People who do not follow the Attorney Generals 2013 Constitution will be going to prison according to Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama.

The people of Fiji have waited six years for a good, fair and enduring constitution and they are doomed to be disappointed.

The Economist summed it up perfectly when they wrote of our Prime Minister “But he has also blown his chance to preside over the creation of a new political order that is durable and legitimate.”

You had all the cards in your hand Frank, but you let your Attorney General stack the deck. You really have blown it…

Not all will go the strongman’s way

IF GUNS were all that were needed to manage countries well, more of the world would be run by military officers. But soldiers tend to be poor at handling their nation’s affairs, and so it has proved in the Pacific island state of Fiji. There the strongman, Commodore Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama, who seized power in a 2006 coup, announced on March 21st that he was scrapping his plans for the constituent assembly that was supposed to deliberate his scheduled new constitution. Three months before that, Mr Bainimarama had ditched a constitution drawn up by his own appointed commission, asking his attorney-general to come up with a new one more to his liking. This second attempt was published on the very day that the idea of an assembly was scrapped. Continue reading →

THE ATTORNEY GENERALS 2013 DRAFT CONSTITUTION IS THE FINAL NAIL IN THE FIJI PENSIONERS COFFINS, BECAUSE UNLIKE THE YASH GHAI DRAFT WHICH 7000 CITIZENS CONTRIBUTED TO, THE ATTORNEY GENERALS DRAFT FORBIDS THE REVIEW OF ANY OF HIS DECREES, WHICH HE HAS ALSO EXTENDED TO HIS TERMINATIONS OF COURT PROCEEDINGS.
“The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is nominated by the executive”. (Decline & Fall of The Roman Empire Ch3).

THIS DRAFT CONSTITUTION DEPRIVES THE PENSIONERS OF HOPE, JUSTICE AND BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS AND IT SEEMS OUR PRIME MINISTER COULD NOT CARE LESS !!!!! HIS ARSE IS SAFE AND HIS FUTURE SECURE….HE HAS GIVEN THE PUBLIC INADEQUATE TIME TO RESPOND, AND IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHAT THE PUBLIC SAY, THERE WILL BE NO CHANGES TO THE ATTORNEY GENERALS DRAFT CONSTITUTION.. A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE. 

Any amendments to Fiji’s new constitution will have to be approved by majority of the registered voters and parliament.This is a major proposal in the draft constitution as it states that if a bill for the amendment to the constitution is passed by three quarters of the members of parliament, then it will be referred to the Electoral Commission to conduct a referendum for all registered voters to vote on the proposed amendment.

If three quarters of the registered voters who have participated in the process have voted in favour of the bill, then the President must assent to the bill.

However, the draft constitution prepared by the government legal team which is now out for the views from the public states that immunity granted under the 1990 constitution should continue and there should be further immunity for December 2006 and the events following that.

The draft states that the immunity provision should not be reviewed, amended, altered, repealed or revoked. Continue reading →

Use the power of the sun, if you cannot afford a solar water heater in Fiji, try a coil of 50 metres of 25mm black PVC pipe on your roof, a very low cost water heater.

PUBLISHED IN NZ TRUTH …30-01-2013
David Farrar recently wrote a post on his Kiwiblog and linked to a story by Michael Field about the alleged burning of the new constitution by Fiji Police, then he linked to another story, again by Michael Field about a troublesome priest being asked to leave Fiji.

Michael Field is banned from traveling to Fiji. It is likely that he sourced both of his stories from the anti-government blog Coup 4.5, who are almost all exclusively Auckland based.

What is particularly galling is that the major media and gullible bloggers simply repeat what Michael Field and the anonymous bloggers at Coup 4.5 have to say. They invariably do not read more widely and find out the exact details of what precisely happened and when in Fiji.

With regards to the alleged burning of the new constitution you can’t really go past getting the true story from Graham Davis and some additional facts about the Ghai document. Compare and contrast the reporting from Michael Field and wonder how he manages to keep his job. 

Now to the meddlesome priest article. Again this appears to have been a manufactured story by Michael Field, one that Farrar unfortunately gave more oxygen.  

Regular readers will know that I recently visited Fiji, and also that I maintain good connections in business in Fiji. The story concerned me and so I made a few calls.

What I found out about the situation is in stark contrast with what was reported by Michael Field.

My government contacts refused to comment on the record and their off the record comments were that this was a storm in a tea cup unhelpfully stirred up by journalists with agendas. There won’t be an official statement from the government.

As I stated previously this story appears to originated from the anonymous bloggers at Coup 4.5. If you read Graham Davis’ story about the Ghai documents then you get some understanding of the dishonesty of those who write for Coup 4.5.   Continue reading →

Can Mushrooms Be The New Plastic?

Click on the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zmDENxTPn8Q

We can use cane waste. lets think outside the box….

All Fiji Airways Airbus pilots should check this link:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kERSSRJant0?feature=player_detailpage

Osea Kolinisau King for a Day

Osea Kolinisau turned hero after he scored a hat trick of tries to help Fiji secure their 14th Hong Kong title in one of the greatest comeback victory in the history of the tournament and to make two in a row in Hong Kong after they beat Wales 26-19 in the final.