EXPATRIATES FIRST BEFORE CITIZENS: Go, take running jumps, if you plan to serve Fiji - FijiFirst message to Fijians who missed out selection; the new Permanent Secretary for Civil Service is Canadian Nicole Jauvin!

6/1/2016

Jauvin was President, Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) August 2009 – October 2011; An 2011 Internal Audit revealed serious problems at CanNor; Audit said agency broke almost every financial management rule since its creation in 2009; the then Prime Minister Stephen Harper created the federal agency to develop Canada's North. It managed about $75 million dollars a year. In March 2011, the comptroller general identified issues with CanNor. In a report, the comptroller noted the agency did not establish a financial management framework, which it was supposed to do according to its mandate. This meant that it violated almost every one of these basic rules when it came to expense control, tendering contracts, credit card usage, travel and hospitality to its guests; CanNor was first led by Jauvin; she retired in the summer of 2011 and was rehired by the then Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq to temporarily advise the office on CanNor, at a salary of more than $200,000 a year

Who are the Expatriates hired as
new Permanent Secretaries? Fijileaks goes beyond what PSC gave to Fiji media:

NICOLE JAUVIN has been appointed Permanent Secretary for Civil Service.

Retired Deputy Minister at Government of Canada
Ottawa, Canada Area
Government Administration
Current

Government of Canada

Previous

Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency,
Public Service Agency,
Social Development Canada

Education

University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

Experience

Retired Deputy Minister
Government of Canada
October 2011 – Present (4 years 4 months)
President
Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
August 2009 – October 2011 (2 years 3 months)
President
Public Service Agency
August 2006 – August 2009 (3 years 1 month)
Deputy Minister
Social Development Canada
December 2003 – February 2006 (2 years 3 months)Ottawa, Canada Area
Deputy Solicitor General of Canada
Solicitor General of Canada
June 2000 – December 2003 (3 years 7 months)Ottawa, Canada Area
Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet
Privy Council Office
1983 – 2000 (17 years)
Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet
Privy Council Office
1983 – 2000 (17 years)

Education

University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
LL.L, Civil Law
1977 – 1982

Volunteer Experience & Causes

Serving clients at a homeless shelter
The Ottawa Mission
April 2012 – Present (3 years 10 months) Poverty Alleviation

Ewan Perrin has been appointed Permanent Secretary for Communication
and Information Technology

EWAN PERRIN

IT Consultant at RPV Consultants
Canberra, Australia
Government Administration

Current
RPV Consultants,
Gunning Fish River Rural Fire Brigade,
Relationships Australia Canberra Region

Previous
Australian Maritime Safety Authority,
CSIRO,
Australian Taxation Office

Education
University of Oxford - Said Business School

Summary
Experienced, energetic IT leader and thinker, delivery focused with public and private sector experience, a true believer that technology can greatly improve our lives.

Experience
RPV Consultants
IT Consultant
RPV Consultants
June 2015 – Present (8 months)Canberra, Australia
President
Gunning Fish River Rural Fire Brigade
April 2015 – Present (10 months)
Director
Relationships Australia Canberra Region
November 2013 – Present (2 years 3 months)

Director of not-for-profit relationship counselling and family services organisation with a noble mission and dedicated employees
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
CIO
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
July 2008 – May 2015 (6 years 11 months) Canberra, Australia

IT strategy development and execution; strategic vendor and contract management; IT project delivery and business engagement; chair of Commonwealth CIO Forum
CSIRO
Executive Manager Program Office
CSIRO
2004 – 2008 (4 years)Canberra, Australia

Responsible for CSIRO’s portfolio of major IT programs and projects, consulting and analysis services, applications delivery and strategic information management. Projects under management over $80 million.
Initiated a fantastic development programs for junior project managers.

Won international PMI award for outstanding project management organisation (2007)
Australian Taxation Office
Project Manager/Test Director
Australian Taxation Office
2000 – 2004 (4 years)

Managed multiple large test teams during GST implementation; grew and managed enterprise testing function across three cities, around 120 staff.

Project manager responsible for delivery of multiple accounting systems projects including provisioning on mainframe based accounts across the internet for the first time.

