Fred Marafono, who has died aged 72, was one of the first Fijians to join the SAS. Later he became passionately involved in Sierra Leone, deploying his considerable combat experience to influence the blood diamond war there.

Spare a few minutes to read the full obituary of a hero who set benchmarks in in his life.. Just click the following link:> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/9961915/Fred-Marafono.html?fb

Please, please stop the ridiculous Talk Back TV shows immediately Frank. They do not do you justice and they do nothing to improve the credibility of the AG’s proposed Constitution. In short they are an embarrassment for the country.

Do the right thing Frank, do what any right thinking Prime Minister would do; refer the proposed draft to a Constituent Assembly, made up of independent intellectuals, not political wannabees, or your normal group of bum kissers that stick to you like shit to a blanket. 

Let all the people of Fiji have a Constitution that we can be truly proud of. 

You have the power to do this Prime Minister, exercise that power for the future of Fiji.

Test pilot Tex Johnson doing an unscheduled “Barrel Roll” in a Boeing 707 Dash 80 at its initial launch.

Watch the tribute from his son, click here:

Has anyone seen the audited accounts for Air Pacific for the past three years ?

Has the Minister seen them and is afraid to publish them, and where are the Annual Reports that Air Pacific were once famous for. The Chairman of the Airline is a certified accountant albeit he may be covered by the immunity decree, he must be aware of legal requirements.

Come on guys, this airline belongs to the people of Fiji, they have a right to know how deep the mire is beneath the glitz and glitter of the Airbus 330 with the tapa decor. 

If I told you there was a plant available to us today that could be grown in pretty much any soil, requires no pesticides and it takes very little maintenance to grow, and this magical plant could be used for a very large number of necessities and goods we use today yet we don’t use it, would you think to yourself “Joe you must be high or on some other cheap drug?”

Well potential naysayers out there, I’m not high nor do I get high, but let me tell you, there is a plant available right now and it is often mistaken to be marijuana but has capabilities that are beyond what you could imagine. It’s called Hemp. Right off the top, Hemp looks very much like marijuana but unlike marijuana, it does not contain anywhere near the amount of THC needed for someone to get high if they tried to smoke it. Funny thing is, in the United States, Hemp is just as illegal to grow as Marijuana is. How can this be? The plant doesn’t even provide THC to get high and yet it’s still illegal? Yes…

Hemp used to be used for many things: clothes, cars, plastics, building materials, rope, paper, linens, food, medicine and so on. In fact, it used to be mandatory in the United States for farmers to grow hemp if they had the land. There are plenty more stats regarding hemp you can find here.

The fact is Hemp was very popular throughout the 1800’s and 1900’since it was incredibly useful for so many reasons. But one day that all changed, and now it is illegal.. so how did this happen? Continue reading →

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 →