I WILL now take you around Banika and describe a typical day on the island. It is nestled in the Russell Islands group in the Central Province of Solomon Islands. From the office, you can see the undisturbed ...
I ARRIVED in the Solomon Islands in 1981 and was met by the outgoing managing director, Jim Broom. With my wife Maznah and toddler Anwar, I landed on the airstrip on the island of Banika. Facing everything ...
THERE were two things I had to do before I left Sabah in 1981. The first was to attend a company general management course at the training college of Unilever Plc in Surrey, England. The college was set ...
DURING my stay in Sabah from 1979 to 1981, I noted two big factors, the first of which was the development through the energetic efforts of Datuk Harris Salleh, who was chief minister.
IN an earlier article, I mentioned Joe Walton, the managing director of Unilever’s Plantation in Malaysia, and he had expressed hopes of finding new levels of productivity through the work of the research ...
WHEN I was posted to Pamol Sabah in 1979, I quickly realised that the Labuk River was very much a part of life at the plantations, which had a long frontage to it. The river could be your friend or your ...
NO management staff had resigned because of the new buffalo fruit transport system that was imposed by the new general manager Leslie Davidson for Pamol Estate near Kluang. Nonetheless, there was a collective ...
WHEN the news arrived at the end of 1970 that Leslie Davidson had been appointed as the new general manager of Pamol Plantations in Kluang and Sabah, there were two reactions.