The recent national uproar over the salary increases Fiji’s members of parliament gave themselves has overshadowed another significant sector pay rise – an unpublicised deal last month that removed the threat of strike action at the University of the South Pacific. The deal was done at the beginning of June (see below) but has had no coverage in … [Read more...] about # PAY DEAL AT USP ADDS TO INFLATIONARY PRESSURES AND THREATENS JOBS
# GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALANDERS. FROM THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT
Winston Peters is named after the famous wartime leader, Winston Churchill. Yet rather than being the lion that roared over one of his own citizens being treated unlawfully by a foreign government, this Winston is a Neville Chamberlain-style appeaser - a man willing to hang a Kiwi out to dry if it placates a regional government and keeps it out of … [Read more...] about # GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALANDERS. FROM THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT
# SO MUCH FOR A NEW BROOM COMMITTED TO THE RULE OF LAW
The suspended DPP Christopher Pryde’s decision to appeal to the New Zealand government to assist him after his salary was illegally cut off is producing fresh information that throws new light on what appears to be an astonishing conspiracy at the highest level in Fiji to deprive him of his right to justice. A New Zealand source tells Grubsheet … [Read more...] about # SO MUCH FOR A NEW BROOM COMMITTED TO THE RULE OF LAW
# COMING SOON. SHOCKING NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE ROLE OF GRAHAM LEUNG IN THE UNLAWFUL SEVERANCE OF CHRISTOPHER PRYDE’S SALARY.
# 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