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At a time when the nation is wallowing in crisis - wracked by chaotic and dysfunctional governance, a drug threat that threatens the integrity of the state and a widespread breakdown in basic standards of conduct and morality - we have chosen someone we described last August as "Fiji's forgotten woman" as worthy of being Fijian of the Year for 2025 … [Read more...] about # GRUBSHEET RETURNS TO ANNOUNCE OUR CHOICE FOR 2025’s FIJIAN OF THE YEAR

Who has best displayed character, integrity, honour and commitment to the truth in our national life over the past 12 months when these qualities have never been more desperately needed in Fiji? Grubsheet will soon be announcing our own choice of Fijian of the Year for 2025. But in the meantime, we're inviting you to put forward your choice in … [Read more...] about # COMING SOON…OUR FIJIAN OF THE YEAR FOR 2025

UPDATE JANUARY 5: Someone has interrupted my holiday with news that the lamentable Yorkshireman, Charlie Charters, has launched yet another attack on me on Facebook, which he knows I cannot respond to because I am banned from the social media platform where I once had 30,000 "followers" on a formal complaint by the Coalition skank, Lynda Tabuya. … [Read more...] about # HAPPY NEW YEAR, DEAR READERS! ON HOLIDAYS WITH MY ESTEEMED MARAMA. BACK SOON (UPDATED JAN 5 )

For the second year in a row, Christmas Eve in Fiji and the days immediately before it have gone way beyond the usual preparations for feasting and worship to provide us all with some startling distractions. Last Christmas Eve, it was the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, confirming his relative by marriage, Salesi Temo, as Chief Justice … [Read more...] about # MERRY CHRISTMAS. UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN AND THE SILLY SEASON IN FIJI IS IN FULL SWING.

The self-exiled substantive DPP, Christopher Pryde - who has had his salary unlawfully severed since August - has had an important win in the courts, with a High Court Judge, Justice Savenaca Banuve, granting him leave for a judicial review of the decision by the President on the advice of the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to terminate … [Read more...] about # CHRISTOPHER PRYDE GETS A PRE-CHRISTMAS WIN IN THE COURTS – A JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE SUSPENSION OF HIS SALARY

GD writes: I gave CommonMan - our grassroots columnist in the vanua - anonymity for a very good reason - so that without fear of retribution, he could speak plainly on behalf of common people about the power structures that govern iTaukei life. Whether they are working, whether they are benefiting the majority and not just the elite and how they … [Read more...] about # COMMONMAN WAGES AN EXTRAORDINARY CAMPAIGN ON BEHALF OF ORDINARY ITAUKEI FOR REFORM OF THE CHIEFLY SYSTEM IN FIJI