The new Infrastructure Coordinator appointed last month and arrived recently is William Peet. His role is to mold the infrastructure departments into a more cohesive unit with better management of key resources and machinery, equipment and manpower. This is part of the restructuring mooted a few years ago. William has extensive and wideranging experience in commercial businesses in NZ.
Charles Cooper Former Saatchi and Saatchi man has been appointed at special envoy for commercial affairs by cabinet. He will responsible for coordinating Niues tourism implementation plans based on Trevor Halls report but he also has a wideranging brief on transport and other tourism matters. He will report to the Premier
George Valiana should finally be appointed Manager of Bulk fuel soon. George has been an extremely capable and valuable manager and helped Niue manage its way out of the former Forum fuel crisis.
Trevor Wetmore has been appointed to assist in the short term when John Canny did not renew his contract. He will be here 4 months thanks to AUSAID and AVI. These Aussies dont muck about with getting good appointments quickly.
The Strategic Planner will hopefully be appointed soon. Wellington has taken over a year to get this done.
Trevor Hall report implementation will start with a airport and runway audit.
Review and reform of Revenue Tax regime. This was mooted sometime ago when the NCT was being finalised. This has been long overdue.
The new Project Management Unit has been working very well with Marke Siosikefu and Shield Palahetogia taking leading roles. The airport renovations, terminal extensions and hot house shades are the first projects they have been involved with and progress and reporting and accounting. More projects including the the EU Solar project and an environment alternative energy project will soon be added to the list.
More people will be seconded to this unit.
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