The effective end of Manoa Kamikamica's campaign to replace Sitiveni Rabuka as Prime Minister - if not his political career - is the dominant political narrative now that Kamikamica has been charged by FICAC and will be subjected to a lengthy criminal trial extending into election year. Will Kamikamica stand aside as Deputy Prime Minister and … [Read more...] about # SIROMI TURAGA. UNDEMOCRATIC, MENDACIOUS AND JUST PLAIN DUMB. (UPDATED )
# MANOA KAMIKAMICA CHARGED BY FICAC (UPDATED MONDAY PM)
There has yet to be a formal announcement but the court record shows that the Deputy Prime Minister, Manoa Kamikamica, has been charged with corruption-related offences and will appear in court on Wednesday. While it has been an open secret in some quarters and Grubsheet has alluded to it in several articles, the news is still breaking like a … [Read more...] about # MANOA KAMIKAMICA CHARGED BY FICAC (UPDATED MONDAY PM)
# IF YOU DON’T READ ANYTHING ELSE THIS WEEK, AT LEAST READ THIS. THE REAL IMPACT OF THE MASS EXODUS FROM FIJI
The Coalition government continues to play down the significance of the fact that an estimated 114,000 Fijians have left the country since 2018 and has certainly done nothing to provide them with an incentive to stay, such as assuring the minorities that they are valued members of the community, with equal rights that will be respected. The … [Read more...] about # IF YOU DON’T READ ANYTHING ELSE THIS WEEK, AT LEAST READ THIS. THE REAL IMPACT OF THE MASS EXODUS FROM FIJI
# COMMONMAN WADES INTO THE VULAGI DEBATE WITH A PLEA FOR LESS DIVISIVE POINT-SCORING AND MORE UNDERSTANDING
GD writes: This week, our new columnist, CommonMan, explains the iTaukei concept of vulagi, which he says has been widely misunderstood and deliberately politicised to create ethnic division in Fiji. He says vulagi actually means "honoured guest" more than foreigner or visitor. But he goes on to raise a question many non-iTaukei are also … [Read more...] about # COMMONMAN WADES INTO THE VULAGI DEBATE WITH A PLEA FOR LESS DIVISIVE POINT-SCORING AND MORE UNDERSTANDING
# ‘EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST. EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE”. AND EVERY VOTER HAS A VOTE
Once again, the Coalition's new Minister for Information, Lynda Tabuya, has become the story herself at yet another Fiji Media Association "town hall" meeting that is meant to be giving the public fresh insights into national issues but is dishing out more of the same. Alone in the democratic world, only in Fiji would a Prime Minister make a … [Read more...] about # ‘EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST. EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE”. AND EVERY VOTER HAS A VOTE
# COMING TOMORROW (SUNDAY), COMMONMAN ON THE VULAGI DEBATE
What does our new columnist think about the vulagi debate that has become one of the nation's most divisive issues, with its implication that non-iTaukei citizens are merely visitors to Fiji and don't really belong? CommonMan is a 45 year old iTaukei farmer who has lived in the vanua all his life- a village in rural Viti Levu. So what he has to … [Read more...] about # COMING TOMORROW (SUNDAY), COMMONMAN ON THE VULAGI DEBATE