Barbara Malimali's judicial review ruling that was due this afternoon has been pushed into next week and will be delivered by Justice Dane Tuiqereqere on Monday. It will now coincide with the verdict by the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, in the case against Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem. Justice Tuiqereqere said he was 90 per cent into … [Read more...] about # THE USUAL FIJI-STYLE DELAY. BUT WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY?
# RABUKA’S GREAT BETRAYAL. THE SECRET – NOW NOT SO SECRET – SETTLEMENT WITH THE CHIEF CROCODILE TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED 1030 FIJI TIME FRIDAY)
It is extraordinary enough that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, engaged a private lawyer in the form of Isireli Fa to represent him as he tries to escape the damning finding by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry that he committed perjury and obstructed and perverted the course of justice in the scandalous Malimali affair. Yet it is even more … [Read more...] about # RABUKA’S GREAT BETRAYAL. THE SECRET – NOW NOT SO SECRET – SETTLEMENT WITH THE CHIEF CROCODILE TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED 1030 FIJI TIME FRIDAY)
# THE NFP BEGINS TO SHOW SIGNS OF PANIC AS BIMAN PRASAD’S CASE IS SET TO DRAG THROUGH ELECTION YEAR (UPDATED)
Four months after the NFP pledged "full and unwavering support" for its leader and sidelined deputy prime minister Biman Prasad over the criminal charges he is facing, that support is starting to waver. The latest developments in the case - that the pretrial conference won't be held until April 20 - have only increased the existing anxiety … [Read more...] about # THE NFP BEGINS TO SHOW SIGNS OF PANIC AS BIMAN PRASAD’S CASE IS SET TO DRAG THROUGH ELECTION YEAR (UPDATED)
# FIJI DEMEANS ITSELF BY ACCEPTING THE 21ST CENTURY EQUIVALENT OF BEADS AND MIRRORS TO BUY THE NATIVE’S FAVOURS
It isn't enough for the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, to be an accused paedophile who impregnated a 15 year old girl with "special needs" who was the daughter of one of his retainers. It isn't enough for Sitiveni Rabuka to have made his chief the nation's Head of State when Lalabalavu is a convicted treasonist who served jail time for his … [Read more...] about # FIJI DEMEANS ITSELF BY ACCEPTING THE 21ST CENTURY EQUIVALENT OF BEADS AND MIRRORS TO BUY THE NATIVE’S FAVOURS
# “TABLES TURN!”, CRIES THE FIJI TIMES, AS RICHARD NAIDU USES THE PAPER HE ADVISES AS A WEAPON TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED)
Even before all investigations arising from the Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair are completed, the forces who have conspired to trash its recommendations are claiming victory and want anyone fingered by Justice David Ashton-Lewis absolved. Well they would, wouldn't they? Some very big reputations have been severely dented … [Read more...] about # “TABLES TURN!”, CRIES THE FIJI TIMES, AS RICHARD NAIDU USES THE PAPER HE ADVISES AS A WEAPON TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED)
# JUSTICE MUST NOT ONLY BE DONE BUT SEEN TO BE DONE*. AND THAT ISN’T HAPPENING IN SITIVENI RABUKA’S FIJI (UPDATED SATURDAY PM)
The announcement by the corrupt and conflicted Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, that not one of the 12 police investigations arising from the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair is to result in prosecutions is shocking enough in itself. Yet it was accompanied on the same day by the Solicitor General, Ropate Green … [Read more...] about # JUSTICE MUST NOT ONLY BE DONE BUT SEEN TO BE DONE*. AND THAT ISN’T HAPPENING IN SITIVENI RABUKA’S FIJI (UPDATED SATURDAY PM)