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Lesieli Moala Taviri Maria Leon Guerrero Sir Paulias Matane Viniana Uluiviti
Jim Armistead has been tions Nations Cup. She has
appointed as Cook Islands previously coached Samoa’s
High Commissioner to Fiji. national women’s team.
Armistead started with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Immigration in 2013 as In memory
the director for the Pacific Tonga’s deputy PM and a
and Regional Division. He leading Noble, Lord Ma’afu,
relocated to Suva in January has died in an Auckland hos-
2020 to take up the role as pital. “His Lordship has held
the Chargé d’Affaires which Ministerial office for four
was primarily responsible for consecutive governments,
establishing the first Cook with an exemplary and
Islands High Commission in esteemed career in service
the Republic of Fiji.
to the Monarch and the Royal
In Fiji sporting appoint- Household, as well as public
ments, Unaisi Rokoura is and military services to His
Netball Fiji’s new national Majesty’s Government, span-
coach. She’s a former nation- ning over 40 years,” a Tonga Solomon Islands High Commissioner to Fiji Joseph Ma’ahanua and Fiji’s President,
Ratu Viliame Katonivere.
al player and coach for the government statement said.
Papua New Guinea Pepes. bench in April 2019.
Former Papua New Guinea Panguna mine, he became a
Commodore Humphrey Governor-General, Sir Pau- unionist, a negotiator during The Reproductive and
Tawake is the new Board lias Matane, has passed away the Bougainville war, and af- Family Health Association of
Chairperson for the Fiji Rug- at the age of 90 at home in ter the signing of the peace Fiji has announced the pass-
by Union. Meanwhile Trevor Gazelle, East New Britain. agreement in 2000, the ing of its Executive Director
Nainoca (as Accountant Di- Sir Paulias was a former chairman of the Bougainville Matelita Seva-Cadravula
rector) and Muni Ratna have teacher, school inspector, Interim Authority and later Vakarau. Her work with
also joined the board. diplomat, department head, the vice-president of the first RFHAF began in the year
world traveller, author and Autonomous Bougainville
Sale Sorovaki has been 2000 as a volunteer and she
named as Fiji’s Chef De Mis- orator who became the coun- Government in 2005. He was quickly promoted to a
try’s eighth head of state.
was re-elected member for
sion to the Commonwealth Selau in 2015 and took up project officer under Sexual
Games in England next Former Nauru President, the position of chairman of Health and Family Planning
year, while World Archery Kinza Clodumar died peace- the parliamentary committee Australia. She had been ED
Fiji General Secretary, Ajay fully last month at the age for the (UN-backed) indepen- for a decade.
Ballu will guide Fiji’s team to of 76. Clodumar is the only dence referendum. Former Blues, Auckland
the Pacific Mini Games at the Nauruan politician to have and Tonga halfback Taniela
Northern Marianas. been elected in two differ- Former Chief Justice of Sa- Moa has died, aged 36. He
ent constituencies, and his moa, Patu Tiava’asue Fale-
Englishwoman Nicola political career spanned earned 21 caps for Tonga,
Demaine has been appointed three decades. fatu Maka Sapolu has died in and played for the team at
Samoa, after returning home
as the head coach of PNG’s from New Zealand where the 2011 World Cup in New
national women’s football Bougainville has lost he had been undergoing Zealand.
team as they continue their independence leader Joseph medical treatment. Samoa’s
preparations for next year’s Watawi. From his first job longest-serving Chief Justice,
Oceania Football Confedera- as a fitter-machinist at the
he ended his 26 years on the

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