The District Officer Tavua, Mr Ravuama Nagatalevu, is calling on all 2006 redundant workers from the Emperor Gold Mine to meet this week, 5th August in Loloma Hall.
The purpose of the meeting is to elect the two new beneficiaries representative to be members of the Trust of the Social Assistance provided by Vatukoula Gold Mine Ltd who will include two Government reps and four representative from the company to execute the Deed.
Mr Nagatalevu adds that the establishment of the Trust would be able to deal with the long standing issues and Government is hopeful that this will be a milestone achievement.
According to Mr Nagatalevu the Trustees have been given the mandate through Cabinet to make sure that the implementation and execution of the Deed is done in a manner stipulated in the document.
He is urging all workers who were made redundant in 2006 to attend this meeting in numbers.
The meeting is expected to take place at 11.00am.
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