fugang. He comes to you and asks you to appear with him in a photograph to use in his attempt to counter the explosive allegations against him detailed by Nine newspapers and
- [# THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT ENABLES THE MINISTER WHO SLEPT WITH A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/enabling-a-minister-for-women-who-slept-with-a-domestic-violence-abuser/) - There is suddenly a lot of hand-wringing about moral decay in Fiji, including on the front page of today's Fiji Times where the new Chair of the Great Council of Chiefs preposterously blames the 2000 and 2006 coups. Nonsense. The moral decay in Fiji lies at the feet of our leaders who preach one thing
- [# IF ONLY HE PUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF EFFORT INTO RUNNING THE COUNTRY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/if-only-he-put-the-same-amount-of-effort-into-running-the-country/) - A question for my readers: What has the Coalition actually achieved in its 17 months in office? I mean tangible outcomes that have made the country better, not just a continuation of the policies of FijiFirst? Some of its supporters might say the restoration of the GCC is one. Except that it is already proving
- [# YOU CAN PUT LIPSTICK ON A PIG BUT HE IS STILL A PIG](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/you-can-put-lipstick-on-a-pig-but-he-is-still-a-pig/) - The two members of the cabinet vying for the number "233" at the next election. They have become the Coalition's weakest links - the domestic violence abuser who is Minister for Education and his drug-taking illicit sex partner who is Minister for Women and Children. The worst possible role models for the nation's young people.
- [# THE FIJI TIMES. A GROTESQUE PARODY OF JOURNALISM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-fiji-times-a-grotesque-parody-of-journalism/) - These are the faces of the Great Betrayers - the Fiji Times editorial team led by Fred Wesley (standing on the right ) who debase the practice of journalism on a daily basis while they shamelessly boast that they are "free" and are finally, under the Coalition, telling Fijians what they need to know. It
- [# THE TWO JONES. THE RFMF COMMANDER SENDS A POTENT MESSAGE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-two-jones-the-rfmf-commander-sends-a-potent-message/) - Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai has raised eyebrows in the military by choosing the day on which his predecessor as Commander, Frank Bainimarama, has had his fate sealed in the courts to meet with one of Bainimarama's most implacable enemies, the former Land Forces Commander, Colonel ( Ret'd) Jone Baledrokadroka. Wearing his hat as Chair
- [# FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS, FIJI. WE'RE IN FOR A BUMPY RIDE (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fasten-your-seat-belts-fiji-were-in-for-a-bumpy-ride/) - Despite being demonstrably biased and pre-judging the appeal case against Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho, the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, refused to stand aside from the case on Thursday and he will re-sentence the pair next Thursday, May 9, at 11.00am. The stage is now set for both men to go to jail, which
- [# WHAT’S IN A NAME? AIYAZ SAYED HYPHEN SILLYSAUSAGE HYPHEN KHAIYUM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/whats-in-a-name-aiyaz-sayed-hyphen-sillysausage-hyphen-khaiyum/) - The FijiFirst Opposition has been missing in action for so long that it seems the only time it makes the news is when its principals are before the courts – something party head Frank Bainimarama will do again today (Thursday) when he and Sitiveni Qiliho appear in the High Court before Acting Chief Justice Salesi
- [# THE OTHER LYNDA. A TRAGIC STORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-other-lynda-a-tragic-story-of-domestic-violence/) - Domestic violence is not just a big issue in Fiji. In Australia, debate has been raging for days about a wave of recent cases of women murdered by their partners and demands by women's rights advocates for a Royal Commission to uncover the extent of a truly alarming crisis. For Fijian women, there is a
- [# THE ONLY DIFFERENCE? ONE WOMAN DIED, THE OTHER DIDN'T](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-only-difference-one-woman-died-the-other-didnt/) - Strange old world, isn't it? One man is charged with killing his partner in a domestic violence incident and if convicted, will spend much of the rest of his life behind bars. The other bashed his wife to within an inch of her life but her father, the Prime Minister, managed to find her in
- [# CHINA'S BIG PACIFIC SETBACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/chinas-big-pacific-setback/) - China has lost its strongest regional supporter with the Solomons leader, Manasseh Sogavare, being forced to stand aside after failing to gain a majority in the country's election. After dominating Solomons politics for four decades, Sogavare 's governing party won just 15 seats, well short of the 26 seats needed to form government . Last
- [# THE TOADIES IN CHARGE OF EDUCATING FIJIAN KIDS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-toadies-in-charge-of-educating-our-kids/) - Doubtless like many people, Grubsheet has had to reach for the sick-bag after one of the most cringemaking and totally undeserved instances of arse-licking in the sorry history of arse-licking in Fiji. I'm not even going to try to paraphrase the vomit-inducing comments by the General Secretary of the Fiji Teachers Union, Muniappa Gounder, about
- [# THE GCC REVIEW LEAVES PROFESSOR WADAN NARSEY UNDERWHELMED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-gcc-review-leaves-professor-waden-narsey-underwhelmed/) - It is buried on pages 42 and 43 of Saturday's Fiji Times but Professor Wadan Narsey is clearly tackling the fundamental intellectual premise of the report into the Great Council of Chiefs carried out by the review panel headed by his fellow Australian-based academic and former RFMF officer, Dr Ratu Jone Baledrokadroka. Grubsheet's own analysis
- [# THE NEW FIJI. STOMPING ON SOMEONE WHEN THEY'RE DOWN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-new-fiji-stomping-on-someone-when-theyre-down/) - Fiji's reputation for sportsmanship is being dragged through the mud in Australia after Fijian Drua player Jennifer Ravutia stomped on a NSW player's chest in the Drua's clash against the Waratahs. It was an absolute disgrace that has brought shame on the player, the team and the nation. The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, made light
- [# WELL THAT WAS A DUMB IDEA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/well-that-was-a-dumb-idea/) - The qori ( "there, that's what you deserve") moment of the week has got to be the slapping-down of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem by two of the three Supreme Court judges hearing the cabinet's application to determine if the Constitution actually permits the appointments of John Rabuku as Acting DPP and Alipate Qetaki as
- [# THE IMPORTANCE OF TALKING TO SHEEP (UPDATED SUN AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-importance-of-talking-to-sheep/) - Just as Grubsheet has undergone a crisis of confidence about whether to keep trying to influence events in Fiji because they just go from bad to worse, words of encouragement have come from an unlikely source in the form of William, Prince of Wales. He says it is very important to talk to sheep and
- [# THE PERVERSE NEW ERA OF "MEDIA FREEDOM" (AND OTHER PERVERSITIES)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-perverse-new-era-of-media-freedom-and-other-perversities/) - Who made the decision to bar the media from the swearing in ceremony at State House of the reappointed Minister for Education, Aseri Radrodro? And who requested it? Was it Radrodro himself? Radrodro's wife, Sainiana, concerned about journalists scrutinising the body language between her and her love rat? The Prime Minister wasn't present so it's
- [# SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRISY FROM THE COALITION'S RESIDENT TROLLOP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sanctimonious-hypocritical-rubbish-from-the-coalitions-resident-trollop/) - Lynda Tabuya - the Minister for Women and Children - cares so much about domestic violence that she had "brutal" sex in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne last August with Aseri Radrodro - the newly reappointed Minister for Education - who anally raped and almost killed his former wife, the Prime Minister's
- [# YOUR CHILD'S EDUCATION TURNED INTO A COALITION PLAYTHING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/your-childs-education-turned-into-a-coalition-plaything/) - Fijians have risen this morning to the news that a domestic violence abuser and adulterer is back as Minister for Education. That in itself is an outrage. But the bigger outrage is the way the Coalition has allowed the education portfolio - arguably our most important - to become a playground for its squalid political
