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 shortfalls and fix … [Read more...] about # THE BIG KOWTOW. WHEN ONE PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
# 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 "plenty of weed" in Room … [Read more...] about # THE APPALLING HYPOCRISY OF THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED
# 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 has got even bigger since … [Read more...] about # THE POOR STATE OF OUR HEAD OF STATE
# SELLING OUT FIJI’S MINORITIES FROM MELBOURNE (UPDATED)
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 … [Read more...] about # SELLING OUT FIJI’S MINORITIES FROM MELBOURNE (UPDATED)
# 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, for instance, … [Read more...] about # THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE FACES THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
# HIS LORDSHIP’S 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 furore over his decision - as head of the Judicial … [Read more...] about # HIS LORDSHIP’S PANTS ARE ON FIRE