There’s nothing like a Prime Ministerial attack to boost one’s readership and I am indebted to Frank Bainimarama for propelling Grubsheet Feejee – within a month of its resumption – into the frontline of the national debate in Fiji. In one grumpy outburst written for him by Qorvis and the Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, the Prime Minister made me more relevant than I deserve. His comments were on the front page of the two daily newspapers and led the main television news programs and every radio bulletin. So that if anyone hadn’t heard of Graham Davis or Grubsheet before, they do now and that has been reflected in a huge increase in the number of “hits” on this website.
34,348 people visited Grubsheet in the week from Friday September 18 to Friday September 25 (yesterday), with a big spike in the wake of the PM’s comments. So to him I say vinaka vakalevu and to all of you – Dear Readers – an even bigger vinaka for your interest, whether you live in Fiji or the diaspora. This 34,000 doesn’t take into account those who have read my articles when they are republished on Victor Lal’s Fijileaks or cited on social media. So that figure will be even higher.
As I’ve said before, it was astonishing to me that the Prime Minister recorded a formal statement for the cameras accusing me of trading in gossip, of having a predilection for drama when I worked for him and citing my age as a reason for him to wish me best wishes in my retirement. We are the same age – 66. So if I was being cast as “retired” when I’m not, why wouldn’t the Prime Minister also be contemplating retirement instead of insisting on contesting the next election? It was all very weird. And because I know how the government works, a sign of abject panic on the part of the AG, who always uses the PM’s authority in such instances to make a point without any thought of the potential of making him look stupid.
Above all, nothing that I have written in these columns was disputed by the Prime Minister on the basis of fact. Not a single word. He dismissed it as gossip but didn’t say it was wrong. So that what I said is true: The Military Council has asked for reform of the government and the removal of the AG. The cabinet is divided over the issue of the AG’s control of the government. And the PM has nominated Inia Seruiratu as his successor.
The Fiji Times front page today ( September 26) picks up the story and next to a photo of Seruiratu asks: “Will he be next”. Well, yes, if what the Prime Minister told the Military Council in the 2018 election aftermath still applies. The paper says it asked the PM and the AG on Tuesday whether what I’d reported on Grubsheet is correct. Four days later, the Fiji Times says it has still had no response.
I know that some of those closest to the Prime Minister were appalled by his attack on me, and especially his attempt to demean me as some sort of bit player who he knew but wasn’t really important, which merely raised the question of why on earth he’d be attacking me in the first place if that was the case. He knows and everyone around him knows that I was at the centre of government and played a significant role in bolstering its fortunes and those of the Prime Minister.
For years before I joined Qorvis in 2012, I was a Bainimarama supporter – regularly explaining his agenda in articles in the regional media -and especially The Australian newspaper – and from 2011, in the columns of Grubsheet Feejee. For a long time – as many readers will remember – these articles were republished in the Fiji Sun and had considerable impact on wider public opinion. For obvious reasons, the AG-controlled Sun has not displayed quite the same alacrity since the relaunch of Grubsheet last month to resume that arrangement. But those articles – from 2011 to 2014 – are still available for any reader interested in looking back over the Grubsheet archive. And they demonstrate beyond question my support for Frank Bainimarama’s principal agenda of levelling the playing field in Fiji and guaranteeing the rights of every Fijian, irrespective of ethnicity and religious affiliation.
Engaged by Qorvis in Suva on the basis of my writings, I crafted the government’s winning narrative during the tumultuous period leading up to the return to parliamentary rule in September 2014. There was a particular emphasis on service delivery and inclusiveness. “We deliver”, was a line devised by my Qorvis colleague, Sol Levine. To that I added “We serve.” Along with a repeated emphasis on Fiji as a caring society in which the Bainimarama government was giving people equal opportunity and a leg-up, not a handout, to help them help themselves to improve their lives and those of their families.
I wrote the Prime Minister’s speeches that propelled him to national, regional and global status as a statesman and did so as a true believer, not a hired gun. I was especially emotional the night I wrote his announcement of free education as I recalled the many times that underprivileged parents had come to our family home when I was a child asking for assistance with their children’s school fees. I still think it’s the proudest achievement of the Bainimarama era – a leg-up without parallel in Fijian history.
