The secret Deloitte’s report on the operations of Fiji Sugar Corporation is now going to the sugar Taskforce. Deloittes are accountants, not sugar mill engineers, so what can they say about improving mill efficiency? It’s obvious FSC has paid for a dud refit, so how can accountants help with that? The real question is what did FSC management tell Deloiittes about the likely performance of their mills so that Deloittes could calculate the income they would earn? If they’ve lied to them about the performance to expect from the mills, which everyone can see now is as bad this year as it was last year, the report is useless.

The rumours that Sayed-Khaiyum is about to get the boot are getting stronger everyday. Aiayz can’t believe that the regime would get rid of him because he thinks they’d have no-one to tell him what to do, but he could be in for a rude shock. It’s true the dumb dictator will miss Aiyaz giving him lines to read and decrees to announce, which dumbo thinks make him look smart, but nobody else will miss the Ayaz arrogance. Victor Lal’s article on Coup Four and a Half outlines how the arrogance and corruption of Sayed-Khaiyum brought him into conflict with the Military Council.

With John Prasad ousted in favour of a Fijian and Aiyaz likely to go sometime soon, not to mention the prospect that the sugar industry is in danger of collapsing, Frank knows he has to get his Fijian support base in place quickly. He can toss the overseas Indo-Fijians a bone like handing out the name ‘Fijian’, and many will sit up and say thank you, but their brothers and sisters at home are reaching the point of despair. They can see clearly now that the regime’s only aim is to secure a power base for the military elite and that requires a Fijian support base.

Obviously, our vain and dangerously capricious dictator, Frank Bainimarama, is so full of himself that he doesn’t feel the need to respond to remarks by the elected Prime Minister of New Zealand’ John Key, who is stating once again that he is offering the hand of friendship to Fiji. Another reason the dictator may be disinclined to respond is due to Key’s statement that he hopes the promise of elections in 2014 will be honoured. As Frank has given us no reason to believe that he will honour that promise, why should he bother responding to John Key? As Frank has demonstrated for the past four years, he likes the life of a dictator. It’s just our bad luck that Frank, in the course of being a grubby, dishonest little tin-pot dictator, is destroying his own country.