Yes, Fiji, just seven of the 55 members of the Fijian parliament who are worthy of the term "honourable" - those who voted against the obscene salary and benefits increases that were rammed through the House yesterday and have triggered a tsunami of public anger about pigs with their snouts in the trough as much of the rest of the nation wallows in … [Read more...] about # THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN AMONG THE SWINE
# GOVERNED BY THE GREEDY AND MORALLY CORRUPT
So Parliament has approved the motion introduced by the Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, for the nation's fat cat MPs to receive unprecedented salary increases and allowances that will cost the taxpayer millions when an estimated third of the country lives in poverty and struggles to put food on the table. 40 MPs voted for the motion … [Read more...] about # GOVERNED BY THE GREEDY AND MORALLY CORRUPT
# “WHAT ABOUT ME?” THE NATION’S MPs TRIGGER A GADARENE* RUSH
The public outcry over the proposed salary and allowance increases for the nation’s MPs is intense - uniting a coalition of the National Federation Party, the Labour Party, the Unity Party, the Fiji Council of Social Services and Dialogue Fiji in a chorus of angry condemnation. Yet in terms of the country’s economic stability, there’s one voice … [Read more...] about # “WHAT ABOUT ME?” THE NATION’S MPs TRIGGER A GADARENE* RUSH
# THE QUEEN OF TARTS AND OTHER MPs WITH THEIR SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH
Read the accompanying articles, Fiji, and weep that our elected representatives are so hell-bent on destroying our economic future - the Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, her "brutal" sex toy boy and resident Minister for Bashing and Torture, Aseri Radrodro, plus the other members of the "Special Committee on Emoluments" dishing out more … [Read more...] about # THE QUEEN OF TARTS AND OTHER MPs WITH THEIR SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH
# A SIGN OF UTTER DESPERATION
It has now been more than 13 months since Siromi Turaga and the man he and Sitiveni Rabuka handpicked to be Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, suspended the DPP, Christopher Pryde, for alleged misbehaviour. And still they have failed to fulfil their constitutional duty to hold a judicial tribunal hearing into the allegation that Christopher Pryde … [Read more...] about # A SIGN OF UTTER DESPERATION
# NO LONGER PACIFIC
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