Over the years, I had also grown close to both the PM and AG, peppering them with suggestions and advice and even ironing out differences between them. But I now think they have lost their way and am saying so. As I’ve already reported, I did what I could before I went public in these columns to persuade Frank Bainimarama to change course and especially in the wake of the disastrous 2018 election campaign. He has chosen not to do so. But it is a mistake and I am going to continue to say so.
It often seems that the PM is spooked by the prospect of change. But there is still time for him to reinvent the government, to remove the AG – who has become increasingly erratic and mercurial – and put Fiji on a different course. He has the people there to do it. Mere Vuniwaqa would make a great deputy prime minister and attorney general and the team of Frank Bainimarama and Mere Vuniwaqa has the capacity to beat Sitiveni Rabuka and Lynda Tabuya in 2022, whereas the team of Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum will not. And Jone Usamate easily has the intellectual firepower to take over as minister of economy, especially assisted by economic heavy hitters already on the government payroll such as Arif Ali, Makareta Konrote, Filimone Waqabaca and Jitoko Tikolevu, and those who could make up an external advisory panel of such luminaries as Savenaca Narube and Biman Prasad.
It can be done and must be done or FijiFirst faces almost certain defeat at the next election and the destruction of Frank Bainimarama’s reputation and legacy. It was never likely, given my personal commitment to his revolution, that the “ageing drama queen” would be deterred by what the Aussies would call some half-arsed attack, even by someone of the statue of the Prime Minister. So, Dear Reader, we press on.
AG is becoming very reckless and oblivious to the repercussions that will solely backfire on him tenfold.
As for Frankie, if only he learned basic common sense of doing that one thing even if the military council has to push him to actually do it. I see no reason why he can’t “dismiss” Aiyarse if he could name a successor.
As long as Frankie delays, he’s still being seen as a puppet of ASK.
Stubbornness clothed in steadfastness is a military complex and that’ll be one hard nut to crack. Most military officers in fiji surrender themselves to this trait very early on. So the PM cutting loose is going to be a seismic shift if it ever happens btw who can forget the ease with which Rabuka changed ministers and ministries during his tenure as PM. Some saw it as callously unstabe while others saw it as being decisive.
I dont know where you got that idea that the military promotes “stubborness cloaked as steadfastness” Not so. The military teaches Flexibility as one of the Principles of War.
What you are seeing with the Fiji First is a thing called Arrogance that comes with being in power too long. Power has corrupted them
Shouldn’t the constitution has term limits for Government
Under Frank’s leadership the i’taukei have been marginalized in their own land. They are now subject to another form of ‘colonialism’ vide the 2013 Constitution.
Frank must go. And he can take his master with him.
A new set of leaders is required.
Please, “Ajax”, explain with examples how the indigenous Fijian is marginalised in his own land? Are indigenous Fijians restricted to living on reservations? Do they not own most of the land in Fiji? Is the Prime Minister not an indigenous Fijian? Is the army commander not an indigenous Fijian? Is the Police Commissioner not an indigenous Fijian? Are they not the majority in the civil service? Is the Fijian language banned in Fiji? Are indigenous Fijians not permitted to worship in their chosen religions? Are their places of worship desecrated and robbed? Do indigenous Fijian farmers live in fear of eviction? Have their democratic rights been under been under assault ever since independence? Were they the victims of the Rabuka & Speight coups? The 2006 coup was carried out exclusively by indigenous Fijians. The AG was appointed by an indigenous Fijian. There are many things wrong with our “democracy” but indigenous Fijians are not victimised. The Constitution does give people the right to elect a government of their choice in 2022. One man, one vote irrespective of race, gender, religion or chiefly status. If you want to change this, get enough people who think like you and do it – legally. By the way, the guardians of this Constitution are, in the main, indigenous Fijians. The GCC was never a democratic institution and was the source of a lot of the machinations that were at the root of our instability.
Tell me about the ethnic composition of the boards of state owned enterprises?
Why are there no indigenous Fijians on the board of the Water Authority of Fiji? Likewise with the LTA?
Why are indigenous Fijians in parliament not allowed to use their mother tongue?