- [# BREAKING NEWS. THE NEW ERA UNDER THE COALITION. GOVERNMENT BY BLACKMAIL.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-government-by-blackmail-and-time-to-end-this-sorry-farce/) - The corruption at the top of the Coalition is breathtaking. The reinstatement of Aseri Radrodro as Minister for Education is proof conclusive that it is government by blackmail and an all- out assault on the integrity of the state. How Sitiveni Rabuka can be pictured shaking hands with the man who anally raped his daughter
- [# UH-OH. THAT WASN’T MEANT TO HAPPEN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/uh-oh-that-wasnt-meant-to-happen/) - John Rabuku – the illegal Acting DPP – and the illegal judge, Alipate Qetaki, would have had a sickening feeling in their bowels today with the news that their appointments won’t be rubber stamped after all by Salesi Temo as President of the Supreme Court but decided by a trio of distinguished expatriate judges. Justice
- [# ZHAO FUGANG ALLEGEDLY "COMPROMISED" POLICE DRUG OPERATIONS IN FIJI AND AUSTRALIA.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/zhao-fugang-allegedly-compromised-police-drug-operations-in-fiji-and-australia/) - The Suva businessman and self acknowledged Chinese Communist Party agent, Zhao Fugang, is back on the front pages in Australia accused of allegedly infiltrating and compromising the fight against drugs in Fiji and Australia. For the first time, two other alleged "Mr Bigs" in the drug trade are named by Nine newspapers - Jason Zhong,
- [# THE GCC REPORT: A BLUEPRINT FOR POTENTIAL DIVISION AND CONFLICT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-gcc-report-a-blueprint-for-potential-division-and-conflict/) - The restoration of the Great Council of Chiefs is one of the Coalition's signature achievements yet also threatens to be hugely divisive, judging from some key elements of the long-awaited report into the GCC by a review panel headed by the former RFMF officer and Canberra academic, Dr Ratu Jone Baledrokadroka. The report finds that
- [# THE PERNICIOUS REGIONAL TRADE IN METHAMPHETAMINE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pernicious-regional-trade-in-methamphetamine/) - Australia's ABC Four Corners television program has broadcast a startling and illuminating expose of the methamphetamine trade that has particular resonance in Fiji as the country struggles with its own challenges with meth, especially in our schools. The issue is front page news in today's Fiji Times (see below) and rarely a day goes by
- [# THE RFMF COMMANDER WITH HIS HEAD IN THE CLOUDS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-rfmf-commander-with-his-head-in-the-clouds/) - You really have to wonder about Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai and his notion of leadership. He is charged under the 2013 Constitution - which the RFMF helped formulate - to ensure the "security, defence and well-being of Fiji and all Fijians". That means using his position to ensure that every Fijian - irrespective of
- [# BIMAN'S LOVE PAEAN TO ASERI. THANKS FOR SAVING MY JOB](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/bimans-love-paean-to-aseri-thanks-for-saving-my-job/) - So Biman Prasad wants us all to salute SODELPA for backing down on its threat to bring down the government if Aseri Radrodro isn't reinstated to the cabinet as education minister. He wants us all to salute the domestic violence abuser and love rat who is now SODELPA leader and praises Radrodro on the front
- [# "SAINIANA BREAKS HER SILENCE". AND SAYS NOTHING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sainiana-breaks-silence-and-says-nothing/) - The Fiji Times just goes from bad to worse with a front page today that is misleading to the point of being a grotesque parody of journalism. The arresting headline screams "Sainiana breaks silence". And most readers would have been jolted at first sight into thinking "wow, Aseri Radrodro's wife is finally going to address
- [# SODELPA'S GUTLESS, HUMILIATING BACKDOWN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sodelpas-gutless-humiliating-backdown/) - Well, so much for that. So much for the pusi-cats of Naitasiri. Aseri Radrodro assumes the leadership of SODELPA but the first thing that he does, presumably with the blessing of his patron - the murderous Qaranivalu, Ratu Inoke Takiveikata - is to give in to the Prime Minister's insistence that Radrodro won't be restored
- [# WHY BAINIMARAMA AND QILIHO WANT JUSTICE TEMO TO STAND ASIDE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-frank-and-siti-want-justice-temo-to-stand-aside/) - Today, we're publishing the affidavit of the suspended Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho, on behalf of himself and the ousted prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, in the High Court action they are mounting seeking the recusal of the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, from hearing the appeal of the ODPP against the sentences passed on them by
- [# AN EARLY ELECTION. THE PRECISE CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-early-election-the-precise-constitutional-position/) - There is a great deal of confusion about the options open to change the government or bring on a fresh election arising from SODELPA'S challenge to the authority of the Prime Minister. Part of this lies with the 2013 Constitution itself - which has separate sections on no confidence motions and the calling of an
- [# BREAKING NEWS...BAINIMARAMA AND QILIHO FIGHT BACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-news-bainimarama-and-qiliho-fight-back/) - In a major development, lawyers for Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho have filed an action in the High Court seeking to have the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, recuse himself on the grounds of alleged conflict of interest and bias from hearing the ODPP's appeal against their sentencing next month. They are also seeking a
- [# BEST CASE SCENARIO? A FRESH ELECTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/best-case-scenario-a-fresh-election/) - Today's Fiji Sun describes it as worst case scenarios - the Prime Minister speculating on what might happen if SODELPA wants to enforce its demand that he reinstate the new SODELPA leader, Aseri Radrodro, as Education Minister by withdrawing its support for the Coalition. What he outlines are, in fact, best case scenarios because the
- [# THE BETRAYER FINALLY COMES CLEAN ABOUT THE MASS EXODUS FROM FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-betrayer-finally-comes-clean-about-the-mass-exodus-from-fiji/) - Remember Grubsheet reporting that the true number of people leaving Fiji over the past two years was closer to 80,000 than the 50,000 the Ministry of Finance - the horse's mouth - was reporting? Well, finally that's been confirmed by the horse himself - Baimann Prasad, the NFP leader and Finance Minister, with whom much
- [# THE MURDEROUS HIGH CHIEF HOLDING THE NATION TO RANSOM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-murderous-high-chief-holding-the-nation-to-ransom/) - Today's Fiji Sun confirms what many suspected - that the Qaranivalu - Naitasiri High Chief, Ratu Inoke Takiveikata - is the hand in the glove of the new SODELPA leader, Aseri Radrodro, in his attempt to be restored to the Education Ministry and reassert SODELPA control over the Coalition government. With the deadline having now
- [# FBC PUTS LYNDA'S POLITICAL CAREER WHERE IT BELONGS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fbc-puts-lyndas-political-career-where-it-belongs/) - It's hard to know whether it was a genuine mistake or someone at the national broadcaster has a subversive sense of humour. But FBC News has had a very unfortunate juxtaposition in its coverage of a parliamentary speech by the Minister for Bonking and Weed. Gone are the glamorous shots of Lynda Tabuya that once
- [# HIGH NOON FOR THE COALITION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/high-noon-for-the-coalition/) - "Blinky Bill" Gavoka has until the end of today (Wednesday) to relinquish the post of Education Minister and hand it over to the new SODELPA leader, Aseri Radrodro, or face the prospect of expulsion from the party and the parliament. Will Binky blink? It doesn't seem remotely possible. Which means that the ball is now
- [# SODELPA SIGNS ITS DEATH WARRANT (AND MAYBE THE COALITION'S TOO)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/sodelpa-signs-its-death-warrant/) - The Coalition government is again in crisis with the astonishing decision by SODELPA to choose Aseri Radrodro as its next leader and its demand that he be immediately reinstated to his old job of Minister for Education. It is a direct challenge to the authority of the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, who removed Radrodro from
