# 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 of the … [Read more...] about # WITH RICHARD NAIDU AND THE NFP, THE JOKE IS ON US
# 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 … [Read more...] about # THE RATS COME WITH THE TERRITORY. IN PRISON AND POLITICS
# 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 that the Prime Minister … [Read more...] about # THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION PROCESS BEGINS WITH A BIG LIE
# WHY ARE INDO-FIJIANS LEAVING? IT ISN’T 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" in … [Read more...] about # WHY ARE INDO-FIJIANS LEAVING? IT ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE
# 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 girl. Sashi Kiran has followed her … [Read more...] about # HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM MISS TRICK OR TREAT AND DRACULA