The Attorney General, Graham Leung, reaches for the Bible for inspiration to tell the nation through both dailies today that it will be easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than to change the 2013 Constitution. The AG goes on to say that constitutional change is still on the "front burner" for the Coalition government. But he is … [Read more...] about # REALITY CHECK. THE CONSTITUTION WILL NOT BE CHANGED ANY TIME SOON
# WANT TO KNOW WHY STANDARDS OF PUBLIC CONDUCT HAVE COLLAPSED? IT STARTS AT THE TOP. (UPDATED TUES AM)
The Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has compounded the outrage of his false allegation of stealing against the DPP, Christopher Pryde, with an astonishing speech in which he defends the notion of convicted criminals becoming lawyers. The following is what Temo told the legal profession in remarks at the annual Attorney General's Conference … [Read more...] about # WANT TO KNOW WHY STANDARDS OF PUBLIC CONDUCT HAVE COLLAPSED? IT STARTS AT THE TOP. (UPDATED TUES AM)
# EXPOSED. THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE’S LIE ABOUT THE DPP “STEALING”.
Of all the long line of witnesses at the Tribunal hearing the allegations of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde - from Pryde's driver to Charan Jeath Singh - the most important came late in the proceedings on Friday in the form of the Permanent Secretary for Finance, Shiri Gounder. Because in testimony that has largely gone under the … [Read more...] about # EXPOSED. THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE’S LIE ABOUT THE DPP “STEALING”.
# THE FIJI SUN SHINES. SELECTIVELY
Today's Fiji Sun carries a stinging editorial about the woeful performance of the Coalition government at the half-way point of its four year term that will be causing a great deal of consternation at the top. Because the next election is hurtling towards us and could potentially be held within 18 months. Sitiveni Rabuka's dream of the People's … [Read more...] about # THE FIJI SUN SHINES. SELECTIVELY
# BOMBSHELL. CHRISTOPHER PRYDE FIGHTS BACK (UPDATED FRIDAY PM)
The suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde, has reacted furiously to being cast as a thief by the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, at the Tribunal hearing into the allegations of misbehaviour against him, releasing hard evidence that Temo tried to pay him off with $200,000 of taxpayer funds to prevent the Tribunal from going ahead. In a sensational … [Read more...] about # BOMBSHELL. CHRISTOPHER PRYDE FIGHTS BACK (UPDATED FRIDAY PM)
# HIS LORDSHIP THE RESIDENT IMBECILE HAS THE TEMERITY TO TALK ABOUT FAIRNESS (UPDATED THURS AM)
Salesi Temo - the Acting Chief Justice - already has a reputation for cantankerous outbursts and abject stupidity in the courts* and has put that reputation beyond doubt with his astonishing evidence to the Tribunal investigating the allegations of misbehaviour against the DPP, Christopher Pryde. It beggars belief that the most senior judge in … [Read more...] about # HIS LORDSHIP THE RESIDENT IMBECILE HAS THE TEMERITY TO TALK ABOUT FAIRNESS (UPDATED THURS AM)