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Once again, Salesi Temo has deferred his verdict in the trial of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem five months after the hearing ended. He now says he will deliver the verdict on May 14 because he "needs more time" - the second occasion he has given the same excuse, having said precisely the same thing on February 2nd. This has become a … [Read more...] about # THE CONDUCT OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE OUTRAGEOUS. HE MUST BE SUSPENDED IMMEDIATELY

So finally the deceitful, corrupt, scandal-ridden Coalition government - through its lame-duck Acting Attorney General, Siromi Turaga - comes clean about its timetable to change the 2013 Constitution. It will happen before the coming election which is due, at the very latest, on February 6, 2027. Which means either of two things: 1/ The changes … [Read more...] about # THE COALITION REWRITES HISTORY TO JUSTIFY CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION BEFORE THE COMING ELECTION

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