Unisys Australia
Project Manager/Consultant
Unisys Australia
1998 – 2000 (2 years)

Technical strategy manager for mainframe remediation, project delivery for Y2K upgrades, business & technical analysis and consulting
Project Manager, Analyst, Writer, Test Manager
Independent Contractor
1996 – 1998 (2 years) Canberra, Australia
Courses
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
CIO Academy (Oxford University)
CSIRO
Company Directors Course (AICD)

The new Permanent Secretary for Youth & Sports is Alison Burchell – the
Business Development Manager, Sport:80 Services Limited. Alison began her sports management career in South Africa in various volunteer capacities. This opened up a new professional career in sport in event organisation, bidding to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games as well as working on development initiatives. She then took up the challenge of working in the National Paralympic Committee managing the high performance programme across all sports. This led to her appointment as assistant chef for the team which competed in the 2000 Paralympic Games. Leading the restructure of the NPC to become inclusive of all disability groups, Alison later took on the role of general manager and managed the merger with the NOC and CGA while also being chef de mission of the 2004 Paralympic team and the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games team. Another challenge beckoned and she moved to work in the public service in sport and recreation and then to work in an international federation in Switzerland – mainly to improve her French. Earlier in 2015, she moved to the UK and works in the IT sector supporting efficiencies for NGBs.

Experience

Director: Operations and Para Table Tennis
International Table Tennis Federation
January 2013 – Present (3 years 1 month) Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Deputy Executive Director: Operations
International Table Tennis Federation
September 2010 – Present (5 years 5 months)

Project Manager
International Table Tennis Federation
September 2009 – December 2009 (4 months)

General Manager
Disability Sport South Africa
2003 – 2007 (4 years)

Volunteer Experience & Causes

Executive member
South African Commonwealth Games Association
Overseeing day to day functions; team selections; chef de mission of the youth team 2004

A retired Colonel in the New Zealand Army, Paul Bayly will take over as Permanent Secretary for Infrastructure and Transport. Paul has extensive international experience as a merchant banker with Citibank and Midland Montague, including undertaking business and credit analysis, capital restructuring and fundraising, mergers and acquisitions and business development projects.

He has provided investment banking and corporate advice to private companies, local authorities, central government agencies, the United Nations Food and Agricultural organisation and the United Nations Development Programme in a career that has spanned England, Southern and Eastern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

In 2012 he was appointed by UNOPS to an international Advisory Pool of Experts in Public Infrastructure for a three year term.

Paul's academic background covers accounting, finance and economics. In 2008 he completed the Senior Executive Fellows Programme at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. He has postgraduate and graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Massey University.

Paul is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Company Secretaries. He has undertaken a number of government roles including been a member of the New Zealand Government’s Small Business Advisory Group (2006/09), appointed to the Volvo Ocean Race Auckland Stopover Committee (2011/12) and member of a Ministerial Review of New Zealand Defence Reserve Forces (2010/11). He also sits on a number of boards, including the Massey University Foundation.

Paul is a retired Colonel in the New Zealand Army, and most recently commanded a Regiment. He has attended the Canadian Militia Command and Staff College in Ontario and has undertaken operational tours in East Timor, South Lebanon and Syria.

Paul has been involved in a number of expeditions, including project adviser and sailor on both the Borobudur Ship Expedition 2003/04 (www.borobudurshipexpedition.com), a reconstructed 700AD century ship, and the Phoenician Ship Expedition, 2008/2012, (www.phoenicia.org.uk), a reconstructed 600BC ship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In his spare time, Paul is building a replica M26 Supermarine Spitfire.

Talking of banning orders and deportations, the former PS Parmesh Chand was behind the expulsion of NZ High Commissioner Michael Green: "Fiji MFA PermSec Ross Ligairi informed New Zealand High Commissioner Michael Green last Thursday that the interim government (IG) cabinet has ordered him PNGed. No detailed explanation accompanied the dipnote, but Ligairi had suggested to Green a couple of days earlier that PM PermSec Parmesh Chand has been really irritated with Green." Former US Ambassador Larry Dinger to Washington

12 Comments

Chiku

6/1/2016 11:22:32 pm

If under that Canadian's watch that Canadian development agency Can Nor violated almost every rule governing good management then she is amply qualified to be hired as PS for the Fiji Civil Service. She would be in good company seeing as the people who are hiring her are themselves well known violators of established rules of good governance. Birds of a feather must flock together.

