We know that Biman Prasad is under intense pressure when he threatens to use Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's law making it a crime to "undermine or sabotage" the national economy against the Unity Party leader, Savenaca Narube. But that's how paranoid the NFP leader and Deputy Prime Minister has become as the noose tightens around his political neck in the … [Read more...] about # BIMAN PRASAD. UNDER SEIGE AND LOSING IT
# A SATURDAY SNAPSHOT. DESPERATE TIMES OF CHRONIC HOPELESSNESS AND DESPAIR
Things couldn't be much worse in Fiji as the collapse of government services worsens and our politicians are locked in a blame game while our institutions crumble and ordinary people suffer. Hope is in very short supply as we go further and further down the Zimbabwe road of failed infrastructure, a failed criminal justice system and a failure of … [Read more...] about # A SATURDAY SNAPSHOT. DESPERATE TIMES OF CHRONIC HOPELESSNESS AND DESPAIR
# ALL EYES ARE ON THE PM TO BREAK THE MALIMALI SUSPENSION DEADLOCK
The Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner has sought an urgent meeting with the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, as its demand for the suspension of Malimali to protect FICAC witnesses from intimidation continues to be ignored. At the time of writing in the early hours of this morning, we don't know … [Read more...] about # ALL EYES ARE ON THE PM TO BREAK THE MALIMALI SUSPENSION DEADLOCK
# HOW MUCH LONGER IS THIS FARCE GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE? (UPDATED THURS PM)
So after having been sent on leave when the Commission of Inquiry into her appointment as FICAC Commissioner instead asked for her suspension, Barbara Malimali is still interfering with the conduct of the Commission and its FICAC witnesses. Bad-ass Barbie is brazenly giving the middle finger to Justice David Ashton-Lewis. And if the Prime … [Read more...] about # HOW MUCH LONGER IS THIS FARCE GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE? (UPDATED THURS PM)
# THE WAVE OF FEAR RUNNING THROUGH THE PM’S POLITICAL RIVALS. IN HIS OWN TEAM
The biggest political unknown in Fiji is why the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, set up the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali when by its very nature, it was bound to apply the blowtorch to members of his own government. Grubsheet has remarked before that the cardinal rule in politics the world over is … [Read more...] about # THE WAVE OF FEAR RUNNING THROUGH THE PM’S POLITICAL RIVALS. IN HIS OWN TEAM
# BOMBSHELL. WAS THE PRESIDENT MANIPULATED INTO NOT SUSPENDING BARBARA MALIMALI?
There's an astonishing story doing the rounds in Suva to explain the account by Janet Mason - the Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner - that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, recommended to the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, that Malimali be suspended before she was … [Read more...] about # BOMBSHELL. WAS THE PRESIDENT MANIPULATED INTO NOT SUSPENDING BARBARA MALIMALI?