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SRILANKAGATE: Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum pays out $1million to Sri Lankan company CINEC, owned by Fiji's Diplomatic Consul in Sri Lanka, Dr Parakrama, for contract work not carried out for FNU Maritime School

30/5/2017

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"That all payments due to CINEC shall be paid directly either through the Fijian Government Consolidated Fund or by FNU"
Why are the payments made through Attorney-General's Chambers?

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THE PARTIES HAVE THEREFORE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
  1. OBLIGATION OF THE FIJIAN GOVERNMENT
      The Fijian Government shall ensure:
  1. The successful implementation between CINEC and FNU; and
  2. That all payments due to CINEC shall be paid directly either through the Fijian  Government Consolidated Fund or by FNU.
  3.  OBLIGATION OF FNU
FNU shall:
4.1Provide relevant finances and the necessary infrastructure;
4.2 Market to encourage the maximum number of students to be sent for training;
4.3 Market relevant courses in the Maritime field to all stakeholders in the Maritime sector in Fiji and in the region;
4.4 In conjunction with FNU, lobby for the employment and placement on ships for Trainers trained at FMS;
4.5 Sponsor the visit to FMS by CINEC Directors for Board Management Meeting;
4.6 Play a facilitating role to endure that the obligation under this Agreement and the objectives of the Fijian Government are fulfilled.
4.7 Provide accommodation and transport facility within Fiji to the Director-in-Charge CEO of FMS appointed by CINEC; and,
4.8 Cost for Resources Persons whether local or foreign to be borne by FMS.
 
5.0 OBLIGATION OF CINEC
       CINEC Shall:
5.1 Appoint a Director-in-charge/CEO to head the management of FMS;
 5.2 Provide all course material for IMO related courses;
  1.   Identify and design programmes for various organization sectors including Fiji Ports Corporation Limited, Tourism Sectors, and the Navy;
  2.   Design and introduce programmes required for class III qualification in both the
            Navigation and Engineering disciplines within a period of one year while 
Maintaining  the international standards and IMO requirements.
 5.5 Design and introduce programmes required for class II and class I qualification in
both the Navigation and Engineering disciplines by the end of 5 years while
maintaining the international standards and IMO requirements;
 5.6 Identify and source the required lectures for all programs at FMS;
5.7  Train lecturers and trainers from Fiji, to conduct programmes at FMS.  If required, train FMS lectures and Trainers at CINEC. The course fee of such training of Trainers program/s to be borne by CINEC;

  1.   To offer high end training programmes at CINEC for Fijian students at the prevailing local fee structure until facilities are upgraded at FMS;
  2.   Introduce the consultants for the Quality Management Systems (QMS) for  FMS/ Administrationas required;
     5.10 Assist FNU to provide employment and placement on ships for Trainees trained 
 At FMS;
     5.11 Elevate FMS as a premier maritime training facility in the region; and’
     5.12 Assist the Fijian Government to obtain IMO White List status.
 6.0 RENUMERATION AND EXPENSES
 6.1 CINEC shall be remunerated during the period of the MoA
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HON PM BAINIMARAMA SPEECH AT THE REBRANDING OF MARITIME SCHOOL

3/9/2015

The Attorney-General and Minister for Education;
Your Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic Corp;
Captain Ajith Peiris President of CINEC Maritime Campus;
The Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Fiji National University;
The Management and Staff of the Fiji Maritime Academy;
Distinguished Guests;
My Fellow Fijians.

Bula vinaka and a very good morning to you all.

I’m delighted to be here to celebrate a milestone in Fiji’s development as a maritime nation – the official opening of the new Fiji Maritime Academy.

This is a major leap forward for our nation in the training of those men and women who we rely on to carry us over the seas and to carry the cargoes on which our economy and wellbeing depends. And also for the training of those men and women in the Fijian Navy who patrol our waters and keep us safe.

Men and women have always gone down to the sea in ships – to quote that memorable line from the Bible. But they will never again go down from Fiji with more training than they will receive from this institution – one of the most important ever to be established in our island nation.

As many of you know, I am very proud to have done my own training as a seafarer at this institute which was then the FIT School of Maritime Studies in 1981. So it’s a special pleasure for me today to see it attain new heights as a training facility that we could have never imagined in my day.

I was given a tour of the fantastic computerised training simulators that replicate actual conditions on the bridge of a ship and in the engine room. It is deeply impressive – not only from a technological standpoint – but the fact that Fiji now has this technology for the first time.

With the help of our Sri Lankan friends from CINEC – the Colombo International Nautical and Engineering College
– we have built a cutting-edge, world-class facility here in Fiji that is easily the best in the Pacific.

It establishes Fiji as the prime maritime training nation in the region. It establishes a centre of excellence that will reap huge dividends for ourselves and the other island nations. And it establishes a platform for the career development of tens of thousands of our young people, who will pursue maritime careers here in the years and decades to come.

