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'Heavenly' help for animal clinic

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Local

Esther Honey has one new passionate volunteer to add help ease the clinic’s huge workload.

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Road repairs a matter of having the money

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write in response to Julie Middleton’s letter about roads and I begin by saying I have considerable sympathy for her position.


Beaches not clean enough

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We recently returned from a week on your beautiful island.


Dump site in need of action now

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, On Cook Islands Television news a couple of nights ago, Alan Heather took issue over the management of the Arorangi dump site.


Agriculture and animal care

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, After reading some of the letters in your paper regarding animal welfare, I thought it best to write and state the Ministry of Agriculture/Livestock Division’s position on this issue.


Pacific health study follows children from birth

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional

Auckland – Measuring family wellbeing is complicated by the changing structure of families.


Locals say gold dregs are their birth right

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PANGUNA – Rachael Meara stands ankle deep in the Kavarong River with a shovel in her hands. She is nine months pregnant.


Buka diplomatic post row settled

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says a “misunderstanding” caused the row with Australia over its proposal to set up a diplomatic post on Bougainville.


Police warned of 'zero tolerance'

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guina’s new Police Commissioner Gari Baki has sounded his strict zero tolerance on police brutality and extra-judicial killings, warning police personnel “not to step out of line”.


Frenchman plans to swim the Pacific

Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional

DALLAS – Starting this summer, 47-year-old Frenchman Ben Lecomte will try to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean.


Desert island dream faces legal awakening

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

TARAWA – A Frenchman’s dream of living on a deserted Pacific island have been shattered.


Belief in sorcery 'spreading like wildfire'

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

WABAG – Repeated acts of brutal violence in Papua New Guinea’s highlands provinces are being put down to the spreading of superstitious beliefs.


Police prepare for Pacific Games

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea police have launched a pre-event operation as a lead-up towards security surrounding the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby.


Many missing from electoral roll

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

BUKA – A former Bougainville women’s MP says as many as a third of potential voters in her area could not vote in the recent election because they were not on the roll.


Journalist cynical of media ban reversal

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

SYDNEY – A French journalist who was jailed in West Papua last year for not having the correct entry permit says he doubts Indonesia will follow through with its promise to lift the region’s media ban.


Oil spill worries from longliner aground on reef

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PAGO PAGO – In American Samoa, almost 200 litres of diesel fuel was removed yesterday from a long-liner that has run aground on the reef off the airport, the Seahawk 68.


Political manoeuvres

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PAPEETE – The French Polynesian president, Edouard Fritch, has added the leader of the opposition Atia Porinetia party, Teva Rohfritsch, to his ministerial line-up.


Cyclone proofing urged

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PORT VILA – An emergency management expert says Vanuatu needs to introduce cyclone proof building codes to avoid more big damage bills from disasters like Cyclone Pam.


Kaikai time on tiki tour

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Local

George George and the team at CITC threw out a support line to provide a kaikai picnic for vaka voyagers during their island tiki tour on Wednesday.

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Fuel price rise predicted

Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Local

Fuel prices in the Pacific are expected to rise, according to a Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) publication.

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