Golly gosh, Golly Ghai, boy, do we enjoy our exalted status in Fiji. Given the level of vituperation from the anti-regime lobby against some other perceived supporters of the Bainimarama Government, Grubsheet gets off entirely scot-free. We get cheery hellos in the street, people fall over themselves to buy us drinks and dusky maidens keep wanting … [Read more...] about # THE GRUBSHEET GLEE CLUB
# YASH GHAI: EMOTION BEFORE REASON
Like many people, Grubsheet has been perplexed by the behavior of the recently-departed Chairman of the Constitutional Commission, Professor Yash Ghai. Almost as soon as he left the country after handing his Draft Constitution to the President, Professor Ghai launched an extraordinary attack on the Fijian authorities. He claimed that the police had … [Read more...] about # YASH GHAI: EMOTION BEFORE REASON
# BACK INTO THE DEEP FREEZE
Relations between Fiji and Australia have taken a sudden turn for the worse and it now appears highly unlikely that the Government will accept a new Australian High Commissioner in Suva. Attitudes have hardened just as the diplomat chosen for the job – Margaret Twomey, Australia’s current ambassador to Russia – has been preparing to move to Suva to … [Read more...] about # BACK INTO THE DEEP FREEZE
# SAVAGED BY A DEAD SHEEP
As I was saying, Mad Marc Edge continues his assault on anyone in Fiji who had the temerity to challenge his Napoleonic ego. Now safely out of the country after being sacked from the University of the South Pacific - where he was facing charges of misconduct -Dr Edge's fingers trip across the keys in his frigid Canadian bolthole, spewing forth the … [Read more...] about # SAVAGED BY A DEAD SHEEP
# MAD MARC ON THE WARPATH
Marc Edge has confirmed his departure from Fiji with an extraordinary diatribe that also confirms what he flagged a few weeks ago in the headline of one of his rambling web postings - "Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad". The former Head of the School of Journalism at the University of the South Pacific has been clearly unhinged by … [Read more...] about # MAD MARC ON THE WARPATH
# INTO THE ABYSS
Word has reached Grubsheet that the embattled former Head of Journalism at the University of the South Pacific, Dr Marc Edge, has left Fiji after losing his job. There's so far been no official announcement but Fiji Leaks - the suspected blog site of the Oxford-based journalist and academic, Victor Lal - reports that Dr Edge flew out of Nadi for … [Read more...] about # INTO THE ABYSS