Seriously. What has Ratu Tevita Mara - aka Roko Ului - ever done to warrant national respect? He was a moderately successful soldier until he fled from Fiji to Tonga after plotting against Frank Bainimarama. Then he returned to Fiji after Christopher Pryde was removed as DPP partly for threatening to arrest him for fleeing justice even as his … [Read more...] about # MEMO RATU MARA: FOLLOW YOUR DISTINGUISHED FATHER INTO THE PARLIAMENT INSTEAD OF LECTURING US AS A HEREDITARY CHIEF
# JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS TAKES ISSUE WITH THE TUIQEREQERE RULING DECLARING THE COI NULL AND VOID. “I DON’T AGREE”
In an extraordinary interview with Vijay Narayan on CFL-Fiji Village, the Supreme Court judge, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, defends his Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair and challenges the ruling by the lower court judge, Justice Dane Tuiqereqere, finding him biased and declaring the CoI null and void. Ashton-Lewis - who reveals that … [Read more...] about # JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS TAKES ISSUE WITH THE TUIQEREQERE RULING DECLARING THE COI NULL AND VOID. “I DON’T AGREE”
# WHY IS JONE KALOUNIWAI LOOKING SO WORRIED? BECAUSE HE HAS RETURNED THE RFMF TO EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS AND IS POISED TO SELL OUT THE MINORITIES
Why has it taken more than four months for the RFMF troops who tortured and killed the accused drug lord, Jone Vakarisi, to be charged and brought to account? (See our article eight days ago) Is it because a hard-line faction in the RFMF is opposing anyone being charged? Has the military split into competing factions? "Kalouniwai's boys (and … [Read more...] about # WHY IS JONE KALOUNIWAI LOOKING SO WORRIED? BECAUSE HE HAS RETURNED THE RFMF TO EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS AND IS POISED TO SELL OUT THE MINORITIES
# THE PRIDE OF ITAUKEI WOMANHOOD, BARBARA MALIMALI, FIGHTS BACK IN AN ASTONISHING TORRENT OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION AND THREATS
"Bad Barbie" Barbara Malimali was eviscerated by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances of her appointment as Acting FICAC Commissioner. She has been eviscerated again in the Tuiqereqere judgment on the CoI - the Judge's comments about her conduct ruling out any prospect of reinstatement or, for that matter, ever again … [Read more...] about # THE PRIDE OF ITAUKEI WOMANHOOD, BARBARA MALIMALI, FIGHTS BACK IN AN ASTONISHING TORRENT OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION AND THREATS
# THE SNAKE WIPES THE SMILES OFF THE FACES OF THE CROCODILES AS HE ANNOUNCES HE IS APPEALING THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT ON THE MALIMALI AFFAIR (UPDATED TUES AM)
We can be sure that there is shock and consternation on the part of everyone from the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, down at the news that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, is appealing Justice Dane Tuiqereqere's decision to quash the findings of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as Acting FICAC … [Read more...] about # THE SNAKE WIPES THE SMILES OFF THE FACES OF THE CROCODILES AS HE ANNOUNCES HE IS APPEALING THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT ON THE MALIMALI AFFAIR (UPDATED TUES AM)