The owner of Communications Fiji Limited, William Parkinson, got the nickname "Pupu" or "Poo Poo" Parkinson - depending on your ethnic upbringing - for his uncertain control over his bowels when he was at primary school in Fiji. But he is inflicting veka of a more pungent kind on the nation as a whole now that he and CFL-Fiji Village have … [Read more...] about # “PUPU” AND VIJAY ON THEIR $1.7 MILLION PUBLIC DRIP (UPDATED MON AM)
# NANCY THE PARTY GIRL AND ACTING DPP. A MENDACIOUS, MANIPULATIVE DISGRACE
The response of the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, to the strong criticism from the substantive but absent DPP, Christopher Pryde, of her re-engagement of Laisani Tabuakuro as an Assistant DPP after Pryde sacked Tabuakuro for misconduct is easily the most outrageous travesty of the truth Grubsheet has ever witnessed from someone in a position of … [Read more...] about # NANCY THE PARTY GIRL AND ACTING DPP. A MENDACIOUS, MANIPULATIVE DISGRACE
# CHRISTOPHER PRYDE: WHY I AM ABSENT FROM FIJI
The DPP has issued a public statement to the media in response to the Fiji Sun report today (see previous article) suggesting that he is responsible for being "paid to do nothing" in which he lays the blame for the impasse over his reappointment with the Judicial Services Commission. He also reveals that he has copied in correspondence sent to … [Read more...] about # CHRISTOPHER PRYDE: WHY I AM ABSENT FROM FIJI
# THE DPP IS BEING “PAID TO DO NOTHING” BECAUSE THE JSC WON’T RESPOND TO HIS CORRESPONDENCE
The Fiji Sun carries a front page story today reporting that the DPP, Christopher Pryde, is continuing to be paid despite being absent from Fiji for more than 100 days after being cleared of misbehaviour and reinstated. FACT: The Judicial Services Commission headed by the man who falsely branded Pryde a thief - the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo - … [Read more...] about # THE DPP IS BEING “PAID TO DO NOTHING” BECAUSE THE JSC WON’T RESPOND TO HIS CORRESPONDENCE
# CHINA MOVES TO DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN FIJI AND THE US OVER TARIFFS
There's an old saying stretching back to ancient Greece that "those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"*. And there's no doubt that the United States is in the grip of madness under Donald Trump. Trump's "America First" tariff policy is an unmitigated disaster for the West's relations with developing countries such as Fiji, not … [Read more...] about # CHINA MOVES TO DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN FIJI AND THE US OVER TARIFFS
# PLEASE GET BACK TO BASICS AND STOP THE NEVER ENDING BLAH, BLAH, BLAH
In December 2021 - a full year before the election he eventually won and when we were still on cordial terms - Grubsheet sent Sitiveni Rabuka a list of suggestions on which to campaign and close to the top of that list was to concentrate on service delivery. I'm sure I wasn't alone but here's an extract from that email: "I think you can … [Read more...] about # PLEASE GET BACK TO BASICS AND STOP THE NEVER ENDING BLAH, BLAH, BLAH