Colonel Aziz Mohammed buys a second home while he stays rent free in a government quarters
April 29, 2009
We can confirm that Colonel Aziz Mohammed is the new owner of a second investment home along Flagstaff. Aziz Mohammed’s sudden rise to fame complemented with a bulkier pay-pack was made possible by the 2006 coup. And he is wasting no time in investing his extra cash to build up his net worth. We always like to see people invest wisely to grow their wealth basket but we despise people like Aziz Mohammed and others who have made a killing from stealing taxpayers money for their own selfish get-rich-quick schemes.
It is also understood that Aziz and his family are living in a government quarters in Domain - one of those homes the junta took by force from the Australians.
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Retiring citizens flock to Suva
April 29, 2009
Word from capital Suva is that many 55 years and over who will be retiring from service tomorrow are there to sort out their retirement packages and FNPF monies. As many count down to their last working day tomorrow, the man responsible for this inhumane wholesale retirement decree order has left Fiji’s shores for Indonesia via Korea. It has now emerged that Frank decided to leave the troubled rogue state to avoid the expected pustch from within the ranks who’ve been affected by the 55 years compulsory retirement decree and a possible back-lash from the retirees.
Confirmation of UN’s withdrawal from recruiting Fijian soldiers to their peacekeeping programmes has provoked more tension between tyrant Frank and officers within Fiji’s defence and disciplinary forces. Add to that Fiji’s suspension from the Pacific Forum in a day’s time.
Meanwhile, millions of dollars are expected to shift from the FNPF account to their lump-sum retiring members accounts tomorrow. Some are expected to bank it, buy shares and unit trust, while others will spend it on a broad range of things that is expected to create abit of economic activity there.
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New rule creates thousands of retirees
April 29, 2009
By Michael Hartsell - Global Voices Online
A recent government decree in Fiji orders all civil servants 55 years and older must retire Thursday, April 30. The new rules affect any person working within Fiji’s government, police force and prisons service. Previously, those workers would be employed until turning 60.
The mandate excludes the commissioner of Fiji’s police or prisons or the head of Fiji’s military.
Debate continues on the total number of forced retirees who will leave the workforce on the last day of April. Fiji’s Public Service Commission permanent secretary told the media more than 1600 civil servants will be affected, including 15 doctors, 97 nurses and more than 800 teachers. One blog calculates perhaps 2200 government workers could be out of work. In order to continue necessary services, the government will allow workers with “scarce skills” to be eligible for re-employment on 12-month contracts. Those professions include doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers and other technical officers. A post at Coup Four And A Half, the blog providing the 2200 statistic, reports that the influx of recent retirees could provide liquidity issues for the country’s retirement financial plan, Fiji National Provident Fund.
With the deteriorating economy and rising inflation due to devaluation, it’s expected that most of those retiring will want to withdraw their money all at once, instead of taking the pension scheme under which the calculated percentage of their funds is paid out once a month. The interim regime has publicly stated that all those retiring at the age of 55 should depend on their FNPF savings to sustain them for the rest of their life and cater for the needs of their families.
Sources say it will be interesting to see whether the FNPF allows members to take their money out in a lump-sum.
Raw Fiji News also predicts most retirees will take their money out immediately. The fund’s manager affirmed all retirees will be paid according to their pension options. The new retirement regulations arrive when Fiji’s economy is under strain. It has been hit by the global economic slowdown, hurting the tourist and agriculture industries; the recent devaluation of its currency by 20 percent has raised fears of inflation. On top of that, Moody’s Investor Services downgraded the country’s credit ratings by two notches because of “political instability.”
The Intillentsiya blog argues Fiji’s taxpayers will eventually foot the bill for the mass retirements. Eradicating all those over 55 (with the privileged exceptions of Bainimarama & Teleni) from the face of the civil service is just irrational. Especially as we all know there are no set internal means in existence within the civil service to capture their institutional knowledge of where things are at, upon their departure. It is simply impossible to capture it all within a span of day’s (there are some reports of instant departures) whereas normally institutional knowledge is embedded into organizational procedures and structures. The fact that there will be a helluva lot of extra workloads thrown upon the remaining civil servants to deal with is almost guaranteeing worse off service outcomes to taxpayers. In effect the taxpayers once again bear the brunt of this flawed and illegal decree…
The economic fall0ut of this flawed policy and illegal decree will be severe. Assuming that these 1,000 or so over-55er’s were on a conservatively estimated salary of FJD$30K that essentially boils down to savings of about $30mill from now on. Which is dandy for Bainimarama’s continued illegal empire building.However the other end of the spectrum also means that there is a $30mill LESS floating actively within the economy (goods, services) and it will fall upon the illegal regime to somehow subsidize normal government mandated services.It also means there’s less taxes for collection and therefore even less income for custodians of our national coffers at FIRCA to depend on for next year’s budget.The superannuation custodians FNPF can also expect similar trends.
The retirement regulations are problematic to a few bloggers who point out that Royal Fiji Military Force commander Bainimarama, who turned 55 April 27, has been excluded from them. Tim Selwyn, in a post at the New Zealand-based Tumeke blog, says the forced retirements will allow the government to do away with troublesome army officers. It is no coincidence that Bainimarama turns 55 on 27 April and that he can force any state employee to retire that is 55 just three days later. It may be utter hypocrisy, but it is also a classic Alpha Male move to eliminate the senior ranking rival males - the MO of the bully/thug military man.
The retirement exemptions are the means the military will use to sack the good sorts of government officials that resist - in any way - the “new legal order.” The sorts of people that refused to obey the Commodore the first time around in 2006 and who continued to operate their departments without reference to what they knew was an illegal authority. He had to send troops into some of these offices because the senior civil servants refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of his regime - and the Appeal Court upheld that Bainimarama’s government was and is illegal. These are good people with a genuine ethic of maintaining a first class neutral public service. These people will be forced to retire and the Commodore can move his military men and other pro-regime supporters in - regardless of merit and competence and with no mind for the rule of law.
Earlier this year, Commodore Frank Bainimarama’s interim government fought and won a case against two public sector unions allowing it to reduce the civil servant retirement age from 60 years to 55. A few weeks later, the Supreme Court allowed the two unions to appeal the case, granting a stay in the new rules. The stay was nullified after the country’s president, reacting to a court case questioning the legality of the Bainimarama government, abrogated the constitution, fired the entire judiciary and made himself head-of-state. He then reappointed the Bainimarama government to a five-year mandate.
During the retirement case, the Bainimarama government argued the 55 year rule will free needed cash for the government, allow older civil servants to enter the private sector with new businesses and, more importantly, permit Fiji’s bulging young population a place in the workforce. One analysis showed that Fiji’s private sector has only been able to handle one-half of the new job seekers each year.
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Duvuloco in hospital
April 29, 2009
Politician and General Secretary of the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party, Iliesa Duvuloco was admitted to hospital last night.
Director Operations SSP Waisea Tabakau confirmed Duvuloco complained of chest pains last night adding he is currently in hospital with police guards.
Duvuloco and five others were taken in over the weekend after they were allegedly distributing pamphlets that breach the Public Emergency Regulation (PER).
The pamphlets to allegedly cause instability were mainly distributed in the rural areas.
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The John Prasad, Sada Reddy & John Sami connection
April 29, 2009
By a blogger
This person, John Prasad, was unemployed (unemployable) for many years in NZ, worked for Rewa Dairy as a milk tester. Been conning people of NZ for many years. Sada Reddy has been trying to get his NZ PR for many years now. Must have shifted a bit of dough to buy house next to rat John Samy
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UN bans Fiji troops
April 28, 2009
UN bans Fiji troops
By MICHAEL FIELD - Stuff.co.nz
The United Nations has just announced it will no longer hire Fiji troops for its peacekeeping operations, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says. New Zealand has been pushing for the UN to ban Fijians since Voreqe Bainimarama’s 2006 coup. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said Rudd made the announcement ahead of talks with Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare. Rudd says the UN’s move means important remittances to Fijian military families will now be cut off.
“Through our own interventions with the United Nations and supported by New Zealand and other countries, the United Nations is now not going to engage future or new Fijian troops for new operations,” he said.
The Pacific Islands Forum is set to expel Fiji on Friday and the Commonwealth is considering action.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/2370326/UN-bans-Fiji-troops
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Rudd backs move to oust Fiji from Pacific Forum - The Age
April 28, 2009
Rudd backs move to oust Fiji from Pacific forum
Misha Schubert
April 29, 2009
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has vowed to maintain Australia’s “hardline” stance against Fiji’s military dictatorship, as the rogue state heads towards being expelled from the Pacific Islands Forum on Friday. The Prime Minister also signalled plans to seek fresh moves by the United Nations to pressure the regime to return to democracy by cutting the number of Fijian troops already deployed on global peacekeeping missions. Such a move — to come on top of a ban on any new Fijian troops on UN missions — would cut foreign income into Fiji and target the military from within its own ranks. The tough stance was endorsed by Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare, in Canberra for annual talks with Mr Rudd, who said Fiji had given its neighbours no option but to suspend it from the forum.
Mr Rudd also questioned Fiji’s membership of the Commonwealth, after its “wholesale assault” on the state by suspending the constitution, the independent judiciary and the free press.
