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GD writes: In the space of a month, CommonMan - our weekly voice from the grassroots in the vanua - is already making an impact on the national debate. And this week, he dedicates his column to the increasing power of the Internet in iTaukei society. It includes a remarkable event that has gone unnoticed in the mainstream media - how the … [Read more...] about # COMMONMAN ON THE DIGITAL VANUA AND 21ST CENTURY “SOLESOLEVAKI” (UPDATED SUNDAY PM)

We are precisely four weeks out from the High Court hearing on the application by some of those adversely named in the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair for a judicial review to overturn its findings. And shocking evidence is emerging that the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has engineered a series of moves to turn … [Read more...] about # WHEN THE CROCODILES IN THE POND TURN THE HUNTER INTO PREY (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)

The integrity of the judicial system in Fiji hangs in the balance as the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, turns the tables on the Supreme Court Judge who has accused him of perjury and perverting the course of justice and is pressing for Justice Ashton-Lewis to be charged with fraud. The shocking saga of how the Prime Minister, Sitiveni … [Read more...] about # COMING SOON. IS JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS FACING ARREST ON ARRIVAL IN FIJI FOR THE COI JUDICIAL REVIEW HEARING?

With two of the three deputy prime ministers sidelined after having been charged with serious criminal offences and awaiting trial, we now have an Acting Prime Minister in the absence of Sitiveni Rabuka in Japan who has had multiple findings against him for professional misconduct. Yes, folks, the Prime Minister's nephew, Filimoni Vosarogo - the … [Read more...] about # ONLY IN FIJI, EH? THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE ATTORNEY GENERAL DUE TO MISCONDUCT IS NOW ACTING PRIME MINISTER

The government has been in full-blown damage control over reports of a sewage spill at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital that the Fiji Sun said had shut down operating theatres and cost lives. The response of the Ministry of Health has studiously avoided the issue of casualties as the result of the spill, which suggests that this part of the … [Read more...] about # TALKING SH*T. PEDDLING SH*T. THE COALITION’S COVER-UP OF THE GRAVITY OF THE SPILL AT CWM (UPDATED THURSDAY AM)

The disconnect between the lives of ordinary Fijians and some of those who dominate the national debate has never been so stark than in the case of Imrana "Patricia" Jalal - the international lawyer who picks up a multi six figure US dollar salary working for the Asian Development Bank in Manila while many of those she used to represent as a … [Read more...] about # WHILE SH*T SEEPS INTO THE OPERATING THEATRES OF THE CWM, AN INCONSEQUENTIAL SH*TSTORM ERUPTS AMONG THE GLITTERATI ON FACEBOOK