Big changes on the way
the first things he immediately put into motion on Saturday and gave executive instructions for.
“I asked Immigration yesterday (Saturday) to remove any barriers and I got word back today (Sunday) that there were no barriers, asked her to bring the remains of her husband back to Fiji.”
He said he would issue similar
instructions when they resume office on Wednesday after the Christmas holidays.
PS/CEO
With regards to the termination and re-advertisement of contracts of chief executive officers of statutory bodies and the permanent secretaries, Mr Rabuka said: “It would not be automatic; instead would be based on their performance.
“We do not want to disrupt the transition.
“A lot of them will be involved in the transition and the senior arm of the civil service can do those while we work towards the new line up.”
Thirteen of the permanent sec
retaries were appointed before the December 14 General Election.
TELS repayment
Minister for Finance, Biman Prasad, will look at avenues where Government can pull money from to balance out the TELS debt repayments.
“The minister and his senior civil servants in finance will look at that.”
In their manifestos, the threeparty coalition had promised to forgive TELS debt repayment for all students.
No Jab, No Job
Government will also re-look at individuals who lost their jobs as a result of the No Jab, No Job FijiFirst policy that mass resignations and terminations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stray Vote
“The vote was a secret ballot so no one should be pointing a finger at anyone because you cannot prove that one from our bloc voted against the coalition bloc. It could be anyone on our side, it could have been a trade.
“That’s not a concern for my government moving forward into the new parliamentary year.
“Always expect those things to happen particularly in a coalition that was very hardly negotiated.”