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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 but not … [Read more...] about # DECISION DAY ON STRIKE ACTION AT USP

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 court … [Read more...] about # COMING SOON…THE LOOMING CHAOS IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM

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 of them off, I can do what I please when I please. And it … [Read more...] about # THE PRIME MINISTER WRITES EXCLUSIVELY FOR GRUBSHEET AS HE BEGINS HIS 10-DAY CHINA ODYSSEY.

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 abuse. We humbly request that you use your … [Read more...] about # A SUNDAY PRAYER FOR FIJI

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 of an astonishing article in … [Read more...] about # WELL AT LEAST WE NOW KNOW WHERE THE NFP STANDS

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 Services … [Read more...] about # A PRIME MINISTER BEREFT OF JUDGMENT, HONOUR AND INFLUENCE