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# COMING SOON…MR SWEET’S* POLITICAL CAREER TURNS SOUR. BUT HIS BATI ARE FIGHTING BACK

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Manoa Kamikamica is getting off very lightly so far in the mainstream media in Fiji over the devastating findings against him by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair. But his once promising political career is dead in the water as the police now investigate him for the alleged corruption exposed in the COI Report. Mr … [Read more...] about # COMING SOON…MR SWEET’S* POLITICAL CAREER TURNS SOUR. BUT HIS BATI ARE FIGHTING BACK

# THE DISGRACED FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTACKS THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. WELL HE WOULD, WOULDN’T HE?

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The Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, sacked Graham Leung as attorney general in brutal fashion a month ago when he read the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Malimali affair and saw the AG accused of alleged abuse of office, conspiracy, perjury and obstructing and perverting the course of justice. It was brutal because Leung was … [Read more...] about # THE DISGRACED FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTACKS THE ASHTON-LEWIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. WELL HE WOULD, WOULDN’T HE?

# CORRUPTION, INJUSTICE AND RACISM NOW UNDERPINS THE STATE IN FIJI

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A supine and hopelessly-compromised mainstream media means that Biman Prasad has been able to flash broad smiles as he markets his big-spending Budget, with no media attention whatsoever on the elephant in the room - that the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister is again being formally investigated for corruption. At the urging of the … [Read more...] about # CORRUPTION, INJUSTICE AND RACISM NOW UNDERPINS THE STATE IN FIJI

# THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN’S BIG CON. PART TWO

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It's a sign of the climate of fear under the Coalition that a respected national figure with no political allegiance has sent the following analysis of Friday's Budget to Grubsheet with the specific request that their identity be kept secret. As senior government figures from the Prime Minister down keep saying that Fijians now have the freedom … [Read more...] about # THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN’S BIG CON. PART TWO

# THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN’S BIG CON. PART ONE (UPDATED)

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As the dust settles from the Coalition's budget announcement for 2025-26, the hype of providing relief for the Fijian people from cost-of-living pressures is giving way to some disturbing conclusions for anyone concerned about the proper management of the economy. The embattled Finance Minister, Biman Prasad, may be a professor of economics but … [Read more...] about # THE 2025-26 BUDGET: BIMAN’S BIG CON. PART ONE (UPDATED)