The Ana-Barbara showdown reduces the criminal justice system in Fiji to a Hanna Barbera-like cartoon for kids and is highly damaging to public confidence in our institutions of state. Seriously. How much longer can this go on before the Coalition government brings an end to this sorry farce? I had planned not to post this weekend but have … [Read more...] about # ANA V BARBARA. AND BOO BOO TO YOU*
# THE OLD CROOK KEEPS SINGING FOR HIS PARDON
Mahendra "Mac" Patel - the only person in Fijian history to be pardoned for a crime he committed without ever serving his prison sentence - is at it again, repaying the Coalition government that did so with yet another diatribe against the 2013 Constitution as part of its agenda to jettison the current supreme law. The man who first started to … [Read more...] about # THE OLD CROOK KEEPS SINGING FOR HIS PARDON
# SALESI TEMO AND THE JSC NOW IN THE FIRING LINE OVER BARBARA-GATE
For the first time, a senior public figure in the form of the Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, has raised questions in public about the failure of the Judicial Services Commission under its head - the rogue Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo - to properly manage the offices of state under its jurisdiction. It has been a long time coming but … [Read more...] about # SALESI TEMO AND THE JSC NOW IN THE FIRING LINE OVER BARBARA-GATE
# ON THE WARPATH. THE DPP SAYS THE OUTCOME OF HIS TRIAL IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
Fiji's international reputation and its ability to attract foreign investment and workers has taken a huge hit with the Coalition's treatment of the DPP, Christopher Pryde, who gives a "gloves off" interview to Radio New Zealand almost a week after the conclusion of the judicial Tribunal hearing into the allegations of misbehaviour against him that … [Read more...] about # ON THE WARPATH. THE DPP SAYS THE OUTCOME OF HIS TRIAL IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
# BYE-BYE BARBIE. A DEAD WOMAN WALKING
The ongoing upheavals in the criminal justice system simply cannot continue if the Coalition is to have any chance of retaining public confidence in the rule of law, let alone of winning the 2026 election. And that means replacing Barbara Malimali, the one-woman stumbling disaster at FICAC, as well as the "guilty of professional misconduct" … [Read more...] about # BYE-BYE BARBIE. A DEAD WOMAN WALKING
# THE FACE OF A SHOCKING COLLAPSE OF GOVERNANCE
The antics of the FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, go from bad to worse as she breaks every single convention expected of those in high office and of someone currently under judicial investigation. The record shows that whatever emerges about the "rotten" circumstances of her appointment - the Prime Minister's description, not mine - Barbara … [Read more...] about # THE FACE OF A SHOCKING COLLAPSE OF GOVERNANCE