Grubsheet and CommonMan are both taking a break. Back next week with startling revelations about parliamentary expense rorts that lay bare the lack of integrity at the top in Fiji.
Where is the official investigation? There isn’t one. The law is being openly flouted yet there is one rule for those in power and one for the rest of us.
Those last fifteen words sum up the current government exactly.
And whilst the Judiciary is run by a rougue called TEMO things will never change.
Welcome to Fiji, where tha fat cats get fatter and the people that voted for them, starve.
How about a few words about how the void between the vulagi hindis and the itaukei coconuts is getting much bigger under this unwilling collation.
2 days back, Choron Singh said that multi-ethnic affairs scholarships are not coming back.
Just yesterday it is announced that itaukei affairs scholarships will be available to all itaukei.
How incentivizing is that for the poor vualgi hindis? Only those who have rich parents will be able to get a tertiary education. The rest will be banished to a cycle of poverty and squalor.
Meanwhile, their “elected representatives” ride the gravy train.
I wish you could create your own Youtube channel and simply produce video commentaries.
This format is too old.
My apologies that I am not more cutting edge and hip. As a matter of fact, I have enjoyed my short break so much that I am contemplating making it permanent. Being freed of the obligation to provide people like you with a free service is decidedly liberating. Why not start your own YouTube channel?
Without your blog Graham, what glimmer of hope is left for Fiji will extinguish. Not that I think the glimmer is enough to turn things around anyway. But the glimmer you bring connects people who really care about Fiji with the reality that government spin pushes deeper into the darkness each day. It connects readers with a sense of knowing the truth that helps manage the gaslighting, and gives people a sense of “we do notice what you are up to despite the smokes and mirrors,” which feels better than blindly letting them get away with it.
BUT you do deserve your peace, and you do deserve to retire without this heavy weight on your shoulders that you’ve carried for so long. Whenever you do retire, you can do so knowing that you did all humanly possible to keep the bastards honest, and did so from the heart rather than self-interest. Whatever you decide, I’m sure many as well as myself wish you the very best and send a heartfelt thank-you for your consistent insights, humour and candid revelations. Whatever you decide, keep up the lighthearted silly fun side of life so politics doesn’t turn us all bitter!
You can actually monetise it on youtube Graham. So much easier and at the moment, there is no one who has taken up this space.
Fijilive, fijivillage still old school. Fijilieaks the same.
I am very sure you can pick up heaps of subscribers.
Not being ofensive. Think about it.
Plus also, you can produce a show once a week. Not an everyday webpage. Reduces the stress of posting everyday.
You have heaps of sources, alot of folks out there with their mobile cams…
think about it….
GD.
So I take it you will not be attending the farewell dinner for Dr Marcus Brand this Wednesday evening, who has resigned as Chairman of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission because he could not placate the ethno-nationalist elements on the Commission who were planted there by AG Siromi and who considered him and his deputy as ‘vulagis’.
Both Brand and his deputy have quit.
The TRC was a charade after all.
A circus within a circus.
The major players were never going to turn up.
GD, the break will get boring after a while, wait and see😂.
You cannot, must not, abandon Fiji.
I know that it can be a thankless task but this is your calling. This is in your blood.
Rest assured, you have many, many followers and well wishers in Fiji and abroad, who very much appreciate your work, or rather, unpaid labour, to keep the bastards honest.
You are definitely having an impact, much more than all the limp dicks of the Fiji media put together. If you doubt me, just look at today’s piss weak Sunday Times headlines. Feeble Fred is certainly living up to his name.