Grubsheet continues to post Fijian-related material on its Facebook page even as the main long- format site is in recess until the lead-up to the Fijian election sometime between July 2022 and January 2023. We are continuing to break stories, many of which the rest of the Fijian media ignores, and in a very short space of time, have built a … [Read more...] about # GRUBSHEET ON FACEBOOK
# STATEMENT BY GRAHAM DAVIS
The Fijian Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has committed the grave offence of misleading the Fijian Parliament with his claim that the government does not tell the Fiji Sun what to put on its front page. It is a lie. On multiple occasions when I was the government's principal communications advisor, the AG directed me to contact the … [Read more...] about # STATEMENT BY GRAHAM DAVIS
#TIME FOR SOME ANSWERS, FRANK
(From the Grubsheet Facebook page) The price of complacency and hubris - the deadly Indian variant of Covid-19 well and truly established in the Pacific. Fijians deserve answers to the following questions: Why have certain locals been permitted to travel to India since the border closure last year, including - it is said - to buy gold and … [Read more...] about #TIME FOR SOME ANSWERS, FRANK
#ASPI ON THE FIJI-US ROW
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute examines the diplomatic row between Fiji and the US over Frank Bainimarama not being invited to Joe Biden's virtual climate summit. Professor Richard Herr writes: "The US does want Fiji’s support broadly on a variety of regional issues including selling its new climate change message. Yet, the Biden … [Read more...] about #ASPI ON THE FIJI-US ROW
# BIDEN BITES BACK AT BAINIMARAMA
(From Grubsheet's Facebook page): True story because I was there: Fiji's Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, says to the former US Ambassador, Judith Sefkin, at a reception at State House in Suva: "You are not a true friend of Fiji. See that guy over there? (Pointing to the Chinese ambassador). That's a true friend of Fiji". Sefkin was a US State … [Read more...] about # BIDEN BITES BACK AT BAINIMARAMA
# WHEN OPPOSITES COLLIDE IN FURIOUS AGREEMENT
Rajiv Sharma has been one of Grubsheet's most avid correspondents since we began publishing again last August and also one of my greatest critics, continually objecting to my use of the term " genuine democracy" to characterise the return to parliamentary rule under the Bainimarama government. While I have suspended writing lengthy political … [Read more...] about # WHEN OPPOSITES COLLIDE IN FURIOUS AGREEMENT