“You cannot sustain within a family of democracies within the Pacific Island Forum or a family of democracies within the Commonwealth a government like that of Fiji which simply treats with contempt the most fundamental democratic institutions and press freedoms of its people,” he said After the bilateral meeting, Mr Rudd honoured the “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels” — the villagers who helped save the lives of Australian soldiers as they repelled the Japanese advance through the muddy jungles of PNG during the Second World War. Mr Rudd confirmed plans for Australia to print commemorative medallions for those who guided and carried wounded diggers out of harm’s way and “who are so much part and parcel of our ability to prevail in the New Guinea campaign in the darkest days of World War II”. The two leaders also discussed a push to track the effectiveness of Australia’s substantial aid contribution to PNG by using clearer social yardsticks such as infant and maternal mortality and school attendance. They set a goal to lift primary school attendance for Papua New Guinean children from 53 to 70 per cent by 2015.
Moves to establish a national rugby league competition in PNG were also canvassed — including the idea of making participation in training and games conditional on school attendance.
Introducing such conditions has been hailed as a huge success in some remote indigenous communities in Australia, where swimming pools have been used as an incentive to increase school attendance by Aboriginal children.
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Frank off to Indonesia today
April 28, 2009
Frank Bainimarama is side-stepping to Indonesia today. The pressure at home must be getting too much for the coupster to handle. Sources say his trip has been hush hush until now.
Will the mouse play when the cat is away? Or is he running away from a possible uprising?
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Sada Reddy can not dictate terms to commercial banks
April 28, 2009
Reserve Bank of Fiji illegal governor and coup-apologist Sada Reddy better take it easy or else his poor heart will explode on him. Sada, out of all people, should know that he nor Reserve Bank can dictate terms to commercial banks to set-up microfinance units etc. He can mouth it but he doesn’t have the powers to enforce it. So Rada, where the heck is your coup buddy John Prasad, chairman of Fiji Development Bank and PS/CEO for Ministry of Finance? This is the guy you and Frank should be skinning for his non-performance at FDB.
FDB should be focused on locally owned SMEs and agricultural based projects instead of giving away a big chunk of the bank’s loan portfolio to overseas developers who dig in to the shallow local financing pot to finance their multi-million dollars schemes like that controversial misleading advertising Naisoso development crap in Nadi. If they are real investors, they should arrive in Fiji with their offshore financing in place ready to be pumped into the Fijian economy.
Not depend on FDB to finance them taking away the much needed loan funds for micro-finance and agro-based financing local business people desperately need. Why not start with John Prasad’s FDB Sada Reddy? ANZ is doing its part through its rural banking initiative - something FDB nor Reserve Bank have the capacity to do by reaching out to the rural and sometimes the poorest communities in Fiji.
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Mandatory detention for swine flu already happening in Fiji
April 28, 2009
Now that the world is adopting mandatory detention for people suspected with swine flu, take a moment for those innocent Fijians already holed up in various detention centres in Fiji for contracting the Fijian version of the swine/Voreqe flu.
Their detention is of a different kind and parallels well with everyones idea of a pig in a pigsty.
Word from there is that some nationalistic Fijians are still being detained for distributing patriotic leaflets.
They say they’ve been left in their police cells for days now, caged up like pigs.
No report has been forthcoming on what type of care they’ve been given.
We’re also told that Fiji Red Cross personnel were stopped from seeing them for their ration of food, water, blanket, clothing.
And there you go tourists wanting to go to Fiji - think again, you might come back with Voreqe’s double dose of swine flu.
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Auzy federal government handouts to SDL and FLP
April 28, 2009
The Australian auditor general’s report has exposed how Qarase’s SDL and Chaudhry’s FLP parties received assistance from the Australian Federal government.
“Before the 2006 Fijian elections, and ultimately a military coup, Labor, then in Opposition, directed $76,823 to the Fijian Labor Party, of which $45,000 was spent on the travel, accommodation and expenses of the three Australian party members sent there to help.”
“The Liberal Party last year hosted a member of Fiji’s SDL Party in Canberra, after two previous visits were blocked, despite ongoing diplomatic tensions in the region. “
Read it here http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25402334-2702,00.html
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Shaista Shameem was not the first choice for FHRC top job
April 28, 2009
Raw Fiji News has obtained the minutes of the Fiji Human Rights Commission which records that the champion of inhuman rights after December 2006 coup had applied for the post of director of the FHRC late but was still interviewed at the insistence of one of the human rights commissioner.
The job had been earmarked for another coup apologist Makareta Waqavonovono, now a magistrate in the Solomons but it went to Shaista at the end of the day – thank god it did – for it exposes the real bush lawyer of a woman she is in Fiji, with the other bush lawyer – Adolf Sayed Khaiyum, who had been (and one is still advising) the swine pig - Vore-qe!.
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Push to block Fiji from UN peacekeeping - Sydney Morning Herald
April 28, 2009
Push to block Fiji from UN peacekeeping
Jonathan Pearlman Foreign Affairs Correspondent
April 29, 2009
THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, says the United Nations should look at punishing Fiji’s military rulers by further limiting the involvement of its soldiers in peacekeeping forces - a move that would seriously damage the country’s economy.
Australia and New Zealand have been leading efforts to pressure Fiji’s interim government over its recent abrogation of the constitution and crackdown on the media and the judiciary.
The country’s military ruler, Frank Bainimarama, seized power in a bloodless coup in 2006 and has backed away from earlier plans to hold elections this year.
Mr Rudd discussed the crackdown at a meeting in Canberra yesterday with Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare. The two agreed to press ahead with efforts to suspend Fiji from the Pacific Islands Forum. “Australia’s position is hardline,” Mr Rudd said. “You cannot sustain within a family of democracies [such as] the Pacific Island Forum or the Commonwealth a government like that of Fiji which simply treats with contempt the most fundamental democratic institutions and press freedoms.
“Through our interventions with the United Nations, supported by New Zealand and other countries, the UN now is not going to engage future Fijian troops for new operations. There is a question which now arises as to whether there should be a further tightening on top of that.”
Fiji’s economy is heavily reliant on UN payments for peacekeeping contributions and remittances from soldiers abroad. About 600 soldiers serve as peacekeepers in Lebanon, Iraq, East Timor and in the Sinai.
Fiji’s interim government dismissed claims it would not be allowed to provide further peacekeepers, saying the UN had not taken action against other countries that have had coups.
“Precedents have been set, like Pakistan, Thailand, all these are very big troop contributing countries to the UN, so what are they talking about?” a government spokesman, Neumi Leweni, told the news website Fijilive. Continued…
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Swine flu pandemic to hit Fiji again?
April 28, 2009
1918 was the last time swine flu pandemic hit Fiji.
Reports say it killed 14% of Fiji’s total population then.
Fast forward to 2009 and Fiji is hit again by a more severe form of swine (Vore-Qe means double portion of pig i.e pig-pig or swine-swine) flu.
This time, it doesn’t hit just 14% or 112,000 of Fiji’s population.
It has hit all the 800,000 fiji islanders with no one spared.
Will the flu down the bastard swine too?
Yes, please!
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Something ….. in Fijian
April 28, 2009
By itaukei
RFN, kerekere post this mada.
Sa totoka dina na nomudou ‘uniform’ ena kena yani vakamatau. ‘Smooth’ dina oilei! Na nomudou ‘badge’ ni ‘rank’ qai dromodromo tavatava (stripe ga mai, oilei!), totoka vakaoti (keimami sega ga ni kila na kena i balebale- kerea mo dou vosoti keimami kina na lewe ni vanua ena neimami ‘ignorance’). Ena gauna dou vakarautaki kemudou kina ena nomudou ‘press release’ keimami sa dau vakalukalu ga, ka so na marama era wainidivi- so era coro sara- taki kemudou, ena kena dravia vinaka na balumudou (bai veitarataravi na aftershave ena mataka edai- rugby lotion tiko vei iko, tiko vei iko sega vei au!), tawase vinaka tu na se ni ua qai ubi toka e delana e dua nai sala drokadroka, vulavula vinaka tale tu na bati - uu! iiiiiii!. Ia ena gauna ga dou dolava kina na gusumudou e dau yali na ‘magic of the moment’ ka ratou ‘propel’ taki lesu mai ki vuravura o ratou na marama ya (o ratou nanuma sara la ni ratou sa tu mai ‘heaven’). Vaka me kune votu mai na nomudou ulukau kei na nomudou vuli vaka vo. Na leqa gona ni tamata era lecava na Kalou ka ra ciqoma na vakatevoro kei nai vakavuvuli vou eso. Sa wele ko Batibasaga sa keimami qai sara yaloyalo na lewe ni vanua. Da sa tiko qo ena ‘Part 10’, ia e vaka tiko ga na ‘Part 1’. E sega ni veisau nai talanoa. Tekivu- ulukau, ‘The End’- ulukau. O kemudou na Military Council bavulu. Tekivu ena bavulu, cava talega ena bavulu. Au sa kerea mo dou lesu mai vei Jisu. Dou kua ni vakalialiai kemudou. Dau kaya o ira na gone ni RKS- ‘iko sega ni lialia boy’.
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Warning to Frank Bainimarama & Co!
April 28, 2009
By Sayalaeke
Members of the true Disciplined Services would like to warn all those with bodyguards in power right now of what transpired when people in power descrate what is most dear to us. The 1997 constitution and its provisions. Some of your security details are handled by members of this group but have not been ordered to act. Especially know it all AG - remember that when you sleep all the time. Indira Ghandi descrated what was so dear to her bodyguards ,Beant Singh shot her three times using his side-arm and Satwant Singh fired twenty-two rounds, using a Sten submachine gun. Both Sikhs. Those boys protecting you are all I-Taukei and law abiding citizens who respect the rule of LAW.
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Frank Bainimarama has no power unless the people say so
April 28, 2009
By buddhaa747
My octogenarian mentor shared a secret with me more than a decade ago, that opened my eyes to the absolute importance of a single word, which brought profound changes as a result of its mastery.
