Press Release – Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat I remain steadfast behind the Forum Leaders decision on the appointment of the Honourable Henry Puna from the Cook Islands as the next Secretary General. This was a consensus decision following an agreed process at our Special Leaders Retreat on 3 February …
I remain steadfast behind the Forum Leaders decision on the appointment of the Honourable Henry Puna from the Cook Islands as the next Secretary General.
This was a consensus decision following an agreed process at our Special Leaders’ Retreat on 3 February 2021.
We have upheld our principles and values as characterised through the Pacific Way. Central to our Pacific Way is our values of the collective good, maintaining relationships, talanoa and mutual respect.
USP unions ask govt why Ahluwalia has been cited as a public risk and deported
USP unions ask govt why Ahluwalia has been cited as a public risk and deported
Tarisi Vacala and Elizabeth Fong . [Image: FHL]
The Association of the USP Staff and the USP Staff Union have today expressed their grave concern and disgust at the government’s decision to deport the regional University’s Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife.
In a statement after their meeting, the Presidents of the unions, Elizabeth Fong and Tarisi Vacala say given the seriousness of the decision, they demand the Fijian government to provide the justification for what they term ‘a gestapo tactic’.
The Special Secretary to the Prime Minister, Dr Jimmie Rodgers, has missed out in the election of the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS).
Felix Chaudhary
4 February, 2021, 11:38 am
USP vice-chancellor Prof Pal Ahluwalia (right) talks to USP Students Association and staff
members during the protest march in Suva on Monday, June 8, 2020.
Picture: ATU RASEA/FT FILE
The University of the South Pacific Staff Union and Association of USP Staff issued a joint statement this morning expressing “grave concern and disgust at the FijiFirst Government’s decision to deport the regional university’s vice chancellor and president Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife.”
“We are alarmed by the way that the Government of Fiji broke into the Vice Chancellor’s residence in the middle of the night (03.02.21) and orchestrated the removal of VCP Pal and his wife,” the unions said.