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The Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO) Council of Fiji has elected its
new Board headed by President Morika
Hunter, Vice-Presidents Josie Prasad
and Carol Watkins, Treasurer Faiyaz
Khan and executive members Chandan
Ohri, Erik van Duivenbode, Thelma
Taria-Savua and Kelera Tukana.

Fiji’s Lai Tora has been recognised
with the Asian Development Bank’s One
ADB Gender Champion award. Tora is
based at the Pakistan Resident Mission.
The award is named for another Fijian
and leader at the ADB, the late Shireen
Kamal Haer Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa Lateef.
The new Pacific Regional Director at
to the Northern Marianas Health Care the Waitt Institute is Arthur Sokimi.
Arthur Sam has retired as a Director Professions Licensing Board. He was previously Country Manager
of BSP Financial Group Limited. He with the Blue Prosperity Fiji team.
served in the role since July 2016. Justice Susan Purdon-Sully and Sokimi will support the Waitt Institute’s
Justice Derek Wood have been sworn engagement with government partners
RB Patel Group Limited has appointed in as expatriate judges of the Supreme and Council of Regional Organisations
Kamal Haer as its new Chairperson. and National Courts of Papua New in the Pacific agencies leading to the
Guinea for three years. adoption of Marine Spatial Plans and
Fijian Holdings Limited Group has Marine Protected Areas in the Pacific.
appointed John Matthews as the Rooster Poultry General Manager,
Development and Construction Manager Stanley Raniga has been appointed as SPECIAL AWARD
for the Group. the new Chairman of the Sugar Research
Institute of Fiji. Vice-Chancellor of Auckland
Gynaecologist, Dr Jon Hathaway has University of Technology, Professor
joined the medical team at LBJ Hospital Rita Sablan and Alvaro Santos have Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa has been
in American Samoa. been reappointed to the Marianas Public appointed an Honorary Fellow of Oriel
Land Trustees for another six-year term. College at the University of Oxford in
Anne Herman has been reappointed England.
Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Tanuvasa Oloapu Petone Mauga
Affairs in the Cook Islands, marking it has been reappointed as Samoa’s IN MEMORY
her third consecutive term in the role. Commissioner of Fire and Emergency
Authority for the next three years. Ratu Kinijoji Rayacarogo George
Film Fiji has appointed Jone Cama, better known as Tukini Cama,
Robertson as its new Chief Executive Shawn Walter has been appointed passed away on 18 February 2024. Cama
Officer. the new Technical Coordinator at Blue was one of Fiji’s most recognised radio
Prosperity Micronesia. announcers and media personalities.
Former Republic of Fiji Military
Forces Commanding Officer and Tailevu PNG’s Teachers Savings and Loan Former Governor of the Central
Chief, Ratu Viliame Seruvakula is the Society has appointed John Simango as Bank of the Solomon Islands, Tony
new Chairman of Fiji’s Great Council its new Chief Executive Officer. Hughes has died. In his retirement, he
of Chiefs, which reconvened in Suva continued as a major national figure,
last month after being abolished by Fijian lawyer, Vinay Sharma has been including chairing a Commission of
Fiji’s previous government almost two sworn in as a Resident Magistrate in the Inquiry into mining licensing.
decades ago. District Court of Nauru.

Francisco Rabauliman and Dr Tonga police have appointed their
Glenda George have been appointed first-ever Police Chaplain, Ian Claude
Tu’ihalangingie.

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