We discussed what this word really meant and how our understanding of it, impacts on our interaction with others in our everyday life, be it with our spouse, our children, our neighbor, our boss, our workmates, our chiefs, prime-minister, president and government.
It was the often used but misunderstood word namely, POWER.
POWER he said was merely a PERCEPTION of the MIND.Whether someone is more powerful or less powerful than you, all depends on whether YOU PERCEIVE IT TO BE, in YOUR OWN MIND.
It is the CONTROL over your OWN MIND that DETERMINES FOR YOU whether or not someone is more powerful then you.
Frank Bainimarama only exists to the extent that you give him control over your mind and perceive him to be the prime minister of Fiji.
If you do not give him your power by not acknowledging his existence, by not participating in the Peoples Charter, Electoral Reforms or anything else that he will come up with, then the SILENT ECHO’s of our school halls, church halls, villages and conference venues will MANIFEST in OUR REALITY, that Frank Bainimarama has NO POWER unless the PEOPLE SAY SO.
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Back to the drawing board yet again!
April 28, 2009
By ulukaukau
Our former lawful Foreign Affairs Minister, Kaliopate Tavola, way back in March 2003 had this to say to Australia after smart sanctions were lifted against Fiji for the 2000 coup-de-tat paving the way for Fiji’s restoration to the Commonwealth of Nations.
“I would like to submit that our bilateral process, if I may be forgiven for saying so, is still idling in low gear. It needs to shift to a higher gear. It needs a new philosophy. It needs a re-assessment of priorities, a re-focusing on new objectives, new values, new alignments and new targets”
In 2009 it seems like de-ja-vu all over again and we are back to the drawing board, with even more proposed reviews, reforms, restructure, etc. Have we all gone mad like Frank?
This is the job of a democratically elected government, under our 1997 Constitution, including shall I dare to use the word re again, reform of our electoral system.
The only difference is that this time we are headed by a Psycho Uneducated Navy wannabe Army Dictator, the only original imitation Commander of an Army world over that ran away from his own fortress, Pathetic!!
We ought to include his name together with all his medals in the world genius book of record, for biggest wanker.
And no we do not want our Suva foreshore to look like Dubai, Qatar, Adis-Ababa nor Triad City.
Stop all this bullshit and return to your barracks, you have just made a mockery of our country and its peoples.
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Sada Reddy promises no more devaluation amidst rumours of another devaluation
April 28, 2009
Talks of another devaluation is rife in the business circle in Fiji.
This comes on the same day when RBF governor, Sada Reddy, announced on Fiji radio that there will be no more devaluation.
Some say Sada Reddy is poised to devalue Fiji’s weak dollar by another 30%.
This rumour has prompted Reserve Bank of Fiji to send out a late evening press release saying how Fii’s depleting foreign reserves stock has instantly been neutralized by Sada Reddy’s 20% devalution a few days ago.
While it sounds very promising, Sada Reddy has not quite explained the volume of deferred payment he and the business community are holding back on, which could have also contributed to the spike in foreign reserves.
A copy of RBF’s press statement flung our way titled, “Devaluation has brought about immediate improvement on foreign reserves and liquidity” was no doubt a rushed job.
One can easily pick out that it was a reactionary press statement.
The graphs over-layed the written content of the statement leaving it hanging and open to all sorts of interpretation by its readers, including all the media outlets.
The graph shows that between 15th April devaluation to 28th April, Sada Reddy has managed to raise foreign reserves from $441 million to $591 million, up by $150million within 13 days.
Very impressive indeed by all means, unfortunately at whose cost?
The peoples - who else?
It’s the people of Fiji who will have to carry the cost of increased cost of living without any corresponding increase in their COLA.
And who caused all these misery?
It all started with Frank on December 6th 2006 and only got worse during the current world recession.
So Rada, tell the truth, explain to the people how you got your fantastic result.
Is it for real or is it another cooked-up figure you manipulated while stocking up on euros, pounds, US$, gold etc before April 15th.
And tell them how much deferred payment you’ve held back on.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Presidential Decrees are all Illegal
The question that we need to ask is under what circumstances might the fiats of President Ratu Josefa Iloilo and a group of immoral and imbeciles advising him and enjoying the fruits of the illegal presidential action, contrary to the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, come to be regarded as laws binding upon the people of Fiji.The question of the legality of the present regime is, at bottom, a question of legitimacy; for the present state is already an illegal regime. The imposition of the Public Emergency Decrees and the detention of the regime’s critics remind me of the words of William Pitt in the British House of Commons on 18 November 1783: “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”Oliver Cromwell stated before Parliament on 12 September 1654: “Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities…are the greatest cozenage men can put upon providence of God.” Milton called necessity “The tyrants plea” while Selden said “There is not anything in the world more abused than this sentence, Salus populi suprema ex esto.”Basically, the exercise of emergency power is governed by the Constitution.
Since the 1997 Constitution has been abrogated and the judiciary abolished, the people of Fiji have no obligation to abide by the emergency decrees – what the President did, or was forced to do – was torch the nation alight, and play the role of a heroic fire fighter. He and his supporters are nothing but arsonists who must be brought to justice one day.I agree that certain individual rights may be curtailed in times of emergency but the Court of Appeal judgment which went against the President and the illegal Bhaini Marama and his boob sucking ducklings has no legitimacy, for they created the emergency to milk the nation to their advantage at the expense of the citizens.
We have no obligation, to quote Mahatma Gandhi, to obey unjust laws that are being implemented by Khaiyum-Pryde-Driti-Teleni-Frank-Iloilo and the illegal gangsters.I also strongly recommend that the news media and other outlets take the name and photographs of all those sent to censor news and views – for they too should be brought to justice one day as partners in crime.Arsonists must not be allowed to portray themselves as national fire fighters. Its time the judges and intellectuals (the USP bunch have gone eerily quiet), and lawyers spoke out, including those at the CCF.
The President cannot undermine constitutional rule and expect the citizens to behave as respectable citizens. Release Iliesa and others NOW. Remember Gandhi’s words: “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
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Fiji Democracy Now speaks
April 28, 2009
By fijidemocracy2009
It’s no coincidence that our bold, anonymous bloggers have had a field day since media censorship started. Our dictator wanted a news blackout to prevent dissemination of factual information that might cast his illegal regime in a bad light. But it has backfired big time. Instead, it’s proving to be yet another case of our dictator shooting himself in the foot.
April 28, 2009
By fijidemocracy2009
It’s no coincidence that our bold, anonymous bloggers have had a field day since media censorship started. Our dictator wanted a news blackout to prevent dissemination of factual information that might cast his illegal regime in a bad light. But it has backfired big time. Instead, it’s proving to be yet another case of our dictator shooting himself in the foot.
Thanks to the Freedom Blogs, not only are we, the people of Fiji, getting the very information that the dictator doesn’t want us to have, but foreign media are accessing the blogs to inform the world about what is going on.
After censorship came in we at FDN posted a message on our front page inviting people to help us beat the news blackout. The response to date has been very encouraging. We’ve had a minor flood of emails from fellow bloggers and complete strangers. Some have been very touching, not saying much by way of hard info but saying a great deal about the feelings of heartbreak and hopelessness that people in Fiji are experiencing. The more informative ones have been very helpful and have informed some of our postings. We especially liked the one about goings-on up at QEB and we look forward to more updates!
Thanks to everyone. Keep those emails coming in and keep on blogging!
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Thanks to everyone. Keep those emails coming in and keep on blogging!
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The recent removal of the judiciary in Fiji by the military should come as no surprise to those who have followed events in the Fiji judiciary since the coup in 2000. Following that coup, serious divisions occurred in the judiciary over the relationship of some of its judges with the then illegal government. These divisions have existed up until the recent dismissal of the judiciary by the Fiji military. All attempts to resolve the divisions have failed with some members of the judiciary becoming intransigent, losing a proper sense of objectivity and failing to consider the overall good of the judiciary and ultimately the citizens of Fiji. These divisions weakened the judiciary and respect for the independence of the judiciary in Fiji.
The extent of the bitterness of this dispute evidenced itself in the coup of 2006, when following the removal of the Chief Justice two judges acted to replace him. These judges were, Justice Nazhat Shameem who usurped the role of the Chief Justice on the Judicial Services Commission, and Justice Anthony Gates who accepted the role of acting Chief Justice. Their actions were driven by these divisions in the judiciary and were opportunistic acts of vengeance against their “enemy” Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.
The extent of the bitterness of this dispute evidenced itself in the coup of 2006, when following the removal of the Chief Justice two judges acted to replace him. These judges were, Justice Nazhat Shameem who usurped the role of the Chief Justice on the Judicial Services Commission, and Justice Anthony Gates who accepted the role of acting Chief Justice. Their actions were driven by these divisions in the judiciary and were opportunistic acts of vengeance against their “enemy” Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.
This could not have occurred without the military removing the Chief Justice in the first place, and therefore giving the opportunity for Justices Shameem and Gates to do what they did and to ultimately take power in the judiciary. This further weakened the already weak judiciary by placing those that took power in the judiciary in the debt of the military. These actions therefore came at a price, in that the military now expected the judiciary to support their illegal coup. The military would rightly have concluded that the judiciary was now compromised and could be expected to support them.
The judiciary largely fulfilled this expectation with the unconscionable delays in the important constitutional cases that had been filed in the courts, the marginalisation of the Appeal Court which led to their mass resignation, the overturning of injunctions made against the military, to name a few events following the removal of the Chief Justice. Finally the judiciary delivered the grand prize, the judgement in the Qarase case in the High Court of Fiji which “legalised” the coup.[i]
The military would have been pleased with the support of the judiciary up to that point. It would have therefore come as a shock to them to see the judgement that was handed down by the Appeal Court which overturned everything that the military had planned for itself and Fiji. It should not have come as a surprise to anyone that a now very weak, divided and hopelessly compromised judiciary should be removed. The military would have felt betrayed and acted with swift vengeance in removing those that they believed were in their debt; the judiciary.
