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 polo for the concept to work. Yes, we are used to … [Read more...] about # TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION? LET’S JUST BLAME THE BRITISH
# ONLY IN FIJI, EH? A NATION THAT CAN’T 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 a beauty pageant. Where else … [Read more...] about # ONLY IN FIJI, EH? A NATION THAT CAN’T EVEN ORGANISE A BEAUTY PAGEANT
# THE PACIFIC’S 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 in countries such as Fiji yet side … [Read more...] about # THE PACIFIC’S BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
# 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 as well as … [Read more...] about # THE KALAVATA KILLER
# 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 columns for his attack on the common and … [Read more...] about # UNCLE COLIN HITS BACK
# PIF LEADERS CAVE IN TO CHINA’S 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 that appeared on … [Read more...] about # PIF LEADERS CAVE IN TO CHINA’S DEMAND TO ALTER FINAL COMMUNIQUE