Why was the GCC disbanded without reference to indigenous Fijian opinion?
What about the 17 Decrees that trample on the self determination rights of the indigenous Fijian population?
Please explain
Graham I think you are missing the point. The Fijian public has had enough of Fiji First, Bainimarama, Khaiyum and all the spineless politicians in Fiji First. If they could not change direction in the last 14 years what makes you think they will do now. You are not the first to make the call for Fiji First leadership to change direction. I sincerely hope they continue as usual and will be obliterated in 2022. The country needs a fresh breath of air and direction. Fiji First cannot provide that.
Graham there is no such thing as “free education”. Who pays for that education. The parents pay via PAYE and VAT and other government fees and charges. At least speak the truth. The problem with this is that through students not paying fees how do schools manage overhead costs. The government grant is not enough to upgrade facilities and provide the best. Students are left with compromised services. The quality of education drops and this is what has been seen through the poor quality of students going for higher education. End result poor quality graduates and this affects national development. Not a great Fiji First idea after all. When you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Those who can afford to pay should pay and for those who cannot there was remission of fees which could be applied for just like in the past. Trying to fix what was not broken has led us into the problems in the education sector.
Graham somewhere in your piece you mentioned “Cabinet”. Does this Fiji First government cabinet exist? When do they meet? How often do they meet? Who is the secretary to cabinet? What are the major decisions they have taken? Anyone heard of cabinet meeting reported in the Fiji media. What does cabinet discuss? Or is it one man rule who makes all decisions of government? So there is no need for a cabinet. That is democracy Fiji First style.
Graham if ” Frank Bainimarama’s principal agenda of levelling the playing field in Fiji ” was the raison d’etat for his coup d’etat did he deliver that agenda in his 14 year stranglehold on power ? How egalitarian has he made Fiji since his takeover? How much more elitist has post coup Fiji become as a result of the alliance between the political power holders and the big business class under Bainimarama and Khaiyum’s control. It’s more control and Machiavellian manipulation than authentic national leadership.
Graham you seem to accept the rhetoric of the agenda without casting a critical eye on the mismatch between the rhetoric and the reality on the ground in Fiji. That mismatch, the contradictions, have been pointed out by Victor Lal and other social media people from the very outset. I can’t understand how an accomplished journalist like you failed to notice that?
Well Graham, I have to tell you that I am just a little jealous that you got all the attention and publicity! But so far as choosing who should replace Frank and others, isn’t that a matter for the electorate, not you, Frank or Aiyaz?
Or, most importantly the military mob in Fiji seeing as they are the ultimate authority and all that under a constitution made to give them supremacy in the country!
In Fiji’s ” true democracy” the electorate’s choice is secondary to the military council’s !
That’s always been the case unfortunately, which puts Fiji almost within the same vein as countries like Venezuela and North Korea.
For years you were in bed with these crooks, now that they have stopped paying you, you become Judas! Go jump, nobody believes you and the crap you write.
Then be my guest, Apisalome. Don’t believe it. Judas implies betrayal when I’ve made it clear that I still support the government and the Prime Minister. But perhaps you haven’t been able to understand what I’ve written. I will try to be less obtuse.
Vinaka.
One grumpy outburst of the written kind aimed at you Graham by the PM. Well you are a lucky man. Many critics of the Bainimarama regime have suffered a fate a whole lot worse.
Graham
I have an issue with the following:
“I wrote the Prime Minister’s speeches that propelled him to national, regional and global status as a statesman..”
How can he be a statesman when he has imposed a constitution unto the people of Fiji, how can he be a statesman when he is using FICAC to silence his critics,
Ratu Mara was a statesman as he was one of the founders of the Pacific Islands Forum and promote the Pacific Way.Mara was instrumental in developing the FIji Pine Scheme, built the Suva to Nadi Hwy, biotic Monasavu Hydro, the tourism infrastructure which Fiji is enjoying today
Frank on the other hand uses climate change globe trotting, collection his $3,000 day allowance and having a grand time flying first class going t cu tire sm attending conference which is of no value to Fiji polluting the environment with his 4×4 PM vehicle.
If he was a statesman and lead by example, he would be setting an example using riding a hybrid vehicle, isn’t that being a hyprocrat.?