One should go back to the events of January 2007 and the removal of the Chief Justice to suggest that the judiciary may have survived the actions of the military following the coup if it had remained united and strong in the face of it. They had a plan for some time on how they should act if the military again launched a coup but ultimately this all fell apart when Justice Shameem, acting without reference to the panel of judges who were then deciding what to do about the removal of the Chief Justice, acted in the manner she did to replace her “enemy” the Chief Justice and which ultimately, and hopelessly, compromised the independence of the judiciary.
One should go back to the events of January 2007 and the removal of the Chief Justice to suggest that the judiciary may have survived the actions of the military following the coup if it had remained united and strong in the face of it. They had a plan for some time on how they should act if the military again launched a coup but ultimately this all fell apart when Justice Shameem, acting without reference to the panel of judges who were then deciding what to do about the removal of the Chief Justice, acted in the manner she did to replace her “enemy” the Chief Justice and which ultimately, and hopelessly, compromised the independence of the judiciary.
There should be an independent enquiry into what happened to the judiciary in Fiji and the actions of all judges since the coup in 2000, including some of those foreign lawyers who accepted judicial positions in Fiji and who so willingly immersed themselves in these controversies. No one involved should be allowed to rewrite history about their role in these sorry events in Fiji.
There are many lessons to be learned about the protection of the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law from what happened in Fiji. These lessons are not only for Fiji to consider, but also for the rest of the world who believe that the independence of the judiciary is fundamental to democracy and its role in protecting the rights of all citizens to live their lives free from oppression. The Fiji judiciary ultimately failed the good citizens of Fiji and it should not be allowed to happen again. An enquiry is needed.
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UN to halt Fiji troops recruitment: Rudd
April 28, 2009
Australia says the United Nations will stop recruiting Fijian soldiers for peace-keeping operations, after the recent suspension of Fiji’s constitution. Fiji has been high on the agenda for talks in Canberra between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare. The Pacific Islands Forum is set to expel Fiji on Friday and the Commonwealth is considering action. Mr Rudd says the UN’s move means important remittances to Fijian military families will now be cut off.
April 28, 2009
Australia says the United Nations will stop recruiting Fijian soldiers for peace-keeping operations, after the recent suspension of Fiji’s constitution. Fiji has been high on the agenda for talks in Canberra between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare. The Pacific Islands Forum is set to expel Fiji on Friday and the Commonwealth is considering action. Mr Rudd says the UN’s move means important remittances to Fijian military families will now be cut off.
“Through our own interventions with the United Nations and supported by New Zealand and other countries, the United Nations is now not going to engage future or new Fijian troops for new operations,” he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/28/2554834.htm?section=justin
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Duvuloco and others still detained
April 28, 2009
An update from our Fiji sources reveal that Duvuloco and others are still in police custody. It is unknown when they will be released or what has become of them. Sources say they have been confined in their cells since last week with no visitation allowed from any family, friends, lawyers or even red crosss. They say the mental torture on these guys is severe and should be condemned by all, especially the human rights global bodies.
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April 28, 2009
An update from our Fiji sources reveal that Duvuloco and others are still in police custody. It is unknown when they will be released or what has become of them. Sources say they have been confined in their cells since last week with no visitation allowed from any family, friends, lawyers or even red crosss. They say the mental torture on these guys is severe and should be condemned by all, especially the human rights global bodies.
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I’ve noticed a number of blogsites calling for restoration (to temporary power) of those who were ousted by Frank in 2006 to enable the country to move forward. My inner being, however, is advising me against this. They lost their right to continue to serve us, the people of Fiji, when they failed to organise mass protests against Frank, both after 2006 and also since the abrogation of the Constitution. The alternative it is suggesting is for the President to follow the Court of Appeal ruling to the letter and appoint someone like Sir Moti Tikaram as the interim Prime Minister to look after our affairs until the President issues a Writ of Elections and we return to democratic rule and begin meaningful parliamentary debate on the issues of Changes to the Constitution (Electoral Reform, role of the military), the Peoples’ Charter and the role of the President.
Sir Moti would be the most neutral of prominent Fiji citizens today, someone who has not been tainted by events from 2000 onwards. My crystal ball says this is the most logical and peaceful way forward. Any other way will only result in a fragmented,racially divided and suspicious citizenry.The Oracle
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An earlier post by a blogger on this same subject had an interesting (but totally untrue) suggestion that Chaudhry and followers left Bainimarama’s Cabinet camp after Frank decided against honouring his March 2009 election promise. If anyone was a supporter of Frank going beyond the 2009 deadline, it was Chaudhry himself. He was quoted extensively by the local media promoting the idea when he was in the inner circle.
Chaudhry now finds himself on the outside, he’s reached his use-by date, according to Frank’s dictatorial prescription needs, and now he’s trying to claw his way back into favour with his long-time support group - the cane farmers. Just have a look at the FLP website (www.flp.org.fj)and see their statements on sugar related issues and defence over the saga with the fertiliser company. Where’s his statement on the current situation in Fiji? What’s good for the foreign audience should be good for the locals as well?? Se va cava?
Chaudhry is Chaudhry and he has similar qualities which endear him to Frank - they’re both dictators and control freaks. A quick review of news reports during his time as PM will only justify my claim that he’s a Control Freak (control freak equates somewhat to dictator).
At least the man must be given credit - he’s testing the boundaries by calling for earlier elections - if they don’t arrest him, he’ll push the boundary a little further until such time that they do arrest him - making him the matyr to his lost sheep. Chaudhry is a political wolf in sheep’s clothing - he’s good at what he does.
Mark my words. If there is any one person the people of Fiji don’t need right now, it has to be Mahendra Chaudhry (Frank, of course, is the other).
The Oracle
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At least the man must be given credit - he’s testing the boundaries by calling for earlier elections - if they don’t arrest him, he’ll push the boundary a little further until such time that they do arrest him - making him the matyr to his lost sheep. Chaudhry is a political wolf in sheep’s clothing - he’s good at what he does.
Mark my words. If there is any one person the people of Fiji don’t need right now, it has to be Mahendra Chaudhry (Frank, of course, is the other).
The Oracle
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Is Chaudhry’s call for democracy a ploy?
April 28, 2009
Frank’s total disinterest in Mahendra Chaudhry’s public call, slamming the coupster’s April 10th new order announcement, is sending all sorts of signals to the native Fijians. Why hasn’t Chaudhry being picked up and thrown into a cell like other civilians who have spoken against the regime? To the native Fijians, Frank’s selective detainment and detention can mean that Chaudhry is clutching onto Frank’s ball so tightly that he is unable to flinch or do a thing. It can mean that Chaudhry yields lots of power over Frank and surely knows alot about Frank’s goings on. Is Chaudhry’s call for a return to democracy a set-up by him and Frank?
We think so!
April 28, 2009
Frank’s total disinterest in Mahendra Chaudhry’s public call, slamming the coupster’s April 10th new order announcement, is sending all sorts of signals to the native Fijians. Why hasn’t Chaudhry being picked up and thrown into a cell like other civilians who have spoken against the regime? To the native Fijians, Frank’s selective detainment and detention can mean that Chaudhry is clutching onto Frank’s ball so tightly that he is unable to flinch or do a thing. It can mean that Chaudhry yields lots of power over Frank and surely knows alot about Frank’s goings on. Is Chaudhry’s call for a return to democracy a set-up by him and Frank?
We think so!
Or is Chaudhry connivingly telling the world that he is now a converted coupster plotter who will tout and preach the democracy flower to open the door to the releasing of the EU sugar funds for his sugar cane belt electorate. Chaudhry is a cunning, unethical man. All his words and actions must never be taken at face value. After all, it is he who was also using Frank to address some of his deeply rooted political and personal hatred towards those who dared challenge him. We think Chaudhry is plotting a rescue plan for his buddy Frank.
Reliving Suva's glory days
Waikato Times - 28 April 2009
With echoes of its colonial past never far away, MARTIN TIFFANY takes you on a quick trip around Suva
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Whenever anyone asks me about places to go in Fiji, I seldom recommend Suva.
In fact, I can't even think of one time when I pointed someone in the direction of the capital city.
Ironically, Suva is where I head as soon as I get off the plane in Nadi.
It's my home town, it's where I'm comfortable, it's where I relax and have fun.
So, it can't be that bad.
I suppose it is a perception thing. It is not the big tourist trap in the way, say, Denarau is, and you never see a package deal for five nights in Suva.
It's all about Nadi, the Coral Coast and the outer islands as far as selling the country to tourists goes.
And that is fair enough as those places have all the attractions sun, sea, sand and the related activities.
When friends and colleagues in New Zealand ask me where the best places to go in Fiji are, I ask them what they want to do, what their budget is and recommend accordingly.
Suva never really enters the equation.
It was only on a recent trip back that I had something of an epiphany.
I had just finished an excellent lunch at the Suva Bowling Club ... yep, take note, the Suva Bowling Club offers great meals at reasonable prices and is a popular lunchtime haunt of many workers.
Plus a couple of swift icy cold Fiji Bitters at the bar never go wrong.
Anyway, back to my epiphany.
I had just had a few ales and a great lunch with my best mate and was wandering back to the car rather slowly as my seafood lunch settled in, when I suddenly began to take notice of where I was.
