The moustache that has been Sitiveni Rabuka's trademark ever since he soared to national prominence with his first coup on May 14, 1987, has suddenly gone, as if by shaving the Prime Minister can somehow reinvent himself and get the nation to think about anything else than the horror he inflicted 37 years ago today. The Coalition's PR machine … [Read more...] about # THE SNAKE SHEDS HIS “MO” FOR THE 37TH COUP ANNIVERSARY
# A PRIME MINISTER UTTERLY WITHOUT SHAME
It is 37 years today (Tuesday) since Sitiveni Rabuka carried out the first of his two coups to assert indigenous supremacy in Fiji, triggering an exodus of tens of thousands of the nation's best and brightest people. He has also condoned the use of the word "vulagi" among iTaukei to refer to the nation's minorities - condemning them to be … [Read more...] about # A PRIME MINISTER UTTERLY WITHOUT SHAME
# SIROMI TURAGA’S SPECTACULAR OWN GOAL
No wonder Sitiveni Rabuka wants to replace the Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, as soon as possible. It isn't just the complaints from the President down about Turaga's grave mishandling - before he became AG - of the divorce proceedings of a senior military officer that has resulted in the man's wife committing bigamy in the US. Now Turaga has … [Read more...] about # SIROMI TURAGA’S SPECTACULAR OWN GOAL
# DISCOMBOBULATING RANDOM JOTTINGS
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to identify the source of the leaked image of the newly-jailed disgraced Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho, which surfaced on social media on Friday. It is clearly from a prison security camera, which tells us two things. The rotten apples violating Qiliho's privacy are warders in the control room of the … [Read more...] about # DISCOMBOBULATING RANDOM JOTTINGS
# ZHAO FUGANG’S CHINESE BURN
The Yue Lai yum cha czar, Zhao Fugang, has been on a local PR blitz to rubbish the Nine Media's reporting that he is a priority target of Australia's intelligence services for allegedly running the region's biggest drug trafficking syndicate. But he has fallen at the first hurdle with his claim that Nick Mckenzie - the 60 Minutes and Nine newspaper … [Read more...] about # ZHAO FUGANG’S CHINESE BURN
# IT ISN’T OVER FOR FRANK
Like many Fijians, Grubsheet has been in a mild state of shock at the sight of Frank Bainimarama trying to use what looked like a tea towel to cover up his handcuffs as he and Sitiveni Qiliho left the High Court yesterday for the journey to prison. It wasn’t as if we didn’t expect the pair to be jailed. Grubsheet had been predicting it in these … [Read more...] about # IT ISN’T OVER FOR FRANK