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CT businesswoman Smith-Jones takes over as regime's secretary of information
Lieutenant-Colonel Neumi Leweni (right) with regime leader Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama in the foreground, has been replaced as the regime's information point-man by ICT businesswoman Sharon Smith-Jones. (Photo: PMC.)
Report – By PMC news desk.
Fiji Broadcasting Corporation reports that the Fiji military government's information point-man Lieutenant-Colonel Neumi Leweni will be stood down and replaced by former Connect Fiji chief executive Sharon Smith-Jones.
Lieutenant-Colonel Leweni has been the military regime's Permanent Secretary for Fiji's Ministry of Information since Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama ousted the Qarase government by way of military coup in December 2006.
Radio Fiji reports that Leweni has now been appointed as Fiji's Permanent Secretary for the Department of Lands.
Former Connect Fiji chief executive, Sharon Smith-Jones has been appointed by the military government as its new Secretary of Information. (Photo sourced from ConnectMe Fiji.)
Smith-Jones comes from a business/ICT background. In 2008, Smith-Jones was appointed chair of the Fiji Audio Visual Commission.
In 2007, the respected New Zealand-based blog, No Right Turn reported Smith-Jones as having confirmed all Fiji-based ISPs had been approached by the military regime to see if pro-democracy blog sites could be successfully shielded from the public and blocked.
In 2002 she was appointed chief executive officer of Internet Services Fiji Limited.
At the time, executive director of ATH the parent company of Internet Services, Lionel Lee, said: "Mrs Smith-Johns has had extensive experience in managing Internet businesses in Australia. Because of her strong commercial background she will bring a new dimension into the company providing the leadership skills to raise it to another plateau," said Mr. Yee.
Yee's statement said Smith-Jones was 'From September 1999 to November 2000, Mrs. Smith-Johns was the company director of Powderbox, an Internet development business that created two other Internet companies, Tempest Online and Shesaid.'
For more on this issue, See Fiji Broadcasting Corporation.
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