I walked past the remains of the once proud Grand Pacific Hotel (or the GPH as it is better known) and looked with sadness at the rather derelict state of the once grand "old lady" of Suva.
But the sadness was tempered with fond memories as I recalled some of the history of the place.
According to the history books, it was built by the Union Steamship Company in 1914 to serve the needs of passengers on its trans-Pacific routes.
The design of the hotel was to make the passengers think they had never gone ashore, as rooms in the GPH were like first-class staterooms, complete with saltwater bathrooms and plumbing fixtures identical to those on an ocean liner.
Its many famous guests have included Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Somerset Maugham, James Michener and Queen Elizabeth.
Michener's description of the Grand Pacific Hotel in 1944 was this: "one of the memorable hotels of the world, not majestic and not particularly spacious, but a haven to all who crossed the Pacific on tourist ships or who now came by airplane ... a big squarish building of several floors, with a huge central dining area filled with small tables, each meticulously fitted with fine silver and china, bud vases, and a facing porch leading out to the lawn that went down to the sea. It was grand, and it certainly was Pacific, and the barefoot Indians who served the meals had a grace that few hotels in the world could offer and none surpass."
My family, including two-year-old me, stayed there in 1969 as we waited for a house to be made ready.I also have a bit of history of my own as far as the GPH is concerned.
My father worked for the then colonial Government and, as is still the case, people in certain positions are entitled to a house.
If you get a certain position you get a certain house, which was kind of a pain as a kid because every time my dad was moved to another department, we had to move house.
In later years I recalled the days following the 1987 coups when the GPH was one of the few places you could get a beer on a Sunday night.
I was a frequent visitor on the Sabbath after church of course.
Apparently it is being restored to a five-star hotel with the help of the Fiji National Provident Fund which is seeking joint venture partners to begin a $50-million revamp.
Apparently.
But I understand at present an army regiment that is responsible for providing security for the prime minister, Cabinet and Government House are staying there dorm style.
I live in hope.
Over the road from the GPH is Albert Park, named after Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert.
The pavilion opposite the Government Buildings is named after Charles Kingsford Smith, the Australian aviator and first person to fly across the Pacific.
Smith was unaware that a row of palm trees stretched across the middle of Albert Park, his intended landing place in 1928.
A local radio operator figured out Smith's predicament, and the colonial governor ordered the trees cut down immediately.
As I gaze across at the park fond memories of the many games of hockey I played there come flooding back as do the memories of the numerous Hibiscus Festivals I went to usually ankle-deep in mud and eating candy floss.
As a young cadet sports reporter I also covered many cricket matches at the park, which was great as I could usually have a bit of snooze under the trees.
Across the road is the once spectacular Thurston Gardens originally the Suva Botanical Gardens. It is the site of the original Fijian town of Suva, whose former inhabitants moved across the bay in about 1882.
It was once a busy fortified town that in 1843 was burned and was the scene of one of the fiercest and bloodiest scraps in Fijian history.
According to documents at the Fiji Museum, in 1879, Sir John Thurston, the Governor of Fiji, asked John Horne, the director of Forests and Botanic Gardens in Mauritius, to visit the colony. After some discussion, Horne recommended that the land be turned into a Botanical Garden and Plant Introduction Station.
This work was approved and by 1905 a large number of exotic trees were already established.
The Fiji Museum, which was built in the Suva Botanical Garden grounds in 1955, still believes that the garden has great potential to become a natural and cultural outdoor museum that complements the existing exhibitions within the museum buildings.
There are now plans to work closely with the council to improve the gardens and I understand they are actually working on it now. It could be a spectacular asset for the city.
On the other side of Albert Park are the old Government buildings which have a lot of character. Complete with clock tower, these were built in the late 1930s and were the setting for the first coup in 1987 as this is where Parliament used to sit until Siti Rabuka and his boys stormed in and changed the course of the country's history forever.
So, in this one small corner of Suva is a great wealth of history.
A bit sad in some ways as the former glory has gone but still interesting.
On a more vibrant note, and not too far away along Victoria Pde, is the heart of Suva's night life with a proliferation of clubs and bars catering to different tastes.
People take partying very seriously and while 1am is the official closing time there are a number of places to go after hours or so I am told.
Step into any of these places and you are guaranteed to have a good time.
Food is also taken very seriously and Suva offers a huge range of cafes, restaurants and takeaway places with cuisine including Fijian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. Each time I go back to Suva there always seems to be a new eatery.
One favourite of mine is Joji's, a rather interesting Chinese takeaway where your meal is cooked on the spot by a Chinese man with a big wok.
It is pretty hard to find if you don't know where to look as it's round the back of the Civic Centre and doesn't have any signs.
But follow your nose or the line of people that snakes out on to the footpath (yes it's that popular) and you'll be right.
Trust me you won't be disappointed.
A trip to the Suva market is an experience in itself with its wide range of fresh produce and seafood.
Shopping in Suva is great, and often underrated.
Obviously there are the modern shopping malls but walk out of the town centre and head up the back streets of Cumming St and Marks St or up Waimanu Rd.
You will be surprised at what you discover and don't be afraid to bargain.
Admittedly, Suva does have a seedy feel, which is part of the attraction for me.
You are well advised to hold on to your hand bag and wallet and take other obvious precautions just like you would do in most other capital cities.
Fiji's capital always appears to be struggling to contain its seething mass of its 200,000 multiracial inhabitants and you fully expect it to burst at the seams one day.
City streets are always busy with a mass of people and around the fringes of the capital squatter settlements hang on for dear life.
SUVA IS on a large peninsula and was declared the capital in 1882, after 26 years of having the old capital at Levuka on the island of Ovalau.
Whoever made the decision to move the capital must have visited on a fine day as Suva is noted for its considerable rainfall.
Apparently the first governor of Fiji, Sir Arthur Gordon, said that it rained in Suva like he had seen nowhere else before and that there was hardly a day without rain.
I have only touched on a fraction of what the capital holds but what I'm trying to say is don't forget to give Suva a try next time you are in Fiji.
Tell them I sent you.
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"City streets are always busy with a mass of people and around the fringes of the capital squatter settlements hang on for dear life." - Martin Tiffany
Sa Yala Eke Voreqe – O Viti Me Suka Ve Ira Na Lewena
Sai Comment:
- Pass this to all freedom loving Fijians in all places, especially those in the villages and islands, in Fiji so Voreqe and his illegal regime can be brought to its knees once and for all.
Sa Yala Eke Voreqe – O Viti Me Suka Ve Ira Na Lewena
Below is the Fijian vernacular message that was distributed throughout Fiji was made by members of the discipline services who believe in INTEGRITY,HONESTY AND HONOUR.
We want to stop this MADNESS. Please let them know that we are all RFMF people under Voreqe, Mara, Driti and co. Also we are all experienced senior officers of the Police force under Teleni. Also senior and junior Navy officers under Kean. Let them know that we mean business. They should restore the 1997 constitution, or they shall perish. take the former option.
We want to stop this MADNESS. Please let them know that we are all RFMF people under Voreqe, Mara, Driti and co. Also we are all experienced senior officers of the Police force under Teleni. Also senior and junior Navy officers under Kean. Let them know that we mean business. They should restore the 1997 constitution, or they shall perish. take the former option.
We want to restore lost HONOUR ,INTEGRITY and HONESTY in the UNIFORM. SA YALA EKE.
Eda vakanadakuya oqo e dua na Siga Ni Mate e rarawataki ka butobuto taudua ena keda I vola tukutuku na lewe I Viti, vakabibi o keda na Kawa I Taukei. Oqo ena nona sa mai basuraka ko Joseva Iloilovatu na yavudei ni vakavulewa (1997 Constitution) ka yavutu ni noda bula na lewe I Viti, vakabibi na veika e taqomaka kivei keda na Kawa I Taukei. E sega ni tiko ena vosa vakaviti na vosa me ganiti Iloilovatu, ia eda masuti ira ga na vanua o Vuda mera la’ki kauti koya lesu ki delaniyavu. E tiko mai dakuna ko Bainimarama, tamata vuli vakavo, dau caca veiwekani, ka dau buturaki keda sobu tiko na Kawa I Taukei. E vica tiko na Turaga ni Valu lecaika era tovaki Bainimarama tiko, e rau wili talega kina ko Ganilau kei Nailatikau.
Ko Iloilovatu, ena vakarusai Viti. Era na bula gogo na bisinisi, sega na cakacaka, malumalumu na I lavo, sega na kakana, kasura na veiqaravi vakamatanitu, ka na takali yani na vei wekani. Ia, ena vakatau kivei keda kece sara, meda solia na noda I gu, ka vorata na matanitu nei Iloilovatu.
Me da yalovata ka kaya vata kece oqo:
Me da yalovata ka kaya vata kece oqo:
1. SA YALA EKE na neimami vei vosoti voli mai; sa oti na vei talanoa kei Bainimarama, se na vakarogoca na ka e kaya. Keimami na kovea lesu na vei liutaki ena gaunisala cava ga e votu mai kivei keimami. Keimami na masu vua na neimami Kalou, ka ia na yavavala, ena vala vata kei kemami ko Koya.
2. SA YALA EKE na vei waraki, keimami na sega ni waraka e dua tale me mai valataka na neimami dodonu; keimami na tekivutaka sara ga na Kawa I Taukei. Kevaka era veivuke mai na duikaikai se na vei matanitu tani, keimami na ciqomi ira, ke sega, keimami na ia ga vakataki keimami na Kawa I Taukei.
