# THE LAST WHITE MAN STANDING LEAVES THE ODPP
The last non-iTaukei in the senior ranks of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Assistant DPP, Lee Burney, has left, depriving the ODPP of its best prosecutor and propelling Fiji further down the Zimbabwe road. There has been no official announcement but the Facebook posting below of Burney's farewell tells us that he has … [Read more...] about # THE LAST WHITE MAN STANDING LEAVES THE ODPP
# FIJI BUCKS THE TREND ON HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE
The news that the new Labour Government in Britain intends to abolish the remaining hereditary peers in the House of Lords - the upper house of the British Parliament - shows just how backward Fiji has been in restoring the Great Council of Chiefs. This is especially so when chiefs like the Qaranivalu - the high chief of Naitasiri, Ratu Inoke … [Read more...] about # FIJI BUCKS THE TREND ON HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE
# STRANGE BEDFELLOWS ON THE PUBLIC TEAT
Fiji is such a broadminded place that no-one thinks anything of the Minister for iTaukei Affairs, who is in business with a convicted Chinese gangster, appearing in public with the chief who instigated the 2000 mutiny in which seven people died, the Education Minister who almost beat the Prime Minister’s daughter to death in a domestic violence … [Read more...] about # STRANGE BEDFELLOWS ON THE PUBLIC TEAT
# MORE STAFF-INDUCED TURMOIL AT USP
All institutions have rules about the leaking of confidential internal information and the University of the South Pacific is no exception. So that when Dr Tamara Osborne – a USP lecturer and President of the Association of USP Staff – went on the record in an Islands Business article back in March with internal deliberations to which she had been … [Read more...] about # MORE STAFF-INDUCED TURMOIL AT USP
# TUPENI BABA. A BETTER ACADEMIC THAN POLITICIAN
As a journalist, Vijay Narayan - the News Director at CFL-Fiji Village - is showing clear signs of erratic conduct, as well as being demonstrably biased in favour of the Coalition. But did he really have to kill off Professor Tupeni Baba twice when reporting his death at the age of 81? As in "the late former...passes away". No-one likes to … [Read more...] about # TUPENI BABA. A BETTER ACADEMIC THAN POLITICIAN