- [# A SHAMELESS LIE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-shameless-lie/) - We know that Sitiveni Rabuka is a habitual liar but his latest lasulasu-jhoot really takes the keke. The Prime Minister says it isn't true what Grubsheet reported last week - that the Chair of the PAP's disciplinary committee, Alefina Vuki, resigned from the committee and the People's Alliance in protest at Sitiveni Rabuka's decision to
- [# BEN WANTS BEN REMOVED ALTOGETHER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ben-wants-ben-removed-altogether/) - The Australian newspaper reports the removal of Colonel Ben Naliva as deputy commander of the 7th Brigade of the Australian Defence Force ( see previous story) but sidelining him into a research role hasn't appeased one of his accusers - the colourful Suva businessman, Ben Padarath. Padarath wants Naliva sacked from the ADF altogether and
- [# BREAKING: WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-war-in-the-middle-east/) - The much anticipated Iranian attack on Israel has begun, threatening all out war in the Middle East, with vast implications for the whole world. Israel is bound to retaliate. And what happens after that is anyone's guess. A new and very dangerous era is upon us. From BBC News: From Nine Media in Australia:
- [# DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/death-in-the-afternoon/) - The first picture of the mother who was among those stabbed and killed by the attacker in Sydney yesterday after he also stabbed her nine month old baby daughter. Ashlee Good - a 38 year old osteopath - died in hospital of multiple wounds and her baby has been undergoing surgery and is in a
- [# WHERE'S BEN? SIDELINED AND REPUTATION SHREDDED.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wheres-ben-sidelined-and-reputation-shredded/) - There's been nothing from the Australian side but buried on page three of today's Fiji Sun is news that Colonel Ben Naliva is no longer deputy commander of the Australian Army's 7th Brigade. There's been no official announcement yet but the clear implication is that the Australian Defence Force now accepts that Colonel Naliva -
- [# HANDS UP IF YOU'RE SICK OF BEING TREATED LIKE AN IDIOT.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hands-up-if-youre-sick-of-being-treated-like-an-idiot/) - The Prime Minister says you can "seek redress" if you think you've missed out on a government job or been removed on the grounds of ethnicity. And how do you do that, Fiji? By going to the Prime Minister himself to lodge a complaint. Yes, he will decide if you've been given the vudi, not
- [# THE WORM TURNS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-worm-turns/) - The chronically pro-Coalition Fiji Times has suddenly changed tack by putting the FijiFirst Opposition Leader, Inia Seruiratu, on its front page calling on the Prime Minister to stand down those of his ministers who are currently being investigated by FICAC or the police. It is probably just an aberration as even Fred Wesley and his
- [# HIS LORDSHIP MUST STAND ASIDE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/his-lordship-must-stand-aside/) - Salesi Temo is cantankerous, erratic, capricious, imperious, self-important, sexist, patriarchal and behaves like a schoolyard bully. He shares these characteristics with a tiny minority of crusty judges in other jurisdictions of the common law that Fiji also inherited from the British. But he is unique in one particular aspect. The Acting Chief Justice is an
- [EXCLUSIVE. PAP DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE CHAIR RESIGNS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/breaking-newspap-disciplinary-committee-chair-resigns/) - Alefina Vuki – the Chair of the People’s Alliance disciplinary committee that found the sex and drug allegations against Lynda Tabuya proven – has resigned from the committee and from the Party after the Prime Minister retained Tabuya as the Minister for Women and Children. Alefina Vuki’s decision to sever links with the PAP altogether
- [# SMALL CHANGE TO BUY THE PM'S FAVOUR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/small-change-to-buy-the-pms-favour/) - $300-million Fijian ($134-million US) is a pittance for the Chinese Communist Party to buy the Prime Minister's favour by improving the road system on his home island of Vanua Levu and, in turn, for Sitiveni Rabuka to curry favour with his own people. It also buys the Prime Minister's silence on the big issues of
- [# HOW TO FIX THE DRUG PROBLEM? DON'T EAT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/how-to-fix-the-drug-problem-dont-eat/) - The call by the Methodist Church in Fiji for a month of prayer and fasting to address the current explosion in drug use tells us a great deal about the intellectual as well as the moral vacuum at the top of national life. The President of the Methodist Church, the Reverend Dr Semisi Turagavou, undoubtedly
- [# THE COALITION GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-goes-from-bad-to-worse/) - So now the Acting Supervisor of Elections, Ana Mataiciwa, is set to lose her job for doing her job. And at the hands of the miserable Barbara Malimali - who complained after the election that women weren't getting enough Coalition jobs until she got one and is now using it to remove another woman from
- [# AN ACT OF CONTEMPT FOR FIJIAN SOVEREIGNTY (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/an-act-of-contempt-for-fijian-sovereignty/) - Grubsheet has returned from holiday and is catching up on events while we were away. And one of the stories that struck us most was the Chinese Ambassador's gross lack of respect for the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, when they shared a platform together and the Ambassador used the occasion to address the recent Australian
- [# WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, GET WET](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-all-else-fails-get-wet/) - Few things demonstrate the growing impotence and senility of the Prime Minister more starkly than his attempt to make political capital out of dispensing with his umbrella in the rain when the rest of the country is desperate to stay dry or get water out of the taps. Sitiveni Rabuka thinks we are all going
- [# THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE TURN WITH UNSEEMLY HASTE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-wheels-of-justice-move-with-unseemly-haste/) - There is something deeply unsettling about the news on the front page of Good Friday's Fiji Times that the state is moving so quickly to try to crucify Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho after the "screams of joy" and tears of relief that accompanied the lenient sentences they received yesterday from Magistrate Seini Puamau. Soon
- [# HE DOESN'T GET TO CLOSE ANYTHING](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/he-doesnt-get-to-close-anything/) - Sitiveni Rabuka lives in a parallel universe in which he thinks he can conduct himself in a manner contrary to political and community norms and get away with it without having to face the judgment of the people. The Prime Minister has defied his own party by retaining Lynda Tabuya as Minister for Women, Children
- [# THE GENUINE DISGRACE IS THE ASSISTANT DPP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-genuine-disgrace-is-the-assistant-dpp/) - The sooner Christopher Pryde is reinstated as DPP and Elizabeth Rice is reinstated as his assistant the better off Fiji will be given the extraordinary conduct of the "white" Rice's replacement at today's sentencing of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho. Laisani Tabuakoro is way out of line with her belligerent conduct and unrestrained and inappropriate
- [# JUDGE FOR YOURSELF, FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/judge-for-yourself-fiji/) - All eyes are now on the High Court appeal next Wednesday brought by the Acting DPP, John Rabuku, against the sentencing by Resident Magistrate Seini Puamau of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho. The speed with which the appeal date has been set has shocked much of the country, coming as it will less than a
- [# NEWS FLASH...SITIVENI QILIHO FINED $1500 AND NO CONVICTION RECORDED.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/news-flash-sitiveni-qiliho-fined-1500-and-no-conviction-recorded/) - An astonishing day in Suva. Full analysis to come on Friday when the dust settles.
- [# NEWS FLASH... FRANK BAINIMARAMA GRANTED AN ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE. THE MAGISTRATE SAYS HIS VIOLATION OF THE LAW IS "TRIVIAL"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/news-flash-frank-bainimarama-granted-an-absolute-discharge-the-magistrate-says-his-violation-of-the-law-is-minor/) - More to come tomorrow (Friday) about where this goes next.
- [# DECIDE FOR YOURSELF, FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/decide-for-yourself-fiji/) - The 60 Minutes story on China's involvement in Fiji and the activities of Zhao Fugang is now available generally on YouTube. The Fijian government says "due process" will be followed in its response to these revelations. But it is clear that the Coalition is totally out of its depth in dealing with the issues raised.
