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$300-million Fijian ($134-million US) is a pittance for the Chinese Communist Party to buy the Prime Minister's favour by improving the road system on his home island of Vanua Levu and, in turn, for Sitiveni Rabuka to curry favour with his own people. It also buys the Prime Minister's silence on the big issues of Chinese expansionism in the … [Read more...] about # SMALL CHANGE TO BUY THE PM’S FAVOUR

Alefina Vuki – the Chair of the People’s Alliance disciplinary committee that found the sex and drug allegations against Lynda Tabuya proven – has resigned from the committee and from the Party after the Prime Minister retained Tabuya as the Minister for Women and Children. Alefina Vuki’s decision to sever links with the PAP altogether is a … [Read more...] about EXCLUSIVE. PAP DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE CHAIR RESIGNS

The call by the Methodist Church in Fiji for a month of prayer and fasting to address the current explosion in drug use tells us a great deal about the intellectual as well as the moral vacuum at the top of national life. The President of the Methodist Church, the Reverend Dr Semisi Turagavou, undoubtedly means well and there is clearly nothing … [Read more...] about # HOW TO FIX THE DRUG PROBLEM? DON’T EAT

So now the Acting Supervisor of Elections, Ana Mataiciwa, is set to lose her job for doing her job. And at the hands of the miserable Barbara Malimali - who complained after the election that women weren't getting enough Coalition jobs until she got one and is now using it to remove another woman from her job. Yes, folks, next they'll be eating … [Read more...] about # THE COALITION GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE

Grubsheet has returned from holiday and is catching up on events while we were away. And one of the stories that struck us most was the Chinese Ambassador's gross lack of respect for the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, when they shared a platform together and the Ambassador used the occasion to address the recent Australian media reports citing … [Read more...] about # AN ACT OF CONTEMPT FOR FIJIAN SOVEREIGNTY (UPDATED)

Few things demonstrate the growing impotence and senility of the Prime Minister more starkly than his attempt to make political capital out of dispensing with his umbrella in the rain when the rest of the country is desperate to stay dry or get water out of the taps. Sitiveni Rabuka thinks we are all going to cobo and cry "vinaka" at the sight … [Read more...] about # WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, GET WET