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 USP staff … [Read more...] about # THE USP VICE CHANCELLOR FIGHTS BACK
# PRESSURE MOUNTS ON THE PM TO REMOVE LYNDA TABUYA (UPDATED WED)
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 the politics of the … [Read more...] about # PRESSURE MOUNTS ON THE PM TO REMOVE LYNDA TABUYA (UPDATED WED)
# 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 … [Read more...] about # AN UNCLE TOM* SHELTERING UNDER A DIRTY MAC
# LYNDA TABUYA OPENLY DEFIES THE PRIME MINISTER’S 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 front page story … [Read more...] about # LYNDA TABUYA OPENLY DEFIES THE PRIME MINISTER’S AUTHORITY
# 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 … [Read more...] about # IS THIS THE END FOR THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED?
# THE ASTONISHING SAGA OF SITIVENI RABUKA’S 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, "Mac" … [Read more...] about # THE ASTONISHING SAGA OF SITIVENI RABUKA’S GOLD ROLEX