Lynda Tabuya - the Minister for Information, Environment and Climate Change - is an amoral, lying strumpet who was found guilty by her own party of a sex and illicit drugs scandal yet has prospered under the equally amoral leadership of "Rolex Rambo" - the Prime Minister who continues to refuse to disclose the source of a $150,000 gold Rolex watch … [Read more...] about # DEMOCRACY FIJI STYLE. A MAN IS BEHIND BARS FOR INSULTING THE COALITION’S RESIDENT DRUG-TAKING SLUT
# THE MYSTERY OF THE STANDOFF BETWEEN THE JSC AND THE PRESIDENT DEEPENS
The Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, inexplicably failed to turn up for a scheduled meeting of the Judicial Services Commission yesterday to discuss the continuing stand-off between it and the President, Ratu Naqama Lalabalavu, over the JSC's demand that he remove Lavi Rokoika as Acting FICAC Commissioner. The result was that the much-trumpeted … [Read more...] about # THE MYSTERY OF THE STANDOFF BETWEEN THE JSC AND THE PRESIDENT DEEPENS
# SOCIAL CRUSADER AND JSC MEMBER VANI CATANASIGA VIOLATES THE INDEPENDENCE OF FIJI’S MOST IMPORTANT INSTITUTION OF STATE (UPDATED)
The assault on the independence of Fiji's offices of state under the Coalition government poses a grave threat to our institutions and democracy itself. And regrettably that assault extends to someone who should know better - Vani Catanasiga, the Executive Director of the Fiji Council for Social Services who also happens to be a sitting member of … [Read more...] about # SOCIAL CRUSADER AND JSC MEMBER VANI CATANASIGA VIOLATES THE INDEPENDENCE OF FIJI’S MOST IMPORTANT INSTITUTION OF STATE (UPDATED)
# VAKA MALUA (AS USUAL). BUT WHAT GAME IS THE PRIME MINISTER REALLY PLAYING IN THE STAND-OFF BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE JSC?
Once again, like the Kremlin watchers of old, we are reduced to having to read between the lines about what Sitiveni Rabuka is planning to do to break the impasse over the Judicial Services Commission's demand for the removal of Lavi Rokoika as FICAC Commissioner and the President's refusal to do so. The immediate answer is nothing. "There's no … [Read more...] about # VAKA MALUA (AS USUAL). BUT WHAT GAME IS THE PRIME MINISTER REALLY PLAYING IN THE STAND-OFF BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE JSC?
# AS WAR ERUPTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE INNOCENTS ON ALL SIDES (UPDATED MON AM)
Donald Trump's "Operation Epic Fury" against Iran has already triggered retaliatory missile attacks against Israel and America's other allies in the region, including the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. We think not only of the people of Iran, Israel and those other nations but any Fijians living in the region, who along … [Read more...] about # AS WAR ERUPTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE INNOCENTS ON ALL SIDES (UPDATED MON AM)
# “BARBWIRE” AND “HIPPO”. ON THE RAMPAGE AND GUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENT AS THEY UPEND TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF HOW ITAUKEI WOMEN SHOULD BEHAVE
The traditional image of iTaukei women as dignified, demure, warm-hearted, stoic, resilient, hard-working, shoulders to cry on for their children, loyal to their menfolk even when they don't deserve it and the backbone of their families and the vanua is taking a real battering at the hands of Barbara Malimali and Tanya Waqanika. With their … [Read more...] about # “BARBWIRE” AND “HIPPO”. ON THE RAMPAGE AND GUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENT AS THEY UPEND TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF HOW ITAUKEI WOMEN SHOULD BEHAVE