There is a lot of nonsense being spread about the failings of Fiji's electoral system, just as there is a lot of nonsense being spread about the failings of the 2013 Constitution. And by people who should know better, such as the lawyer and NFP stalwart, Richard Naidu. The (now very) occasional Fiji Times columnist has attracted the ire of … [Read more...] about # DIALOGUE FIJI’S NILESH LAL BUSTS THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM MYTH BEING PEDDLED BY RICHARD NAIDU
# ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF GENUINE MEDIA FREEDOM. THE COALITION BUYS OFF CFL-FIJI VILLAGE
There is genuine media freedom in any democracy in which a vibrant, independent media fulfils its duty to the public to hold elected governments to account. And there is the bullshit version of "media freedom" in Fiji, in which the Coalition government uses taxpayer funds to buy off commercial, non-government media outlets to secure their support. … [Read more...] about # ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF GENUINE MEDIA FREEDOM. THE COALITION BUYS OFF CFL-FIJI VILLAGE
# SO ARE WE RETURNING TO RACE-BASED VOTING OR AREN’T WE? PRIME MINISTER, THE MINORITIES DESERVE TO KNOW
Poor Dan Fatiaki. The former chief justice spent years in the judicial and political wilderness until the Coalition recently appointed him Chair of the Electoral Reform Commission to review the nation's electoral laws. His contributions to the national debate thus far have been confined to his prolific letters to the editor of the Fiji Times, … [Read more...] about # SO ARE WE RETURNING TO RACE-BASED VOTING OR AREN’T WE? PRIME MINISTER, THE MINORITIES DESERVE TO KNOW
# THE COALITION. DANGEROUSLY COMPLACENT AND HOPELESSLY NAIVE (UPDATED SATURDAY)
For weeks, even months, the world has known that Donald Trump intended to introduce wide-ranging tariffs to punish America's trading partners for what he depicts as their ripoff of American consumers and their unfair advantage in the global marketplace. The only question has been which countries would be hit hardest and by how much. So it … [Read more...] about # THE COALITION. DANGEROUSLY COMPLACENT AND HOPELESSLY NAIVE (UPDATED SATURDAY)
# DONALD TRUMP DEALS FIJI WATER A HUGE BLOW WITH HIS 32 PER CENT TARIFF ON FIJIAN IMPORTS
Stewart and Faye Resnick - the billionaire owners of Fiji Water - were presumably looking to Donald Trump to improve trading conditions in America for their Wonderful Company and will have been pole-axed by his new administration's decision today to charge a 32 per cent tariff on every Fijian item imported into the United States. Water is by far … [Read more...] about # DONALD TRUMP DEALS FIJI WATER A HUGE BLOW WITH HIS 32 PER CENT TARIFF ON FIJIAN IMPORTS
# THE QUEEN OF TARTS GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT IN LONDON AS A SUPPOSEDLY HUMBLE BACKBENCHER. BUT WHO IS PAYING? (UPDATED THURS AM)
The orgy of Coalition self-entitlement continues as the sole People's Alliance backbench member of parliament - the porn star and ex-Minister for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya - lives it up in far-off London. She is being squired around in the official diplomatic BMW - registration number "FIJI" - by the nation's High Commissioner to the UK, … [Read more...] about # THE QUEEN OF TARTS GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT IN LONDON AS A SUPPOSEDLY HUMBLE BACKBENCHER. BUT WHO IS PAYING? (UPDATED THURS AM)