As I have stated previously in one of my comments he has remote one Fiji not based along racial lines and for tat he deserves full credit, but that is where it all stops. Rest of his actions are a failure as it has been done to hold onto power and to exercise total control for his sole benefit.
Not only was Frank Bainimarama promoted as a ” statesman ” it was being put forward by his spin doctors that he should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize! Can you beat that!
Nonsense, Chiku/ Rajend. This is the first I’ve heard of it. It has never been contemplated that the PM be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
At age 65 my memory may have started to let me down. But to the best of my knowledge I recall reading that statement about Bainimarama being put forward for a Nobel Prize somewhere. Is there anyone out there who can help trace where that statement was made?
‘ Nobel Laureate? COP 23 and Frank Bainimarama, its President, talked up in Bonn as possible contenders for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize ‘ ( Fijileaks 5/11/2017 ).
I might have also spotted something about this in a newspaper letter penned by a Bainimarama regime sychophant or apparatchik.
I nominated him via a Fiji times letter letters to the editor. Read between the lines. Penned on 23/06 17
Rajend Naidu, will you please stop using multiple user names, including this one, to make your comments here. I have been putting up with it for some time but this is it.
From now on, I will excise any of these phantom identities that carry the same email address as your own name. It is dishonest in the extreme, especially when you try, as in this instance, to use one of these phantom names as part of a concerted effort to lend weight to a particular line of argument.
This is the kind of thing that I would expect from Vatis or some other dirty tricks outfit, not from someone who poses here and in the Fiji Times as a serious commentator on the nation’s affairs.
You have been warned. Very disappointing.
You should be the last person to complain about dishonesty with the kind of ” independent journalism ” you were doing as a paid propagandist for the Bainimarama regime
I nominated him via a Fiji times letter letters to the editor. Read between the lines.
Sorry V.B. No email address, no speakies. Them’s the rules. If you want to add an email address, you’re in.
Never underestimate the desperation to cling onto power by the Bainimarama government; they’re already monitoring the disgruntled population by imposing curfew under the guise of COVID, yet rugby tournaments are ongoing with hardly any social distancing, such an irony. Yet there has been an increase in police and military recruitment, what are we recruiting for? Rising criminal activity correlates with the rising poverty levels in Fiji. We’re on the verge of exploding, the only thing that can stop it is a free and fair election; where exit polling is allowed and polling tallied within a day at every polling station, not gathered under one roof for a week; Fiji is about to erupt if the population see or feel that it’s another rigged election.
Graham I’m interested to know whether while with Hon Kaiyum & Fiji First Government you supported the sunset clause & its measures including that termination of GCC and 23 anti ITaukei indigenous rights Law.
And more especially the removal by the 2013 Constitution of the right of prior consent & informed consent to any change on native land and native cultural autonomy laws.
And do you still support these sunset clause measures.
Niko, I have never given this any thought at all and that is the God honest truth. I was working in the comms area in government, not on policy or legal matters.
Indeed, I have never been consulted on any of these matters and would not presume to be. So to ask whether I still support these measures is meaningless. I was never in a position to support them in the first place.
You only saw what you wanted to see whilst with the Bainimarama mob. You clearly looked through tinted rose glasses at what the Bainimarama mob were doing. That’s why you didn’t notice the rot when you were with them.
Got caught with your dirty knickers down around your ankles, eh Rajend? I have never, ever, posed as someone else in this or any other setting. So spare me your hypocrisy and guilt transference. You’re also like a broken record. The same tune over and over again.
You can appear here as Rajend Naidu but not as Chiku or any of your other pseudonyms ( shall I reveal them all?) I have the evidence so if you want everyone to see even more of your knickers, keep going.
Having your alter egos agreeing with you isn’t a good look in civilised company, old chap. It’s called deceit. So if you want to take the high moral ground with me, at least put on some clean underwear.
You’d know about deceit for sure. You were engaged in it when you were rubbing shoulders with the rogue rulers in Fiji.
Civilised company? You were keeping ” civilised company ” with Fijian torturers and Fijian fascists. And, you lecture me on hypocrisy!
The stigma of your ” civilised company ” with the usurpers in Fiji will not go away try as you want by recasting yourself.
