The Prime Minister says you can "seek redress" if you think you've missed out on a government job or been removed on the grounds of ethnicity. And how do you do that, Fiji? By going to the Prime Minister himself to lodge a complaint. Yes, he will decide if you've been given the vudi, not some independent body. So what kind of redress is … [Read more...] about # HANDS UP IF YOU’RE SICK OF BEING TREATED LIKE AN IDIOT.
# HIS LORDSHIP MUST STAND ASIDE
Salesi Temo is cantankerous, erratic, capricious, imperious, self-important, sexist, patriarchal and behaves like a schoolyard bully. He shares these characteristics with a tiny minority of crusty judges in other jurisdictions of the common law that Fiji also inherited from the British. But he is unique in one particular aspect. The Acting Chief … [Read more...] about # HIS LORDSHIP MUST STAND ASIDE
# THE WORM TURNS
The chronically pro-Coalition Fiji Times has suddenly changed tack by putting the FijiFirst Opposition Leader, Inia Seruiratu, on its front page calling on the Prime Minister to stand down those of his ministers who are currently being investigated by FICAC or the police. It is probably just an aberration as even Fred Wesley and his troops … [Read more...] about # THE WORM TURNS
# SMALL CHANGE TO BUY THE PM’S FAVOUR
$300-million Fijian ($134-million US) is a pittance for the Chinese Communist Party to buy the Prime Minister's favour by improving the road system on his home island of Vanua Levu and, in turn, for Sitiveni Rabuka to curry favour with his own people. It also buys the Prime Minister's silence on the big issues of Chinese expansionism in the … [Read more...] about # SMALL CHANGE TO BUY THE PM’S FAVOUR
EXCLUSIVE. PAP DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE CHAIR RESIGNS
Alefina Vuki – the Chair of the People’s Alliance disciplinary committee that found the sex and drug allegations against Lynda Tabuya proven – has resigned from the committee and from the Party after the Prime Minister retained Tabuya as the Minister for Women and Children. Alefina Vuki’s decision to sever links with the PAP altogether is a … [Read more...] about EXCLUSIVE. PAP DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE CHAIR RESIGNS
# HOW TO FIX THE DRUG PROBLEM? DON’T EAT
The call by the Methodist Church in Fiji for a month of prayer and fasting to address the current explosion in drug use tells us a great deal about the intellectual as well as the moral vacuum at the top of national life. The President of the Methodist Church, the Reverend Dr Semisi Turagavou, undoubtedly means well and there is clearly nothing … [Read more...] about # HOW TO FIX THE DRUG PROBLEM? DON’T EAT