UPDATE -RESPONSE FROM DR MARC EDGE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION: You have to wonder what is going at the Fiji Times when its senior reporters write blatant commercials masquerading as news. How else to explain the piece below by Verenaisi Raicola extolling the virtues of the Cozmo Lounge in Suva? At the very least, this puffiest of puff pieces should … [Read more...] about #105 TESTING TIMES (UPDATED 8/7)
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#76 MEDIA TITANS CLASH (UPDATED 10/5)
A major row between the heads of two of the South Pacific’s foremost journalism schools threatens to spill over into a wider arena and damage regional relationships. The director of the influential Pacific Media Centre at the Auckland University of Technology, Professor David Robie, has accused the head of the School of Journalism at the Fiji-based … [Read more...] about #76 MEDIA TITANS CLASH (UPDATED 10/5)
# THE GATHERING STORM. WHAT A DEBACLE.
Did Sitiveni Rabuka sack Aseri Radrodro for disobedience and insubordination to try to create a diversion and protect Lynda Tabuya from the sex and drug scandal that has engulfed the two? That’s the astonishing claim being made by some political players amid reports that Aseri Radrodro is right and Sitiveni Rabuka is wrong in their respective … [Read more...] about # THE GATHERING STORM. WHAT A DEBACLE.
#THE FIJIAN MEDIA. AN ELECTION MIDTERM REPORT
A free and vibrant media is as much a pre-requisite for a healthy democracy in Fiji as upholding the principles of multiculturalism and a multi-faith society that I canvassed in my last article. And two years out from the next election – which will be critical for the maintenance and strengthening of that democracy - it’s worth examining the … [Read more...] about #THE FIJIAN MEDIA. AN ELECTION MIDTERM REPORT
# INSIDE THE 2018 FIJIFIRST ELECTION DEBACLE
Bad weather on polling day is the enemy of any government seeking re-election and the FijiFirst government was out of luck as the heavens opened across the Fiji Group on Wednesday November 14 2018. Fijians woke to torrential rain and flooding that would eventually force the suspension of voting at 26 polling stations until the following Saturday. I … [Read more...] about # INSIDE THE 2018 FIJIFIRST ELECTION DEBACLE
#FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
The great cigar-chomping American comedian, George Burns – with the wisdom of someone who lived to 100 – once said something that applies to the Fijian civil service as much as it does to far too many bureaucracies the world over: “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair”. Add to that … [Read more...] about #FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE CIVIL SERVICE