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FWCC coordinator Shamima Ali and PM Voreqe Bainimarama. Picture: FT FILE
Hullo readers.
In The Fiji Times edition of Friday, February 19, 2021, our coverage of the situation at the University of the South Pacific continues, and today you will read about the Prime Minister’s public comment calling for the resignation of an award-winning USP academic who is also the wife of an Opposition MP.
The Prime Minister is touring affected areas, particularly schools, in the Northern Division that were affected by the recent natural disasters.
And while in the Northern Division, we bring you reports of the challenges – post-disaster – that northerners continue to experience.
Felix Chaudhary
18 February, 2021, 6:15 pm
Staff members of the University of the South Pacific during a prayer session. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA.
THE Fijian Government acted like a “thief in the night” in the manner in which it deported University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife Sandra Price.
This, according to a joint statement issued by the Association of the University of the South Pacific and the University of the South Pacific Staff Union on Tuesday following a meeting of the USP Council.
“Good governance has underpinned the unions, students and staff approach to all matters relating to the university and the vice-chancellor and has taken guidance from the supreme governing body of the USP – its council,” the unions’ statement said.
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Udra Prasad consoles his daughter Rital Prasad at Nadele, Sabeto. Picture: BALJEET SINGH
Hullo readers.
In The Fiji Times edition of Thursday, February 18, 2021, we are continuing our coverage of the controversial deportation of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, and we continue to receive reactions as this story develops with stakeholders now engaged in a series of meetings to rectify this situation.
Also, by now, we’d presume that our readers in Fiji, and surely from around the world too, would have learned of the tragic house fire at Nadele in Sabeto, Nadi, and a family that lost three loved ones in that most devastating incident. Our team was at the scene so we have those personal stories to share with you.
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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’.