It has taken an indigenous commoner, Jiaoji Savou, to call out the chiefs for their failures in the vanua and the way they are now blaming the 2013 Constitution for the ills of the iTaukei (see previous article). The following posting on Facebook is being widely shared, including beyond the favoured social media platform of most Fijians from … [Read more...] about # EXPOSED. THE CHIEFS USING THE 2013 CONSTITUTION AS A SCAPEGOAT FOR THEIR OWN FAILINGS
# THE HEREDITARY SWILL WANT TO WIND BACK THE CLOCK. THEY MUST BE RESISTED (UPDATED SUNDAY)
We asked yesterday for a precise explanation of the 33 clauses in the 2013 Constitution that the Chair of the Great Council of Chiefs, Ratu Viliame Seruvakula, says adversely affect the iTaukei and that the GCC wants altered. Well now we know two of them and there are 31 left to be explained. Yet already there are grounds for national alarm. 1/ … [Read more...] about # THE HEREDITARY SWILL WANT TO WIND BACK THE CLOCK. THEY MUST BE RESISTED (UPDATED SUNDAY)
# CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THESE (MOSTLY) OLD MEN ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT?
We know that many Fijians are unhappy that they didn't get the opportunity to be consulted about the contents of the 2013 Constitution - our supreme law. Before it was promulgated, the then attorney general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, held meetings all over the country telling people what was in it but no-one was given the opportunity to suggest changes, … [Read more...] about # CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THESE (MOSTLY) OLD MEN ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT?
# THE ENABLERS WHO HAVE BROUGHT US A MONSTER AS HEAD OF STATE
The images of Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu's installation as President are stomach-churning for anyone with a sense of decency, as is the appalling hypocrisy of his inaugural address in which he said the chiefs should be "setting an example" to the Fijian people. The example the Tui Cakau has set is one that no Fijian should follow - convicted and … [Read more...] about # THE ENABLERS WHO HAVE BROUGHT US A MONSTER AS HEAD OF STATE
# THE “PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT” TAKES OFFICE WITH A GROTESQUE MANIPULATION OF THE TRUTH
The corruption of the nation's traditional newspaper of record, the Fiji Times, by its owners, the Motibhai family, that Grubsheet has repeatedly detailed has reached a new level of depravity with an astonishing front page "curtain raiser" on the installation today of the Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, as president of the Republic. It is … [Read more...] about # THE “PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT” TAKES OFFICE WITH A GROTESQUE MANIPULATION OF THE TRUTH
# NICE HAT. SHAME ABOUT THE HYPOCRISY (UPATED TUES)
The Attorney General, Graham Leung, startled lawyers at the annual conference of the Fiji Law Society by saying there are far too many of them, many of them aren't any good and far too many of them are badly behaved. He revealed that 3,915 lawyers have had complaints lodged against them with the Legal Practitioners Unit since it was established … [Read more...] about # NICE HAT. SHAME ABOUT THE HYPOCRISY (UPATED TUES)