- [# THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON CHINA IN THE BEIJING SUN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-beijing-sun-conspires-against-the-truth/) - The Fiji Sun's editorial treatment of the Nine media organisation's disclosures about Zhao Fugang and China's influence in Fiji confirm the paper's disturbing bias against the democracies in favour of the Chinese Communist Party. The Fiji Sun has detailed none of the material in Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes that Grubsheet has published in previous
- [# LORD OF ALL HE SURVEYS. ZHAO FUGANG: CHINESE AGENT AND ALLEGED CRIME BOSS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lord-of-all-he-surveys-zhao-fugang-chinese-agent-and-alleged-crime-boss/) - The sensational allegations against the owner of the Yue Lai restaurant, Zhao Fugang, are sending shock waves through the Fijian establishment after they were revealed last night by the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and 60 Minutes (see previous story). We are still waiting for the 60 Minutes story to be uplifted to YouTube but
- [#DECEIVED BY OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE LOCAL MEDIA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/deceived-by-our-government-and-the-media/) - There really is no hope for Fiji when the Coalition government deceives the people and a compliant media goes along with that deception. But that is precisely what has happened with the response to the sensational revelations that Suva businessman Zhao Fugang has admitted to being an agent for the Chinese Communist Party and the
- [# 60 MINUTES SENSATION (UPDATED TUESDAY AM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/60-minutes-sensation/) - The 60 Minutes report on China and Zhao Fugang can now be accessed by viewers in Fiji and the rest of the world on the 60 Minutes YouTube website. I can't provide a direct link because it is not available to me because of Nine Network restrictions. The following link is for AUSTRALIAN VIEWERS ONLY
- [# THE YUE LAI'S ZHAO FUGANG EXPOSED AS ALLEGED DRUG KINGPIN AND TOP CHINESE AGENT IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-yue-lais-zhao-fugang-exposed-as-alleged-drug-kingpin-and-top-chinese-agent-in-fiji/) - Grubsheet urges our readers to take in the full magnitude of sensational print and television stories currently breaking in Australia that blow the lid off Chinese activities in Fiji and the Pacific. The Nine media organisation – with the assistance of Australian intelligence sources – names the owner of the Yue Lai restaurant in Suva,
- [# REVEALED. THE EXTENT OF CHINA'S PENETRATION IN FIJI](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/revealed-the-extent-of-chinas-penetration-in-fiji/) - A major investigation by Australia's Nine media organisation has revealed the shocking surrender of Fijian sovereignty to China under the Bainimarama government but also raises fresh questions about the conduct of the Coalition. While the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, talks tough about not surrendering to Chinese pressure, there is an astonishing disconnect between the account
- [# MAJOR NON EVENT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/major-non-event/) - I had my head in my hands for the entire CFL-Fiji Village interview tonight with the RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, who seems to have embraced all the gobbledygook of modern management-speak – “transformative” this and “transformative” that when the RFMF is the least transformative institution in the country. I’m not going to
- [# CAN WE HAVE SOME GENUINELY STRAIGHT TALK PLEASE?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/can-we-have-some-genuinely-straight-talk-please/) - We await the appearance tonight on CFL-Fiji Village of the RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, with more than usual interest after the conviction of his predecessor, Frank Bainimarama, and the almost certain prospect of the ousted prime minister going to jail. It seems highly appropriate that the program is being sponsored by the
- [# THE “ME FIRST” MENTALITY OF THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-me-first-mentality-of-the-minister-for-bonking-and-weed/) - As a report surfaces from the unlikely source of the Fiji Times that the Prime Minister has barred Lynda Tabuya from making overseas trips amid the fallout of her squalid sex and drug scandal, more details are also emerging about her self-serving promotion of rugby. Grubsheet has been contacted by a provincial rugby insider with
- [# "BAIMAAN" DUCKS, WEAVES AND TRIES TO SHOOT THE MESSENGER/S (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/baimann-ducks-weaves-and-tries-to-shoot-the-messenger-s/) - The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Biman Prasad, has his knickers in a twist about the Fiji Sun reporting a complaint against him to the Fiji Elections Office and the FEO passing that complaint on to FICAC. He attacks the Fiji Sun for spreading allegations that he describes as “malicious and without substance”
- [# FRANK IS GOING TO JAIL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/frank-is-going-to-jail/) - The once unthinkable is beginning to dawn on Frank Bainimarama’s most loyal supporters – that the ousted prime minister will be on his way to prison after his sentencing hearing on March 28. Yes, Frank and his loyal lieutenant - the suspended Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho – are heading for Naboro to join George Speight
- [# THE ROOT RAT AT THE TOP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-root-rat-at-the-top/) - After defying his own party and refusing to sack the Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya, for her sexual misconduct and drug-taking, the spotlight is now falling on the sexual misconduct of the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, over the years. And it threatens to dog him all the way to the next
- [# GOLDEN ERA OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-golden-era-of-the-golden-dragon/) - The best news of the week is buried on page 62 of Saturday’s Fiji Times, where music legend Ken Janson announces an exciting reunion at the GPH on May 17 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his Golden Dragon nightclub. The Diamond Jubilee celebration will bring together performers from around the world who once played
- [# BRAIN DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/brain-dead-man-identified/) - Can anyone tell the rest of us why the hell the Fiji Times would think this is the most important story in the world today by putting it on its front page? Sitiveni Rabuka seems to be really losing it, among other things prevaricating for nearly two weeks over what to do about Lynda Tabuya's
- [# LOCAL YOKELS OF THE LAW](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/local-yokels-of-the-law/) - The Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, has revealed the astonishing extent to which local lawyers – make that iTaukei lawyers – are being fast-tracked into positions in the judiciary as part of the Coalition government’s localisation program in the criminal justice system. He’s told parliament that “ a record 22 judicial officers have been appointed” in
- [# PERPLEXING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/perplexing-questions-about-the-criminal-justice-system/) - If you believe in the rule of law, justice must not only be done but seen to be done. And it is a national tragedy that confidence in the criminal justice system – including the independence of the judiciary – has been so dramatically eroded in Fiji. In relation to the reversal of the acquittals
- [# TABUYA-GATE ON NEW ZEALAND RADIO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/tabuya-gate-on-new-zealand-radio/) - Cameron Slater is a Fiji-born journalist and political commentator with a big audience in New Zealand through his website - the BFD - and his radio program on Reality Check Radio. He's already written a widely-read article on the sex and drug scandal that has enveloped Lynda Tabuya and the Coalition government. But now, Cam
- [# FASTEN YOUR SELT BELTS, FIJI. MAJOR TURBULENCE AHEAD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fasten-your-selt-belts-fiji-major-turbulence-ahead/) - As expected, Sitiveni Rabuka's handpicked Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has reversed the acquittals of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho on an application by his handpicked illegal Acting DPP, John Rabuku. So what do we expect to happen, Fiji? You tell me. Because on March 28 on present indications, Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho are
- [# THE PRIME MINISTER FEELS INTENSE HEAT FROM WITHIN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-prime-minister-feels-intense-heat-from-within/) - The stage is set for resignations from the People’s Alliance amid a furious backlash over the Prime Minister’s decision to ignore the Party’s damning report on Lynda Tabuya’s sex and drug scandal and keep her as Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection. There’s an intense feeling of betrayal in the Executive Council of the
- [#"PACK IT UP, PAP. YOUR SHIP OUT OF GOVERNMENT BECKONS"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pack-it-up-pap-your-ship-out-of-govt-beckons/) - You have to be uniquely stupid as a national leader to have turned public opinion so decisively against you in the way that Sitiveni Rabuka has done after 15 months and to turn one of the nation's two newspapers into an implacable opponent calling for your resignation and predicting your defeat. The Coalition government has
- [# A FRESH SCANDAL ROCKS THE COALITION (UPDATED WED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-fresh-scandal-rocks-the-coalition/) - Hot on the heels of the drug and sex scandal that has consumed Lynda Tabuya and Aseri Radrodro comes a Fiji Police investigation into allegations of deception, fraud and false pretences against the Attorney General, Siromi Turaga. They relate to his time as a lawyer in private practice after he was removed as a magistrate
