Today's Fiji Times has four pages of articles and ads to commemorate Bastille Day - July 14 - the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille Prison in 1789 that was the climax of the French revolution. Yet characteristically there is no mention of a major development "just down the road" in neighbouring New Caledonia, which has been wracked by … [Read more...] about # BASTILLE DAY NEWS. NEW CALEDONIA TO BECOME A “STATE” BUT WILL REMAIN PART OF FRANCE.
# COMING SOON…WHY IS WYLIE CLARKE STILL PRESIDENT OF THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY WHEN HE STANDS ACCUSED OF PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE?
# CHARLIE CHARTERS CONSPIRES WITH A CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART TWO)
The author and rugby identity, Charlie Charters, has taken his campaign to undermine the Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair from the pages of Facebook to the pages of Saturday's Fiji Times with an extraordinary double-page feature that is a naked attempt to derail the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali … [Read more...] about # CHARLIE CHARTERS CONSPIRES WITH A CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART TWO)
# A RIGHT CHARLIE’S* CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART ONE)
Charlie Charters is one of those End-of-Empire Englishmen like Jon Fraenkel and Matt Wilson who set out for the South Seas like their 19th century predecessors, marry local women, get involved in local politics and exploit the gormlessness of the natives to advance their own prejudices. Some of these English imports like Harry Dugdale - the … [Read more...] about # A RIGHT CHARLIE’S* CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (PART ONE)
# TIME TO BE GREAT AGAIN (UPDATED THURSDAY)
56 years separates these images but there's a striking timelessness about father and son - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Ratu Tevita Mara - being installed as Tui Nayau, the high chief of Lau. It was a significant event in the vanua then - July 1969 - and it is a significant event now as the people of Lau officially regain their traditional leader … [Read more...] about # TIME TO BE GREAT AGAIN (UPDATED THURSDAY)
# HOW CENSORING THE COI REPORT IS ENABLING BIMAN PRASAD AND MANOA KAMIKAMICA TO LIE ABOUT ITS CONCLUSIONS
The Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, is calling on the Coalition government to release the entire COI Report on the Malimali affair in unredacted or uncensored form. And for very good reason. Because the Fijian people are being deprived of vital information that is shielding some very important people from scrutiny and enabling them to hoodwink … [Read more...] about # HOW CENSORING THE COI REPORT IS ENABLING BIMAN PRASAD AND MANOA KAMIKAMICA TO LIE ABOUT ITS CONCLUSIONS