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Confidence in the criminal justice system and especially in the independence of the judiciary is the bedrock of any functioning democracy. Yet that confidence is currently being eroded in Fiji by the delay in the convening of the Judicial Services Commission tribunal hearing into the allegation of “misbehaviour” laid against the Solicitor General, … [Read more...] about # JUSTICE DENIED

Grubsheet continues to post Fijian-related material on its Facebook page even as the main long- format site is in recess until the lead-up to the Fijian election sometime between July 2022 and January 2023. We are continuing to break stories, many of which the rest of the Fijian media ignores, and in a very short space of time, have built a … [Read more...] about # GRUBSHEET ON FACEBOOK

The Fijian Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has committed the grave offence of misleading the Fijian Parliament with his claim that the government does not tell the Fiji Sun what to put on its front page. It is a lie. On multiple occasions when I was the government's principal communications advisor, the AG directed me to contact the … [Read more...] about # STATEMENT BY GRAHAM DAVIS

(From the Grubsheet Facebook page) The price of complacency and hubris - the deadly Indian variant of Covid-19 well and truly established in the Pacific. Fijians deserve answers to the following questions: Why have certain locals been permitted to travel to India since the border closure last year, including - it is said - to buy gold and … [Read more...] about #TIME FOR SOME ANSWERS, FRANK

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute examines the diplomatic row between Fiji and the US over Frank Bainimarama not being invited to Joe Biden's virtual climate summit. Professor Richard Herr writes: "The US does want Fiji’s support broadly on a variety of regional issues including selling its new climate change message. Yet, the Biden … [Read more...] about #ASPI ON THE FIJI-US ROW

(From Grubsheet's Facebook page): True story because I was there: Fiji's Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, says to the former US Ambassador, Judith Sefkin, at a reception at State House in Suva: "You are not a true friend of Fiji. See that guy over there? (Pointing to the Chinese ambassador). That's a true friend of Fiji". Sefkin was a US State … [Read more...] about # BIDEN BITES BACK AT BAINIMARAMA