Yet again, the embattled Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya, has had to be sidelined from the offical photo of an event at which she presided to save the other participants from embarrassment.
Readers of the Sunday Times were treated to prominent coverage of Lynda Tabuya’s speech at a Pacific Women’s Leaders conference at the GPH but she is absent from the accompanying photo, replaced by her Permanent Secretary in the line-up of delegates. (see below)
Grubsheet has been keeping a close eye on such things to gauge just how many prominent Fijians – and representatives of foreign governments and development agencies – are willing to be photographed with the Coalition’s resident Queen of Tarts. And from a situation in which a great many people were clamouring to be seen with the most glamorous member of the government, the number of people who have been prepared to do so since news of her drug and sex scandal broke has been reduced to a handful.
A notable recent exception has been Nissanka Salgado – the local representative of the Asian Development Bank – who found himself being photographed next to Lynda Tabuya at a function at which he spoke about the danger to the nation’s groundwater. No, he didn’t mean the sewage flowing under the entire government arising from the decision by the Prime Minister to retain Tabuya in the cabinet. But whatever was flowing through the ADB man’s mind, he looks like a frightened rabbit in the headlights and would clearly rather be anywhere else.
How much longer can this farce go on? Why is the Prime Minister so insistent on retaining the Great Temptress as Minister when we now know that it was Sitiveni Rabuka himself who dismissed her as deputy leader of the People’s Alliance for bringing it into disrepute over her drug taking and “brutal” sex encounter with Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne last August? (See letter below)
A new possible answer has emerged to add to persistent speculation that the Prime Minister himself is one of Lynda Tabuya’s former paramours. And that is that she may have given him money during the lean years in which he had to fossick for plastic bottles to support himself.
Perhaps the PM would care to address this speculation? Because there seems no other earthly reason why he would cling like a leech to someone who is such a gross liability to the government and the PAP and who most people in polite society refuse to be photographed with. It wouldn’t happen anywhere else in the world. Though as the government’s apologists keep saying: “This is Fiji. Get used to it”.
OK. Anyone for a toke of “weed” and a bit of rough extramarital sex? The Glamour Puss in charge of our women, children and the most vulnerable has got away with it. Go on, Fiji. Get into it. As the old saying goes, a little bit of what you fancy does you good. Look at Lynda.
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News of the Pacific Women’s Leaders event…
And the accompanying photo. Where’s the Minister?
Wait. There IS someone who will be photographed with Lynda.
But the country head of the ADB looks like he’d rather be anywhere else.
The document that will haunt the Minister for Bonking and Weed all the way to the next election.
The letter the local mainstream media refuses to publish, even as its defenders like Richard Naidu make the risible claim that the media is finally “free”.
But it isn’t going to go away. And nor should it.
When the photos were taken, she was in the toilet
They couldn’t wait as it was getting late and she was in the toilet for a while
Coka
Sah ! So they quickly rounded up the gang and took the photo? Smart gang.
Loose motion !
The ADB guy looks like he’s just been given a jolly good “233”
Or he’s about to call 911.
For someone who once purchased/owned an estate in Vanua Levu, to be collecting plastic bottles is … sad.
Lynda is a loser!
isa Loose Lynda
A harlot knows how to bamboozle an idiot. The idiot doesn’t know when to pull the plug.
Very much Richard-like, accountable and spotless but without declaring conflicts of interest.
Yawa, Angelic Linda from the Republic of Cheeleeva.
https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/tabuya-clarifies-the-172k-donation-from-the-chinese-embassy/
The question is: Would the Chinese Embassy have given money to Lynda Tabuya’s home village/ island if it weren’t for a desire by the Chinese to curry favour with her?
They have attempted to buy her off and, of course, it has succeeded. There are now 172,000 reasons why she is a Chinese agent of influence.
The man who looted NBF was broke!! He has broken the nation’s trust and its economy again and again and seems to have no remorse or shame. Or maybe he is so broken up inside that he doesn’t realize that it is God’s punishment to him. Everyone is served just in different ways.
If you talk about looting than FFP takes the cake
Corruption existed in the previous administration and is also present in the current administration.
Interesting, as Fred would say, that Fiji’s global Corruption Perceptions Index dropped from 55 out of 100 in 2021, to 53 in 2022 and 52 last year, 2023. This indicates that corruption has worsened during the transitional period following the 2022 elections.
https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/fiji
“Today, after much reflection, I’ve decided that the best service I can render to the federal parliamentary Labor Party is to not return to the Senate in 2018,” Senator Dastyari said today.
“I’ve not reached this decision lightly. But in my deliberations, I’ve been guided by my Labor values, which tell me that I should leave if my ongoing presence detracts from the pursuit of Labor’s mission.”
That was Australian Senator Sam Dastyari resigning given disclosure of his financial dealings with the Chinese.
Lynda, will you do the right thing? No, you will not and neither will Siti, so it will be the voters who’ll have to do it.
The Head of the ADB looks shocked… like he’s seen something of Tabuya’s which looks worse then a horror movie…
Show me one decent woman or man who would like a photo with Rabuka, Tabuya, and Aseri. The 3 cannot even take a photo with each other.
Tabuya wreaks of indecency.
Where is her NGO mates like Shamima Ali? They have ditched her too.
These women! These women!
Talking about empowering women.
How do you propose that we do that Lynda?
! Sleeping with a married man while on an official trip.
! Taking money from other governments directly to benefit your village.
! Awarding 50 million to your husband’s company without proper tender submission practices.
! Scamming people off millions in USA and running away.
! Scamming Fijians and promoting a payrise while average Fijians struggle.
She must be the most disliked woman politician in the history of this country.
Let that sink Lynda.
Lynda, stop giving us a rundown on percentage of women in Parliament. With your record, and those of others there doing nothing, I would rather have no woman. Zero. No need. You all are useless. Nothing has improved for women except us hearing about your gains. Thank you but no thank you.