Rustam

7/1/2016 12:00:12 am

Applause!! Well Said.

maropito

6/1/2016 11:42:53 pm

Hi editor

Do you know that USP qualification and MBA is worthless

Samjho

7/1/2016 12:00:17 am

After over 4.5 decades of Independence when the colonial flag was lowered and the flag of the new nation state of Fiji raised we discover colonialism has not quite ended as the hiring of expatriate permanent secretaries illustrates. Why then all the fuss about changing the flag with the Union Jack on it? It's plain hypocrisy. It's quite ok to hire white expatriates but not ok to have the Union Jack on the flag because it is a remnant of white colonial rule. Why is the Fijian navy wearing white colonial clothes instead of native Fijian clothes?

And

7/1/2016 12:29:39 am

I don't know what fancy qualifications Parmess Chand has ( not that I am overly impressed by fancy qualifications. The World Bank and IMF are full of them and they are notorious for messing things up for people in poor developing countries with their high faulting schemes and projects). The one qualification of Parmess that has stood out is his ability to hang on to the balls of Bainimarama and Khaiyum when many others have come and gone.

On-Song

7/1/2016 12:37:20 am

(Please disregard previous mail)
Fiji must really lack good PS material for Govt. to seek abroad. Hard to figure out a PS from the UK for Youth & Sports, a retired colonel with Banking & Accounts background as PS Infrastructure & Transport and that PS from Canada whose entity went bust during her watch!! People, if these people are getting 6 figure salaries then i just wonder if those 2 in current Govt. leadership has reached the 7 figure mark; if not already!!??

King-Crosser

7/1/2016 01:33:36 am

Even Ewan Perrin wearing dual left ear earrings makes an entry in Fiji's First cat-walk of PS parade -courtesy of the Chor Party Sarkar - because we FIJIANS are NOT good enough.

Sireli

7/1/2016 07:33:58 am

I heard that Killer Kean will be given a diplomatic post.

Spot on

7/1/2016 08:11:12 am

Now I am trying to figure out how to compare PS of Women's with these new PSs.
What I know about this old medical doctor PS of Women's Ministry is that he forgets most of the time why he called a meeting. He sleeps in his office and most of the time je is on vibre chatting with his half his age wife who lives in Australia.
How and why he was reappointed?

Injustice

7/1/2016 10:36:09 am

There are many qualified locals who applied yet Vishnu Mohan did not short listed those applicants. I have a friend who has over 10 years of senior executive managerial experience with a Masters qualication yet he was not even short listed for interview. What an uunjusice. Vishnu Mohan has connflict of interest and is full of nepotism.

trues up

7/1/2016 11:27:35 am

Indeed I agree with Injustice. I also have a very illustrious career in Fiji and have been GM at many corporation with a Post Graduate and Masters qualification yet was not even considered for interview. Expats have set excellant examples and record such as Anthony Tarr of USP, Rouse of FNU, Sharon Smith PS information, Fiji Airways 2 CEO change and another failed CEO leading now. What a joke Fiji First Party trusts white skin but never gives opportunity to Citizens to head inspite of huge unemployment issues faced by Fiji. Judiciary is full of Sri Lankans and its no surprise as PSC chair the carribian knight himself an expat.

Tomasi

11/1/2016 09:00:42 pm

One way to look at the current event on expatriate recruitment before locals is to ask why and how will this benefit the two dictators.

An answer immediately springs to mind: Absolute power. Further concentration of power and total control.

Expatriates will be told that their job security and tenure is dierectly related to their total allegiance to the dictators. They must serve the dictators and not necessarily the people of Fiji. No questions asked, no ifs and buts and why and no. Just a simple and always YES SIR to every instruction.

Expatriates know that their jobs and their stay in Fiji will depend on their "faithful service" to the dictators. They have been hired byt the two, and they will also be fired by the two, if they do not meet the demands of the jobs.

For locals, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find loyal and faithful people to serve the FFP dictatorship. More and more locals are finding out the TRUTH about what really happened in 2000 and all that has been happening under the tyrannic reign two dictators' Vore and Khai. Locals also have relatives and friends whom they talk to and they are bound to spill the truth and their disappointments at certain times.

The two dictators are very cunning, evil and absolutely obsessed with power. They will accumulate power and control in order to hold onto power, regardless of the stark lessons of history and the famous dictum of Lord Acton; " Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

The two dictators have decided to forget history because they have been warned too many times that their fate has been clearly defined, no matter how much they try to ignore it. Dictators always fall, and they never last. The higher they rise, the greater they fall. The question only is: when??? The closk is ticking away and their time is almost up.

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