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Tavake Barron Afeaki Alexandrya Herman Jean-Marc Mocellin Carmen G. Cantor Tantowi Yahya Lisa Apted

Australia’s Simon Keen is Vanuatu’s new cricket coach. The CEO at Pacific TAFE, based at the University of the
Keen represented Australia U-19 and played for Sydney Sixers South Pacific campus in Suva, won the first runner up award
and Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League. He replaces Clint at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurial Leader in Higher Education
McKay as coach. Awards recently. Hasmukh Lal, who holds a doctorate in
business administration, says Pacific TAFE under his leadership
Bruce Phillips has been appointed as an Independent
Director of Port Denarau Marina. Phillips established his has graduated thousands of students from its career and
vocation-focussed programs.
company, Kooline Refrigeration in 1976 and ran it for 40 years
until his retirement in 2017, working on many of Fiji’s largest The new First Secretary at the NZ High Commission in Suva
tourism construction projects. He is a former President of the is Hone Patrick. Of Ngāti Awa descent, Honi has extensive
Northern Club Lautoka, Flag Officer at Royal Suva Yacht Club private sector experience in Asia and the Pacific.
and for the last 40 years has been an active member of Fiji Fiji’s Lisa Apted and Samoa’s Fuimaono Camillo Afele
Yachting Association.
have been recognised as Chartered Accountants Australia
Britain is re-opening its resident High Commission in and New Zealand (CA ANZ) Fellows. They are the only Pacific
Nuku’alofa and Thorhilda Abbott-Watt OBE has been Island awardees amongst the 220-strong cohort. Apted is the
appointed British High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Tonga. managing partner and leader of the taxation practice at KPMG
She succeeds the current, non-resident High Commissioner, in Fiji. Fuimaono is Samoa’s Controller and Auditor General
Melanie Hopkins, who is British High Commissioner to Fiji. and has over 20 years’ experience at the Samoa Audit Office.
Abbott-Watt has also been posted to Mongolia, Afghanistan Mange Matui is the new Secretary for the Constitutional
and Armenia during her diplomatic career.
Law Reform Commission in PNG. Matui was formerly the Dean
US Ambassador to the FSM, Carmen G. Cantor has of the University of Papua New Guinea Law School and also
presented her credentials in Pohnpei. A career official in the served as a Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission.
U.S. Department of State, her previous posts include Director Jerry Tan has been elected as board president of the
of Civil Service Human Resource Management, Executive Northern Marianas Sports Association. Tan also heads the
Director of the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, and Northern Mariana Islands Football Association. Tan says he and
the Executive Director for the Bureau of Counterterrorism.
his committee have a lot of work to do to prepare for next
The Fiji National Provident Fund has appointed Daksesh year’s Pacific Mini Games.
Patel (Chair) and Mukhtar Ali to its board, and reappointed Samoa’s commissioner of prisons has been reinstated in
engineer Sanjay Kaba. Patel is CEO of Infrabuild and current the role after being suspended for five months. Local media
Chairman of Energy Fiji. Mukhtar Ali is the Chief Operating reports that Taitosaua Edward Winterstein was stood down
Officer of the Community Bank of the Bay in Oakland, after two prisoners escaped from Tanumalala prison when a
California. Kaba is the Managing Director, Principal Structural guard left a cell door open.
Engineer and Projects Director at Houng Lee Jacob Kaba
Limited.

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