I’m delighted that in this facility and in several other areas of our national life, we have forged close links with Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan judiciary came to our aid when some of our larger neighbours deprived us of the judges and magistrates we needed to keep our justice system going.

And it is the Aitken Spence company of Sri Lanka that has transformed the performance of our ports in Suva and Lautoka, has ended the delays that cost our importers and exporters dearly. This is spearheading Fiji’s export performance and removing costs from imported items and transforming our economy in the process.

And now, CINEC, the largest private higher-education organisation in Sri Lanka, has joined hands with Fiji to produce a new generation of seafarers – well educated, disciplined, experts in seamanship and with their eyes on a horizon that promises great things for them as individuals and for us all as a nation.

The partnership between CINEC, the FNU, my Government and other stakeholders is a wonderful example of the public and private sectors getting together to achieve world’s best practice.

So the Fiji Maritime Academy also becomes a symbol of what we can all achieve if the various sectors in the economy can work cooperatively together. And we tap the high level of expertise that a country like Sri Lanka can offer us as partners in developing Fiji.

We have rebranded this institution to act as that symbol. The School of Maritime Studies becomes the Fiji Maritime Academy – managed by CINEC, under the banner of FNU. And we have also given it a new symbol, which proudly reflects its new identity.

Symbols matter. This one and all others, not least our national flag, which as you all know, we are currently in the process of redesigning to embrace genuinely Fijian symbols we can all relate to.

I must say that I was surprised when I returned from Geneva on Friday to find that the Opposition is boycotting the national panel of citizens we are setting up to choose a new design for our flag from the ideas being put forward by ordinary Fijians.

I frankly don’t understand why the Opposition wants us all to continue to honour the symbols of the colonial power that has been gone from Fiji for 45 years.

Fiji is a young nation in every sense. But most importantly because most of our population are young people who have no recollection of colonial times beyond what they read in the history books. They deserve to honour symbols we can all relate to as Fijians – genuinely, authentically and proudly Fijian.

On this note I urge the Fiji Maritime Academy staff and students to also enter the competition in the design of our new Fijian flag.

I’m sure you will all agree that the new symbol of the Fiji Maritime Academy – its new flag – is one that everyone who passes through this institution in the months and years to come will honour and hold in the highest respect.

My Government is certainly proud to be part of this wonderful venture, which included providing $2 million to fund the bridge and engine room simulators that are transforming the learning experience of every cadet.

And Fiji as a whole is proud that already, our maritime academy has received certification from the ISO – the InternationalOrganization for Standardization– which tells the region and the world that this is a place of excellence and worthy of international respect.

To all those who have worked so hard in the lead-up to this wonderful day, I say vinaka vakalevu on behalf of our nation and maritime communities across the Pacific – for whom this institution means so much.

It is a proud day for Fiji. A proud day for FNU. A proud day for CINEC. A proud day for all of you who will either teach here or have the privilege of undergoing courses here. And it is a proud day for me personally, as a member of the alumni of the old School of Maritime Studies, to have the privilege to formally launch the new Fiji Maritime Academy.

Every Fijian wishes you fair winds and a following sea.

Vinaka vakalevu. Thank you.
19 Comments
Dekho
31/5/2017 01:47:13 am

Was there any parliamentary oversight before proceeding with the payments and the project?

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Samjoe
31/5/2017 09:54:30 am

What parliamentary oversight you talking about ? In a dictatorship there is no such thing in any real sense. Fiji's twin dictators Bai and Kai simply make the decision and others have no choice but to lump it.
That's how the country is being run. See what the former insider Pio T said about that.

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Tom Valentine
31/5/2017 04:33:36 am

While experts are getting jobs, locals are being sidelined, forced to resign and terminated from FNU. FNU is becoming a experts haven especially for srilankans, indians, indonesians, turkey, pakistan, bangladesh. Education standards are becoming crap and graduates are coming out like puppies. most of the graduates ar not worth the paper they holding. Pathetic quality of graduates. A look at our doctors and nursing graduates will tell you how bad the standards are at FNU. It has become more a business than service. More graduates mean more money. Quality has been thrown in the rubbish bin by current management

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Brig
31/5/2017 11:12:13 am

Tom Valentine, you nailed it!!!! So true...

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Noni
3/6/2017 03:54:20 am

FNU has been consistently bad with the locals running it. One would not expect it to get any better with the type of 'expats' currently prancing and preening within it. The next generation of locals must make it right, for it can be a first class institution.

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Ledua
31/5/2017 09:31:44 am

Well as Qarase had told them that only God can stop corruption.. this FFP looks like they are more corrupted but are all hiding in the name of development so people just ignore.. which is a very sore state of our nation..

