This is an abbreviated version of the contents of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair. It is authentic - 100 per cent genuine and unredacted - with the names of those under scrutiny exposed. Having published the various sections of the Report in full over recent days, Grubsheet is publishing this … [Read more...] about # YOUR WEEKEND READ. A POTTED VERSION OF THE COI REPORT WITH THE MAIN POINTS YOU NEED TO KNOW (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)
# THE MOTHER OF ALL LEAKS. WHAT ON EARTH DID THE PRIME MINISTER EXPECT? (UPDATED 1000 FIJI TIME)
It has now been seven weeks since Justice David Ashton-Lewis and Janet Mason handed their Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair to the President and Prime Minister and they have sat on it like two hens refusing to yield their eggs. Sitiveni Rabuka has flip-flopped between promising that the report would be made public, … [Read more...] about # THE MOTHER OF ALL LEAKS. WHAT ON EARTH DID THE PRIME MINISTER EXPECT? (UPDATED 1000 FIJI TIME)
# NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. AND THE “ALCOHOLIC VIPER” IS IN TROUBLE AGAIN (UPDATED FRIDAY PM)
I invited Professor Jon Fraenkel to respond to my criticism yesterday of the front page Fiji Times story in which he was quoted as having slammed Justice David Ashton-Lewis for a "disgraceful interference with Fiji politics". Alas the Professor has a thin-skin and has taken particular exception to some of the comments by Grubsheet readers about … [Read more...] about # NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. AND THE “ALCOHOLIC VIPER” IS IN TROUBLE AGAIN (UPDATED FRIDAY PM)
# THE BIG ONE. CHAPTER SIX OF THE COI REPORT. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BARBARA MALIMALI WAS PARACHUTED INTO FICAC, INCLUDING THE DRAMA OF SEPT 5 2024
For Chapter Seven ( Possible Offences) and Chapter Eight ( the Judge's Recommendations), click here to go back to our first story on the COI leak on Tuesday. … [Read more...] about # THE BIG ONE. CHAPTER SIX OF THE COI REPORT. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BARBARA MALIMALI WAS PARACHUTED INTO FICAC, INCLUDING THE DRAMA OF SEPT 5 2024
# THE EMPIRE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST OBI-WAN KENOBI
It is an astonishing proposition that a legally constituted Commission of Inquiry by a judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji who happens to be Australian should be cast as " a disgraceful interference" in the domestic politics of Fiji. Yet that's the argument that appears to be mounted by the long-time Fiji commentator, Professor Jon Fraenkel of New … [Read more...] about # THE EMPIRE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST OBI-WAN KENOBI
# CHAPTER FIVE OF THE COI REPORT. JUSTICE ASHTON-LEWIS DETAILS THE EXTRAORDINARY INSIDE STORY OF BARBARA MALIMALI’S APPOINTMENT TO FICAC.
One thing will be obvious to any Grubsheet reader taking the time to read the full Commission of Inquiry Report into the "rotten" circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner - the impressive ability of the Judge, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, to cut through the static and get to the core of this saga. Justice Ashton-Lewis … [Read more...] about # CHAPTER FIVE OF THE COI REPORT. JUSTICE ASHTON-LEWIS DETAILS THE EXTRAORDINARY INSIDE STORY OF BARBARA MALIMALI’S APPOINTMENT TO FICAC.