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Of all the findings of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Barbara Malimali affair, the most urgent for the state to action is the devastating findings against Salesi Temo, the Chief Justice and Head of the Judicial Services Commission. The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, must go to the President immediately, if he hasn't already … [Read more...] about # THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SALESI TEMO, MUST BE SUSPENDED AS THE FIRST STEP TO REBUILDING CONFIDENCE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

The David Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair is a searing indictment of how the Coalition government has degraded Fiji's institutions of state during its two-and-a half years in power. And it simply isn't an option for the scandalous conduct it has exposed to be covered up and for it to be business as usual. … [Read more...] about # “A DAMNING AND SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF INTEGRITY AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF FIJI’S GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE SYSTEMS”

Grubsheet is today publishing Chapters 7 and 8 of the Commission of Inquiry Report into the circumstances of Barbara Malimali’s appointment as FICAC Commissioner. These have been leaked to me and I strongly believe that publishing them is in the public interest, especially given the attempts to suppress the COI Report. It isn’t the entire … [Read more...] about # FINALLY, THE DOCUMENT THEY’VE TRIED TO SUPPRESS – THE POSSIBLE OFFENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

Disturbing reports are reaching Grubsheet that the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, is refusing to act on the advice of the Prime Minister to release the Commission of Inquiry Report into the Malimali affair and order that its recommendations be implemented. Some sensational developments are being alleged: There is already a grave … [Read more...] about # IS THE PRESIDENT MOUNTING A CONSTITUTIONAL COUP? BECAUSE IF HE IS, HE MUST BE REMOVED

Guess what, Fiji? India's Amrut whisky has arrived in the country. And it is "national news" in the nation's newspaper of record since 1869, which has been so corrupted by its current owners that they routinely and shamelessly use it to promote their commercial interests and political proclivities. In any other country, the Motibhai Patels of … [Read more...] about # THE FIJI TIMES AGAIN CORRUPTS ITS “NATIONAL NEWS” COLUMNS WITH A BLATANT PROMOTION FOR THE MOTIBHAI PATEL’S COMMERCIAL INTERESTS (UPDATED)

As Grubsheet reported on the weekend, the man who was once a principled advocate for good governance and almost wound up in a lovo pit dug for him by ethno-nationalists in 1987 says he is "sick" of the Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali Affair and has defended the right of ethno-nationalists to stage marches calling for the abolition of the … [Read more...] about # RICHARD NAIDU COPS A BLAST FROM ANOTHER PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE INDO-FIJIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT OF 1987