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Vanuatu MPs guilty on bribery charges
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – A Vanuatu court has found the nation’s deputy prime minister Moana Carcasses and 13 other government MPs guilty of bribery charges.
More on 'five years over 60'
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding the five years over 50 controversy, here is a transcript from the first Legislative Assembly in1965.
'Turn the TV service off,' Bluesky told
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Local
A small Cook Islands broadcasting company has told Bluesky to stop broadcasting its television service because the telecommunications provider doesn’t have a television broadcasting licence.
Landowners need better protection, says Turepu
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Local
Initiating a moratorium on occupation right applications being heard in the Land Court would be a sensible temporary solution while the important land issue is being addressed by the three Rarotonga vaka.
Waste problem out of hand
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Local
WATSAN is urging the community to be more responsible with the way they dispose of their rubbish, as a mountain of food and recyclable waste builds at the landfill.
Crash back to haunt PM
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Politics
A car accident late last year involving prime minister Henry Puna that police didn’t process like a normal case by laying charges and having it dealt with in the High Court, has come back to haunt the country’s leader a year later.
FIFA workshop for grassroots football
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Football
Twenty-one football coaches on Rarotonga are participating in the five-day FIFA grassroots football coaching workshop this week.
TOA comparison puts PSL in context
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, So the net result is that $200,000 was paid to Pacific Schooners Limited as a prepayment for work to be conducted, the work, was not carried out so the $200,000 was repaid by Mike Henry and his brothers and family.
Vital assistance for Penrhyn
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Outer Islands
The people of Tongareva have welcomed international delegates with Northern Cook Islands hospitality as work comes to a close on Exercise Tropic Twilight.
Same-sex marriage – where the CICC stands
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Church Talk
Marriage is created and defined by God in the Scriptures as the sexual and covenantal union of a man and a woman in life-long relationship to each other alone, as husband and wife, with a view to displaying Christ’s covenant relationship to his church.
Drawn out refugee processing 'unnecessary'
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
What are we to make of the news that Nauru has lifted all restrictions of movement on asylum seekers and promised to finalise their refugee claims within a week? Not as much as you’d think, so far as the asylum seekers are concerned, comments Dr Joyce Chia, a senior policy officer at the Refugee Council of Australia.
Diplomatic immunity stymies car crash inquiry
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s police commissioner says a recent incident involving a South African diplomat is now out of police hands and is a matter between the foreign ministries of both countries.
Fraud squad cops get jobs back
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Two senior fraud squad members, recently sacked by the Commissioner of Police in Papua New Guinea, have their jobs back for now.
Do or die as Tonga takes on the All Blacks
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE – It’s official – Tonga need to either beat the All Blacks today or draw with a bonus point to qualify directly for the 2019 World Cup.
Dictatorship in guise of democracy
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s opposition leader, Ro Teimumu Kepa, has strongly criticised the country’s leadership, saying Fiji is now a “dictatorship in the guise of democracy”.
Refugee policy tested in court
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
SYDNEY – Australia’s highest court has listened to the arguments and has reserved its judgement in a case that challenges the constitutionality of Canberra’s offshore detention of asylum seekers in the Pacific.
Backtracking on refugee processing
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The Nauruan government is backtracking somewhat on its commitment to process 600 refugee claims “within the week”, saying about 400 will be completed by Sunday but others may not be concluded for several weeks.
Raped refugee refused right to abortion
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – Australia is refusing to grant an abortion to a Somali woman who was raped after Canberra sent her to Australia’s asylum seeker detention camp on Nauru.
Pacific to gain from FFA's new-look centre
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
HONIARA – Fisheries surveillance work at the Pacific’s Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre (RFSC) in the Solomon Islands has been refreshed with a high-tech makeover thanks to a two-month A$100,000 refurbishment funded by Australia.
'The matters are unrelated'
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s chief secretary has formally requested the dismissal of a chief magistrate for misconduct, leading to opposition claims it has weakened the nation’s democracy.
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