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.
# A SUNDAY PRAYER FOR FIJI
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
# WELL AT LEAST WE NOW KNOW WHERE THE NFP STANDS
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