3. SA YALA EKE na neimami namaki ira na vei liutaki mera mai liutaki keimami ena yavala oqo, sa I keimami sara ga vakayadudua keimami bole ka duavata ena veika kece e dodonu me vakayacori. Ena tekivu yani e Suva , lakovata kei na tayabe ni kudru kei na sogo gaunisala ena veikoro, sogo rara ni waqavuka, sogo wavu ni kelekele ni waqa e Viti raraba. Ena paralase ko Viti me yacova ni keimami sa rawata na neimami I naki, oya me vakatikori tale na 1997 CONSTITUTION. Ni sa yaco na neimami I naki, ena kauta mai na vei lomani, tadola tale na veiwekani kei ira na vei matanitu e vuravura, ka totolo sara na veisau me sautu na neimami vanua.
4. SA YALA EKE na rere; keimami kawa ni tamata yalo qaqa, keimami sega ni rerevaka na vale ni vei vesu, na mavoa, se na mate. Ko ira na sotia kei ira na ovisa era neimami gone ka keimami kila nira sega ni vinakata mera vakamavoataka e dua na wekadra.. Ia, ke sa mani yaco na mavoa, keimami na sega ga ni soro. Keimami kaya kivei ira na neimami kawa: ‘For your tomorrow we gave our today.’
5. SA YALA EKE na beci keimami vakataki keimami, ka sa kena gauna oqo me keimami vakayagataka kina na kaukauwa levu e tiko kivei keimami yadudua. E vica na vei wekani era na keimami meca, ia, ena qai vakamaduataki ira ga na kedra I tukutuku rogorogo ca ena bula tu ena vei taba gauna kece sara mai muri, me vakataki Jutasa Isikarioti.
Na neimami I bole oqo, ‘SA YALA EKE.’
Ratu Joni Questions 5 Year Election Delay
Former Fiji Vice President questions regime’s motives in five-year election delay
www.rnzi.com - 27 April, 2009 UTC
www.rnzi.com - 27 April, 2009 UTC
Fiji’s former Vice-President, Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, says the electoral changes touted by the interim government should not take five years.
When President Ratu Josefa Iloilo threw out the constitution just over 2 weeks ago, he said elections would happen by September 2014 at the latest.
Ratu Joni says five more years is an eternity, and he questions the interim regime’s motives.
“The changes that they contemplate, the changes to the electoral system will not take five years. So you would then have to ask what other changes they feel they have to make. The changes in attitude they contemplate are really generational.”
“The changes that they contemplate, the changes to the electoral system will not take five years. So you would then have to ask what other changes they feel they have to make. The changes in attitude they contemplate are really generational.”
Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi says either the interim government feels it needs that period to lay the ground work to try to re-shape society, or it will attempt to use the length of time as a negotiating issue.
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Vore Ready to Be Ousted
More from the bold anonymous bloggers
April 27, 2009
The Fijian vernacular message that was distributed throughout Fiji was made by members of the discipline services who believe in INTEGRITY,HONESTY AND HONOUR. We want to stop this MADNESS. please let them know that we are all RFMF people under voreqe,mara , driti and co. Also we are all experienced senior officers of the Police force under teleni. Also senior and junior Navy officers under Kean. Let them know that we mean business. They should restore the 1997 constitution, or they shall perish.take the former option.
We want to restore lost HONOUR ,INTEGRITY and HONESTY in the UNIFORM. SA YALA EKE.
April 27, 2009
The Fijian vernacular message that was distributed throughout Fiji was made by members of the discipline services who believe in INTEGRITY,HONESTY AND HONOUR. We want to stop this MADNESS. please let them know that we are all RFMF people under voreqe,mara , driti and co. Also we are all experienced senior officers of the Police force under teleni. Also senior and junior Navy officers under Kean. Let them know that we mean business. They should restore the 1997 constitution, or they shall perish.take the former option.
We want to restore lost HONOUR ,INTEGRITY and HONESTY in the UNIFORM. SA YALA EKE.
Eda vakanadakuya oqo e dua na Siga Ni Mate e rarawataki ka butobuto taudua ena keda I vola tukutuku na lewe I Viti, vakabibi o keda na Kawa I Taukei.Oqo ena nona sa mai basuraka ko Joseva Iloilovatu na yavudei ni vakavulewa (1997 Constitution) ka yavutu ni noda bula na lewe I Viti, vakabibi na veika e taqomaka kivei keda na Kawa I Taukei. E sega ni tiko ena vosa vakaviti na vosa me ganiti Iloilovatu, ia eda masuti ira ga na vanua o Vuda mera la’ki kauti koya lesu ki delaniyavu. E tiko mai dakuna ko Bainimarama, tamata vuli vakavo, dau caca veiwekani, ka dau buturaki keda sobu tiko na Kawa I Taukei. E vica tiko na Turaga ni Valu lecaika era tovaki Bainimarama tiko, e rau wili talega kina ko Ganilau kei Nailatikau. Ko Iloilovatu, ena vakarusai Viti. Era na bula gogo na bisinisi, sega na cakacaka, malumalumu na I lavo, sega na kakana, kasura na veiqaravi vakamatanitu, ka na takali yani na vei wekani. Ia, ena vakatau kivei keda kece sara, meda solia na noda I gu, ka vorata na matanitu nei Iloilovatu. Me da yalovata ka kaya vata kece oqo:
1. SA YALA EKE na neimami vei vosoti voli mai; sa oti na vei talanoa kei Bainimarama, se na vakarogoca na ka e kaya. Keimami na kovea lesu na vei liutaki ena gaunisala cava ga e votu mai kivei keimami. Keimami na masu vua na neimami Kalou, ka ia na yavavala, ena vala vata kei kemami ko Koya.
2. SA YALA EKE na vei waraki, keimami na sega ni waraka e dua tale me mai valataka na neimami dodonu; keimami na tekivutaka sara ga na Kawa I Taukei. Kevaka era veivuke mai na duikaikai se na vei matanitu tani, keimami na ciqomi ira, ke sega, keimami na ia ga vakataki keimami na Kawa I Taukei.
3. SA YALA EKE na neimami namaki ira na vei liutaki mera mai liutaki keimami ena yavala oqo, sa I keimami sara ga vakayadudua keimami bole ka duavata ena veika kece e dodonu me vakayacori. Ena tekivu yani e Suva , lakovata kei na tayabe ni kudru kei na sogo gaunisala ena veikoro, sogo rara ni waqavuka, sogo wavu ni kelekele ni waqa e Viti raraba. Ena paralase ko Viti me yacova ni keimami sa rawata na neimami I naki, oya me vakatikori tale na 1997 CONSTITUTION. Ni sa yaco na neimami I naki, ena kauta mai na vei lomani, tadola tale na veiwekani kei ira na vei matanitu e vuravura, ka totolo sara na veisau me sautu na neimami vanua.
4. SA YALA EKE na rere; keimami kawa ni tamata yalo qaqa, keimami sega ni rerevaka na vale ni vei vesu, na mavoa, se na mate. Ko ira na sotia kei ira na ovisa era neimami gone ka keimami kila nira sega ni vinakata mera vakamavoataka e dua na wekadra.. Ia, ke sa mani yaco na mavoa, keimami na sega ga ni soro. Keimami kaya kivei ira na neimami kawa: ‘For your tomorrow we gave our today.’
5. SA YALA EKE na beci keimami vakataki keimami, ka sa kena gauna oqo me keimami vakayagataka kina na kaukauwa levu e tiko kivei keimami yadudua. E vica na vei wekani era na keimami meca, ia, ena qai vakamaduataki ira ga na kedra I tukutuku rogorogo ca ena bula tu ena vei taba gauna kece sara mai muri, me vakataki Jutasa Isikarioti. Na neimami I bole oqo, ‘SA YALA EKE.’
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Indigenous Fijians ready to face Frank head on
April 27, 2009
We are receiving reports from our sources in Fiji that dooms day is nigh for Frank.
While details are still sketchy, we’re told that the peoples power resistance against Frank is beginning to gain momentum following the detainment of some hard-core nationalist like Duvuloco.
Is the fat lady slowly finding her way to the stage to sing her thundering tune?
We think so!
But not until the big kahuna wigged ones are crowned by Aiyaz, Frank and Iloilo.
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April 27, 2009
We are receiving reports from our sources in Fiji that dooms day is nigh for Frank.
While details are still sketchy, we’re told that the peoples power resistance against Frank is beginning to gain momentum following the detainment of some hard-core nationalist like Duvuloco.
Is the fat lady slowly finding her way to the stage to sing her thundering tune?
We think so!
But not until the big kahuna wigged ones are crowned by Aiyaz, Frank and Iloilo.
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Aiyaz Khaiyum’s English QC furious with betrayal
April 27, 2009
We have been reliably informed by those close to the English QC who argued for the President in the Court of Appeal against deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase that the QC is very angry with the abrogation of the Constitution.
He has informed the British Solitictor-General of the developments in Fiji since the Appeal Court decision.
So the legal airhead Adolf Sayed Khaiyum should get ready for international bashing and ostracism - even his former lapdog Shaista will be of no help to the goons
Posted by rawfijinews
April 27, 2009
We have been reliably informed by those close to the English QC who argued for the President in the Court of Appeal against deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase that the QC is very angry with the abrogation of the Constitution.
He has informed the British Solitictor-General of the developments in Fiji since the Appeal Court decision.
So the legal airhead Adolf Sayed Khaiyum should get ready for international bashing and ostracism - even his former lapdog Shaista will be of no help to the goons
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Hell will break loose in Fiji!
April 27, 2009
Frank and Aiyaz’s new legal order is really the law of the jungle - reworded!
Frank is arbitarily taking in civilians to further intimidate and to instil fear into Fijian peoples hearts and minds.
And sources from there say it will get worse within the next few days as peoples collective anger begin to boil over into what they say will be a catastrophic explosion.
