"Magistrates in the country need training in courtroom etiquette and I am concerned about questionable decisions made by magistrates" says Aiyaz Khaiyum; most questionable decision was FFP Bala's ACQUITTAL

4/9/2017

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http://www.fijileaks.com/home/bala-case-magistrates-reasons-to-acquit-ffp-minister-praveen-bala-should-make-warning-lights-flash-red-for-justice-to-the-poor-in-fiji-the-regimes-ddp-pryde-to-make-decision-whether-to-appeal-bala-judgment

"It is perfectly acceptable to execute a coup and become leaders in the government but totally wrong for mother surviving on $100 Welfare support per month to beg a little to buy clothes for her child."
Kishore Kumar

When Law breakers becomes law makers, this is the result.

It is perfectly acceptable to execute a coup and become leaders in the government but totally wrong for mother surviving on $100 Welfare support per month to beg a little to buy clothes for her child.

The child needs diapers and if the mother is not in good health, the child would need bottle milk.

Government needs to open their eyes because people are already opening their eyes on the government.

Fiji United Freedom Party Jagath Karunaratne feels that it is the duty of the government to provide all means available in the welfare program so that mothers would not end up begging. Fiji United Freedom Party said that $100 per month is poverty.

Sodelpa Leader Rabuka feels that law makers must have a heart towards such needy people.

Unity Party and People's Democratic Party feels that sending the mother to prison is not the answer to her welfare needs.

Fijileaks: FFP Government Whip Ashneel Sudhakar has convinced Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum that Kishore Kumar is LYING and is a NUTTER. Kumar claims that it was Sudhakar who was behind the hacking of Fijileaks, and has challenged Khaiyum to ask Fiji Police to interview him (Kumar) about the hacking, for he has evidence on him

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Rajend Naidu

4/9/2017 02:18:11 pm

Editor,
Punishing The Poor.
Lautoka mum in prison for begging merely confirms that it's easier to punish the poor even for minor breaches than to round up the rich and powerful even for serious transgressions.
The well connected and the politically anointed get away.
I am,of course, not telling anyone anything they don't know already.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Chiku

4/9/2017 03:18:14 pm

ONLY in a banana republic a mum goes to prison for begging and coupist committing treason go on to become " Honourable " members of parliament and government ministers.

Dekho

4/9/2017 06:39:26 pm

I don't know if sending the mother with an infant for begging to prison is the answer to her welfare needs but sending ALL the coupists to prison would certainly be the answer to Fiji's coup culture.

Socho

4/9/2017 07:51:25 pm

If a Tebbutt/Times poll was taken on how the people felt about sending a begging mother to prison 99.9% would say that is wrong. If a poll was taken on sending coup makers to jail 99.9% would say that is the right thing to do. That's where these law breakers ought to be.
But that's not how the law is applied in coup coup land.

Welcome Home

4/9/2017 07:55:52 pm

Courtroom etiquette and form no doubt has a place and purpose. Of far greater importance is security for all who are involved in Due Process at every stage. This has frequently been below par in Fiji. It is hardly helpful to seeking Justice having to rub shoulders in the anteroom of a Court with the hangers-on of Organised Crime and their acolytes nor for sexually molested and assaulted women to have to see their alleged rapists at close quarters. This has too frequently taken place with impunity. Courtroom etiquette - though necessary to the dignity of proceedings - is desirable as an emollient and to instill respect. However, in the absence of etiquette and Good Form, so widely lacking in life these days, it is personal security and freedom from insulting threats that must have priority. The fear of future reprisals haunts participants in Due Process and has led victims of rape in USA to say they wish they had never involved the Police despite the severity of their suffering.

Valentine Hazelman

4/9/2017 08:09:22 pm

kaiyum wants magistrates to be his yes man/women thats why he has been filling the judiciary with srilankans and malaysians. local judges except a few understand what judicial independence means whereas srilankans are only here for the money and help put kaiyums scheme into fruition. its sad to see a killer, drug importer ($35million), illegal gun/ammunition importer and fraudsters like abdul khan walking around freely while a beggar who is trying to make ends meets gets puts in the prison by the srilankan judge. the judiciary in fiji is a sham and a circus who jumps when kaiyum says so. there is no hope for justice in Fiji until kaiyum keeps interfering in the affairs of the judiciary. send the srilankans and malaysians packing for good.