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Simon Reddy
1/6/2017 08:06:34 am

Unfortunately, God wasn't able to stop corrupt/racists qarase. I do fully support Ledua that FF is corrupt to the core like SDL and don't deserve to lead the nation. We need untainted selfless leaders but unfournately, the voters are unwilling to give them a chance. Politics has truly become a dirty men's game. The onus lies on the voters to kick corrupt and racists bastards/bitches out of the political arena but I see slim chance of that happening from the way the battle is sizing up. Two coupists leading prospective winner is sign of times we living in.

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Hide
2/6/2017 12:17:49 am

Well is that the reason Voreqe toppled Qarase's government? Because God was acting through Voreqe to rid corruption in Fiji? At least he's right. Ill give him that.

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Refugee
31/5/2017 08:13:55 pm

The bigots made such a racket to do with poor Refugee Sawari and yet the economic REFUGEES from Sri Lanka have basically invaded Fiji – and running Fiji – as the legal ‘mercenaries’ in the Judiciary – and or otherwise as the ‘Chairman’ of just about Everything and now even the SL diplomatic Consul sees no conflict contracting his company to the government.

Hopefully Punja is selling a lot of his soap to the Aussies.

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Rajend Naidu
31/5/2017 10:10:38 pm

Editor,
Getting Experts.
It's interesting Fiji imports Sri Lankan maritime experts and Sri Lankan has imported Chinese expertise to manage their maritime developmental aspirations ( see Financial Times article ' How China rules the Waves', and the Guardian article ' China to built vast, controversial port city facility in Sri Lanka )
Interesting, isn't it?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Stephen Hallacy
31/5/2017 10:23:09 pm

Tom has most certainly nailed the fiasco at FNU. And they hope to attain Washington Accord status for their engineering programme? Dream on!

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Chiku
1/6/2017 01:40:50 am

Talking about symbols that belong to a colonial power that has long been gone from our shores I wonder if the all white uniform with little decorations, badges and medals and what have you is a colonial relic?
What did those fearless seafaring Fijian warriors in pre-contact Fiji wear?
Surely not the all white Bainimarama wore in the Fijian navy?

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ASK
1/6/2017 08:15:55 am

ASK
Arse does not need any Parliamentary Oversight as he is the Parliament.

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Welcome Home
1/6/2017 11:03:05 am

The principled stance of New Zealand needs to be steadfast. But it helps so much when sensible and pragmatic assistance comes in the form of four easily-launched craft to assist in emergency rescue operations on rivers or lagoons in floods. Thank you NZ! March and April 2012 might not have been such a nightmare had these boats been in evidence with fully-trained civilians and Rescue Cadets to crew them. Trust and Hope were trashed as people were progressively inundated. NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Hon Gerry Brownlee - Vinaka vaka levu Saka.

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Chiku
2/6/2017 02:54:07 am

Why are the payments made through the Attorney- General's Chambers? It's only logical that it should be made thus. The A-G and the Minister of Everything Honourable Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum is afterall the Dictator of Fiji with Bainimarama ( the coupist military commander set up as PM) playing second fiddle to him.

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Rajend Naidu
2/6/2017 07:24:03 am

Editor,
Abuse of Authority
Former NSW labour minister Ian MacDonald has been sentenced to 10 years jail over his decision to grant a mining licence to a company run by former union boss John Maitland, who will spend at least 4 years behind bars ( abc news 1 hour ago ).
In sentencing Justice Adamson described MacDonald as " devious " and said he had betrayed the people of NSW. She said Macdonald has a misplaced sense of entitlement. " He was brazen about it. He bragged to his staff about the authority the legislature had given to him".
Justice Adamson said " Mr Maitland must be punished to deter those who seek government permissions from seeking to profit from wilful misconduct of public officials".
If the rule of law and democratic accountability was applied by the same Australian standard in post coup Fiji I wonder how many public officials would be enjoying their perverse sense of entitlement and authority in jail.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
Sydney

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Manoa
2/6/2017 01:14:39 pm

All these corruption and deceit will come to light and also come to an abrupt end. Good always wins over evil. Saddam, Gadaffi, Hitler and Stalin all thought they could rule without end but there days are numbered and they will meet there fate sooner than later. Election is just around the corner....choose wisely not from your head but from your heart and do what is right not what is easy and sound cheesy!

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PROUD DAY
4/6/2017 01:35:48 pm

Proud day for FNU my foot. FNU's demise came when an Australian expatriate had the courage to blow the cover of former crooked VC Ganesh Chand and his cronies. Millions of tax payers money went down the drain and the culprits are still roaming free and FICAC is playing its ball game at the behest of ASK.

What a shame. The biggest losers in all this are the students and their parents.

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Welcome Home
6/6/2017 02:55:27 pm

And what has become of the pending case with plea to be taken for former Registrar of University of Fiji Kamlesh Arya? A former Ambassador to Australia and chair of UNIFIJI Finance Committee. The parents and students are entitled as much as anyone else to know the outcome.

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