GD writes: CommonMan - our grassroots columnist in the vanua - returns for election year with a thought-provoking, even incendiary, article that demolishes the carefully-crafted image of the Prime Minister as having empowered and unified the iTaukei. Read on for the harsh pronouncement on Sitiveni Rabuka by a largely self-educated farmer and … [Read more...] about # SITIVENI RABUKA: THE GREAT DIVIDER. A STARTLING DEBUT BY COMMONMAN FOR ELECTION YEAR 2026
# BIMAN PRASAD’S MONUMENTAL OWN GOAL THAT WILL HAUNT HIM ALL THROUGH ELECTION YEAR
There's an unwritten rule in politics just as there is in journalism - politicians and journalists shouldn't sue. Because rectitude isn't the preserve of either, neither enjoy the public's trust, reputations are as easily lost as made and litigation is a lottery in which nothing that happens in a defamation action is guaranteed. We know from … [Read more...] about # BIMAN PRASAD’S MONUMENTAL OWN GOAL THAT WILL HAUNT HIM ALL THROUGH ELECTION YEAR
COMING SOON… COMMONMAN RETURNS AND JOINS THE PILE-ON OF THE PRIME MINISTER, ACCUSING SITIVENI RABUKA OF BEING THE GREAT DIVIDER OF THE ITAUKEI
# “A DOOMED CHAOTIC GOVERNMENT”. A DEVASTATING CRITIQUE OF THE COALITION BY INIA SERUIRATU – LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION AND THE NEW PEOPLE FIRST
As the first month of the year comes to an end, the people of Fiji can now officially declare this Coalition administration what it truly is, a Government of Chaos. From the Prime Minister down, every major decision, policy direction and administrative action of this Government has descended into confusion, controversy, legal dispute and … [Read more...] about # “A DOOMED CHAOTIC GOVERNMENT”. A DEVASTATING CRITIQUE OF THE COALITION BY INIA SERUIRATU – LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION AND THE NEW PEOPLE FIRST
# THE USUAL FIJI-STYLE DELAY. BUT WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY?
Barbara Malimali's judicial review ruling that was due this afternoon has been pushed into next week and will be delivered by Justice Dane Tuiqereqere on Monday. It will now coincide with the verdict by the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, in the case against Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem. Justice Tuiqereqere said he was 90 per cent into … [Read more...] about # THE USUAL FIJI-STYLE DELAY. BUT WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY?
# RABUKA’S GREAT BETRAYAL. THE SECRET – NOW NOT SO SECRET – SETTLEMENT WITH THE CHIEF CROCODILE TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED 1030 FIJI TIME FRIDAY)
It is extraordinary enough that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, engaged a private lawyer in the form of Isireli Fa to represent him as he tries to escape the damning finding by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry that he committed perjury and obstructed and perverted the course of justice in the scandalous Malimali affair. Yet it is even more … [Read more...] about # RABUKA’S GREAT BETRAYAL. THE SECRET – NOW NOT SO SECRET – SETTLEMENT WITH THE CHIEF CROCODILE TO CRUSH THE COI (UPDATED 1030 FIJI TIME FRIDAY)