top dog?
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Who’ll be SPEC top dog?
The important post of chief executive of the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Coopera tion is still up for grabs.
At the Sixteenth Forum a short list of applicants, reported to contain three names, was tabled, but decision was defer red for consideration by a com mittee made up of three prime ministers, Mr Michael Somare of Papua New Guinea, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara of Fiji, and Sir
Thomas Davis of the Cook Islands.
The incumbent, Dr Mahe Tupouniun, is reported to have applied for an extension of his term which is due to end in November this year. He has been joined on the list of applicants by Mr Henry Faati Naisali, at present the minister of finance in Tuvalu, and Mr Terry Chapman, secretary to the government of Niue.
The general expectation is that the post will not go to another Polynesian.