As the election approaches, you can remain anonymous as you have always been able to do in the Grubsheet "comments" but the requirement to submit an email address (which isn't published) will be strictly enforced. There will be one warning about this - this one. After that, the trash bin awaits anyone who thinks they can circumvent the rules, … [Read more...] about # NOTE TO READERS: NO-ONE WITHOUT AN EMAIL ADDRESS GETS TO COMMENT FROM NOW ON. NO EMAIL AND I SEND IT STRAIGHT TO THE “TRASH” (UPDATED)
# WHERE IS THE OPPOSITION LEADER AS DEBATE RAGES OVER THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE? MISSING IN ACTION IN PALAU
Inia Seruiratu gets a $200,000 salary and a house to be "Opposition Leader" in the parliament. But the former FijiFirst minister and now leader of People First is doing precious little opposing as the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, refuses to rule out abolishing the secular state - one of the centrepieces of the Bainimarama era. Why the … [Read more...] about # WHERE IS THE OPPOSITION LEADER AS DEBATE RAGES OVER THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE? MISSING IN ACTION IN PALAU
# AMID ALARM ABOUT THE MOOTED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE, WE NEED URGENT CLARITY ABOUT CHANGES TO THE SUPREME LAW (UPDATED)
What's in the report by the Constitutional Review Commission that was handed to the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, yesterday and is now going to cabinet and the parliament for consideration? The Prime Minister knows because here's a government-supplied photo of him reading it. Yet the rest of us aren't allowed to know and into that vacuum … [Read more...] about # AMID ALARM ABOUT THE MOOTED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE, WE NEED URGENT CLARITY ABOUT CHANGES TO THE SUPREME LAW (UPDATED)
# WITH THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE SECULAR STATE, IT IS TIME FOR HINDUS, MUSLIMS AND OTHERS TO JOIN FORCES AND FIGHT BACK
The shocking recommendation by the Constitutional Review Commission that the secular state be removed from the supreme law is a direct attack on religious freedom and especially the major religions practiced by the minorities . The CRC tries to pretend that religious freedom will be upheld. Yet if that were genuinely true, the secular state … [Read more...] about # WITH THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE SECULAR STATE, IT IS TIME FOR HINDUS, MUSLIMS AND OTHERS TO JOIN FORCES AND FIGHT BACK
# CAKAUDROVE SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH. THE PM DOUBLES DOWN ON HIS CHIEF’S OUTRAGEOUS EXTRAVAGANCE (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)
What cost Frank Bainimarama the 2022 election was his tin ear - his refusal, along with his sidekick Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, to listen to public discontent about their conduct and press on as if public opinion didn't matter. And precisely the same thing is happening with Sitiveni Rabuka as the coming election approaches. There has been uproar … [Read more...] about # CAKAUDROVE SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH. THE PM DOUBLES DOWN ON HIS CHIEF’S OUTRAGEOUS EXTRAVAGANCE (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)
# STUNG BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S APPEAL AGAINST THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT, THE ANTI COI FORCES GO ON THE ATTACK
Don't be conned by the protestations of loyalty to the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, by Goldfinger - his recently-acquitted deputy, Manoa Kamikiamica, who is again behaving like prime minister in waiting, including at his latest appearance at the Australia Fiji Business Council. Because behind the scenes, Mr Sweet is part of a white-anting … [Read more...] about # STUNG BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S APPEAL AGAINST THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT, THE ANTI COI FORCES GO ON THE ATTACK