- [# THE PM EXPOSED AS A BALD-FACED LIAR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pm-exposed-as-a-bald-faced-liar/) - Sitiveni Rabuka is not only the Snake under the spell of the nation's greatest snake charmer ( pun intended) but he is also a master of lasulasu-jhoot. He said tonight that he had received no complaints about Lynda Tabuya's conduct that would warrant him sacking her as Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection. It
- [# THE SNAKE SAVES HIS TEMPTRESS AND ALL OF US ARE DIMINISHED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-snake-saves-his-slut-and-all-of-us-are-diminished/) - Much of the nation is reeling in disbelief and disgust tonight at the announcement by the Prime Minister that he is retaining Lynda Tabuya as Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation despite the findings of his own party that she engaged in an orgy of illicit sex and drugs during an official visit to
- [# TICK, TICK TICK…](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/tick-tick-tick/) - It is now eleven days since Sitiveni Rabuka received a detailed report from the Peoples Alliance disciplinary committee confirming allegations that Lynda Tabuya engaged in illicit sex and drug- taking on an official parliamentary visit to Melbourne last August. The evidence against Tabuya was overwhelming enough for the Executive Council of the Party to strip
- [# SITI, THE PISSANT PREVARICATOR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/siti-the-pissant-prevaricator/) - Fully ten days after he received the People's Alliance disciplinary committee's report finding the allegations of Lynda Tabuya's sex and drug escapade in Melbourne last August proven, the Prime Minister still can't decide whether to sack her. He really is pathetic - telling everyone he would make a decision when he got back from receiving
- [# DOBBY SPENDS THE WEEKEND IN THE SLAMMER (UPDATED MON PM)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/dobby-spends-the-weekend-in-the-slammer/) - God knows that Grubsheet gave Mohammed Saneem a hard time in the lead-up to the last election, dubbing him Dobby the House Elf - Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's elf - after the character in Harry Potter. Even so, I feel sorry for him as he spends the weekend in the Totogo Police Station - held in custody
- [# LOCAL HELL FOR THE GAME THEY PLAY IN HEAVEN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/local-hell-for-the-game-they-play-in-heaven/) - "God help Fiji Rugby" - wrote the veteran Fiji Sun scribe, Leone Cabenatabua, in a weekend editorial - as he analysed the panic-driven decision to replace the British-born Sevens rugby coach, Ben Gollings, with the local star player, Osea Kolinisau. And God help Osea Kolinisau if he can’t make the Fiji Sevens team more competitive
- [# 193,000 REASONS TO LEAVE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/193000-reasons-to-leave/) - Are you worried about your child's education? Well you should be. Because a concerted effort is underway to lure your child's teacher to leave Fiji for higher paid positions overseas. A full page advertisement in today's Fiji Times is only the most outward sign of a much broader campaign to sap Fiji of its best
- [# IS THIS WHY THE PRIME MINISTER IS STALLING?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/is-this-why-the-prime-minister-is-stalling/) - We know that Lynda Tabuya is licentious, arrogant, manipulative and vindictive, as evidenced by her conduct towards a Fiji Sun journalist on Friday, who she attacked because the Sun refuses to join the Fiji Times in turning a blind eye to her outrageous conduct and the sex and drug scandal that now poses a genuine
- [# PM IS "LIKELY TO SAVE" LYNDA TABUYA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pm-is-likely-to-save-lynda-tabuya/) - The Fiji Sun quotes "political commentators" predicting that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, is poised to clear the Minister for Bonking and Weed over her sex and drug scandal "because of her loyalty over the years". Oh really? Just try. Because it will be this government's death knell judging from the public reaction on social
- [# INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FARCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/international-womens-day-farce/) - The day set aside by the United Nations to draw attention to the achievements and challenges of women ought to be one of celebration in Fiji and around the world. And yet this year, International Women's Day in Fiji is being marred by the sex and drug scandal that has enveloped the Coalition's Minister for
- [# WHEN LYNDA LOSES THE NATION'S WOMEN, SHE LOSES THE LOT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/when-lynda-loses-the-nations-women-she-loses-the-lot/) - It's been noticeable for some time that the Minister for Bonking and Weed is rapidly losing the support of the nation's women as news spreads - despite the lack of mainstream media coverage in Fiji - of the sex and drug scandal that will inevitably cost her the women and children's portfolio in the cabinet.
- [# SHAMIMA ALI HAS LOST THE PLOT AND MUST GO](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/shamima-ali-has-lost-the-plot-and-must-go/) - The Head of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre surely ought to be acutely concerned about the conduct and integrity of the Coalition's Minister for Women and Children yet Shamima Ali seems more intent on protecting a fellow member of the sisterhood no matter how scandalous her behaviour. The spectacle of Shamima Ali leaping to the
- [# FRED, THE SLEEPING MEDIA WATCHDOG, OPENS ONE EYE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fred-the-sleeping-media-watchdog-opens-one-eye/) - It has taken Radio New Zealand to prompt Fiji's supposed newspaper of record since 1869 to finally start reporting the sex and drug scandal that has enveloped the Minister for Bonking and Weed. It is all so "unfair", the Fiji Times quotes the Great Temptress as saying. In essence, the argument runs thus. Dua: As
- [# THE SUSPENDED DPP. THE PATIENCE OF JOB](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-suspended-dpp-the-patience-of-job/) - So almost a year after he was suspended as DPP and famously left his office carrying the “Keep Calm and Carry On” sign that had become the office motto, Christopher Pryde finally gets the judicial tribunal the Constitution stipulates to hear the accusation against him of misbehaviour. It will have been extremely difficult for him
- [# THE GREAT TEMPTRESS SHOOTS HERSELF IN THE HEAD](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-great-temptress-shoots-herself-in-the-head/) - Lynda Tabuya has gone on the offensive against the People's Alliance Executive Council and the disciplinary committee that found the sex and drug allegations against her proven. In an astonishing interview with Radio New Zealand, the Minister for Bonking and Weed says those who have pronounced her guilty have always had it in for her.
- [# CALLING IT FOR WHAT IT IS. CONGRATULATIONS FIJI SUN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/calling-it-for-what-it-is-congratulations-fiji-sun/) - There is hope for the Fijian media after all when a paper with a chequered history in the form of the Fiji Sun brands Lynda Tabuya a "straight-faced liar" and demands that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, sack her. If indeed, the PM dismisses the Minister for Bonking and Weed when he returns from Australia
- [# THE REAL ENEMY WITHIN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-real-enemy-within/) - The Coalition government's resident trollop - the Minister for Bonking and Weed - isn't happy with the PAP disciplinary committee that has pronounced her guilty of her "brutal" sexual encounter last August with her fellow minister, Aseri Radrodro, in Room 233 of Melbourne's Windsor Hotel. Lawyers have reportedly been consulted and the Great Temptress has
- [# IT ISN'T ENOUGH. SHE MUST BE SACKED ALTOGETHER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/it-isnt-enough-she-must-be-sacked/) - This woman slept with another minister metres from where that minister's wife was sleeping during an official parliamentary visit to Victoria. There is also evidence of drug taking on her part. She lied to the Prime Minister when he asked her if she had had an affair and he, in turn, lied to the nation.
- [# NEWS FLASH: LYNDA TABUYA “GUILTY”](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/news-flash-lynda-tabuya-guilty/) - Reports from Suva say that the People’s Alliance disciplinary committee investigating Lynda Tabuya has returned an adverse finding – concluding that she lied when she denied her drug-fuelled sexual encounter with fellow minister Aseri Radrodro during a parliamentary delegation visit to Melbourne last August. The Committee reportedly says that it accepts that the sexual encounter
- [# PONTIUS PILATE WASHES HIS HANDS AS THE RIGHTS OF FIJI’S MINORITIES ARE CRUCIFIED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/pontius-pilate-washes-his-hands-as-the-rights-of-fijis-minorities-are-crucified/) - The Republic of Fiji Military Forces has a duty under Section 131 of the 2013 Constitution – which it played a major role in formulating – “to ensure at all times the security, defence and well-being of Fiji and all Fijians”. Yes, all Fijians irrespective of ethnicity or religion. In 2006, the RFMF removed the
- [# A LOSS THAT MUST NEVER BE REPEATED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-loss-that-must-never-be-repeated/) - Our national heritage - like that of any nation - is priceless yet many Fijians seem to have been indifferent to just how much we lost when an important part of our history went up in smoke with the fire that consumed the 109-year old Defence Club in Suva a week ago. There was the
- [# THE COALITION GOES TO THE SUPREME COURT ON THE CONSTITUTION. (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalition-goes-to-the-supreme-court-on-the-constitution/) - So it’s on. The Coalition is going to the Supreme Court to interpret the provision of the 2013 Constitution relating to appointments it has made that the Constitution declares unlawful . Cabinet is using Section 91 (5) that says: “Cabinet may seek an opinion from the Supreme Court concerning the interpretation or application of this
