Reports reaching Grubsheet say that the lawyer for the Fiji Times, Richard "I have the means and make mine Fiji Water" Naidu, has been given a hard time by Justice David Ashton Lewis at the Malimali Commission of Inquiry over the paper's disgraceful front page attack yesterday on the Counsel Assisting, Janet Mason. Richard Naidu was summoned to … [Read more...] about # THE FIJI TIMES CARPETED FOR ITS AXE JOB ON JANET MASON
# THE CORRUPT FIJI TIMES PLAYS LAPDOG FOR A CORRUPT SYSTEM
The corruption of Fiji's traditional newspaper of record under the Motibhai Patel family of Ba has reached a new low with an extraordinary front page attack on Janet Mason - the Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the "rotten " circumstances of the appointment of the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali. It is crude propaganda … [Read more...] about # THE CORRUPT FIJI TIMES PLAYS LAPDOG FOR A CORRUPT SYSTEM
# IN THE FACE OF GROSS INTIMIDATION, THE DPP AGAIN DELAYS HIS RETURN TO FIJI (UPDATED MON AM)
The vile threat by the rogue Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to again suspend the DPP, Christopher Pryde, for misbehaviour on trumped-up charges of financial misconduct have had their inevitable conclusion, with Pryde declining to return to Fiji until the threat is lifted. The New Zealander was meant to return to Gunu House tomorrow to resume normal … [Read more...] about # IN THE FACE OF GROSS INTIMIDATION, THE DPP AGAIN DELAYS HIS RETURN TO FIJI (UPDATED MON AM)
# REVEALED. PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS IN THE BARBARA-GATE SCANDAL
Grubsheet readers have a front row seat to aspects of the biggest showdown in recent Fijian judicial history - the request by Justice David Ashton-Lewis for the suspension of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner and the refusal by the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, to do so. As we reported this … [Read more...] about # REVEALED. PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS IN THE BARBARA-GATE SCANDAL
# THE CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF THE STATE
We now have a stand-off in the judiciary as the Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, digs in to refuse the request by Justice David Ashton-Lewis of the Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner to suspend Malimali after she fired one of his witnesses. Salesi Temo says … [Read more...] about # THE CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF THE STATE
# HEY FIJI. LOOK WHO’S “SUFFERING” BECAUSE OF THE 1987 COUPS
Not content with lying his way into power, presiding over a chaotic and dysfunctional government that is chronically unable to provide basic services and is mounting a full-blown assault on the integrity of the nation's institutions of state, Sitiveni Rabuka adds insult to injury by saying that he is personally "suffering" because of the 1987 coups … [Read more...] about # HEY FIJI. LOOK WHO’S “SUFFERING” BECAUSE OF THE 1987 COUPS