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Never before has the old saying about money being the root of all evil had more resonance than as both sides of politics in Fiji implode over the scandalous salary and benefits increases the pigs at the trough of our parliament approved for themselves last week and which triggered a national outcry. As the Fiji Sun headline puts it this … [Read more...] about # ONLY A FRESH ELECTION CAN END THIS FARCE

There are times in politics when your past statements come back to haunt you and never more so than in the case of the sanctimonious wannabe prime minister, Manoa Kamikamica. In our previous article, we savaged him for his defence of the obscene salary and benefits package passed by the parliament last week. But that was before someone with a … [Read more...] about # A TAMANI-SIZED HYPOCRITE EXPOSED

Manoa Kamikamica is the son of one of Fiji's finest civil servants and politicians - the late Josevata Kamikamica - who was renowned for his integrity both in government and when he broke away from Sitiveni Rabuka in the 1990s to form the Fijian Association with the late Ratu Finau Mara, son of founding prime minister of Fiji, the late Ratu Sir … [Read more...] about # WHY MANOA KAMIKAMICA IS UNFIT TO LEAD

Grubsheet has no inside knowledge of what happens in FijiFirst, having fallen out with Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and having campaigned against them at the last election. But I know the inside workings of Khaiyum's mind almost as much as I know my own having worked intimately with him for six years. And I certainly know how … [Read more...] about # GET SET FOR THE AXE TO FALL

Now here's a turn-up, Fiji. Sitiveni Rabuka is threatening to "take action" against the NFP for not supporting its Coalition partners' unconscionable increases in MPs pay and conditions. He doesn't say precisely what action he intends to take. But fancy the Prime Minister threatening Biman Prasad for not diving into the fires of hell with him, … [Read more...] about # TIME TO MAN UP, BIMAN, AND FACE DOWN THE BULLY PM