- [# THE LONG WAIT CONTINUES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-long-wait-continues/) - Wondering what is happening with the investigation into the antics of the Great Temptress in Room 233? The Fiji Times finally seizes on the story to tell us. Nothing. This suggests one of two things. The People's Alliance is torn between doing the right thing and recommending that the Minister for Women and Children be
- [# A TERRIFYING VIEW OF FIJI'S FUTURE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-terrifying-view-of-fijis-future/) - The Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, is spearheading the Coalition's effort to prosecute Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, jettison the Constitution to abolish the common and equal citizenry, the common identity and the secular state and complete the program Sitiveni Rabuka began in 1987 to establish the supremacy of the iTaukei elite. Many Fijians have been
- [# WISE BY NAME, WISE BY NATURE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wise-by-name-wise-by-nature/) - Sa dina, Wise. And the sickest joke of the week was the spectacle of the Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, hobnobbing at the GCC with the Qaranivalu - the high chief of Naitasiri, Ratu Inoke Takiveikata - who he recently freed from prison after the Qaranivalu served a 13 year sentence for instigating the mutiny in
- [# UNREPRESENTATIVE SWILL?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/unrepresentative-swill/) - The former Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating, once triggered a furore when he described the upper house of the Australian parliament - the Senate - as "unrepresentative swill". He was suggesting that unlike members of the lower house - the House of Representatives - senators chosen from party lists weren't as representative of the people
- [# A PRIME MINISTER WHO THINKS FIJIANS ARE IDIOTS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-prime-minister-who-thinks-fijians-are-idiots/) - The thing about Sitiveni Rabuka and those around him is that they are not very bright and assume that everyone else is the same. There is frankly no other way to explain the astonishing contents of the speech the Prime Minister delivered yesterday to the Great Council of Chiefs. The Fiji Times headlines Sitiveni Rabuka
- [# THE CHIEFS CHOOSE A MILITARY MAN TO LEAD THEM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-chiefs-choose-a-military-man-to-lead-them/) - Right out of left field, the GCC has appointed the former military officer, Ratu Viliame Seruvakula, to lead the re-instituted Great Council, bypassing the high chiefs of the confederacies who had also put their names forward. Ro Teimumu Kepa, the Roko Tui Dreketi, Ratu Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu of Bau, and Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, the
- [# THE COALITION’S MISGUIDED SENSE OF PRIORITIES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-coalitions-misguided-sense-of-priorities/) - As the Great Council of Chiefs begins its two day meeting to elect a chair and begin the formal process of advising the government, Grubsheet is struck by the woeful lack of judgment of the Coalition in establishing its priorities. 14 months after it took office, it is still showing a chronic lack of ability
- [# JOB VACANCY OF THE YEAR](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/job-vacancy-of-the-year/) - OPERATIONS COORDINATOR OF THE FIJI MEDIA COUNCIL: This plum position was advertised in Tuesday's Fiji Times and there is already a Gadarene rush of some of Fiji's best and brightest to get their applications in. Here's the job description, or at least our version of it. The actual one is below it. But hey, we
- [# A METAPHOR FOR A NATION IN FLAMES? (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-metaphor-for-a-nation-in-flames/) - No-one with a sense of history and love of our capital can fail to be devastated by the fire that gutted one of our oldest landmarks this morning – the Defence Club in Gordon Street, Suva, that has existed for 109 years. Like many people, Grubsheet went into a state of shock when the first
- [# THE ACE MANIPULATOR SCORES AN OWN GOAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-ace-manipulator-scores-an-own-goal/) - Lynda Tabuya’s attempt to play victim and turn the spotlight from her “brutal” sex encounter with Aseri Radrodro into a call for more online safety has backfired in spectacular fashion, with her incriminating text messages reaching hundreds of thousands of new readers in New Zealand. Her interview with Radio New Zealand in which she tried
- [# HARD EVIDENCE OF THE GREAT BETRAYAL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/hard-evidence-of-the-great-betrayal/) - We now have conclusive proof that Professor Biman Prasad sold out the interests of non-indigenous Fijians by agreeing to a Coalition arrangement that put the interests of the iTaukei first. There is no other explanation given the emergence of the Coalition offer made by the People’s Alliance to SODELPA as the price of securing its
- [# RO TEIMUMU FALLS ON HER SWORD (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ro-teimumu-falls-on-her-own-sword/) - So the Roko Tui Dreketi and head of the Burebasaga Confederacy, Ro Teimumu Kepa, has bowed to the inevitable and accepted that after the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, abandoned her candidacy, all hope of her becoming president of Fiji has been lost. To save face, she has backed off herself rather than face the humiliation
- [# THE SHAMELESS HUSSY GOES ON THE ATTACK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-shameless-hussy-goes-on-the-attack/) - Is there a woman in the entire Pacific more brazen than Lynda Tabuya, the Minister for Bonking and Weed in the faltering Coalition government? In an astonishing new development as a People's Alliance disciplinary committee considers what to do about the sex and drugs scandal involving Tabuya and Aseri Radrodro, the Madam goes on the
- [# BLINKY BILL SWAPS GUM LEAVES FOR RELISH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/blinky-bill-swaps-gum-leaves-for-relish/) - "Blinky Bill" Gavoka says he is relishing his new job as Minister for Education because it gives him the opportunity to look at the faces of our young people - the nation's future. Nothing about what he is doing to help them prepare for that future. Staring at them is evidently enough. He looks down
- [# CARTOON OF THE WEEK](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/cartoon-of-the-week/)
- [# WADAN IS BACK!](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/wadan-is-back/) - You really have to laugh about the cynicism and lack of subtlety of the Fiji Times and its Editor in Chief, Fred Wesley, when all it takes is a Grubsheet article for him to reverse his decision to put Professor Wadan Narsey in the deep freeze for the past few months. Just five days after
- [# THE MODERN DAY VERSION OF BEADS AND MIRRORS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-modern-day-version-of-beads-and-mirrors/) - The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, appears to be in the thrall of the Fiji Water billionaires, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, in the same way that native chiefs were bought off with chests of worthless baubles by colonisers in the 17th and 18th centuries. What other explanation is there for his lavish praise for the California
- [# SO MUCH FOR BEING “FRIENDS TO ALL” (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/so-much-for-being-friends-to-all/) - Having come to office by the “power of one” to general acclaim 14 months ago, the Coalition government has developed a unique ability to alienate its supporters. And few things demonstrate that more than its blind support for Israel, which has upset many of its most diehard fans. The Prime Minister completely misrepresents Fiji’s actual
- [# LYNDA'S FUTURE IN THE BALANCE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-tabuyas-future-in-the-balance/) - It’s a sign of the intense dilemma that the People’s Alliance faces over the future of the "Minister for Bonking and Weed" that its legal sub-committee is still locked in deliberations over the drug and sex scandal that threatens her political career. The Committee is supposed to have already reported its recommendations on what action,
- [# NO PORN STAR BUT DEFINITELY A STAR (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-porn-star-but-definitely-a-star/) - Lenora Qereqeretabua has always been a class act and she is again displaying her customary dignity in the most undignified of situations – having to give evidence in court against the outrageous cyber-pest, Kishore Kumar. Kumar is on trial for having allegedly waged an internet campaign against Lenora Qereqeretabua in which he repeatedly claimed that
- [# NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT TRUTH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-reconciliation-without-truth/) - You only have to read the first two pages of today’s Fiji Sun to appreciate the irreconcilable forces at the heart of national life – Fijians preaching the importance of truth when we are a nation led by liars. There’s the Commander of the RFMF, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, meeting the Assistant Minister for
- [# COULD THESE TWO STORIES PERCHANCE BE RELATED?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/could-these-two-stories-perchance-be-related/) - Less than 24 hours after Grubsheet highlighted that Inia Seruiratu was missing in action and hadn't issued a statement for weeks, the opposition leader has come out of hiding to issue a statement expressing "deep concern' about rising crime and drugs and especially offences against women. Who says the FijiFirst leader in the Parliament isn't
- [# THE EVIDENCE THE PAP LEADERSHIP CANNOT IGNORE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-evidence-the-pap-leadership-cannot-ignore/) - The Executive Council of the People’s Alliance Party is reported to be meeting today to consider what action, if any, the party will take against Lynda Tabuya over the sex and drug scandal that is scandalising both the party and the nation. Doing nothing is no longer an option, according to party sources, as the
