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With the swearing in of a Constitutional Review Commission on Friday, the Fijian people are being hoodwinked into thinking that mere changes are being contemplated to the document that the Supreme Court has ruled remains the supreme law in Fiji. Not so. The secret agenda of nationalist elements of the Coalition government - backed by the Great … [Read more...] about # THE CHIEFS DON’T WANT THE 2013 CONSTITUTION REVIEWED. THEY WANT IT ABOLISHED. AND THAT IS A THREAT TO THE MINORITIES AND ENLIGHTENED ITAUKEI

Many older Fijians will remember my late father, the Reverend Peter Davis, who led the Methodist Church in Fiji as its president at a time when more than 80 per cent of iTaukei were Methodists and before Christians splintered into a multitude of smaller churches and religious groups. It made him a national figure in the years leading up to … [Read more...] about # IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER, PK DAVIS. A KAIVALAGI FIJIAN AT HEART BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY

To all intents and purposes, Fiji is already a beggar nation dependent on foreign aid and remittances from the diaspora, which are now the country's second biggest revenue earner after tourism. We have a shrinking population and a shrinking tax base. Yet having already lived beyond our means for years, the current government engaged in a orgy of … [Read more...] about # WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS SET TO WORSEN FIJI’S ALREADY PARLOUS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Once again, Sitiveni Rabuka has stunned his opponents with a political and legal manoeuvre that has suddenly turned the tables on them and will have massive ramifications in the countdown to the coming election. The Prime Minister is being widely derided on Facebook as someone chronically unable to make up his mind because of his latest … [Read more...] about # THE “CROCODILES” THOUGHT THEY HAD WON. THE SNAKE HAS (FINALLY) CHOSEN TO PROVE THEM WRONG (UPDATED 8.30 PM FIJI TIME WITH PM’S STATEMENT)

More details to come but Grubsheet understands that lawyers acting for Sitiveni Rabuka will seek a stay on all the forthcoming proceedings relating to the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry until after the appeal is heard. A sensational development that will have the broadest ramifications for the position of the President and Prime Minister, … [Read more...] about # BREAKING NEWS…THE PRIME MINISTER APPEALS THE TUIQEREQERE DECISION ON THE REMOVAL OF BARBARA MALIMALI AND THE APPOINTMENT OF LAVI ROKOIKA TO FICAC (UPDATED 2100 FIJI TIME)

The begging bowl in the Beggar Nation is out again - this time the fat cats of the business community demanding that the government come up with a "financial support package" to get them through the fallout from the Middle East War. Is there no-one in modern-day Fiji willing or able to stand on their own two feet? Is there anyone who doesn't … [Read more...] about # NOW FIJI’S BUSINESS COMMUNITY WANTS THE TAXPAYER TO BAIL THEM OUT OF DONALD TRUMP’S WAR AGAINST IRAN