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Fiji police investigate shipping company over alleged trafficking


Fiji police are investigating the local shipping company over the allegations.
Police said they received a complaint from a member of a group of foreign seafarers, who had alleged abusive treatment by their employer Goundar Shipping Limited.
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Photo: Facebook/Goundar Shipping Limited
About 20 Filipino seamen were recruited - some as long as three years ago - by the company which runs interisland services.
But the group claimed Goundar had abandoned them and that they are owed back-pay and fares home.
The seafarers sought the help of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) who called for a thorough inquiry into Goundar s operations. ....

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The Fiji Times » The future of USP – Biman: Deportation was morally wrong


Professor Biman Prasad
20 February, 2021, 7:30 pm
University of the South Pacific vice chancellor and president Professor Pal Ahluwalia congratulates graduates after the Faculty of Arts, Law and Education graduation at the FMF Gymnasium in Laucala Bay, Suva on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU
The whistleblowing vice-chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has described the illegal deportation of he and his wife, Sandra Price, as a “surreal” experience.
Many would agree that the inhumane and immoral deportation has plunged the tertiary institution into the biggest crisis of its 50-plus-year history.
The ensuing standoff between USP host country Fiji and the university governing body, the USP Council, has put the institution’s funding at risk, and its future in jeopardy. In another surreal episode, Fiji’s Prime Minister and Immigration Minister, Frank Bainimarama, chose to airily downplay the ....

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