- [# LYNDA’S DÉCOLLETAGE GETS GRUBSHEET INTO TROUBLE (AGAIN)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lyndas-decolletage-gets-grubsheet-into-trouble-again/) - As the People’s Alliance disciplinary inquiry decides what to do about Lynda Tabuya’s alleged drug-fuelled sex romp with Aseri Radrodro, the Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection has evidently filed a second complaint with Australia’s eSafety Commission about an image Grubsheet has continued to publish showing her ample cleavage – the partial exposure of
- [# A PLEA TO STOP MY "BITTER AND REGURGITATED OPINIONS" (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-plea-to-stop-my-bitter-and-regurgitated-opinions/) - Grubsheet has received correspondence from Michael J Fairfax - the co-owner of Fiji's biggest construction company, Pacific Building Solutions - castigating me for being excessively negative when, according to him, there is a great deal of positive news about the economy arising from new construction projects that are currently in the pipeline. He doesn't list
- [# MISSING IN ACTION](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/missing-in-action/) - One of the great things about Grubsheet having been kicked off Facebook courtesy of Lynda Tabuya and reactivating our website has been the torrent of thoughtful comments from our readers about the state of the nation. And it is pretty grim all round, with a deep sense of disillusionment being expressed by many people about
- [WHAT HAPPENED TO RAM KUMARI?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/what-happened-to-ram-kumari/) - Amid all the stories in the media of the police war on drugs, this report in today’s Fiji Sun raises some serious questions about police conduct towards the elderly. The Sun says 81 year old Ram Kumari of Rarawai, Ba, is "alleged" to have collapsed and died on Saturday while being questioned by police at
- [# TWO LOVERS HEADING FOR THE BACK BENCH?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/two-lovers-heading-for-the-back-bench/) - Having faced down SODELPA and sent Aseri Radrodro to the back bench, the Prime Minister has removed the principal obstacle that prevented him from carrying out his cabinet reshuffle last year. So after a brief period of letting the dust settle, can we now expect to finally see the reshuffle that Sitiveni Rabuka was forced
- [# THE BRUTAL HYPOCRISY OF LYNDA TABUYA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-brutal-hypocrisy-of-lynda-tabuya/) - The nation’s foremost campaigner against pornography got Grubsheet kicked off Facebook and complained to the Australian government’s eSafety Commissioner that we didn’t have her consent to publish the pornographic images she took of herself and she sent to her lover, Aseri Radrodro. Yet Lynda Tabuya thinks nothing of defying Fiji’s Online Safety Commission and continuing
- [# THE SICKEST JOKE IN FIJIAN POLITICAL HISTORY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-sickest-joke-in-fijian-political-history/) - The news that Lynda Tabuya is to co-chair an anti-pornography task force has to be the ultimate insult to the Fijian people from a government that long ago lost the plot and is now a clear and present danger to the nation’s moral wellbeing. The best that can be said is that no-one knows more
- [# STATING THE OBVIOUS WHILE IGNORING THE OBVIOUS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/stating-the-obvious-while-ignoring-the-obvious/) - Who needs a PR advisor when you've got the Fiji Times? It has taken the paper 155 years to develop the editorial skills to bring the Fijian people today's pearl of a headline quoting the Great Temptress: "Use of children to peddle drugs is illegal, says Tabuya". Oh really? You mean that it is against
- [# MODERN DAY "COOLIES"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/modern-day-coolies/) - This front page picture in today's Fiji Times is a powerful symbol of how the racists in the "new order" regard the minorities in Fiji - subservient and good only to serve the interests of the iTaukei majority. Having sacked the Assistant DPP, Elizabeth Rice, for being "white" and got rid of a long-standing Indo-Fijian
- [# BEN NALIVA "ENTITLED TO THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE"](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ben-naliva-entitled-to-the-presumption-of-innocence/) - It looks very much as if the allegations of human rights abuses against Colonel Ben Naliva - the RFMF officer appointed Deputy Commander of the Australian Army's 7th Brigade - are going to have to be tested at a formal inquiry, judging from comments to an Australian parliamentary hearing by the Chief of the Australian
- [# BEN NALIVA'S ADF APPOINTMENT UNRAVELS](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/ben-nalivas-adf-appointment-unravels/) - Under the blowtorch of Senate hearings in Canberra, the head of the Australian Defence Force takes the blame for the appointment of RFMF Colonel Ben Naliva as Deputy Commander of the 7th Brigade and concedes that the ADF failed to check whether there were human rights abuse allegations against him. General Angus Campbell says Colonel
- [# GOOD NIGHT. SLEEP TIGHT (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/good-night-sleep-tight/) - For the second time in a week, Frank Bainimarama is spending the night in police custody - this time not with Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum and Dr Neil Sharma but with "Tuks" - his trusted surrogate son, the suspended Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho. The pair have been charged with abuse of office and will appear in
- [# NO CHOICE BUT TO REBUILD THE FIJI POLICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/no-choice-but-to-rebuild-the-fiji-police/) - It has become distressingly obvious that the Fiji Police is rotten to the core - its integrity so compromised that far from being guardian and protector, the Force has become a danger to public safety. The drug trade is now so pervasive and its impact so insidious that every time there is a victory in
- [# WHY IS HE GETTING ALL THE FREE PUBLICITY?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-is-he-getting-all-the-free-publicity/) - Is there any woman in Fiji who believes she has been wronged by Grubsheet who is prepared to make a withering public attack that can get me what Victor Lal has got - the LEAD item on CFL-Fiji Village? Because it just isn't fair that he is getting this kind of celebrity treatment and I'm
- [# MORE RACIAL INJUSTICE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-racial-injustice/) - Sharvada Sharma waited more than two years for justice after he was unlawfully sacked as solicitor general by the Bainimarama government and finally got it last month when the High Court ruled in his favour and awarded him $3-million in compensation. Now the Coalition government - which had expressed its support for Sharvada Sharma -
- [# D-DAY FOR THE FALLEN AGELOSI (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/d-day-for-the-fallen-agelosi/) - Lynda Tabuya channels the angels as she prepares to face the People's Alliance Disciplinary Committee investigating her drug-fuelled sex encounter with Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel. The Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection has been showing clear signs of mental deterioration as the hour of judgment approaches. But she has
- [# MORE WORKPLACE ETHNIC CLEANSING (UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/more-workplace-ethnic-cleansing/) - True to form, the racist and illegal Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, John Rabuku, continues to appoint iTaukei to positions in the ODPP to the exclusion of those of other ethnic groups. His latest appointments come after he specifically removed the Assistant DPP, Elizabeth Rice, on the grounds that she was “white” – an outrage
- [# A FREE PLUG FROM THE GORRIE STREET GANG](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-free-plug-from-the-gorrie-street-gang/) - When you dish it out like Grubsheet does, you have to expect to also take it. So I welcome the personal attack on me by the ubiquitous "Rajend Naidu of Sydney" that the Fiji Sun has chosen to put at the top of its Letters page today. Why? Because it is a hell of a
- [# FEAR AND LOATHING AMID A FORTHCOMING WHITEWASH](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fear-and-loathing-amid-a-forthcoming-whitewash/) - Can it possibly be true that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has made it known that if Lynda Tabuya goes as a result of the current PAP investigation into the sex scandal involving her and Aseri Radrodro that he will go too? That’s the astonishing claim being made by Victor Lal at Fijileaks from information
- [# A PRIME MINISTER WITH EGG ON HIS FACE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-prime-minister-with-egg-on-his-face/) - Sitiveni Rabuka will be ruing the day last July when he foolishly leapt to the defence of the business relationship between the Minister for iTaukei Affairs, Ifereimi Vasu, and the convicted Chinese gangster, Jason Zhong. The Prime Minister accused “social media” - the Coalition government’s code for Grubsheet and Fijileaks - of sensationalist reporting when
- [# BRUTAL BACKLASH. INEVITABLE BACKDOWN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/brutal-backlash-inevitable-backdown/) - Lynda Tabuya has finally bowed to pressure to remove the video she posted and shared on Facebook of a child being brutally beaten after several days of defiance that has badly damaged her public standing. It would have gradually dawned on the Great Temptress that she was on a hiding to nothing by continuing to
- [# A HARSH LESSON ABOUT GENUINE MEDIA FREEDOM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-harsh-lesson-about-genuine-media-freedom/) - As it becomes increasingly clear that Colonel Ben Naliva's appointment in the Australian Defence Force is about to be reversed, the Commander of the RFMF, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, has had his reputation severely dented for his lack of candour about the allegations of human rights abuses against Colonel Naliva and other military personnel
