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So the new FijiansFirst Party has finally broken cover, though without any mention of what Grubsheet reported 12 days ago - that the man behind it is Frank Bainimarama. The announcement in today's Fiji Sun of some of the (proposed) party's founding members doesn't include the biggest founding member of all - the former Prime Minister, who can't … [Read more...] about # WHAT FRANK’S NEW PARTY LACKS. A CHARISMATIC LEADER CAPABLE OF CAPTURING THE NATION’S IMAGINATION

Fiji has gone into mourning for Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, whose death at the age of 84 has triggered genuine sorrow across all sections of the community at home and abroad. It isn't often that an individual's passing can trigger such emotion but Ratu Epeili was special - a unifying figure at some of the most challenging times in the nation's … [Read more...] about # VALE RATU EPELI NAILATIKAU. SOLDIER, STATESMAN, SPEAKER, HEAD OF STATE. AND A GENUINE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS FRIEND TO ALL

"Judge me by my enemies, including the grubby social media trolls in their baggy Y-fronts, sitting all alone in their basements cranking out their nonsense" Ooh-ah. Charlie Charters has returned to Fiji in a decidedly irritable mood, despite flying business class on Fiji Airways courtesy of the madrai millions in luxurious seats that … [Read more...] about # HE’S BACK AND VERY GRUMPY. THE “CITIZEN JOURNALIST” AND FASHION TRENDSETTER RETURNS TO FACE THE MUSIC

Salesi Temo has finally acknowledged defeat after his petulant standoff with the President and Prime Minister in which he refused to acknowledge that the Prime Minister had gone over his head and appealed the decision by Justice Dane Tuiqereqere that he had no legal right to remove Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. Grubsheet was first with … [Read more...] about # THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HIS JSC FINALLY BOW TO THE INEVITABLE AFTER A TWO WEEK STANDOFF WITH THE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER

The citizen journalist and fashion trendsetter, Charlie Charters, has until tomorrow, Thursday March 26, to return to Fiji to fulfill the terms of his bail variation that enabled him to travel to Australia during his trial on a charge of aiding and abetting a FICAC informant. Will he return to face justice or "do a runner"? It's a question we … [Read more...] about # A GRUBSHEET GOLD STAR FOR THE FIRST SIGHTING OF CHARLIE CHARTERS RETURNING TO FACE THE MUSIC (UPDATED)

There is something deeply perverse about a government that launches a formal campaign against disinformation paid for by the British taxpayer using the itaukei word "sautu". It means peace and prosperity when the nation has experienced anything but under the Coalition government. But na veisaututaki also means "the pacification" - a … [Read more...] about # BRITAIN – “MOTHER OF THE FREE” – ASSISTS FIJI TO COMBAT THE ALLEGED DISINFORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S CRITICS IN A GROSS PERVERSION OF DEMOCRACY