The extent of the challenge facing the Coalition parties as they seek a second term in government is laid bare in a landmark report by the nation's foremost policy institute - Dialogue Fiji - that reveals cost-of-living pressures are the top priority of most Fijians. Not crime and drugs. Not iTaukei rights. Not changing the Constitution or the … [Read more...] about # IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID*. THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS WILL DETERMINE THE ELECTION RESULT (ASSUMING IT HAPPENS)
# COULD THESE TWO IMAGES PERCHANCE BE RELATED? ALL EYES ARE ON FIJILEAKS AS WE WAIT TO BE TOLD
In other news, the perennial grin has been wiped off Manoa Kamikamica's face and his political career is in tatters as his perjury trial gets the green light and other charges are pending. It is also a disaster for the likes of Biman Prasad, Barbara Malimali/Tanya Waqanika and Charlie Charters as a High Court judge rules that contrary … [Read more...] about # COULD THESE TWO IMAGES PERCHANCE BE RELATED? ALL EYES ARE ON FIJILEAKS AS WE WAIT TO BE TOLD
# YES, NO NEED FOR A STATE OF EMERGENCY. THE MILITARY IS ALREADY IN CONTROL AND THE MEDIA IS UNDER CONTROL
Without in any way diminishing the importance of tackling the drug threat, there are some deeply disturbing aspects to the current crackdown on criminals way beyond the extrajudicial killing by the RFMF of the accused drug kingpin, Jone Vakarisi. As the police "investigate" (yeah, sure) the circumstances in which Vakarisi was tortured and beaten … [Read more...] about # YES, NO NEED FOR A STATE OF EMERGENCY. THE MILITARY IS ALREADY IN CONTROL AND THE MEDIA IS UNDER CONTROL
# TAKING THE PISS. WHOSE URINE SAMPLE WAS IT? YES, REALLY
Lynda Tabuya has lied about her drug use before but her own party found her guilty two years ago of a "sex and Illicit drug scandal" and stripped her of the deputy leadership of the People's Alliance. So we are entitled to be extremely skeptical about her latest stunt - supposedly submitting herself to a drugs test in line with new procedures in … [Read more...] about # TAKING THE PISS. WHOSE URINE SAMPLE WAS IT? YES, REALLY
# WHY WAS RFMF MURDER VICTIM JONE VAKARISI CRYING OUT LYNDA TABUYA’S NAME AS HE WAS TORTURED? (AND OTHER UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS)
Reports are emerging that during the prolonged beating of Jone Vakarisi at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks that led to his murder, one name was continually being cried out as he begged for mercy. Lynda Tabuya. Why? Was Vakarisi pleading with his torturers to contact the Minister for Information, Environment and Climate Change in the hope that … [Read more...] about # WHY WAS RFMF MURDER VICTIM JONE VAKARISI CRYING OUT LYNDA TABUYA’S NAME AS HE WAS TORTURED? (AND OTHER UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS)
# MAULED BY HOMER SIMPSON IN A MUMU AS THE THREE AMIGOS GO QUIET ON TORTURE AND MURDER AT THE CAMP (UPDATED)
Woo hoo!, as the famous cartoon character, Homer Simpson, is fond of saying. It's a red letter day when the "citizen journalist" and fashion plate, Charlie Charters, gives Grubsheet a plug on his Facebook page. And that day has come as Charlie praises the excellent article we featured yesterday by our mutual friend, Richard Thomson, on the proposed … [Read more...] about # MAULED BY HOMER SIMPSON IN A MUMU AS THE THREE AMIGOS GO QUIET ON TORTURE AND MURDER AT THE CAMP (UPDATED)