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PACIFIC BRIEFS
Monday March 19, 2018CONGRESS EXPECTED TO APPROVE DATE
Spouse abuse remains an issue in Marshall Islands
Monday March 19, 2018MARSHALL ISLANDS – A steady flow of women seeking court relief from domestic violence confirms that spouse abuse continues as a serious problem in the Marshall Islands.
Accused priests sent to ‘paedophile heaven’
Monday March 19, 2018PACIFIC – As debate continues about the Catholic Church’s approach to the national redress scheme for Australian victims of child sexual abuse, the church is now being challenged to take responsibility and deal with crimes carried out by church officials overseas – in developing countries that include Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.
Archbishop guilt of sex abuse claims
Monday March 19, 2018GUAM – A Vatican tribunal has found the archbishop of Guam, Anthony Apuron, guilty of “certain accusations” related to the sexual abuse of minors.
No sign of two missing Kiribati fishermen
Monday March 19, 2018KIRIBATI – Two Kiribati fishermen missing for four days are yet to be found. The men aged 30 and 45 left a village in Kiribati’s Nonouti atoll on a six-metre aluminium boat early on Wednesday to fish off the south end of the atoll.
Quake victims just emerging
Monday March 19, 2018PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A community worker from Mogulu in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province says some people have only just managed to walk out from landslip affected areas three weeks after the 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked the Highlands.
Atoll bones most likely Earhart’s
Monday March 19, 2018PACIFIC – Bones discovered on a Pacific island in 1940 are “likely” to be those of famed pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a US peer-reviewed science journal.
PACIFIC BRIEFS
Monday March 19, 2018NORFOLK ISLAND AIRLINE SHUTS DOWN
NZ to be more of a true partner to Pacific
Saturday March 17, 2018PACIFIC – New Zealand’s Foreign Minister says the government is going to put its money where its mouth is in terms of aid to the Pacific.
