The proposed FijiansFirst Party has submitted its application for registration to the Elections Office - a vehicle for Frank Bainimarama to use his continuing popularity to re-enter the political fray and become a major player again in the lead-up to the coming election. Bainimarama can't be parliamentary leader of FijiansFirst - as he was for … [Read more...] about # FRANK BAINIMARAMA’S NEW PARTY, FIJIANSFIRST, APPLIES FOR REGISTRATION FOR THE COMING ELECTION (UPDATED TUES AM)
# THE CHIEFS DON’T WANT THE 2013 CONSTITUTION REVIEWED. THEY WANT IT ABOLISHED. AND THAT IS A THREAT TO THE MINORITIES AND ENLIGHTENED ITAUKEI
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
# IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER, PK DAVIS. A KAIVALAGI FIJIAN AT HEART BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY
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
# WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS SET TO WORSEN FIJI’S ALREADY PARLOUS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
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
# 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)
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)
# 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)
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)