Stewart and Faye Resnick - the billionaire owners of Fiji Water - were presumably looking to Donald Trump to improve trading conditions in America for their Wonderful Company and will have been pole-axed by his new administration's decision today to charge a 32 per cent tariff on every Fijian item imported into the United States. Water is by far … [Read more...] about # DONALD TRUMP DEALS FIJI WATER A HUGE BLOW WITH HIS 32 PER CENT TARIFF ON FIJIAN IMPORTS
# THE QUEEN OF TARTS GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT IN LONDON AS A SUPPOSEDLY HUMBLE BACKBENCHER. BUT WHO IS PAYING? (UPDATED THURS AM)
The orgy of Coalition self-entitlement continues as the sole People's Alliance backbench member of parliament - the porn star and ex-Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya - lives it up in far-off London. She is being squired around in the official diplomatic BMW - registration number "FIJI" - by the nation's High Commissioner to the UK, … [Read more...] about # THE QUEEN OF TARTS GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT IN LONDON AS A SUPPOSEDLY HUMBLE BACKBENCHER. BUT WHO IS PAYING? (UPDATED THURS AM)
# COALITION OF BLING. WHAT MAKES THESE POLITICIANS THINK IT’S OK TO FLAUNT EXPENSIVE JEWELLERY WHEN MOST FIJIANS LIVE IN POVERTY? (UPDATED WED AM)
The minimum wage in Fiji goes up 50 cents to $5 an hour today. That's $40 for an eight-hour day, $200 for a five-day week, $10,400 for a 52-week year. More than half the nation officially lives in poverty. Yet on the front page of today's Fiji Times, the FijiFirst "rat" and Minister for Immigration, Viliame Naupoto, flashes an expensive ring … [Read more...] about # COALITION OF BLING. WHAT MAKES THESE POLITICIANS THINK IT’S OK TO FLAUNT EXPENSIVE JEWELLERY WHEN MOST FIJIANS LIVE IN POVERTY? (UPDATED WED AM)
# EID MUBARAK!
We send warm greetings to our Muslim brothers and sisters as they celebrate the end of Ramadan. Image: Times of India. Plus a shout-out for the Fiji Sun's award-winning photographer, Ronald Kumar, for two wonderful Eid images in Tuesday's edition of the paper. Brilliant. The Sun's Ronald Kumar. … [Read more...] about # EID MUBARAK!
# JUST REPEATING FOR THOSE WHO THINK MY PREDICTION THAT ROLEX RAMBO WILL WIN THE NEXT ELECTION IS AN ENDORSEMENT
Some people have misconstrued my last article predicting that Sitiveni Rabuka will win next year's election as an expression of support for the Prime Minister when it is definitely NOT. Incredibly, word has reached me that this misapprehension evidently extends to certain individuals believing that Grubsheet has been the recipient of a gold … [Read more...] about # JUST REPEATING FOR THOSE WHO THINK MY PREDICTION THAT ROLEX RAMBO WILL WIN THE NEXT ELECTION IS AN ENDORSEMENT
# AND THE WINNER OF THE 2026 ELECTION IS? THE SOLE”BIG MAN”STANDING, ROLEX RAMBO (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)
The announcement that 14 new "proposed" political parties have declared their interest with the Elections Office in contesting the 2026 election has set off a wave of speculation in the national media about what it all means. Yet the answer is very simple. Nothing. Assuming, that is, that we go to the polls next year under the current electoral … [Read more...] about # AND THE WINNER OF THE 2026 ELECTION IS? THE SOLE”BIG MAN”STANDING, ROLEX RAMBO (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)