The lawyer, Richard Naidu, has enjoyed decades of being lionised as a conscience of the nation ever since indigenous supremacists dug a lovo pit for him outside the parliament in 1987 when he was press secretary to the ousted prime minister, Timoci Bavadra . He has been a “go to” for anyone concerned about good governance and human rights, … [Read more...] about # PLEASE EXPLAIN. AN OPEN LETTER TO RICHARD NAIDU
# TO STOP THE “ROT”, THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE MUST BE REMOVED (UPDATED MON PM)
As the clamour intensifies for an official inquiry into the circumstances of Barbara Malimali's appointment at FICAC, the real question is what form that inquiry would take. Because there is no mechanism under the Constitution for the setting up of the local equivalent of a special "Royal Commission" that is common in our larger neighbours to … [Read more...] about # TO STOP THE “ROT”, THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE MUST BE REMOVED (UPDATED MON PM)
# THE FIJI TIMES DEVOTES THREE PAGES TO THE FICAC SCANDAL. WHICH MUST MEAN BARBIE IS TOAST (UPDATED SUN PM WITH LINK TO FRANCIS PULEIWAI’S EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ABC)
The Fiji Times is now the Pravda of Fiji - the local equivalent of the official communist party newspaper of Soviet times - the voice of the government just as the Fiji Sun used to be the local Pravda until their roles reversed after the last election. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the great pastime of "Kremlin Watchers" was to scan … [Read more...] about # THE FIJI TIMES DEVOTES THREE PAGES TO THE FICAC SCANDAL. WHICH MUST MEAN BARBIE IS TOAST (UPDATED SUN PM WITH LINK TO FRANCIS PULEIWAI’S EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ABC)
# SCANDAL. THE PAST CATCHES UP WITH BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED SAT AM AS FRANCIS PULEIWAI SPEAKS OUT FROM AUSTRALIA)
On the evening of August 31, 2016, and in the early hours of September 1, 2016, Barbara Malimali - the newly appointed FICAC Commissioner - was at the centre of an extraordinary scandal involving a High Court judge in Tuvalu in which she was drunk, went swimming in the ocean and behaved in a manner that compromised the judge hearing a case against … [Read more...] about # SCANDAL. THE PAST CATCHES UP WITH BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED SAT AM AS FRANCIS PULEIWAI SPEAKS OUT FROM AUSTRALIA)
# MEMO COMMANDER CUDDLY: NEVER SAY “NEVER AGAIN”
For anyone with a long memory and a healthy dose of scepticism, there was something decidedly unsettling about Jone Kalouniwai's "reconciliation" love-in up at the Camp yesterday, not least because some very big military names decided to give it a miss. There was no sign of the big three former military officers in the parliament - the … [Read more...] about # MEMO COMMANDER CUDDLY: NEVER SAY “NEVER AGAIN”
# JUSTICE FIJI STYLE. JUDGES “INVITING OPINIONS FROM SELECTED STAKEHOLDERS” (UPDATED THURS AM)
There are genuinely shocking disclosures in leaked correspondence Grubsheet publishes today from the President, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, to Justice Anare Tuilevuka, the Chair of the Tribunal investigating the allegations of misbehaviour against the suspended DPP, Christopher Pryde. Firstly, the Pryde case - which was meant to conclude on Monday … [Read more...] about # JUSTICE FIJI STYLE. JUDGES “INVITING OPINIONS FROM SELECTED STAKEHOLDERS” (UPDATED THURS AM)