Chiku

4/9/2017 08:35:13 pm

Where was Khaiyum's parliamentary etiquette when he did that mocking monkey act ?
I don't think courtroom etiquette poses any real problem when it comes to the administration of justice in Fiji. It's the professional integrity of the magistrates and judges. The Bala case shows a lack of integrity on the part of the court in Fiji .
It appears to be under the political sway of Khaiyum, the Minister of Justice and Everything Else in Fiji.

Dead Kawakawa

4/9/2017 10:15:43 pm

This man lectures to us, the people of Fiji, in the most condescending and demeaning way, as if we were morons. ASK talks about merit, good governance, transparency, legality, etiquette and training as if he invented those words. He is a professional hypocrite, a self appointed moralist. He treats us, Fijians, with utmost contempt and disdain. Does he walk the talk? He thinks he can hide his hypocrisy and his moral depravity behind his talk. He loves a forum to spew his diatribe. It is all vomit. He does not know that we smell the stench of his vomit from miles away. . He thinks it is his Dubai purchaded after shave thst he can smell.Who will have the last laugh? This ignorant caricature can guess. Leave him to worship his own.

Refugee

5/9/2017 11:32:43 am

That classic question remains....

Who Killed Puna Chand ?

And the pitiable IP Thief, Minister of Everything talks etiquette... when the most glaring instant of court-room dishonesty, bribery and corruption (and Magistrate buying) happened in the case of Hon. Bala Sala Murderer Minister. Justice in Fiji is a Colombo fish market. Highest bidder wins. Justice is for the rich and powerful and the corrupt. The etiquette of Justice is money and having corrupt connections.

Rajend Naidu

5/9/2017 03:01:06 pm

Editor,
How The Corrupt Live It Up Until The Long Arm Of The Law Get Them.
We read in ' Italian Mafia kingpin arrested in Uruguay after two decades on the run ' ( CNN 5/09 ) that Morabito, one of the 5 on the Italian authority's most wanted list," ... lived in a comfortable rural villa ... adjacent to the resort city of Punta del Este.
When he was arrested he had 13 cell phones, an automatic pistol, 12 credit and debit cards, a large quantity of Uruguayan money and US$50,000 in cash, plus currency certificates worth US$100,000, the Uruguayan Interior Ministry said ".
Search of his home produced a Mercedes and false passports. His Angolan wife with a Portugese passport was also arrested.
Morabito will face the 30 year sentence handed down 2 decades ago.
Yes, the corrupt live the high life on their ill- gotten wealth sometimes in their own country ( when under political patronage) and sometimes in another country where they can use their crooked money to buy influence.
But it doesn't always have a happy end for them when the authorities apply the law and pursue justice the way they are meant to.
A case like this gives hope that the corrupt wherever they are will eventually be rounded up.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Welcome Home

5/9/2017 04:58:34 pm

A mother begs pitifully for her child in a street in Fiji. A 65 year old grandmother is cared for by her 14 year old grand daughter night and day. A school teacher allegedly has raped two young girls aged 11 in his school? This is a measure of depravity, heartlessness and callous corruption for all to see. Experience it up close and there is no better place than the courtrooms. Or outside the Brothels parading as Spas. Young girls painted in makeup selling roti parcels and living on icecreams donated by shopkeepers too afraid or cowardly - both - to summon Namaka Police. Witness a woman in extremis, raped by a Nadi Real Estate Agent (name known and company noted) who is permitted (undoubtedly aided and abetted) to escape to Canada despite his case having twice been heard in Nadi Magistrates Court and transferred to High Court Lautoka. The woman must go to New Zealand for post rape treatment but returns to Fiji suicidal, admitted at Lautoka Hospital. Etiquette is 'small beer here'! A disgusting, dispiriting Saga of Corruption, willful incompetence and Nadi Police cannot plead that they were uninformed. The passport of this predatory real estate agent was returned to him? By whom? For how much? Turning your back on specific evidence of this kind hardly exhibits a predeliction for good manners?

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