Another deceitful troll exposed. Lol
We deliver and We serve- only to our families and cronies.
Military Council- after all good officers were removed, now we only have Military Cowards.
Frank has in the last 14 years read many speeches, majority pack of lies and understood nothing. He doesn’t even understand or know that the country is in heaps of debt, from 2.6 billion for 36 years to 10billion in 14 years and calls it a Bainimarama boom 😂. It’s so easy to write for an uneducated idiot as a PM. There is no level playing as you say but visible potholes and corruption everywhere.
Like your analogy Bilash, Military Council = Military Cowards.
After all doesn’t the 2013 Constitution give the military the authority to protect Fiji (instigate a Coup)?
If you’ve read Ben Ryan’s book, he was advised to never look at Bainimarama in the eyes… There are ancient secrets in Fiji, things unknown by the general public, especially outside of Fiji…
Those things can explain a lot of unexplained things… like why the GCC building can burn just like that without any cause…
Witchcraft is a real thing. It is well represented on Truth for Fiji’s website cartoons. Look at their eyes…
In 2018, Israel secretly sent observers to Fiji, they know something… They were looking for someone… a “bird of prey”.
V.B, I have already told you that if you refuse to provide an email address with your comments, they will be erased. Today, you have done it again. And your comment has been duly excised. Do it again and I will exclude you from Grubsheet altogether.
Cmon informer none of these blurry comic story lines man. If the GCC building was deliberately burnt by some people then thats it we know there are forces among us who hate our itaukeiness badly enough to be bold and brave enough to burn it. No fairytale full stop. Question is what you gonna do bout it. I say mobilise the votes and get rid of this tyranny. Make the margin sizable and beyond their comprehension. Thats how you get back at them. Two more years of this madness and then its all over.
Graham, your writings are, as always, entertaining and well argued, and provide welcome, invaluable insights.
But I can’t help feeling, taken in the round, you are a touch Captain Renault when discussing Aiyaz: ‘I’m shocked, shocked that in this government there is nepotism, gross incompetence, cronyism, favouritism, corruption, state capture of the FNPF, Fiji Sun bias, FIRCA harassing Aiyaz enemies, petty score-settling, rampant self-dealing etc.’
That was always the case. It’s the only consistency, it’s the only DNA, that Frank’s rule has ever shown (similar to the first decade under Rabuka).
Right from Riyaz’s appointment in 2007 against the wishes of the station’s chairman and deputy chairman, to the FICAC charges against the same FBC chairman and deputy chairman that hung over their heads as a warning to others before being dismissed three years later with the usual nolle prosequi.
This high-functioning, no-class thuggery has always been in plain sight.
And as captain to Aiyaz’s first officer, Frank is the one who bears ultimate and exclusive responsibility. Nobody else.
If your site’s stated values include ‘upholding equal rights for all citizens; government that is genuinely transparent and free of corruption and nepotism’ why not take Frank to task more effectively?
Really rattle his cage about why he was always too busy looking elsewhere to really understand what was being done in his name. I get that taxpayer-funded Irish crossings and bus shelters, and the fifth or sixth attempt to properly tarmac Ratu Dovi Road don’t open themselves.
But how incurious and vacant can a person be as prime minister before he forfeits the right to lead?
Or perhaps, more likely, that was the Faustian pact both entered into. How else to explain why such a self-regarding legal know-it-all like Aiyaz chose to ally himself with a man who committed treason, one of the consequences of which was to end questions into whether his role in 2000 was one of commission or omission.
That Aiyaz’s great legal cannon chooses to fire allegations of sedition at any and all regime enemies is one of a multitude of tragedies of the past 14 years.
It shows what wretched and debased custodians of the law he and his enablers have been. And it can only have a deeply cynical effect on how anyone now expected in Fiji to observe the rule of law.
Anyway, ‘welcome back to the fight.’
Spot on Charlie Charters. You couldn’t have been more perceptive and precise on your description of the Bainimarama regime from the very beginning . It’s an awful shame that an award winning journalist like Graham Davis glossed over the regime’s consistent record of bad governance to become its spin doctor. That record ” has always been in plain sight ” as Charlie Charters points out. But somehow Graham Davis managed to miss it!!!
