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
# A PRIME MINISTER BEREFT OF JUDGMENT, HONOUR AND INFLUENCE
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
# FOR ALL THE SPIN, THE COALITION IS DECIDEDLY ON THE NOSE
Remember not so long ago when Grubsheet was pretty much the Coalition's sole critic? And the searing vituperation that came my way anytime I said something critical? Like "shut up you white c**t", "You're an irrelevant, sad old man" or "why don't you butt out of Fiji? You might have been born here but you don't belong". Etc. Etc. Very different … [Read more...] about # FOR ALL THE SPIN, THE COALITION IS DECIDEDLY ON THE NOSE
# THE TRAITOR JOINS FORCES WITH THE SNAKE TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION
Viliame Naupoto has twice sworn on oath on the Bible ( "So Help me God") to "obey, observe, uphold and maintain" the Constitution - first when he was appointed RFMF Commander and then when he left the military to enter parliament as a FijiFirst MP. On both occasions, he rode on the coat-tails of Frank Bainimarama, who appointed Naupoto RFMF … [Read more...] about # THE TRAITOR JOINS FORCES WITH THE SNAKE TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION
# ANOTHER HYPOCRITE WHO THINKS WE’VE FORGOTTEN
The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, sat in the audience for Professor Anthony James Regan's lecture on changing the Constitution at FNU last week taking the occasional note but giving nothing away - his face as inscrutable as a poker player. As speculation rages about what changes the Coalition wants to make to the 2013 Constitution, the Prime … [Read more...] about # ANOTHER HYPOCRITE WHO THINKS WE’VE FORGOTTEN
# SUDDENLY PROFESSOR WHAT’S HIS NAME IS EVERYWHERE
It's always been said in Fiji that the locals will invariably tell you what you want to hear. But the same applies when an outsider tells the locals what they want to hear. So that when an obscure Australian academic constitutional lawyer says the 2013 Constitution must be changed, he is suddenly feted as a national hero by those who want to amend … [Read more...] about # SUDDENLY PROFESSOR WHAT’S HIS NAME IS EVERYWHERE