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Pacific peoples benefit from Budget 2015, minister says

Saturday 23 May 2015 | Published in Regional

WELLINGTON – Pacific people in New Zealand will benefit from Budget 2015 through our government’s focus on supporting families and reducing hardship, Pacific Peoples Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga said.


Pacific islanders are too poor to be thin

Saturday 23 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PACIFIC – When it comes to being overweight or obese, the causes and remedies are far more complex than they might at first appear.


Rotumans look to revive endangered culture

Saturday 23 May 2015 | Published in Regional

SUVA – The Fiji Rotuman Association is hoping the government can aid them in efforts to save a culture which is on the UN Endangered list.


Island to export medical marijuana

Saturday 23 May 2015 | Published in Regional

KINGSTON – A decision to grant a licence to grow medicinal cannabis on Norfolk Island has sparked renewed calls for the drug to be made available to Australian patients.


Voyagers on the horizon

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Local

Wind speeds will determine the arrival time of the vaka fleet for the inaugural Te Manava Vaka Festival.


Vaka fruit find cause for alarm

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Local

Quarantine officers were alarmed to find over 30kg of various fruits on board one of the visiting vaka from Tahiti.

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Puna misses flight call

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Politics

The Aitutaki Business Association’s call early this month for an urgent multi-party policy statement on the freedom to fly to the island on Sundays, appears to have fallen on deaf ears.

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Refugees offered resettlement

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Regional

LORENGAU – 129 asylum seekers at the Australian-run centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have been officially declared refugees and are being offered the choice of staying in PNG.


Nauru abuse referred to commission

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Regional

CANBERRA – A Royal Commission into child sex abuse in Australia has been asked to include recent allegations of abuse on children in Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres, including the asylum seeker processing camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.


Arrows fired in market clash

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PORT MORESBY – A man had an arrow fired into his eye socket after a tribal fight in the suburbs of Papua New Guinea’s capital this week.


Get into the clean beach habit

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor There have been many smoke signals lately about people leaving rubbish like disposable nappies and broken glass on our beaches and I suspect the writer of these smoke signals knows who is doing the littering.


Ocean health and purse seining

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A friend wondered recently why so many were unaware of the extent of human impact upon the ocean.


Burgers top of the list for hungry voyagers

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Local

Tahitian vaka Faafaite and her crew of weary and famished sailors arrived on Rarotonga yesterday.

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Leaders join fight against child abuse

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Local

Pacific leaders showed they were committed to ending high rates of violence against children in the region at a conference in Fiji this week.


Planning should start at home

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I see in CI News that Mark Brown has taken a free trip to Korea to promote and speak on education as it stands here in the Cook Islands.


Pink shirt day today!

Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Local

The children of Apii Imanuela Akatemia were more than happy to swap their new school polos for pink shirts yesterday.

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Duty of care to detainees remains with Australia

Thursday 21 May 2015 | Published in Regional

The Senate inquiry into conditions at the Nauru immigration detention facility revealed that physical abuse, including sexual abuse, poor sanitation and unhygienic living conditions characterise this Australian government-sponsored centre.


Tahiti's race for decolonisation 'is not a sprint'

Thursday 21 May 2015 | Published in Regional

PAPEETE – A special advisor to a pro-independence politician in French Polynesia says the leaders of the movement are aware the journey to self-determination is going to be a long run, not a sprint.


'Seedy, toxic environment' unveiled

Thursday 21 May 2015 | Published in Regional

CANBERRA – Save the Children has told an Australian Senate inquiry into allegations of physical and sexual assault at the Nauru detention centre that it had raised concerns about substandard conditions long before the Moss Review was released.


Australia attempting to 'imbed' in Bougainville

Thursday 21 May 2015 | Published in Regional

Regional News Opinion. Amid elections on Bougainville, news has broken that the Abbott Australian government has plans establish a new diplomatic mission in this autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.


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