Disturbingly similar. The skies above Nouméa. And the skies above Gaza. There goes the neighbourhood. A photo essay in the Guardian Australia of the unfolding tragedy in New Caledonia. Just 1300 kilometres from Fiji. … [Read more...] about # NO LONGER PACIFIC
# PAL AHLUWALIA SAID “NO” TO A 30 PER CENT PAY RISE AT USP. THEN THE WHITE-ANTING BEGAN
Universities the world over are hotbeds of competing egos, rivalries and jostling for positions. Academics by nature are smart, strategic and have a high opinion of themselves. And the vice chancellors who manage them are like trapeze artists on a high wire, constantly performing a delicate balancing act. They need to keep their staff happy as well … [Read more...] about # PAL AHLUWALIA SAID “NO” TO A 30 PER CENT PAY RISE AT USP. THEN THE WHITE-ANTING BEGAN
# EXPOSED: THE SECRET PLOT TO REMOVE PAL AHLUWALIA FROM USP
An extraordinary conspiracy to oust the Vice Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has emerged in a confidential unsigned email circulating at the highest levels in Fiji and the region that has been leaked to Grubsheet. The author is someone using a pseudonym - "Hope Full" - at a "hopeful4change" gmail … [Read more...] about # EXPOSED: THE SECRET PLOT TO REMOVE PAL AHLUWALIA FROM USP
# DIPLOMATIC MANOEUVRES WITH THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED
Lynda Tabuya may have survived losing her ministerial position over her drug-fuelled sex romp with Aseri Radrodro because she has the Prime Minister over a barrel but she has become a vexing problem in diplomatic circles. The penalty for marijuana use in China ranges from 15 days in prison to a bullet in the back of the head, depending on the … [Read more...] about # DIPLOMATIC MANOEUVRES WITH THE MINISTER FOR BONKING AND WEED
# THE SLUG* OF SABETO’S BRAND OF JUSTICE
The old Mouth from the West, Mick Beddoes, is given the front page of today's Fiji Times to make some astonishing and highly provocative observations about the jailing of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho that have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with revenge. The former opposition leader and "brains" behind the Unity Party … [Read more...] about # THE SLUG* OF SABETO’S BRAND OF JUSTICE
# MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY. A “WEAK-HEARTED, SELFISH” VISITOR
The "vulagi" debate has erupted all over again in spectacular fashion with an astonishing attack on the Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, by the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, for having the temerity to object to the iTaukei term for visitor to describe Indo-Fijians who have been in Fiji since the arrival of the first Girmit 145 years … [Read more...] about # MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY. A “WEAK-HEARTED, SELFISH” VISITOR