Charlie, as you will have already realised, Casablanca is one of my favourite movies but I would have thought you would have cast me more as Signor Ferrari – the corpulent and corrupt owner of the Blue Parrot – constantly acting in his own interests, trading and selling human beings and obtaining anything he wants as head of the local black market. I just need the Fez and the parrot.
Re your other points: I have consistently stood up for a multi-ethnic, multi-religious Fiji and have done so even as a stripling following in the footsteps of my parents. When from 1987 that was threatened I campaigned heavily for the alternative, not only against the ethno-nationalism of Sitiveni Rabuka and George Speight but later Laisenia Qarase, whose proposed Qoliqoli Bill and other measures threatened all sorts of trouble in Fiji and the marginalising of non-indigenous people.
I am not anti-iTaukei. On the contrary. I grew up in the vanua as a child and have the utmost respect for the iTaukei and their traditions and customs. But I learnt very early that Fiji cannot alter its history and its ethnic and religious make-up and the only way forward is to ensure the rights and security of every Fijian working together as one nation.
That was the ideal that Frank Bainimarama represented. I think he has done more to unite the country than any Fijian in my lifetime and however much I get annoyed or irritated with him, I will always respect and admire him for having the courage to level the playing field and give everyone, at least in theory, the chance to work hard to benefit themselves and their families without institutionalised racism and a political system weighted in favour of one ethnic grouping.
I am not stupid ( though others may beg to differ). I am not a blind supporter of FijiFirst and am conscious of its foibles and shortcomings. But I am not convinced that SODELPA has evolved into a multi-ethnic, multi-religious party and until it does, I cannot support it. And while I have tremendous respect for people like Pio Tikoduadua, Biman Prasad and Lenora Qereqeretabua, they are simply not cutting through in the way they must to be a viable party of government. Therefore FijiFirst is, in my judgment, the only game in town but it is being dragged into political oblivion by the AG and needs major surgery to be competitive enough to win government in 2022.
If SODELPA morphs into a genuine multi-ethnic party with sound policies to advance the interests of every Fijian, I would obviously consider switching my allegiance. And if the NFP were to demonstrate better political skills than it has and show the ability to increase its presence in the parliament to be able to form a government, I would consider supporting it too. But right now, it is my judgment that Frank Bainimarama is still the best person able to unite the country but with a revised line-up that doesn’t include the AG and that makes FijiFirst competitive again. Because last week’s Fiji Sun/Western Force poll shows that it has lost its competitive edge and faces a crushing defeat when it goes before the people again in two year’s time.
Re the constant refrain about the sedition laws. In the case of the Fiji Times, they were the only vehicle to bring it to account for a hate crime – Waqabaca’s disgraceful article in Nai Lalakai specifically saying that Muslims had committed killings and rape elsewhere and were now in Fiji, with the clear inference that Muslims were to be feared and patently stirring up anti-Muslim sentiment.
There is no dispute about this. The judge found that the Fiji Times had a case to answer. But there is no hope of convincing people otherwise if, like you, they are wedded to the notion of the Fiji Times being victimised when it had allowed racial vilification to pollute its editorial columns and deserved censure for doing so.
Having said all of this, there are lots of things that you and I can agree on. So, yes, I do hope that like Louis Renault and Rick Blaine in Casablanca, we can find sufficient common ground. “It may not be the start of a beautiful friendship”, as the line in the movie goes, but a friendly accommodation nonetheless. Because I have a lot of respect for your own talents, if not your political leanings. Good to hear from you.
Rajend Naidu, what a preposterous spectacle you present with your indignation about my supposed shortcomings when you have been exposed as a fraud – adopting multiple fake identities to support your particular lines of argument. The brilliant Rajend with whom so many of his concocted supporters agree. What a farce.
For seven years, you have been hitting me with your feathers ( google your name and what comes up? Multiple 2013 attacks on me along the same lines as here). Well you know what? When opposition figures like you lie and cheat, it doesn’t give ordinary Fijians much hope that even if you manage to get rid of the hated FijiFirst government, life will be any better.
