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egocentric and greedy company in the chamber. The company PR with the locals is verypoor thus the locals have their own agenda and have differences so if the get the momentand the support they need the company will have some dangerous issues on it hand.One obvious bad reality of the SST plant is the location. When it was first proposed, therewas all this talk about SST being a state-of-art plant, with practically no smell. Theengineers who were contracted to build the plant said there is no such thing as state-of-artfish factory. Smell will always be there so it’s not a surprise for the smell pollution to be inWewak. The factory located in town is a problem. The smell of the fish is containedespecially in the production area but what stinks is the combination pf solids and sewagepumped out to extract the liquid which is said to be, and even proven to be, environmentallyfriendly. Which are disposed by boat some kilometers out in the open sea. It not poisonousand will not kill any marine life.We have complaints from the local fisherman but our information from the specialists saysit safe to dump in the sea so we relay to our scientific intelligence than to hear otherunsubstantiated complain. That is the position of the company we maintain unlessscientifically proven otherwiseThe fish are caught all over the ocean. Tuna is a highly migratory fish so dose notnecessarily mean they are caught only from PNG waters. Where to fish and what to catchhas nothing to do with the company but with the fishing authority such as National FisheryAuthority as well as giving them permit or licenses to fish in the PNG EEZ (300 mileseconomic exclusive zone). It’s the NFA’s responsibility to protect the 20 km customaryfishing grounds were no commercial fishing is allowed. But it is allowed for nationals onlyto fish in that zone and sadly the Asians have registered as nationals and are taking overPNG customary fishing rights.The company (SST) hires 14 vessels, mostly Thailand and Pilippino owned. They arecontracted to the SST to provide their supply of tuna to be prepared and exported. SSTexport mainly to USA (Sun Kiss Tuna) as one of their main clients and to Thailand.SST is owned by Taiwan. The president of the company is an American based in USA andGeneral Manager from New Zealand.In terms of share PNG government has 1 percent share. That could be the provincialgovernment. There is lots of infighting between the Somare’s faction and others. Therefore,the Provincial Government is not organized. Michael Somare wanted a trust account to beopened for its share in the SST but apparently he wanted the account to be opened under hisname and other people not agreeing to it.There is no local share such as reserved for the landowners like they do in mining areas.Like I said there is nothing for the locals and PNG in it but most of it for the benefit of theSST.SST is a political winner. It was something the ESP politicians forced without properconsideration on its possible impacts but to score political points. They wanted to say to thepeople and other provinces that they have done something for ESP and also message to theirpredecessors that under them some development is surfacing. This is a very poor attitude fornot taking into consideration any of this points.138
The company invited interested people and groups to apply for spin-offs. It was donemainly by the Commerce office of the provincial government. They charged a K50 deposit.Most people now realized that it will not eventuate so they reimbursed their money from theCommerce office.SST dose not have a Training and Localization Program. The whole thing of the TrainingLocalisation Program by the PNG Training Council is just a myth. Why do I say that? Apartfrom many areas they fail to address is that so-called expatriates come into PNG for 2-3years contract and after their contract expired they continue to work for another 10-20years. That’s cheating the system and the people, and not creating opportunities andallowing our local people to grow and mature in senior management positions in PNG.Another competitor hoping to build a cannery here is Thailand company called the OffShore Masters. It was said to start its operation, especially building its factory startingFebruary this year but there must be something wrong in the long delay of it. One of thereason given for the delay was for the tsunami that hit Asia last Christmas.One of the Production Managers who I called an off-cut is a Filippino whom RD Tuna inMadang threw him out and SST picked him up. He is very abusive and used unacceptableswear words to abuse the women. I have lots of complains from people working under him,especially the women on the production line. We PNG have cultural taboos againstswearing women or in front of women but his behavior is very offensive and insulting.Swearing by the Asians is common and its kind of an organizational culture or say andorganizational language used by the senior managers against the line or lower subordinates.They are very abusive and irritating to the local ears. This SST factory is known forswearing women and even touching them on wrong part of their body such as breasts,buttocks and their private parts. I have complaints even from one of the senior staff that shewas touched by the Pilippino on her front part. I raised that up in the senior staff meetingseveral times but never had any appropriate action from the senior management. Anyunsolicited touch should be regarded as sexual harassment and I don’t see any seriouscommitment to such laws. Maybe owing to the level of education and the level ofawareness the employees have about their rights on the job.I personally do not agree with the management style of SST – treating people (employee)like in the days of the colonial masters. Some of these foreigners seem to think alone thesame line that Papua New Guineas are still the primates they we back in the 50s and 60s butin this day and age you cannot treat people like that. People have rights and any companyoperation in the country should acknowledge and appreciate such and uphold it.I don’t even like the way the foreigner especially the Asian coming into the country toexploit our resource and even claim simple jobs locals can do here. In the jobs that has noPNG national who knows the technical know-how, why would you want to hire an Asiawho does not know his job. That is something wrong within the system so if we are to cleanour country we have to clean such areas and be transparent as possible. The company suchas SST is not looking hard enough to put the right people from the pool of qualifiednationals to do some job some foreigners are doing. That is nothing hard in the factory-PNG locals can simply run the job but it the investor or the owner of the operation thatwants people of its own choice. Like I said though nationals are high qualified but still getlower pay compared to some of this foreigners.139
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public figures who had seen RD Tuna
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