- [# THE ADMISSION THAT SPELLS BIG TROUBLE FOR “DIGGER” BEN NALIVA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-one-line-that-spells-big-trouble-for-digger-ben-naliva/) - Until now, the Australian Defence Force has publicly stuck to the story that it took the word of the Fijian government and the RFMF that Colonel Ben Naliva was a suitable candidate to become Deputy Commander of the 7th Brigade of the ADF. But buried in an official statement reported by the Fiji Times is
- [# IT DOESN'T TAKE A GENIUS...(UPDATED)](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/it-doesnt-take-a-genius/) - Why would the Fijian government and a compliant RFMF want to send one of Frank Bainimarama's most loyal supporters in the military to Australia to be deputy head of a brigade in the Australian Defence Force? Qori. And so it begins... the first of a string of new charges that are said to be in
- [# NEWS OF AN UNLAWFUL "WHITE" SACKING 10 DAYS LATE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/news-of-a-white-sacking-14-days-late/) - It says a great deal about the sorry state of the Fijian media that it has taken 10 days for the shocking details of the story that Grubsheet broke on January 24 - "The Crime of Being White" - to make the mainstream media, not in Fiji but New Zealand. In that story, we detailed
- [# THE MAJOR GENERAL'S MAJOR CREDIBILITY GAP](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-major-generals-major-credibility-gap/) - The RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, suddenly has a big credibility problem arising from today's Fiji Times front page story in which he says there is "nothing to prove" that human rights abuses were carried out by Colonel Penioni (Ben) Naliva, who has been appointed Deputy Commander of the 7th Brigade of the
- [# A POINTLESS BLAME GAME](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-pointless-blame-game/) - The nation is being treated to a fresh round of finger pointing this weekend as both sides of politics react to the warning by the Governor of the Reserve Bank that Fiji is in for a challenging year as the economy loses some of the momentum of the post-Covid recovery. It was as certain as
- [# SIROMI TURAGA. ANOTHER LIAR WHO MUST GO.](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/siromi-turaga-another-liar-who-must-go/) - A veteran lawyer who is one of the biggest names in the legal profession and has been a strong supporter of the Coalition since before the last election startled Grubsheet this week with a devastating critique of the Rabuka government, describing it as “disorganised and hopeless”. He said the Coalition was chronically unable to implement
- [# OH OH. SOMETHING ISN'T RIGHT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/oh-oh-something-isnt-right/) - Two months after the Minister for Finance, Biman Prasad, talked up the economy with a rosy prediction of the state of the nation's prospects comes a warning from the Reserve Bank Governor, Ariff Ali, that challenging times lie ahead. Which is it, fellas? You can't maintain economic confidence with two separate narratives about the country's
- [LYNDA’S PRIZES. A BOAT AND LOTS OF BOOZE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lyndas-prizes-a-boat-and-lots-of-booze/) - The Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection has been dedicating a great deal of time and effort to promoting a raffle to raise money for her favoured Kadavu rugby club. But the prizes on offer have raised the hackles of a number of our readers who have been shocked that apart from the main
- [LYNDA ANSWERS THE CALL OF THE TURTLES](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/lynda-answers-the-call-of-the-turtles/) - The calling of the turtles has made the villagers of Namuana in Kadavu world famous so it's no surprise that Lynda Tabuya has answered the call by choosing Namuana as a bolthole to escape the national whispering campaign over her drug-fuelled sexual encounter with Aseri Radrodro. The Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection has
- [# THE STRANGE SILENCE OVER BEN NALIVA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-strange-silence-over-ben-naliva/) - Clearly an allegation against a senior Fijian military officer of trying to sodomise someone with a rifle barrel isn’t enough in these challenging times to raise the ire of politicians and the media. Have we all become so inured to outrage that we are now incapable of being shocked by anything? Because how else to
- [# ER, LANGLEY, MY COVER IS BLOWN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/er-langley-my-cover-is-blown/) - Only in Fiji, eh? The Deputy Director of the CIA gets his picture on the front page of the Fiji Times. The look on his face says it all. Damn it. Now every two bit terrorist gets to see my dial. Guess at least I better straighten my tie. Hi Mom! The spy who came
- [# EXCUSING THE INEXCUSABLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/excusing-the-inexcusable/) - The Australian national broadcaster – ABC – belatedly follows the Times of London, The Australian, the New Zealand Herald and Radio New Zealand in reporting the sex and drugs scandal involving Lynda Tabuya and Aseri Radrodro that has enveloped the Coalition government and threatens both their political careers. It highlights the instruction to Grubsheet last
- [# WHY SETTING STANDARDS OF PROPER CONDUCT IS SO IMPORTANT](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/why-setting-standards-of-proper-conduct-is-so-important/) - This photo of Vanua Levu schoolkids Meri Ravono, Sisilia Mereadani, and Selaima Radinibeqa has captured the nation’s imagination and is being widely shared on social media, so much so that it also made the front page of today’s Fiji Sun. It reminds us that in many less developed parts of Fiji, ordinary people face a
- [# ASERI RADRODRO'S SACKING. THE RUMBLES BEGIN](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/leqa-levu-big-trouble-sa-oti-the-end/) - Anyone who thinks that the Prime Minister's decision to refuse to reinstate Aseri Radrodro and send him to the backbench is the end of internal Coalition division over the issue is kidding themselves. The chaos at the top of government is set to continue. Within hours of the Prime Minister announcing that despite a traditional
- [# FIJI TORTURE ALLEGATIONS BIG NEWS IN AUSTRALIA](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/fiji-torture-allegations-big-news-in-australia/) - Another bombshell has put Fiji in the headlines in Australia for all the wrong reasons - torture allegations against RFMF Colonel Penioni (Ben) Naliva, who has just been appointed deputy commander of the Australian Army's 7th Brigade. The story below - the lead in Tuesday's Australian newspaper - will rock the defence and political establishments
- [# THE MONSTER FINALLY EXPOSED](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-monster-finally-exposed/) - Finally, the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka - in a very public act - personally exposes the sacked education minister, Aseri Radrodro, on CFL-Fiji Village as a man who almost killed his daughter in an act of domestic violence when they were married and "showed no remorse". It is extraordinary confirmation of the story that Grubsheet
- [# VALE LANG WALKER](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/vale-lang-walker/) - The sudden passing of one of the giants of the Fijian tourism industry and owner of the world-famous Kokomo Resort on Kadavu. Lang Walker not only built a huge property empire in Australia but fell in love with Fiji and Kadavu and built the island's tourism jewel, which transformed the local economy. Many Fijians who
- [# THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ENDORSES RACISM](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-attorney-general-endorses-racism/) - "Just because they are foreigners, I think it is a bit unfair to give them their publicity" The dismissed Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, Elizabeth Rice, will be claiming in her forthcoming legal action against the state that she was told by her boss, the illegal Acting DPP, John Rabuku, that she was being sacked
- [# MAYBE NOT SO GAGA AFTER ALL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/maybe-not-so-gaga-after-all/) - The Prime Minister has given an astonishing interview to the Fiji Times in which he says the reinstatement of Aseri Radrodro as Education minister "may take six months, a year or the end of the four-year Coalition government term". How about until hell freezes over? Because that's what Sitiveni Rabuka seems to be implying -
- [# A COWARD UP AGAINST THE WALL](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/a-coward-up-against-the-wall/) - Aseri Radrodro is not only a wife basher and and adulterer. He is a lying dog. (With apologies to our canine friends). At the 11th hour as the Prime Minister decides whether to reinstate him as Education Minister, he finally makes a public denial of a "romantic link" with Lynda Tabuya. You are in big
- [# BURNING TARAUSESE OR DEMENTIA?](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-pms-tarausese-are-also-burning/) - As the Fiji Times says, all eyes are now on the Prime Minister to see whether he will reinstate Aseri Radrodro - in other words, abandon principle and throw another lifeline to the man who almost killed his daughter and put him back in charge of the education of the nation's young people. It isn't
- [# IT ISN'T GOING AWAY](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/it-isnt-going-away/) - After the Times of London reported the scandal that the Fiji Times has studiously avoided and took it global, it was inevitable that the Lynda Tabuya- Aseri Radrodro "brutal" sex tryst in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne was going to hit the Australian media and sure enough, it is now making news.
- [# THE CHAOS OF THE JUNGLE](https://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-chaos-of-the-jungle/) - The troop that holds the balance of power in the parliament decides to draw a line in the sand and insist that the Prime Minister reinstate one of their number who almost killed his daughter and had "brutal" sex with another of his ministers and put him back as Minister for Education. That's what this

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