The Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is already having a bad day - waking to find himself splashed all over today's Fiji Sun accused of presiding over dysfunction and incompetence as head of the Judicial Services Commission. The JSC is slammed by the Opposition's Jone Usamate and the Labour Party leader and former prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, … [Read more...] about # SALESI TEMO’S BLACK FRIDAY
# WELCOME TO FIJI. WHERE A JUDICIAL RULING AND PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE ARE WORTHLESS (UPDATED)
The party resumes at the ODPP, where a month after being exonerated and reinstated, Christopher Pryde is again sidelined and Nancy Tikoisuva is back in charge of the bottles. So, Fiji. We have more trumped up charges against the DPP on top of the refusal to suspend Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner for being in obvious contempt of the … [Read more...] about # WELCOME TO FIJI. WHERE A JUDICIAL RULING AND PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE ARE WORTHLESS (UPDATED)
# WHEN THE ONLY THING BEING CRUCIFIED IS THE TRUTH
It is easily one of the most bizarre spectacles in Fijian political history - the Co-Chair of the Coalition government's Task Force on Pornography, Lynda Tabuya, making a pornographic video herself and then claiming to be "crucified" when it goes public because either the person who took it leaked it or someone close to her did. But certainly not … [Read more...] about # WHEN THE ONLY THING BEING CRUCIFIED IS THE TRUTH
# THANK GOD SHE FINALLY SEEMS TO BE GETTING HELP
The sight of Lynda Tabuya in earnest conversation with Fiji's only (or is it first?) psychotherapist, Selina Kuruleca, is giving the nation hope that maybe she is starting to realise she needs help. Or is it that Selina - the new Permanent Secretary for Justice - has heard the same rumours we have that the Prime Minister has earmarked the Queen … [Read more...] about # THANK GOD SHE FINALLY SEEMS TO BE GETTING HELP
# WHAT’S THE LAST THING JESUS SAID TO THE ITAUKEI? DON’T DO ANYTHING TILL I GET BACK*
The iTaukei lazy? No. Come on. Stop it. Surely not? How could you possibly say that? You just can't do that in Fiji. Er, but it's not some disaffected "vulagi" saying so this time. It's an iTaukei and someone at the pinnacle of the government and the establishment. None other than Ioane Naivalurua, the new Minister for Policing, former senior … [Read more...] about # WHAT’S THE LAST THING JESUS SAID TO THE ITAUKEI? DON’T DO ANYTHING TILL I GET BACK*
# IS THE FIJI TIMES DELIBERATELY TRYING TO DAMAGE LYNDA TABUYA?
The first rule of crisis management is to staunch the bleed. Which when it comes to politics, means starving a negative story of oxygen. To shut it down so that it is out of the headlines and you can begin the task of saving the rest of the furniture and moving on. It is why the management of the People's Alliance is reported to have told Lynda … [Read more...] about # IS THE FIJI TIMES DELIBERATELY TRYING TO DAMAGE LYNDA TABUYA?