The Attorney General, Siromi Turaga, has revealed the astonishing extent to which local lawyers – make that iTaukei lawyers – are being fast-tracked into positions in the judiciary as part of the Coalition government’s localisation program in the criminal justice system. He’s told parliament that “ a record 22 judicial officers have been … [Read more...] about # LOCAL YOKELS OF THE LAW
# PERPLEXING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
If you believe in the rule of law, justice must not only be done but seen to be done. And it is a national tragedy that confidence in the criminal justice system – including the independence of the judiciary – has been so dramatically eroded in Fiji. In relation to the reversal of the acquittals of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho, … [Read more...] about # PERPLEXING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
# TABUYA-GATE ON NEW ZEALAND RADIO
Cameron Slater is a Fiji-born journalist and political commentator with a big audience in New Zealand through his website - the BFD - and his radio program on Reality Check Radio. He's already written a widely-read article on the sex and drug scandal that has enveloped Lynda Tabuya and the Coalition government. But now, Cam Slater and Grubsheet … [Read more...] about # TABUYA-GATE ON NEW ZEALAND RADIO
# FASTEN YOUR SELT BELTS, FIJI. MAJOR TURBULENCE AHEAD
As expected, Sitiveni Rabuka's handpicked Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has reversed the acquittals of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho on an application by his handpicked illegal Acting DPP, John Rabuku. So what do we expect to happen, Fiji? You tell me. Because on March 28 on present indications, Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho … [Read more...] about # FASTEN YOUR SELT BELTS, FIJI. MAJOR TURBULENCE AHEAD
# THE PRIME MINISTER FEELS INTENSE HEAT FROM WITHIN
The stage is set for resignations from the People’s Alliance amid a furious backlash over the Prime Minister’s decision to ignore the Party’s damning report on Lynda Tabuya’s sex and drug scandal and keep her as Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection. There’s an intense feeling of betrayal in the Executive Council of the Party – … [Read more...] about # THE PRIME MINISTER FEELS INTENSE HEAT FROM WITHIN
#”PACK IT UP, PAP. YOUR SHIP OUT OF GOVERNMENT BECKONS”
You have to be uniquely stupid as a national leader to have turned public opinion so decisively against you in the way that Sitiveni Rabuka has done after 15 months and to turn one of the nation's two newspapers into an implacable opponent calling for your resignation and predicting your defeat. The Coalition government has always had trouble … [Read more...] about #”PACK IT UP, PAP. YOUR SHIP OUT OF GOVERNMENT BECKONS”