The FICAC scandal is now front page news in the two main dailies on Friday, though neither have Grubsheet's exclusive from yesterday that using her multiple entry visa for Australia, the former FICAC deputy commissioner has fled Fiji and is now reportedly in Brisbane beyond the reach of her tormentors. (see previous story) Francis Puleiwai got … [Read more...] about # THE COALITION AND ITS FICAC STOOGE. STUPID AS WELL AS SINISTER (UPDATED FRI PM)
# EXCLUSIVE: FRANCIS PULEIWAI REPORTEDLY FLEES FIJI AS THE NET CLOSES IN ON HER
Confirmation from multiple sources that the former Deputy Commissioner of FICAC, Francis Puleiwai, fled Fiji soon after she resigned last Thursday, fearing arrest and following threats against her family. In response to a Grubsheet appeal for information about her whereabouts, we are told that she is now in Brisbane, Australia, as the Minister … [Read more...] about # EXCLUSIVE: FRANCIS PULEIWAI REPORTEDLY FLEES FIJI AS THE NET CLOSES IN ON HER
# AND THESE PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS. SAVAGES
NOTE TO READERS: Grubsheet is seeking confirmation of the rumours that Francis Puleiwai has left for Australia. There must someone who reads GS who knows her and her movements. Siromi Turaga is making threatening noises in today's Fiji Sun about charging someone over leaks from FICAC. And anything can happen now given the government's … [Read more...] about # AND THESE PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS. SAVAGES
# THE SCARY BARBIE DOLL CONFIRMS OUR WORST FEARS
In the latest grim instalment of Barbara-gate - the unrelenting and depressing assault on the integrity of the criminal justice system in Fiji - the newly installed FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, confirms that she and she alone will decide which cases already before the corruption watchdog will proceed and which she will terminate. No-one … [Read more...] about # THE SCARY BARBIE DOLL CONFIRMS OUR WORST FEARS
# THE SHOCKING DOUBLE STANDARDS OF THE COMMANDER OF THE RFMF (UPDATED WED)
Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai - the RFMF Commander - increasingly gives the appearance of being a tin soldier* who seems obsessed with truth and reconciliation within his own ranks in which hard men sit around in tears apologising for their mutinous activities and are then forgiven. I kid you not. Because by Jone Kalouniwai's own account, … [Read more...] about # THE SHOCKING DOUBLE STANDARDS OF THE COMMANDER OF THE RFMF (UPDATED WED)
# BARBARA-GATE. THE FINAL STRAW FOR MANY OF THE NATION’S MOVERS AND SHAKERS
There's a delicious irony in the owner of Fantasy Island going public in spectacular fashion on the front page of Tuesday's Fiji Sun to shake the Coalition government out of its fantasy that it can get away with installing its hand-picked lackey, Barbara Malimali, as FICAC Commissioner and destroy any semblance of independence at the corruption … [Read more...] about # BARBARA-GATE. THE FINAL STRAW FOR MANY OF THE NATION’S MOVERS AND SHAKERS