Frank’s intimidation tactics nor his gun power will be able to stop what these sources say is brewing hot.
And Frank knows it’s coming.
He can feel the angry heat from afar!
Hell will break loose in Fiji - there is no doubt about it!
Posted by rawfijinews
April 27, 2009
Frank and Aiyaz’s new legal order is really the law of the jungle - reworded!
Frank is arbitarily taking in civilians to further intimidate and to instil fear into Fijian peoples hearts and minds.
And sources from there say it will get worse within the next few days as peoples collective anger begin to boil over into what they say will be a catastrophic explosion.
Frank’s intimidation tactics nor his gun power will be able to stop what these sources say is brewing hot.
And Frank knows it’s coming.
He can feel the angry heat from afar!
Hell will break loose in Fiji - there is no doubt about it!
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Will Frank take in Chaudhry like Duvuloco?
April 27, 2009
Mahendra Chaudhry is a bold, seasoned politician who knows when to say what.
His public denounciation of Frank’s attempt to kill the 1997 constitution is timely.
And to come from a man who was once a key member of Frank & Cos regime and its interim minister for money will most definitely create waves within team Frank’s inner circle.
Mahendra Chaudhry has defied Fiji’s marshall law rules demanding all its citizen to zip up, be still and refrain from showing any opposition to Frank and Aiyaz’s new fictitous order.
Will Frank take Chaudhry to task just like he’s done to the accused Duvuloco’s gang?
We hope not!
Posted by rawfijinews
April 27, 2009
Mahendra Chaudhry is a bold, seasoned politician who knows when to say what.
His public denounciation of Frank’s attempt to kill the 1997 constitution is timely.
And to come from a man who was once a key member of Frank & Cos regime and its interim minister for money will most definitely create waves within team Frank’s inner circle.
Mahendra Chaudhry has defied Fiji’s marshall law rules demanding all its citizen to zip up, be still and refrain from showing any opposition to Frank and Aiyaz’s new fictitous order.
Will Frank take Chaudhry to task just like he’s done to the accused Duvuloco’s gang?
We hope not!
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Why Frank Bainimarama chickened out from being a man
April 27, 2009
Remember that “Be a Man” crusade organised by Teleni’s bro?
It was to have featured Frank Bainimarama and his murderer bro-in-law Francis Kean.
They were required to be a man and spill it all, professing their sins and to tell their side of the story why they should be called a man.
Well, Francis Kean made it to the stage but not Frank.
So what exactly happened to strongman Frank?
Word is that he chickened out completely after we posted that “Be a Man” crusade notice on this blog.
He was told members of the local and international media will be there so the sorry sod just couldn’t face up to testify his girly doings made possible with his pink handbag pistol.
We say, Francis Kean is a man.
And Frank?
He’s a bloody full-on poofta moonlighting as a coupster!
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April 27, 2009
Remember that “Be a Man” crusade organised by Teleni’s bro?
It was to have featured Frank Bainimarama and his murderer bro-in-law Francis Kean.
They were required to be a man and spill it all, professing their sins and to tell their side of the story why they should be called a man.
Well, Francis Kean made it to the stage but not Frank.
So what exactly happened to strongman Frank?
Word is that he chickened out completely after we posted that “Be a Man” crusade notice on this blog.
He was told members of the local and international media will be there so the sorry sod just couldn’t face up to testify his girly doings made possible with his pink handbag pistol.
We say, Francis Kean is a man.
And Frank?
He’s a bloody full-on poofta moonlighting as a coupster!
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Warnings of unrest amid Fiji crackdown - TVNZ
April 27, 2009
There are warnings of civil unrest in Fiji amid a climate of censorship and intimidation of people who dare to challenge the unelected government.
The Pacific nation is effectively under martial law after Frank Bainimarama dumped the constitution and the judiciary and delayed elections for five years.
Fiji’s political crisis doesn’t make local headlines in fact it is not in the paper at all.
There is no space for speaking up and people have to be prepared for the consequences.
Following comments he has made Dorsami Naidu of the Fiji Law Society says he has been contacted by the military “asking me to come to the camp and they haven’t given me any reasons so I refuse to go.”
Unsanctioned comments can cost people two years of their freedom and while intimidation hasn’t stopped Naidu, many others are too scared to speak up.
Under the military rule in Fiji it is illegal to hold a meeting. If it involves the media or the conversation is about politics people have to apply for a permit.
To avoid censorship, ONE News broke the rules and met with Fijians in private.
One woman wished to remain anonymous due to feared repercussions of speaking up.
“I do have fear, I do have anxiety about what they will do to me. I do not believe to be silent is the way out of it,” she says.
She supports a speedy return to democracy.
“The president has clearly committed treason in our view,” she says.
And talking of Bainimarama: “We think he is arrogant, we think he is power hungry. In our view he is very dangerous.”
The chance to voice her true opinion brought her to tears. She said she feels suffocated and oppressed and believes the only place the current regime is driving her country, is down.
She fears more civil strife.
“I am hoping that we will remain focused that there is one common enemy and that is the military and their leaders.”
Naidu also has concerns about stability.
“It is very unstable though there appears to be a calm. It is a non-functional society,” he says.
Naidu believes the way out of the mess his country is in is to is appeal to some within the government who may secretly doubt Bainimarama’s master plan.
“Everyone has a conscience and these guys are very concerned otherwise they wouldn’t be closing down the media.”
Others are urging New Zealand tourists to stay away to starve the government of tax dollars, saying it is a necessary sacrifice and one they hope will bring the people of Fiji swiftly back to the ballot box.
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/warnings-unrest-amid-fiji-crackdown-2680500
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April 27, 2009
There are warnings of civil unrest in Fiji amid a climate of censorship and intimidation of people who dare to challenge the unelected government.
The Pacific nation is effectively under martial law after Frank Bainimarama dumped the constitution and the judiciary and delayed elections for five years.
Fiji’s political crisis doesn’t make local headlines in fact it is not in the paper at all.
There is no space for speaking up and people have to be prepared for the consequences.
Following comments he has made Dorsami Naidu of the Fiji Law Society says he has been contacted by the military “asking me to come to the camp and they haven’t given me any reasons so I refuse to go.”
Unsanctioned comments can cost people two years of their freedom and while intimidation hasn’t stopped Naidu, many others are too scared to speak up.
Under the military rule in Fiji it is illegal to hold a meeting. If it involves the media or the conversation is about politics people have to apply for a permit.
To avoid censorship, ONE News broke the rules and met with Fijians in private.
One woman wished to remain anonymous due to feared repercussions of speaking up.
“I do have fear, I do have anxiety about what they will do to me. I do not believe to be silent is the way out of it,” she says.
She supports a speedy return to democracy.
“The president has clearly committed treason in our view,” she says.
And talking of Bainimarama: “We think he is arrogant, we think he is power hungry. In our view he is very dangerous.”
The chance to voice her true opinion brought her to tears. She said she feels suffocated and oppressed and believes the only place the current regime is driving her country, is down.
She fears more civil strife.
“I am hoping that we will remain focused that there is one common enemy and that is the military and their leaders.”
Naidu also has concerns about stability.
“It is very unstable though there appears to be a calm. It is a non-functional society,” he says.
Naidu believes the way out of the mess his country is in is to is appeal to some within the government who may secretly doubt Bainimarama’s master plan.
“Everyone has a conscience and these guys are very concerned otherwise they wouldn’t be closing down the media.”
Others are urging New Zealand tourists to stay away to starve the government of tax dollars, saying it is a necessary sacrifice and one they hope will bring the people of Fiji swiftly back to the ballot box.
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/warnings-unrest-amid-fiji-crackdown-2680500
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Chaudhry beats Qarase in calling for a speedy return to democracy after April 10th
April 27, 2009
Michael McKenna April 27, 2009
Article from: The Australian
FORMER Fiji prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry yesterday called on military leader Frank Bainimarama to return the South Pacific nation to democracy as the population increasingly suffers rising food prices and worsening social tensions in the face of international isolation.
With Fiji almost guaranteed to be suspended this week from the Pacific Islands Forum, Mr Chaudhry defied a press and political crackdown on dissent to blast Commodore Bainimarama’s “autocratic and dictatorial” leadership after taking power
in a bloodless coup in December 2006.
April 27, 2009
Michael McKenna April 27, 2009
Article from: The Australian
FORMER Fiji prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry yesterday called on military leader Frank Bainimarama to return the South Pacific nation to democracy as the population increasingly suffers rising food prices and worsening social tensions in the face of international isolation.
With Fiji almost guaranteed to be suspended this week from the Pacific Islands Forum, Mr Chaudhry defied a press and political crackdown on dissent to blast Commodore Bainimarama’s “autocratic and dictatorial” leadership after taking power
in a bloodless coup in December 2006.
A finance minister in Commodore Bainimarama’s interim government until August last year, Mr Chaudhry said his former political ally’s refusal to hold elections until 2014 was hurting the population, with the instability driving down the economy and contributing to racial tensions.
Commodore Bainimarama’s anti-elections stance seems certain to confirm Fiji’s suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum. In January, member nations ordered Fiji to set the date for democratic elections by May 1. That deadline edges ever closer and Fiji looks even less likely to meet it now than it did in January.
Commodore Bainimarama’s anti-elections stance seems certain to confirm Fiji’s suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum. In January, member nations ordered Fiji to set the date for democratic elections by May 1. That deadline edges ever closer and Fiji looks even less likely to meet it now than it did in January.
