The Coalition government is maintaining the pretence that it has nothing to do with appointments made by the Judicial Services Commission * amid a national furore over the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner when she is under active investigation by the corruption watchdog. It is a complete nonsense and a smoke screen behind … [Read more...] about # QUESTIONS FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (UPDATED)
# THE COALITION’S CORRUPTION JUST GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE
So Barbara Malimali has been appointed Commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption when she is actively under investigation by FICAC for alleged abuse of office. O vinaka Prime Minister and Coalition government. Is this really the change we voted for? You mangy, mongrel dogs are much worse than the people you replaced … [Read more...] about # THE COALITION’S CORRUPTION JUST GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE
# YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT AS FRANK AND AIYAZ FIGHT BACK
As he indicated publicly last month, the prominent lawyer, Devanesh Sharma, has commenced proceedings on behalf of Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum challenging the prosecutions against them as unlawful on the basis that the Acting DPP, John Rabuku, was illegally appointed last October and his successor, Nancy Tikoisuva, is also not … [Read more...] about # YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT AS FRANK AND AIYAZ FIGHT BACK
# TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION? LET’S JUST BLAME THE BRITISH
Regular readers of Grubsheet may have realised by now because of my silence on the issue that I have little or no time for a national truth and reconciliation commission as a panacea for the nation's ills. For a start, Fiji is too much of a nation of liars and practitioners of liumuri and masi polo for the concept to work. Yes, we are used to … [Read more...] about # TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION? LET’S JUST BLAME THE BRITISH
# ONLY IN FIJI, EH? A NATION THAT CAN’T EVEN ORGANISE A BEAUTY PAGEANT
We've all heard the old sayings. Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. Couldn't organise a f**k in a brothel. Couldn't organise a bunfight in a bakery. Couldn't run a bath. But a new standard of breathtaking incompetence has been set in Fiji with the failure of the local Miss Universe people to properly organise a beauty pageant. Where else … [Read more...] about # ONLY IN FIJI, EH? A NATION THAT CAN’T EVEN ORGANISE A BEAUTY PAGEANT
# THE PACIFIC’S BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
The decision by the 18 members of the Pacific Islands Forum to give in to the bully boy tantrum by the Chinese dictatorship to remove all reference to Taiwan in the final communique of its Nuku'olofa summit is a new low for the region. Not least because we cannot credibly oppose the imposition of dictatorships in countries such as Fiji yet side … [Read more...] about # THE PACIFIC’S BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT