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Graham Davis to Frank Bainimarama: "If you can't effectively lead, it is time to pack your BAGS and GO...The Indian variant was brought to Fiji on A-G's plane and your beloved RFMF allowed it into the community."

26/5/2021

Fijileaks:
IMBECILE REASON FROM AIYAZ KHAIYUM:
"Fiji cannot afford a one-month lockdown despite its bid to fight the coronavirus."
Yes, because you need money to keep
Fiji Airways afloat.
Who brought the deadly Indian variant to Fiji
on 10 April 2021?

DOUBLE MASKED:
"I know like many Fijians with health issues, you are terrified of getting the virus yourself." Graham Davis to Frank Bainimarama

Click below:
https://efile.fara.gov/docs/5483-Exhibit-AB-20190402-62.pdf

BANKING ON FOREIGN BANKERS TURNED FIJIANS TO MEDDLE IN FIJI Khaiyum claims he can't dictate to five foreign banks otherwise we will have financial instability. What about two ANZ bankers dictating to us?

25/5/2021

“So when you have out of the six banks, five of them having their financial decisions being made by the capitals of their respective cities, it will have an impact of how they assess risks. And it will also have an impact on the appetite of the financial system in Fiji, to be able to for example to change interest rate, to be able to come up with polices that are more Fijian focused. It can create financial instability”
Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum.
Fijileaks: What about Vishnu Mohan remote controlling the Fiji Public Service Commission from Canada?

PETULANT TANTRUM: Aiyaz Khaiyum was RIGHT to request Speaker to throw NFP leader Biman Prasad from ZOOM if he (Prasad) insisted on displaying party signage when it was agreed no political grandstanding

25/5/2021

Aiyaz Khaiyum: "The Business Committee had decided yesterday that
all parliamentarians need to have a neutral background."
Fijileaks: By defying the Business Committee resolution, Prasad wasted precious Parliamentary Sitting time with his childish tantrums. He is
not above reproach just because he is NFP leader. He must abide by the agreed rules. Political point scoring will not win him brownie points

Fijileaks to Aiyaz Khaiyum: Who brought the Indian Virus to Fiji? Fijians of all races want to hear about rice and dhal issues, not Municipal Council Reports from 2013. When will we have council elections?

ANOTHER POLITICAL STUNT:
In recent NFP videos Prasad, when he comes on to speak to us, starts by taking off his face mask as if he is in public space. Give us a break!

Fiji Labour Party: Fiddling in Parliament

"We are surprised that the Opposition should sit there and play along!"

Fiji Labour Party has slammed the proceedings in the virtual sitting of Parliament today as inconsequential and totally irrelevant to the crisis facing the nation and her people.

“To be spending time on the 2013 audit reports on municipal councils in the midst of the crippling economic and social impact of the Covid pandemic is absolutely absurd,” says Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry.

People were expecting to be updated about the crisis and the steps government is intending to take to alleviate their suffering and reverse the onslaught of the pandemic.

But they were left bewildered by what actually transpired in parliament – discussing reports dating back some 6-7 years.

For the last several weeks calls have been made on government by civil society groups and opposition political parties for it to outline strategies for dealing with the worsening crisis.

Businesses have been closed for weeks in the major containment areas, thousands of workers are sitting at home without pay leaving families wondering where the next meal will come from.

“They want to know from government what plans it has to distribute much needed food rations on a continuing basis to ensure that no family goes hungry.

“With Covid cases rising fast, we are likely to be in this for the long haul. Businesses are winding down or simply closing down, adding to the thousands already unemployed. They want to know how government intends to help keep them afloat. Interest rates on bank loans are still unreasonably high.

Cane farmers are facing serious uncertainties regarding the 2021 harvesting season in terms of forecast price, minimum guaranteed price, availability of cane cutters etc.

“These are the real issues confronting the nation and its people. It’s a nightmare for all affected. There is a real danger of an economic collapse.

These are matters that should be occupying the time of Parliament. Not outdated reports that are totally irrelevant,” said Mr Chaudhry.

We are surprised that the Opposition should sit there and play along!

FLP: 'It is time Fiji's Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum gave us an update on our national airline FIJI AIRWAYS". Fijileaks: Who brought the Indian Covid Variant on 10 April, now killing innocent Fijians of all races?

21/5/2021

"The airline has not disclosed its financial results for the period ending 31st December 2020" - FLP

Fiji Labour Party: Whither Fiji Airways?

It is time Economy Minister Sayed-Khaiyum gave us an update on our national airline Fiji Airways.

The airline has not disclosed its financial results for the period ending 31st December 2020.

It borrowed $455m in May last year to keep its planes on the ground since the onset of Covid-19 virtually closed its operations in March last year. Ostensibly, Fiji Airways did not have much in the way of cash reserves of its own and had to rely on borrowed money to keep afloat. The airline said it could not return leased aircraft even though it was unable to operate them because of closed borders.

It was initially thought that international borders would open within 6-9 months from March 2020 and the airline would be able to resume operations. But this has not happened and is not likely to happen for some time yet.
Consequently, the airline was forced to borrow a further $132m ($US65m) from the Asian Development Bank by way of a liquidity facilitation loan in March this year. And now, a 2nd wave of the infection here of the Covid-Indian variant B.1.617, has set us further back from entering the Pacific bubble, dashing our hopes of resuming two-way travel between Fiji, Australia and New Zealand.

It looks like we are in it for a long haul. This means the airline will have to borrow more to survive. Not surprisingly, the most recent Moody’s Ratings which gave Fiji a B1 negative outlook, described the government loan guarantee for $455m last year to Fiji Airways as “ the most significant risk for the Fijian government”. This echoes FLP’s warning at the time that “Fiji Airways will be a millstone around our necks”.

Fiji Airways must disclose its financial results for 2020 and then it must tell the Fiji taxpayer what rescue plan it has to save the airline. It must not be permitted to borrow endlessly without a credible rescue plan. “Fiji Airways is unlikely to survive without a comprehensive review and restructuring of its operations – finances, workforce, fleet size, flight schedules and destinations,” says Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry. “The people are entitled to know how it proposes to restructure itself to meet the demands of a changed market without becoming an enormous liability on the taxpayer,” he said.

The airline carries a huge debt burden associated with its hasty fleet and route expansion programme. But the true extent of its debts is not known because audited accounts are not published and tabled in Parliament.
It will be a different market once international borders begin to open. It will be a painfully slow process which could take up to three years , even longer, before returning to the 2019 operational levels. The restructuring will require cutting costs across-the-board to match the demands of a changed market. The question is whether Fiji Airways can survive on its own during this transition or will it need to be supported by Qantas, its much bigger and experienced partner airline?

“After all, the Fijian government has huge problems of its own and is hardly in a position to go beyond the assistance it has so far provided. But it must ensure that concrete steps are taken to avoid Fiji Airways becoming a millstone around the neck of the taxpayer,” said Mr Chaudhry.

Going forward, will the airline take a critical look at its fleet size and retire aircraft that are uneconomical to run or in excess of requirement? It will be a much smaller market for quite some time when the borders re-open requiring a much reduced fleet size.

Likewise, routes that are not profitable are best axed. Staff costs need to be rationalized by right sizing the workforce and employing expatriates only where locals with requisite qualifications are unavailable. Going forward, its financials should be confined entirely to its own operations and not lumped with those of its associated companies, which distorts its actual trading results.

Once normality returns, Fiji Airways must be encouraged to recapitalise through equity raise – and not expect to survive through borrowing endlessly on government guarantees.

From Fijileaks Archives and more on Waqavuka and the paper trail

BIGGER MADUA SITUATION: After 15 months, FFP government realise that CareFiji App doesn't have QR CODE. In 2020, Khaiyum felt 'madua'

19/5/2021

NZ COVID TRACER QR CODES
Displaying a QR code makes it easier for anyone visiting you to keep track of where they've been. Under all alert levels, businesses and services must display the official NZ COVID Tracer QR code posters whereever customers or visitors enter the premises

VIRUS HUNT: Who brought the virus into Fiji from Singapore on 10 April?

JUMPING SHIP OR JUST PLOY TO STAY AFLOAT: Mr and Mrs GOUNDAR announce: 'Its time to say goodbyes to all of you. Due to our ongoing issues with MSAF/Ministry, double standard, bias, we closing business'

16/5/2021

Fijileaks: In 2016, we contacted Subarmani "George" Goundar for comments but he sent a terse reply: "Mind your own business"

From Fijileaks Archives:

"We like to thank the many crews that build this company, some of you were like our own children. With a heavy heart, its time to say our goodbyes to all of you...Its time to close our business"
Goundar Shipping Ltd

Goundar Shipping Services v Ieli [2021] FJHC 214; ERCA 06 of 2017 (1 April 2021)

N THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COURT
AT SUVA
APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CASE NUMBER: ERCA 06 of 2017

BETWEEN: GOUNDAR SHIPPING SERVICES
APPELLANT

AND: PILI IELI
RESPONDENT

Appearances: Ms. Kinivuai for the Appellant.
Ms. L. Mataigusu for the Respondent.
Date/Place of Judgment: Thursday 1 April 2021 at Suva.
Coram: Hon. Madam Justice Anjala Wati.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
JUDGMENT

Catchwords:

Employment Law – whether worker terminated from work or did he fail to report to work as required by the employer – if the worker was terminated, was the same lawful and fair?
___________________________

Cause

The employer appeals against the decision of the Employment Relations Tribunal (“ERT”) of 22 February 2017 on its findings that the employee Pili Ieli was unlawfully and unfairly dismissed for which the employer was ordered to pay a sum of 3 months wages for unlawful dismissal and 3 months wages for unfair dismissal to compensate hum for the humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to the feelings of the employee.
The employer is in the shipping industry providing transportation to the public from the outer islands. The employee was engaged by the employer as a second officer on board the vessel, Lomaiviti Princess 2.
Both parties have a conflicting position on the issue of whether the employee was terminated from work. The employee says that he was terminated from work on 13 December 2013 and the employer says that it was the employee who did not report to work after an incident on 13 December 2013.
There is even conflict on the turn of events culminating to the employee leaving work. In order to correctly identify each party’s version of the event, I will refer to the material evidence of all the witnesses in the ERT.

Evidence

The first witness for the employer was Captain Inoke. He had been working for Goundar Shipping Services since 2011. He said that he remembers having a conversation with Mr. Ieli on the morning of 13 December 2013. Mr. Ieli had requested him if he could get time off to attend a family function. He wanted to sign off and not go to Koro Island. He told Mr. Ieli that a replacement needed to be found for him before he can get the time off.
Captain Inoke said that Mr. Ieli was part of the manning crew. Since it was a Friday and it was late in the afternoon, a replacement could not be found. According to the Captain, he told the management that a reliever needed to be found for him.
In cross- examination he stated that he cannot confirm whether the ship was properly manned when it sailed to Koro Island because he had signed off.
The next witness for the employer was Mr. Rakesh Parasad. He is the Manager Finance of the employer. He said that on 13 December 2013, the vessel was to return to Koro Island and Mr. Ieli had to be part of the manning crew.
According to Mr. Prasad, at about 6pm, the Master of the vessel Mr. Robert Sosene asked him on the whereabouts of the 2nd Officer. It was only then when he realized that Mr. Ieli had left the ship following which he attempted to contact Mr. Ieli. He called on Mr. Ieli’s mobile which was switched off. He then referred to his file to get an alternative contact. He found his wife’s number. The wife answered the phone and he managed to talk to Mr. Ieli.
Mr. Prasad says that he asked Mr. Ieli why he was not on board and he replied that he was in a family function. Mr. Prasad said that he told Mr. Ieli that the vessel needed to sail and he needed to report to duty. Mr. Ieli replied that he could not as he had provided a sick sheet to the office. Mr. Prasad said that he told Mr. Ieli that the sick sheet could not be relied upon as he was in a family function and that he needed to report to duty.
Mr. Ieli again responded that he would not come as he was on sick sheet. Mr. Prasad said that he then sent a text message to Mr. Ieli to the effect that if he failed to report to duty within 30 minutes then his employment may be terminated. Despite that message, Mr. Ieli did not report to work. Attempts were made to locate a reliever but to no avail. The vessel had to sail without a reliever. She was delayed by 2 hours.
On the sick sheet, Mr. Prasad said that it was not provided to him but to one of the officers. Mr. Ieli had tendered the sick sheet and gone. The sick sheet says that he was supposed to return to work the next day but Mr. Ieli did not come back to work. He however did come to the vessel on Monday where he packed his belongings. After that he came to the office and informed that he was leaving. He was there in the office with Mr. Goundar when Mr. Ieli came. Mr. Ieli came to the office to let them know that he was leaving the office.
After that Mr. Ieli did not contact the office. The employer had not terminated him. It was Mr. Ieli who left on his own accord after failing to report to work. The issue was reported to The Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji. If Mr. Ieli reported to duty the next day, the employer could have taken disciplinary action against him but he was not terminated. He was not told that he would be terminated but that he may be terminated because he needed to be warned. Deserting a ship is a serious offence.
In cross-examination Mr. Prasad said that he had the powers of firing and hiring the crew on the vessel. He did not accept the sick sheet because when he called Mr. Ieli he said that he was in a family function and for Mr. Prasad not to disturb him.
He also admitted that when the vessel sailed without a 2nd officer on board, it was given clearance by one of the officers from Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji. One of the officers is always there to clear the vessel for sail. Even on this occasion the clearance was given for sail after the passengers and the cargo was checked.
Mr. Prasad denied that he had only given Mr. Ieli 15 minutes to report to work or that when he called Mr. Ieli, he was told that he was at work with the sick sheet. He also said that he cannot recall whether there was a ship sailing on the very next day of the incident but that the office was open. He denied that he told Mr. Ieli on the Monday he reported to work that he was terminated.
The employer’s 3rd witness was Ms. Maureen Lata Prasad. She said that on 13 December 2013, Mr. Ieli came to the office. It could be around midday but she is not sure of the time. He left his sick sheet on the table. She saw the sick sheet. She told him to fill in the leave form which needed to be filled and authorized by the Captain. Mr. Ieli however just walked away. She followed him but he went away. She did not see him after that day.
In cross-examination she said that when Mr. Ieli had handed over the sick sheet, she did not show it to the Captain but showed it to Mr. Rakesh Parasad. She had no idea what Mr. Rakesh Prasad did with the leave. She said that his sick sheet was paid after two years.
The worker stated in his evidence that he had been working for this employer for the past 6 months. On 13 December 2013 Mr. Robert Sosene was the second in command of the ship. The Captain was not there. The Captain is the Master. He therefore had to approach Mr. Robert Sosene. He told Mr. Robert Sosene that he needed to go and see a dentist. Mr. Sosene allowed him to go. This was about 8am.
He was given the approval to leave the vessel. When he visited the dentist, they did some filling of the tooth and since there was still some pain, a sick sheet was given to him. He got the sick sheet around midday which he took to the office and gave it to Maureen Prasad.
When he handed the sick sheet, Maureen asked him what it was. He said it was a sick sheet and she did not say anything after that so he left straight for home. At around 6 pm, Mr. Rakesh Prasad called him on his wife’s phone. He told Rakesh that he was sick and that he had handed the sick sheet around midday. Rakesh then disconnected the line. A few minutes after he called again and said that they have not found a reliever so he had to report to work. He informed Rakesh that he had a sick sheet. Mr. Ieli said that he then disconnected the line.
Mr. Ieli said that it was the duty of the employer to find a reliever. Rakesh sent him a text that evening that he should be on board in the next 15 minutes otherwise he will be terminated from work. He still did not report. He was on sick sheet. He had to report to work the next day but since Rakesh had sent him that message and there was no ship on the next day he did not go to work. He was to report to the ship and not the office.
He went back to the office on Monday. He saw Captain Inoke, Rakesh and one Tarun there. Rakesh informed him that they were discussing about his case and why he was not answering the phone on the subject day. Rakesh then said that there is nothing that they can do but to terminate his employment. After hearing this from Rakesh, he went to the ship and collected his belongings.
In cross-examination he denied that he had any discussion with Captain Inoke on 13 December 2013. He also denied that when he handed over the sick sheet to Maureen, she asked him to fill in the leave form. He denied that she followed him and that he did not flee from there. He does not know about the procedure of filling in a leave form. He does not have a contract so he does not have the obligation of finding a reliever. He said that the way Rakesh had written the text message indicated that he had been terminated.
He did not discuss the matter with the Director of the Ship Mr. Goundar. He does not deal with him but deals with the Operations Manager and the Masters of the ship. He insisted that the message from Mr. Rakesh was that he will be terminated if he did not report to work in 15 minutes not that he may be terminated. He clarified that on Monday, Rakesh had told him that there was nothing they could do as he was terminated from work.

ERT’s Findings

The ERT found that since the employee was in employment for more than 3 months, he was entitled to be on paid sick leave. The employer had wrongly refused to accept the sick sheet. The sick sheet has not been challenged. The same was issued by a registered medical practitioner certifying the worker’s incapacity to work. If the employer doubted the sick sheet then action should have been taken against the worker and the medical practitioner. When it did not, it is deemed to have accepted the same. Having accepted it, it could not behave the way it did when the worker did not turn up for work.
The sick sheet was supplied around midday and this constitutes reasonable notice to the employer. The employer therefore should not have been calling the worker. Instead it should have been actively involved in looking for a reliever for the worker. The evidence of Captain Inoke also suggests that he had asked the employer to look for a reliever.
The employer’s act of sending a text message saying that the worker may be terminated constitutes termination of the worker in the circumstances which was unjustified, unlawful and unfair. The ERT accepted that the worker could not go to work the very next day because there was no ship but when he did go to work it was confirmed that he was terminated.

The Appeal and Analysis

The employer raised 2 grounds of appeal. The 1st is that the ERT erred in law and in fact in finding that the worker was terminated when the same could not be established on a balance of probability and the 2nd is on the award of 3 months wages for humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to the feelings of the worker.
The 1st ground requires me to examine whether the ERT was correct in making a finding that the worker was terminated and not that he failed to report to work as required by the employer. I must say that since there was conflicting evidence on whether the employee was terminated or that he left work, it was for the ERT to accept one version and reject the other. It accepted the employee’s version and I find that it was open to the ERT to do so on the basis of credibility of a witness. I do not find that there is any material upon which I can impeach the finding of the ERT.
The employer says that the message sent to the employee was not conclusive that the employee had been terminated or will be terminated but that he may be terminated if he did not report to work in 30 minutes. If that is so, the employer should have produced the text message in court as it could have been retrieved. That evidence was not produced in the ERT for it to make an assessment or to even accept the employer’s version.
In any event, if the employer had not terminated the employment then when it saw Mr. Ieli collect his belongings and leave the ship, it should have taken an immediate step to clarify the position that he had not been terminated and that he was required at work. This was necessary in light of the text message that was sent by the employer. It was not difficult for the employer to work out from the conduct of Mr. Ieli that there could be a possible misunderstanding.
One must not forget that it is the employer’s version that Mr. Ieli reported to work on the Monday and collected his belongings. He came to the office and informed that he was leaving. He was not asked why he was leaving. Why not and why was he not told that he had not been terminated? It only makes sense that this was not done because the employer had already terminated the employee.
From the evidence, I too do not find Mr. Rakesh Prasad’s evidence reliable. He informed the ERT that it was only around 6pm when Captain Robert Sosene called that he realized that Mr. Ieli was missing from the vessel. On the contrary, Ms. Maureen Prasad says that she had handed the sick sheet to Mr. Rakesh Prasad and that she has no idea what he did with it. Captain Inoke also testified that he informed the office to look for a reliever.
The two witnesses’ evidence is clear that Mr. Rakesh knew that Mr. Ieli will not be at work and that he had to find a reliever for Mr. Ieli. It appears that Mr. Prasad did not take any immediate steps to find a reliever and when it was too late, he decided to put the blame on the worker. To save himself because of his shortfall, Rakesh conducted himself in a manner that is unacceptable and unfair.
Mr. Rakesh started hassling and threatening the worker which is not permissible. A sick worker is entitled to rest and not to be hassled and made to worry about his work. He need not worry about dealing with text messages threatening him of his employment future with that employer. This is grossly unjustified.
What also makes Mr. Rakesh Prasad’s evidence suspicious is when he told the ERT that when he called Mr. Ieli he was told by Mr. Ilei that he is in a family function and that he will not report to work as he had tendered a sick sheet. Even if Mr. Ieli was in a family function, he would not dare say that as his livelihood was important and he needed to have work for himself. Having given the sick sheet, Mr. Ieli would have simply indicated that he was sick. Why would he say that he was in a family function? I find that the issue of attending a family function is concocted by Mr. Rakesh Prasad.
What also concerns me is that the employer failed to call Captain Robert Sosene to give evidence. He was a very material witness in the matter since Mr. Ieli says that he had approved Mr. Ieli’s time off to see a dentist.
I do not endorse the employer’s views that Mr. Ieli needed to have his sick sheet approved. This may hold true for annual leave but if a worker falls sick and is not able to work, he need not have to wait for the employer to approve his leave. That would be most absurd because in that situation the employee would be expected to work until his sick leave is approved. The request then becomes redundant.
I also do not agree with any insinuation by the employer that it was Mr. Ieli’s duty to look for a reliever. It is for the employer to make arrangements for such situations. It is in the sailing business and such matters can always arise. Sufficient provisions ought to be made to cater for sick employees.
I have no reason to overturn the decision of the ERT that through the text message, the worker had accepted that he was terminated which was confirmed on the Monday by Rakesh. Although Rakesh denies this, it was for the ERT to accept which version of the evidence was more credible.
I also find the termination to be unfair. I accept that Mr. Ieli was terminated by the text message of Mr. Rakesh. In terminating him, he was not treated fairly as he was definitely harassed when he was sick and put to unnecessary inconvenience. This action does not show good conduct on the part of the employer in dismissing him. I therefore do not find that the award of the 3 month’s wages for unfair dismissal is unjustified.

Final Orders

In the final analysis, I find that the appeal has no merits and I dismiss the same. I uphold the orders of the ERT. The employer is to comply with the orders of the ERT within 21 days from the date of this judgment. I also order costs in favour of the employee in the sum of $3000 to be paid within 21 days.

...........................................
Hon. Madam Justice Anjala Wati
Judge
01. 04. 2021

14 MAY 1879, CRY, OUR COOLIE ANCESTORS: We repeat that FFP must lift the indefinite ban from Fiji of 'girmit historian' Professor Brij Lal and his wife. They are no terrorists unlike COUPISTS hiding under IMMUNITY

15/5/2021

14 MAY will remain carved on the granite face of Fiji. On 14 May 1879, the British brought Indian indentured labourers to slavishly toil on Fiji's sugar, cotton and tea plantations. On 14 May 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka and Inoke Kubuabola executed Fiji's first coup, ending the Indo-Fijians march from plantation to politics to parliament. Professor Brij Vilash Lal has chronicled our painful coolie history and was part of the team that gave Fiji the 1997 Constitution of Fiji. The 1987 coups threw up a host of characters, among them AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM - The Master Bomb Maker of "Bakshi Street". While he is hiding behind IMMUNITY, which he does not have under the 1988 Immunity Decree (for he had fled to Australia), Professor Brij Lal has not only been indefinitely banned from his native Fiji but the current Police Commissioner SITIVENI QILIHO, then Fiji military strongman, beat him up, smashed up his glasses, and opened Professor Lal's mouth wide-open and despicably spat deep inside the throat as a form of humiliation, and told Professor Brij Lal that if he (Lal) did not take the next flight back to Australia, his (Lal's) family will come and collect his dead body from a morgue

INOKE KUBUABOLA: Still hiding behind the 1987 COUP MASK:

14 MAY 1987: Lest We Forget RATU INOKE KUBUABOLA, Bainimarama's "Pacific Islands Special Envoy". Kubuabola was Priestly RACIST DEVIL - Chief Co-Conspirator - who was behind the COUP with Sitiveni Rabuka

14/5/2021

"Ratu Inoke Kubuabola told Islands Business magazine of May 1988 that for more than six hours on April 19 he and Rabuka, later joined by Jone Veisamasama, 'talked about different options'. It was on 19 April that the groundwork for the coup was laid and according to Kubuabola, 11 May was the day his co-conspirators decided to proceed with its execution. He also claims that when it was learnt that Parliament would not sit on Friday they had agreed to bring forward the coup to Thursday. Another crucial intermediary between the Taukei Movement and the military, the Rev Tomasi Raikivi, provided his house in Suva as a centre for overall planning. Thus it was there that Rabuka met the other conspirators on Easter Monday, nine days after the defeat of the Alliance Party. We will let Rabuka explain the rest, as he did to Eddie Dean and Stan Ritova in his infamous autobiography No Other Way. He went to Rev Raikivi's for, ' … What he understood was an ordinary 'grog' party. It was early evening, and he just walked in, as he normally would, throwing his 'sevusevu' of yagona towards the bowl where the 'grog' was being mixed. 'I saw all these people sitting down, and realised it was some kind of a meeting. Some of the people greeted me, although I could not see everyone clearly because it was fairly dark in the lounge-room. Nobody asked me to leave.' When his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he discovered the gathering was 'quite a formidable group'. He says it included Ratu Finau Mara, Ratu George Kadavulevu, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Ratu Keni Viuyasawa, the brother of Brigadier Epeli Nailatikau, Filipe Bole, Ratu Jo Ritova of Labasa, Ratu Jale Ratum, 'Big Dan' Veitata, and the host Raikivi. Another leading light at this meeting was Apisai Tora.''
Source: Victor Lal, Fiji: Coups in Paradise - Race, Politics and Military Intervention

From Fijileaks Archive:

From Fijileaks Archive, 5 July 2016:

Read Full Interview by clicking below:
https://www.fijileaks.com/home/shifting-blame-rabuka-either-you-or-the-commander-have-got-to-do-this-i-cant-do-it-im-kai-loma-im-a-white-european-jim-sandy-rabuka-also-claims-it-was-ratu-mara-who-told-him-to-destroy-constitution

VALE NI MADRAI: Economy Minister Aiyaz Khaiyum gives $50 million go ahead for VANITY PROJECT - the Prime Minister's new residence - while COVID ravaged Fijians are wondering where to get next LOAF of BREAD

13/5/2021

This hideous planned PM's residence looks as if its a new bread factory

LUXURY IN MIDST OF COVID POVERTY:
Newly purchased/leased FFP Government vehicles that were released from Carpenters Motors earlier this week

14 MAY 1987: Remember the racist military thug SITIVENI RABUKA who brought in his COUP restrictions and containment 34 Years TODAY. His blueprint was deployed by another coupist, FRANK BAINIMARAMA. Today, as Fiji battles COVID-19, that Khaiyum-Kheras brought on Fiji Airways Flight on 10 April, why are Bainimarama-Khaiyum hesitant to impose a national lockdown - ah, to milk foreign money to stay afloat? They were very quick to bring in the Public Emergency Order in 2009 to cling to power after the 2006 treasonous coup.

The Fiji High Court had ruled that the military government was illegal. Bainimarama had repealed the 1997 Constitution, sacked the judiciary and gave the police and military powers to detain people without charge. Emergency regulations also resulted in media censorship and a requirement for official approval for public meetings. COVID has triumphed over Fiji's COUPS

LAUTOKA HOSPITAL LOCKED DOWN: Dr Fong should use the national emergency legislations to requisition the new BA Hospital and operate it exclusively for the COVID-19 quarantine and containment measures

5/5/2021

The newly built multi-million dollar Ba Hospital is fast becoming a white elephant. Even if the original intention was to operate it under some
PPP arrangement, it should be converted for Covid quarantine

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Fijileaks:IMBECILE REASON FROM AIYAZ KHAIYUM:"Fiji cannot afford a one-month lockdown despite its bid to fight the coronavirus." Yes, because you need money to keep Fiji Airways afloat.Who brought the deadly Indian variant to Fijion 10 April 2021?

DOUBLE MASKED:"I know like many Fijians with health issues, you are terrified of getting the virus yourself." Graham Davis to Frank Bainimarama

Click below:https://efile.fara.gov/docs/5483-Exhibit-AB-20190402-62.pdf