Mr Chaudhry’s Fiji Labour Party is seeking talks with Commodore Bainimarama to resume negotiations for democratic elections to be held as soon as possible. “We have severe problems over here with the economy, and the dollar has been devalued by 20 per cent,” he told The Australian. “Fiji is a nation that imports a lot of food and people are finding it increasingly difficult to put food on the table. Ordinary people are feeling it, and, of course, there are social tensions. “But we can’t address these issues without restoring political stability, it is now imperative to find a solution.”
Mr Chaudhry and two fellow Labour Party ministers quit the interim Government last year after Commodore Bainimarama went back on a promise to hold elections in Fiji by March, saying he needed more time to reform the nation’s political system and root out corruption.
This month, Commodore Bainimarama went further by repealing the Constitution, before the judiciary was sacked and emergency regulations put in place to control free speech.
Regime censors have been sent into newsrooms to prevent sensitive political stories being published or broadcast.
This month, Commodore Bainimarama went further by repealing the Constitution, before the judiciary was sacked and emergency regulations put in place to control free speech.
Regime censors have been sent into newsrooms to prevent sensitive political stories being published or broadcast.
Mr Chaudhry, a former prime minister who was ousted in the previous 2000 nationalist coup, said he had initially supported Commodore Bainimarama in his push to eradicate race politics in the country. Commodore Bainimarama had accused that government of corruption and implementing racist policies to the detriment of Fiji’s minority ethnic Indian community, which is the Labour Party’s key constituency and support base. But Mr Chaudhry said the dumping of the Constitution and the regime’s latest crackdown on the judiciary and press were worrying for the future of the country.
“The abrogation of the Constitution was tragic and unfortunate,” he said. “We need to get talks, that include (2006 ousted prime minister) Laisenia Qarase, back on track to map out a way back to democracy.”
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25390401-25837,00.html
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25390401-25837,00.html
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9,000 less Aussie tourist to Fiji in Jan, Feb ‘09
April 27, 2009
“Fiji reports sharp downturn.”
“Fiji saw a sharp dip in arrivals from Australia in the first two months of the year with tourism officials blaming the recession and floods.”
“Figures released by Tourism Fiji show 23,285 Australians visited the island in January and February, almost 9,000 fewer than 2008.”
These are the latest words from Tourism Today, a daily tourism e-zine that gives summarised reports on tourist destinations, including Fiji.
So fellas, it is confirmed that Aussie’s and New Zealanders, who make up Fiji’s key tourist markets, are abit weary of Fiji.
Frank has weared them down with his childish tirades they see on their mainstream media, putting them right off from contributing to his self-preservation national kitty.
Posted by rawfijinews
April 27, 2009
“Fiji reports sharp downturn.”
“Fiji saw a sharp dip in arrivals from Australia in the first two months of the year with tourism officials blaming the recession and floods.”
“Figures released by Tourism Fiji show 23,285 Australians visited the island in January and February, almost 9,000 fewer than 2008.”
These are the latest words from Tourism Today, a daily tourism e-zine that gives summarised reports on tourist destinations, including Fiji.
So fellas, it is confirmed that Aussie’s and New Zealanders, who make up Fiji’s key tourist markets, are abit weary of Fiji.
Frank has weared them down with his childish tirades they see on their mainstream media, putting them right off from contributing to his self-preservation national kitty.
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Fiji’s defence force members speak out anonymously
April 27, 2009
Dear RFN,
please let them know that we are all RFMF people under voreqe,mara , driti and co. Also we are all experienced senior officers of the Police force under teleni. Also senior and junior Navy officers under Kean. Let them know that we mean business. They should restore the 1997 constitution, or they shall perish.take the former option. We want to restore lost PRIDE ,INTEGRITY and HONESTY in the UNIFORM.
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April 27, 2009
Dear RFN,
please let them know that we are all RFMF people under voreqe,mara , driti and co. Also we are all experienced senior officers of the Police force under teleni. Also senior and junior Navy officers under Kean. Let them know that we mean business. They should restore the 1997 constitution, or they shall perish.take the former option. We want to restore lost PRIDE ,INTEGRITY and HONESTY in the UNIFORM.
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John Prasad, Fiji’s finance man swindles $0.5 million
April 27, 2009
We’ve been told that John Prasad, now the illegal Permanent Secretary/CEO of Finance helping Frank manage the national kitty swindled $0.5 million from a developer.
The developer is said to have cried foul when John Prasad and his New Zealand partner took off with the money.
John Prasad is said to have warned the developer not to make a fuss out of it or else he will see to it that his Fiji business interests are wiped out.
Meanwhile, John Prasad and his Kiwi business partner continue to provide consultancy works to Fiji’s water reticulation unit at the public works department.
Their company is said to have just received another $50,000 payment instalment authorised by John Prasad himself as PS Finance.
The corruption by Frank’s coup apologists/beneficiaries has brought a bitter taste to Frank’s hollow claims of wanting to rid corruption in Fiji.
Posted by rawfijinews
April 27, 2009
We’ve been told that John Prasad, now the illegal Permanent Secretary/CEO of Finance helping Frank manage the national kitty swindled $0.5 million from a developer.
The developer is said to have cried foul when John Prasad and his New Zealand partner took off with the money.
John Prasad is said to have warned the developer not to make a fuss out of it or else he will see to it that his Fiji business interests are wiped out.
Meanwhile, John Prasad and his Kiwi business partner continue to provide consultancy works to Fiji’s water reticulation unit at the public works department.
Their company is said to have just received another $50,000 payment instalment authorised by John Prasad himself as PS Finance.
The corruption by Frank’s coup apologists/beneficiaries has brought a bitter taste to Frank’s hollow claims of wanting to rid corruption in Fiji.
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Fiji bloggers can mobilize issues
April 27, 2009
By forwardfiji
Our sovereign rights has citizens of a once Democratic Republic State, has been muzzled by dogmatic paranoia and irrational leadership.
Our votes have been delayed and justice delayed is far from justice in all aspects thereof.
Our blogs can mobilize issues, rekindle weary hands and stimulate proactive political advocacy.
Our blogs shall fill the void and quench the suppression of free press.
lets do away with the Presidency,after all, history has shown that it has effectively entrenched the Military watchdog as a mindless Political party, even without constituent support and without the consent of the people. The same people who buy imports and work hard towards selling our exports…
voreqe…if your blond, youre not only naive, you’re a voreqenarian.Which is a word in itself, meaning everything you want it to be, everytime you read anything that doesn’t make sense.
Posted by rawfijinews
April 27, 2009
By forwardfiji
Our sovereign rights has citizens of a once Democratic Republic State, has been muzzled by dogmatic paranoia and irrational leadership.
Our votes have been delayed and justice delayed is far from justice in all aspects thereof.
Our blogs can mobilize issues, rekindle weary hands and stimulate proactive political advocacy.
Our blogs shall fill the void and quench the suppression of free press.
lets do away with the Presidency,after all, history has shown that it has effectively entrenched the Military watchdog as a mindless Political party, even without constituent support and without the consent of the people. The same people who buy imports and work hard towards selling our exports…
voreqe…if your blond, youre not only naive, you’re a voreqenarian.Which is a word in itself, meaning everything you want it to be, everytime you read anything that doesn’t make sense.
Posted by rawfijinews
Banish Rabuka, banish the evil one
April 27, 2009
By forwardfiji
Our right to vote as citizens of a democratic Republican state has been diminished to blogging, a sad state of affairs to a nation, that was the epitome of paradise…if only they banished Rabuka, for eating the apple…we would have banished the devious one too..
Posted by rawfijinews
April 27, 2009
By forwardfiji
Our right to vote as citizens of a democratic Republican state has been diminished to blogging, a sad state of affairs to a nation, that was the epitome of paradise…if only they banished Rabuka, for eating the apple…we would have banished the devious one too..
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Aiyaz Khaiyum & Shaista Shameem the biggest mistake since coup 2006
April 27, 2009
By comment8r
Re Shaista: Well said Victor. It would seem that her misappropriation of funds has caused Frank to distance himself from her.
April 27, 2009
By comment8r
Re Shaista: Well said Victor. It would seem that her misappropriation of funds has caused Frank to distance himself from her.
To be critical of the IG’s Counsel in the court of appeal is poor form indeed. If Ms Shameem is such a genius she should have conducted the matter herself. True criminals have a tendency to blame their defence team rather than accept their own culpability.
To say the learned Counsel jettisoned the legal argument that succeeded before Gates is utter rubbish. The legal argument which was the core of her advice to VB was purile to begin with. She is not a good lawyer. She is a figurehead and a pseudo academic.
Don’t worry Victor the cracks are appearing. Her reputation is in the process of being destroyed. She has lost all credibility in the eyes of jurists worldwide. When a standing commission is set up when this sorry mess comes to an end she will have to give an account for her actions. Why was she involved in the first place. Why did VB listen to her poor advice. She is not in the business of practising law. She is an administrator. She has attacked a member of the UK Bar - and lawyers across the world will remember it for a long time.
Who will represent her when the time comes. Who will represent her when she attacks Counsel.
Frank has listened to a non practising lawyer masquerading as a practising constitutional lawyer. That may well be his biggest mistake since December 2006. She may get a practising certificate in Zimbabwe if she does want to practise law. Otherwise she should find a new career.
Why didn’t Frank seek counsel from a practising lawyer. Both the AG and Shameem do not practice. She approaches her law from a pseudo-academic position.
Frank has listened to a non practising lawyer masquerading as a practising constitutional lawyer. That may well be his biggest mistake since December 2006. She may get a practising certificate in Zimbabwe if she does want to practise law. Otherwise she should find a new career.
Why didn’t Frank seek counsel from a practising lawyer. Both the AG and Shameem do not practice. She approaches her law from a pseudo-academic position.
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