Today's Fiji TImes carries easily one of the most ludicrous front page headlines in the entire 156-year history of the nation's favourite fish wrapping - "Stable and focused", it proclaims, quoting the Prime Minister about his government, when the whole country can see that it is neither stable nor focused and instead, is in a state of catastrophic … [Read more...] about # THE COALITION GOVERNMENT TRIES TO SPIN ITS WAY OUT OF CATASTROPHE (UPDATED TUESDAY EVENING)
# BREAKING NEWS…COALITION ROCKED AS BIMAN PRASAD IS CHARGED BY FICAC.
Biman Prasad - the NFP leader and Finance Minister - has joined his fellow deputy prime minister, Manoa Kamikamica, in being charged by FICAC with corruption-related offences and is expected to resign tomorrow (Tuesday). The move - predicted by Grubsheet - has rocked the government to the core and robs it of two of its most prominent ministers … [Read more...] about # BREAKING NEWS…COALITION ROCKED AS BIMAN PRASAD IS CHARGED BY FICAC.
# COMMONMAN. VULAGI PART TWO. BELONGING
GD writes: CommonMan's explanation last week of the true concept of vulagi and the way a bastardised version has been weaponised for political purposes to divide the nation has attracted a great deal of impassioned debate, as evidenced from the comments on Grubsheet. In essence, he described the original meaning of vulagi as being honoured … [Read more...] about # COMMONMAN. VULAGI PART TWO. BELONGING
# A PRIME MINISTER FROZEN WITH INERTIA WHEN HE MUST ACT DECISIVELY TO SAVE HIMSELF
There are currents swirling within the Rabuka government that are starting to spill over even into the supine mainstream media as those around the Prime Minister begin to acknowledge that he is losing his grip. Take the following article, for instance - Sitiveni Rabuka's former communications handmaiden turned Fiji Times journalist, Cheerieann … [Read more...] about # A PRIME MINISTER FROZEN WITH INERTIA WHEN HE MUST ACT DECISIVELY TO SAVE HIMSELF
# COMING ON SUNDAY (AFTER MIDDAY) COMMONMAN ANSWERS THE QUESTION HE POSED LAST WEEK. WHEN DOES A “VULAGI” BORN IN FIJI BECOME A KAI VITI?
# RARELY IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICS HAS ANYONE HAD LESS REASON TO BE SMILING
Manoa Kamikamica's co-accused in the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry - his lawyer, Wylie Clarke - has put on a brave face at Kamikamica's first court appearance to obtain bail as he awaits trial on the charge against him of perjury and giving false evidence to the Inquiry. But as we explained in our earlier article today, these two have no … [Read more...] about # RARELY IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICS HAS ANYONE HAD LESS REASON TO BE SMILING