With two of the three deputy prime ministers sidelined after having been charged with serious criminal offences and awaiting trial, we now have an Acting Prime Minister in the absence of Sitiveni Rabuka in Japan who has had multiple findings against him for professional misconduct. Yes, folks, the Prime Minister's nephew, Filimoni Vosarogo - the … [Read more...] about # ONLY IN FIJI, EH? THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE ATTORNEY GENERAL DUE TO MISCONDUCT IS NOW ACTING PRIME MINISTER
# TALKING SH*T. PEDDLING SH*T. THE COALITION’S COVER-UP OF THE GRAVITY OF THE SPILL AT CWM (UPDATED THURSDAY AM)
The government has been in full-blown damage control over reports of a sewage spill at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital that the Fiji Sun said had shut down operating theatres and cost lives. The response of the Ministry of Health has studiously avoided the issue of casualties as the result of the spill, which suggests that this part of the … [Read more...] about # TALKING SH*T. PEDDLING SH*T. THE COALITION’S COVER-UP OF THE GRAVITY OF THE SPILL AT CWM (UPDATED THURSDAY AM)
# WHILE SH*T SEEPS INTO THE OPERATING THEATRES OF THE CWM, AN INCONSEQUENTIAL SH*TSTORM ERUPTS AMONG THE GLITTERATI ON FACEBOOK
The disconnect between the lives of ordinary Fijians and some of those who dominate the national debate has never been so stark than in the case of Imrana "Patricia" Jalal - the international lawyer who picks up a multi six figure US dollar salary working for the Asian Development Bank in Manila while many of those she used to represent as a … [Read more...] about # WHILE SH*T SEEPS INTO THE OPERATING THEATRES OF THE CWM, AN INCONSEQUENTIAL SH*TSTORM ERUPTS AMONG THE GLITTERATI ON FACEBOOK
# CWM. A METAPHOR FOR AN ENTIRE NATION THAT HAS GONE TO SH*T
So sewage - raw excrement - has leaked into the operating theatres of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva and patients there have died, according to a truly shocking report in the Fiji Sun. Grubsheet can scarcely believe that the place where I was born and later got my teeth straightened (sort of ) by a kindly British orthodontist in Viti … [Read more...] about # CWM. A METAPHOR FOR AN ENTIRE NATION THAT HAS GONE TO SH*T
# COMMONMAN’S TRAIN OF THOUGHT ON A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA
GD writes: After his three part series on identity and belonging in Fiji, CommonMan turns more whimsical this week as he reflects on a recent visit to Australia and his enjoyment of traveling by train. Australian railways are a far cry from the sugar trains that used to pass by CommonMan's village in Nadroga. Not only are they fast and … [Read more...] about # COMMONMAN’S TRAIN OF THOUGHT ON A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA
# THE FINAL STRAW. LYNDA TABUYA HAS FINANCIALLY EXPLOITED THE HOSPITALITY OF ORDINARY FIJIANS AND MUST GO
Everything that is wrong with the Coalition government - its amorality, greed and disregard for proper conduct and the feelings of the Fijian people - are encapsulated in the admission by Lynda Tabuya that she claimed taxpayer's money as per diems or daily living allowances for her recent visit to South Australia and was then able to pocket that … [Read more...] about # THE FINAL STRAW. LYNDA TABUYA HAS FINANCIALLY EXPLOITED THE HOSPITALITY OF ORDINARY FIJIANS AND MUST GO