Coalition terminates propagandists QORVIS and VATIS, and the two along with FBC and Fiji Sun to be investigated, says Coupist RABUKA

HISTORY LESSON: Shortly after the 14 May 1987 COUP, Rabuka took over the Fiji Department of Information, and with its director on his right side, announced to the world that he had overthrown the Dr Timoci Bavadra government, for 'Fiji for the Fijians (i-Taukeis)'
*He also took over the FBC which was ordered to broadcast his propaganda messages, and ordered both the Fiji Times and the old Fiji Sun (our Founding Editor-in-Chief had been away on a Reuters News Agency study scholarship at the time of the coup but was preparing to return after three years to the paper in a senior editorial role) to cease publications until he consolidated his grip on power.
*While the supine Fiji Times agreed to operate under partial military censorship, the Fiji Sun refused, and defiantly wrote an Editorial: What Right a Third-Ranking Colonel Has to Know What is Best for Fiji?', followed by another story that a prominent businessman had bought a house for the Colonel before the 14 May 1987 Coup. 

*We still don't know if the allegation was true or not.
*But the headline and the story was sufficient to throw the Fiji Sun publisher and the paper's local lawyer in PRISON, both locked up in the same cell with the deposed Prime Minister Bavadra.
​*In the end, most Fiji Sun journalists lost their jobs, including scores of ordinary staff, from cleaners to Fiji Sun newspaper sellers on the streets of Fiji, when the Fiji Sun ceased operations altogether, and Punjas bought the printing press machinery to produce soaps. 
*Our own Founding Editor-in-Chief became 'From Reporter to Refugee' , exiled from the land of his birth. Cry the Beloved Country.
*Rabuka's Coups introduced bitter racial, tribal and ethnic divisions among the journalists in the newsrooms.
*In 1983, as Senior Sub-Editor on the old Fiji Sun, and general secretary of the now defunct Journalists Association of Fiji, our Founding Editor-in-Chief  had to work with one STAN RITOVA (who titled himself as Ratu Viliame Ritova of Labasa), who had been drafted in as acting Editor. Four years later, our Editor-in-Chief was shocked and dismayed to see Stan Ritova as co-author of Rabuka's racist memoir,
RABUKA: NO OTHER WAY 
*Seventeen years later, he was equally shocked and saddened to see one of his old RKS buddy and former Fiji Sun journalist colleague JO NATA on national TV as George Speight's media spokesman, justifying the racist overthrow of the Chaudhry government. Nata is serving life imprisonment with Speight. We hear Rabuka is planning to FREE them.​

The late Stan Ritova

JO NATA meeting Chaudhry in prison

*We have never fully recovered, and the FFP continued with the coup tradition, to hold Fiji press down, with its own draconian media decrees, overseen by one ASHWIN RAJ, now a Permanent Secretary ​

One for the Album, COUPISTS: "A picture is worth a thousand words".

Fijileaks: When Elephants Fight the Grass Suffers. Sadly, it is the ordinary Fijians of all races who end up as losers by supporting one Coupist against another Coupist. Its Rabuka or Bainimarama.
*Despite enormous pressure on us to support Rabuka in the 2022 election we refused to do so, for we still have mountains of documents and files on Rabuka and his Coup governments from 1987 to 1999, and after he left politics.
*We also refused to endorse Bainimarama, for we have revealed hundreds of materials on him, and his interim and later FFP government.
Sadly, those who wanted us to endorse Rabuka are sulking (some even boasting and celebrating) by cutting all contact with us but we don't give a rats ass, for we will continue to hold the new Coalition to account.
*Police Commissioner Qiliho is a classic example and proves our point that if you want to Hold Power to Account, you better STAY OUT.
We (especially our Founding Editor-in-Chief) was a constant victim of Qorvis and Fiji Sun sniping as the two outfits propped up, first the post coup Interim Bainimarama regime, and later the FFP government

Attorney General and Minister for Communications, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says they still need Qorvis Communications to help them in some of the work that they get done behind the scenes internationally.

Qorvis Communications has been allocated $800,000 in the 2021/2022 National Budget.

He says they are also building local capacity and have also recruited the services of a local social media company and capacities are built.

Sayed-Khaiyum says they used to pay Qorvis Communications in access of $1 million which has been reduced.
He clarified this after National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad questioned why the Government is still providing allocations to Qorvis Communications when the Government is spending millions of dollars on FBC and Fiji Sun.
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Prasad says the Department of Information should be able to do the Government’s public relations work.

Broadcasting Commission (Chapter 105) Amendment Decree 1987

THE REPUBLIC OF FIJI

DECREE NO. 15

BROADCASTING COMMISSION (CHAPTER 105) AMENDMENT
DECREE 1987 (NO. 15)

IN exercise of the powers vested in me as the Commander and Head of the Military Government, I hereby make the following Decree:

1. This Decree may be cited as the Broadcasting Commission (Chapter 105) Amendment Decree 1987 (No. 15) (hereafter the Decree).

2. The Broadcasting Commission Act (Chapter 105) (the Act) is hereby amended in the following manner:

(a) By adding to section 2 the following additional term:

“Fijian” means a person who shall be regarded as Fijian if, his father or any if his earlier male progenitors on the male line is or was the child of both parents who are or were indigenous inhabitants of Fiji and his or her name is eligible to be registered in the “Vola ni Kawa Bula”. Such eligibility shall be determined and or confirmed by the Native Lands Commission.

(b) Delete section 3(2) of the Act and insert in lieu thereof the following:

“Section 3(2) The Commission shall consist of a chairman who shall be a Fijian, a Deputy Chairman and not less than six other members all to be appointed by the Minister and of whom fifty percent are to be Fijian.”

3. This Decree shall come into force as from the 28th October 1987 with such consequential effects as shall give force to the amendment proposed.

Dated this 27th day of October, 1987.
COLONEL SITIVENI LIGAMAMADA RABUKA, O.B.E. (Mil.)
Commander and Head of the Fiji Military Government
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