...and to keep Fiji out of the clutches of the Chinese. Fiji is like an impecunious good-time girl at Traps on a Friday night. In one corner is a Chinese guy. In the other, an Aussie. Who is more likely to give her a good night out? Or does she cuddle up to one as the night progresses and then pursue the other when the drinks start to dry up? Hands … [Read more...] about # MORE AUSSIE ASSISTANCE FOR THE BEGGAR NATION…
# FIJI SUPPORTS A MILITARY THAT INTIMIDATES ITS NEIGHBOURS AND MASSACRED ITS CITIZENS
The People's Liberation Army is the blunt instrument of repression of the Chinese Communist Party. It massacred anywhere between several hundred and several thousand Chinese citizens who took part in the demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. It is engaged in mounting harassment and intimidation of the democracy of Taiwan. It … [Read more...] about # FIJI SUPPORTS A MILITARY THAT INTIMIDATES ITS NEIGHBOURS AND MASSACRED ITS CITIZENS
# HEARTBREAK
# JUSTICE FIJIAN STYLE. THE TURAGA AND TEMO STITCH-UP
An "all you need to know" guide to the 15 month-long Christopher Pryde affair. WHAT THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, SIROMI TURAGA, DID : 1/ You have a DPP in the form of Christopher Pryde you want to get rid of. 2/ You get photos of him talking to your predecessor, Aiyaz Sayed -Khaiyum, at a Japanese Embassy function. … [Read more...] about # JUSTICE FIJIAN STYLE. THE TURAGA AND TEMO STITCH-UP
# THE ACTING CJ PREJUDICES A CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL HEARING. HE MUST GO. (UPDATED)
Two weeks after the Prime Minister said the Acting Chief Justice had been wrong to cut off Christopher Pryde’s salary in advance of a tribunal hearing into the charge against him of misbehaviour, Salesi Temo doubles down and issues an astonishing statement that completely prejudices the DPP’s case. Justice Temo says that Christopher Pryde’s … [Read more...] about # THE ACTING CJ PREJUDICES A CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL HEARING. HE MUST GO. (UPDATED)
# AT LAST! AND GRUBSHEET COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER
The grave injustice and illegality of the treatment metered out to the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, has been like a "broken record" in these columns in recent weeks - to use the description of one of our critics - but finally our campaign to get the local mainstream media in Fiji to embrace the story has paid off. And in spectacular … [Read more...] about # AT LAST! AND GRUBSHEET COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER