Until now, the Australian Defence Force has publicly stuck to the story that it took the word of the Fijian government and the RFMF that Colonel Ben Naliva was a suitable candidate to become Deputy Commander of the 7th Brigade of the ADF. But buried in an official statement reported by the Fiji Times is the killer line that before he was appointed, … [Read more...] about # THE ADMISSION THAT SPELLS BIG TROUBLE FOR “DIGGER” BEN NALIVA
# THE BRUTAL HYPOCRISY OF LYNDA TABUYA
The nation’s foremost campaigner against pornography got Grubsheet kicked off Facebook and complained to the Australian government’s eSafety Commissioner that we didn’t have her consent to publish the pornographic images she took of herself and she sent to her lover, Aseri Radrodro. Yet Lynda Tabuya thinks nothing of defying Fiji’s Online Safety … [Read more...] about # THE BRUTAL HYPOCRISY OF LYNDA TABUYA
# IT DOESN’T TAKE A GENIUS…(UPDATED)
Why would the Fijian government and a compliant RFMF want to send one of Frank Bainimarama's most loyal supporters in the military to Australia to be deputy head of a brigade in the Australian Defence Force? Qori. And so it begins... the first of a string of new charges that are said to be in the pipeline to nail the former Prime Minister to the … [Read more...] about # IT DOESN’T TAKE A GENIUS…(UPDATED)
# NEWS OF AN UNLAWFUL “WHITE” SACKING 10 DAYS LATE
It says a great deal about the sorry state of the Fijian media that it has taken 10 days for the shocking details of the story that Grubsheet broke on January 24 - "The Crime of Being White" - to make the mainstream media, not in Fiji but New Zealand. In that story, we detailed how the illegal Acting DPP, John Rabuku, dismissed his Assistant, … [Read more...] about # NEWS OF AN UNLAWFUL “WHITE” SACKING 10 DAYS LATE
# THE MAJOR GENERAL’S MAJOR CREDIBILITY GAP
The RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, suddenly has a big credibility problem arising from today's Fiji Times front page story in which he says there is "nothing to prove" that human rights abuses were carried out by Colonel Penioni (Ben) Naliva, who has been appointed Deputy Commander of the 7th Brigade of the Australian Army. … [Read more...] about # THE MAJOR GENERAL’S MAJOR CREDIBILITY GAP
# A POINTLESS BLAME GAME
The nation is being treated to a fresh round of finger pointing this weekend as both sides of politics react to the warning by the Governor of the Reserve Bank that Fiji is in for a challenging year as the economy loses some of the momentum of the post-Covid recovery. It was as certain as night follows day that the FijiFirst opposition would … [Read more...] about # A POINTLESS BLAME GAME