We're changing our name today to reflect something that's been happening for some time - the gradual evolution of Grubsheet from a general commentary site to one specialising in the Pacific and especially Fiji. In one sense, it was inevitable simply because that's where our own interests lie. But we were also keen to add more grunt to the efforts … [Read more...] about # OUR NEW LOOK
#130 DYING OF SHAME
It's taken five days for the main anti-regime news website, Coup Four and a Half, to report that the SDL - the party of the deposed government of Laisenia Qarase - is advocating that Fiji become a Christian state. News that a delegation led by the SDL president, Solomoni Naivalu, had made a submission to this effect to the Constitutional Commission … [Read more...] about #130 DYING OF SHAME
# THE “GRAND OLD DAME” REVIVED
2014 will be a landmark year in Fiji’s history and not just because of the scheduled return to democracy. After an expensive renovation, the once bright jewel in the crown of Suva – the celebrated Grand Pacific Hotel – will also be opening its doors for the first time in more than two decades. Because of what that will mean not only for tourism but … [Read more...] about # THE “GRAND OLD DAME” REVIVED
# SDL SUBMISSION – THE PROOF (UPDATE)
Radio Australia and the historian Brij Lal didn't believe it. Their doubts set off a firestorm in anti-regime circles, accusing Grubsheet and others of being wrong and even fabrication when we reported that the former governing party in Fiji, the SDL, had called for the introduction of a Christian state in a submission to the country's … [Read more...] about # SDL SUBMISSION – THE PROOF (UPDATE)
# A FIJIAN LIFE – DOROTHY KEARSLEY
Another chapter in the history of pre-independence Fiji is closing with the funeral in Suva on Wednesday of Dorothy Kearsley, a member of one of the country’s oldest Kai Valagi (European) families. Dorothy – who lived for many years at Suva Point – died in the capital last Friday at the venerable age of 96. She is mourned by an immediate and … [Read more...] about # A FIJIAN LIFE – DOROTHY KEARSLEY
# THE RACIST BIGOTS OF THE SDL
( The following story has now been confirmed after doubts were raised about it by Radio Australia and the historian Brij Lal. Details below): The constitutional submission by members of the former governing party in Fiji - the SDL – calling for the country to be declared a Christian state is surely one of the longest political suicide notes in … [Read more...] about # THE RACIST BIGOTS OF THE SDL