Vakaivosavosa has another view of N.L.T.B and their incursion into the cellular network industry.
Apparently the Fijian segment of the blogosphere are slowly jumping on to that story lead. Here is an excerpt from Fiji T.V revealing the names of the ursurping board of Ba Holdings Ltd.
New board for Ba Provincial Holdings Ltd
1 Aug 2006 17:57:15
More details today on what transpired at the special meeting of Ba Provincial Holdings Limited yesterday.
A new board has been appointed - they will review the operations of the company and report to the council in three months time.
The new board is made up of TAUKEI SAWAIEKE - RATU TEVITA MOMOEDONU as chairman the TAUKEI VIDILO - RATU VILIAME BOUWALU, ERONI LEWAQAI, SAIMONI NAIVALU, PONIPATE LESAVUA, JOSAIA DRISO, RATU TEVITA LEWARAVU, MESAKE SAUKAWA, ASESELA SADOLE and SIVA NAULAGO.
These individuals named have little to no experience in running any business let alone a company with stakes in media operations. The new chairman was recently appointed to the board of N.L.T.B and another individual on the new board is also a member of the Great Council of Chiefs. The marriage of convenience between corporate affairs and tribal affairs is also a realization that the honey moon is over. Furthermore it highlights the dangers of cross-contamination of tribal commerce and national interests that may be have violated ethical considerations in Fiji.
Apparently there is some discrepancy in the manner in which the shareholders meeting was convened, violating the standing rules of the company.
Technically, the company secretary was supposed to inform the old board of a extraordinary meeting. Instead, a shareholder's meeting was held without the 30 day notification. It was at this meeting where the decision was made to remove the existing board and replace it with another entity. Although shareholders have a say in the company direction, they cannot legally defy existing grounds rules of the 1983 legislation also known as the Companies Act (Chapter 247). Here is an academic paper on financial reporting based on that Companies Act.
It will be interesting to see how this unfolds in court.
Sir Vijay Singh, a former barrister and Fiji Attorney General emeritus is launching a book titled "Speaking Out".
Nationalists want new book bannedIt is rather disappointing to hear about these so-called nationalists trying to lobby policies that belong in the dark ages and disguising it as offensive to the vanua.
8 Aug 2006 18:06:03
The Fiji Nationalist Party says it will lobby for government to stop the launch of a book written by former politician Sir Vijay R Singh. The book, SPEAKING OUT contains Sir Vijay's thoughts on Fiji in the decade 1995 to 2005.
Nationalist party president Saula Telawa says excerpts of the book are in-sensitive to Christians and the principles they believe in.
Even before it's hit the book-shops. Sir Vijay R Singh's new book has attracted attention for the wrong reason.
This is a glimpse of the book cover, courtesy of an invitation sent by the University of the South Pacific last week.
In an excerpt printed on the flip side of the invitation, Sir Vijay writes.
The marches claimed to express their extreme disapproval that the Prime Minister is an Indo-Fijian one may well ask how they reconcile their repugnant racist sentiment on the weekday with their purported devotion to the biblical precept of the brotherhood of man on Sunday.
The marches claimed to express their extreme disapproval that the Prime Minister is an Indo-Fijian one may well ask how they reconcile their repugnant racist sentiment on the weekday with their purported devotion to the biblical precept of the brotherhood of man on Sunday.
Today the nationalist party has taken exception to this.
Saula Telawa along with his fellow nationalists took the streets in 2000 to campaign against the Fiji Labor Leader and the than Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry,
(Translation: It can't happen.Thee bible says just leave them, separate yourselves from them)
Telawa says he will raise his concerns with the Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and possibly the Methodist Church. He says Sir Vijay's thoughts are in-sensitive to Christian beliefs and the vanua.
Speaking Out is scheduled to be launched at USP next Wednesday.
S.i.F.M queries whether the book is as offensive as Native Lands Trust Board's abuse of landowners, or the recent High Court judgment by Justice John O'Connor( in the FSC tramline case) that the native land does not belong to the indigenous population but the aspects of command and control rests solely with Native Lands Trust Board.
Here is the excerpt of the Fiji Times article.
Not your land, it's NLTB's, says court
Thursday, August 03, 2006
The court has given the Native Land Trust Board and the Fiji Sugar Corporation two days to resolve the dispute.
The High Court has told landowners they have no right to block a railway line because the land concerned is legally vested under the Native Land Trust Board.
High Court judge Justice John Connors gave the Fiji Sugar Corporation and the Native Land Trust Board two days to resolve the land dispute.
Justice Connors told the villagers they must not take the law into their own hands and warned that there might be serious repercussions if their actions were repeated.
Justice Connors told members of the Mataqali Masokanalagi that they had no proper rights under the NLTB Act to make demands for premiums and payment.
"There's nothing under the Act that gives them that right," he said. He told them the NLTB was the body that had powers to make such demands. The NLTB, FSC and landowners were defendants in a case filed by the Sugar Cane Growers Council.
The two landowners who appeared in court yesterday gave an assurance that the blockade had been removed. Samuela Naisau told the court that they respected its injunction and removed the blockade.
The members of the mataqali sealed off a railway track leading to Rarawai Mill three weeks ago, leaving thousands of farmers in parts of Ba and Tavua with no option but to transport their crop by lorries.
The dispute was over non-renewal of leases for land the railway runs through. Justice Connors told the lawyers of the three parties NLTB, FSC and the landowners that they must report to court on Friday.
He gave NLTB and FSC two days to discuss issues relating to Sorokoba, hoping to put pressure on them to resolve the matter.
He said in that way, a speedier resolution might have been arrived at.
The landowners were represented by Lautoka lawyer Mosese Naivalu. Corporation lawyer Faizal Hanif said the two parties had been meeting all of yesterday and were progressing well in their discussions.
But he said they were yet to reach common ground. Board lawyer Kemueli Qoro said the two parties were making every effort for the lease to be renewed.
Council chief executive Jagannath Sami said the council took legal action as a final bid to bring together all the parties involved in the dispute. Council lawyer Shalen Krishna said in court that he hoped the judge's call for an early review into the matter would solve the whole issue.
The board was represented by Kemueli Qoro and Mr Naivalu represented the landowners.
It is time to paint these nationalists for what they truly are: Fly-by-night political opportunists who try to label the author's work as insensitive whilst neglecting their own tardiness. The comments by these pseudo-Christian nationalists, demonstrate how matters in Fiji can easily be slanted, skewed to the benefit of the elite minority.
S.i.F.M has seven words for these scoundrels of the lowest order:
"We're not going to sit in silence!"
It would have been more constructive to have these nationalists explore the reason why Fijians have not ventured in the book publishing industry, or why there has never been any significant proposals in translating self-help books into the Fijian vernacular. Maybe an ignorant populace is exactly what these nationalist want in Fiji.
Roberts Rules of Order should be among the first books that need translation to elevate that knowledge among the common threads of Fiji.
These provocateurs talk a lot and have little to show for. More so in literature excellence and should be the last people in Fiji to be consulted.
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