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DRUG SCOURGE RUINING YOUNG FIJIAN LIVES. Back in History, 1978
*On 20 July 1978, a New Zealander SUSAN FLORENCE RAY RENNIE, travelling with a false passport under the name of CHRISTINA DOREEN SKIPPER was arrested at Nadi airport with two suitcases - the powdery substance was found to be heroin and the vegetable matter was found to be Indian hemp. |  |
*Renowned for my investigative skills, I spent the next three years (1980-1983) researching on the Skippers drug backgrounds, the drug cartels, and revealing in a eight part series in the old Sunday Sun (sister paper of the then Fiji Sun) on how Fiji was being used as a staging post to smuggle hard and soft drugs.
*Despite death threats (and violently punched in the stomach by a notorious Suva drug peddler), the revelations led the Fiji Customs and Excise Department to adopt my revelations as 'Manual on Drugs and Smugglers' for Police and the Customs Officers.
*Shockingly, four decades later Fiji's drug problem has worsened, and even Minister for Women and Children has been shamelessly 'puffing it away' and boasting to her Love Rat.
*Her boss Sitiveni Rabuka is standing by her, dismissing Fijileaks text messages.
*We are not shocked at all. In May 1987, Rabuka not only executed two racially motivated coups but shut down the old Fiji Sun and Sunday Sun, with all of us losing our journalism careers overnight. The Fiji Sun had dared, in its Editorial, to question his right to execute the COUP
Today, the Fiji media and its Editors are either lamu or masi polo cheerleaders of the Coalition government.
Worse, they continue to refer to Fijileaks as a social media platform, which we are NOT. We had founded Fijileaks (www.fijileaks.com) in September 2012 to champion their media freedom, human rights, and SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER.
We had supported Tabuya against the Bainimarama dictatorship.
Down the Memory Lane: 8 February 1983:
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One of the biggest drug busts in the country has been undertaken by the Fiji Police Force in the Nadi area.
Overnight fijivillage News received confirmation that a significant amount of hard drugs including methamphetamine was found by Police during the operation.
Acting Police Commissioner, Juki Fong Chew says they would not be able to establish the street value of the drugs as yet but by the huge amount of seizure of approximately 3.5 tonnes, they may say it is worth millions of dollars.
Chew says the team is in the early stages of the investigation as they try and ascertain who is or who all are connected to this.
One of the biggest methamphetamine lab busts in Fiji was back in 2004 at Laucala Beach where over $1 billion worth of hard drugs was seized. Source:Fijivillage News, 15 January 2024
Overnight fijivillage News received confirmation that a significant amount of hard drugs including methamphetamine was found by Police during the operation.
Acting Police Commissioner, Juki Fong Chew says they would not be able to establish the street value of the drugs as yet but by the huge amount of seizure of approximately 3.5 tonnes, they may say it is worth millions of dollars.
Chew says the team is in the early stages of the investigation as they try and ascertain who is or who all are connected to this.
One of the biggest methamphetamine lab busts in Fiji was back in 2004 at Laucala Beach where over $1 billion worth of hard drugs was seized. Source:Fijivillage News, 15 January 2024
