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With the
takeover of the Monasavu dam by landowners after the
civilian coup in May 2000, the Fiji Electricity
Authority suffered major supply problems. For weeks, for
example, the power in Suva City was provided on a grid,
i.e. every one hour the power went of in a certain area,
then on again after an hour. Luckily, InfoTECH is near
the CWM Hospital, we hardly had any power outages. The
SCGC had no UPS and the FoxPro databases really got
badly corrupted.
It is extremely sad that later our
relationship with the Sugar Cane Growers Council got
sour because of politics.
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The training
was conducted in their training room, right on top of
Suva's tallest buildings. |
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Evelyn has left
the country in August 2003 and is now back in Germany. |
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We have also
organised a website maintenance training session for
them. The most famous participants were: Mahendra Pal
Chaudhry (the deposed Prime Minister), Tupeni Baba (a
deposed minister), Dr. Ganesh Chand (also a deposed
minister who later was updating the website), Dr. Atu
Emberson-Bain (now a senator) and Lekh Ram Vaheshnoi (a
deposed minister). |
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My excerpt from
the Swiss central criminal records register. It is
always required for a work permit in Fiji. |
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FNTC is now
called TPAF
(Training & Productivity Authority of Fiji). Because
I am an expatriate I can't be registered as a FNTC-accredited
trainer. |
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The
"Exporter of the Year Award" is a prestigious
annual competition. We were proud of their win in 1998
(I think it was the third one since 1995 or so - but one
thing is for sure: I did help them achieving their first
award). |
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It was a
delightful pleasure to offer this short-term
"crack" course for them. It was probably after
this event when I coined the "task-oriented"
computer workshops. |
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I later got
acquainted with both Reg and Jean. We proposed the
village house-boat idea to the Fiji Trade &
Investment Board. It is extremely sad for me that they
had to close down operations because of a crooked
village chief.
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Basic
Industries is one of the larger companies in Fiji. It
now belongs to the Fijian Holdings Limited. |