You are always in the letters columns of the Fiji Times (sometimes multiple times in the same edition) lecturing everyone about how life should be. Yet when stripped to the bare essentials, you are the classic conman. The real Rajend with an army of self-created alter egos and cloned identities behind you masquerading on social media as some kind of grassroots popular force. Utterly shameless. But do fulminate on. Those exclamation marks of yours are the giveaway that you have been well and truly exposed. Labasa!
Rajend
No need to defame Gharam, he is giving us all a front row seat , so read it, duvets it abd form your own opinion. No need to insult him as he if doing us all a great favor in telling all. As you can see the regime seems to be shaken by his writings. So please stop these personal insults and start behaving like a gentleman a d a critic of the FF Govt abd don’t shoot the messenger.
🤪🤪🤪 labasa, haven’t had it used in the above mentioned context in a long; really had me in fits of laughter. Hats off to you Mr Davis.
Vinaka, Tevita. A good laugh is what we need with some of these jokers. 🙂
Talking about who got exposed, I encourage readers to take up Graham Davis advice to Google me . In particular go to Marc Edge article in Fiji Media Wars 15/01/2013 where Graham Davis gets exposed big time and I get a decent mention by the journalism professor!
Graham feel free to ban me. It will show you have learned something from the dictatorial Bainimarama regime about banning!
Rajend, this is not a venue for fraudsters like you hiding behind multiple identities to make the same points ad infinitum.
You have until 1800 to apologise for your astonishing and totally unacceptable behaviour or I have every right to ban you. You’re lucky you have been given any time at all to calm down and reflect on your deceit.
Bainimarama swore at the late Padre Kevin Barr. Never apologised for his ” astonishing and totally unacceptable behaviour ” and you say you still respect and admire him are willing him to win the next election . ..
For his failure to apologise to Grubsheet readers by 1800 Fiji time for fraudulently posing with multiple pseudonyms in our comments section, Rajend Naidu has been permanently banned from Grubsheet.
Come on Graham, you should review your decision. Pseudonyms are no proper IDs on such informal blogs, what matter is the content, na lewe ni vosa. Nobody cares about pseudonyms.
Bainimarama admitted (though he was too dumb to realize it) to be a snake when he suggested that Rabuka would always be one… Whoever has served a snake has served Evil. Don’t you own apologies to Fiji?
Before 18.00 if possible, or I won’t read your blog anymore. You have been warned!!!
V. B.
Thank goodness. His self righteous daily harrumphing was getting nauseous. Now Unhappy Rajend will flood the Fiji Times with more of the same. (Like he carries on against the US ever since his US visa application was rejected over 15 years ago)
Marc Edge, using my blog as a marketing tool for your inaccurate and intemperate attacks on me will not be permitted. The link to your article has been excised. You have your own blog. Use it.
Marc Edge, self serving nonsense masquerading as an academic treatise. It is available elsewhere on the Internet but these columns are not a marketing tool for your prejudices. It is not censorship to refuse to promote one man’s highly selective and inaccurate prejudices on my own website with the specific purpose of damaging me.
Post it again here and I will ban you from Grubsheet altogether. And you can join Rajend Naidu in your own little fetid corner of cyberspace.
You’re losing. Again.
No mate. Your blog, you win, I lose. My blog, I win, you lose.
You have been warned.
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Grow up, Marc. If you want to stay and contribute to the conversation, you are very welcome. But you wouldn’t allow me to bludgeon you on your own blog and I’m not going to allow you to do it to me here.
You know the deal. Post a link to your self serving bullshit again and you’re out.
Marc, why did you (prematurely) leave USP again?
Shane, do we really have to go there? Talk about a dog revisiting its vomit.
It’s all in the Grubsheet archive. Just type in “Marc Edge” in the search window at the top right hand corner of the page and the whole gruesome saga is there for the asking.
You have no idea how angry a moose can get when prodded. But I’m hoping we’ve moved on and I certainly don’t want to revisit any of it.
Shane, if you go to my website (just click on my name as it appears above this comment) and click on Academic –> Articles, you will find one from 2018 which explains all.
You’re finally getting the message, Marc. I don’t have a problem with this.
It’s like a child having to be sent to his room for a few hours to think about his lack manners. Sheesh.
OK, so there should be some indirection involved?