Regional
Closure will hurt economy
Thursday 28 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said the closure of the refugee processing centre on Manus Island would have a negative effect on the island’s economy and the government will work with Australia to minimise damage to businesses and workers.
PNG detention centre to close
Thursday 28 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the Manus Island regional refugee processing centre will be closed following a ruling from the country’s Supreme Court.
Thousands still struggling in Fiji
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Nearly 50,000 students in Fiji affected by Cyclone Winston still need replacement books and other learning material.
Fiji's chiefs get thumbs down
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – The doing away with the Great Council of Chief’s (GCC) in 2006 dominated the opening of the April sitting of the Fijian Parliament this week.
No Air NZ flights to Vanuatu
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – Air New Zealand is maintaining its suspension on commercial flights to Vanuatu, despite emergency remedial works being completed at Vanuatu’s main airport.
Festival of Arts budget a million short
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
GUAM – An audit released Monday of finances related to the upcoming Festival of Pacific Arts in Guam has revealed that event organizers are facing a possible budget shortfall of $1 million, if additional revenue isn’t secured soon.
Australia Immigration stays firm
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – The Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says detainees at its offshore detention facility on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea will not be brought back to Australia.
MP says decision was 'inevitable'
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The court ruling finding Papua New Guinea’s detention of asylum seekers illegal was an inevitable decision, the MP for Manus Island says.
PNG detention deal ruled illegal
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.
O'Neill wants problem to go away
Wednesday 27 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Manus Island detention centre is a “problem” that has done more damage to Papua New Guinea’s reputation than any other factor, the nation’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said while visiting Australia in March.
War of words between PNG's PM and predecessors
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A war of words is continuing between Papua New Guinea’s prime minister Peter O’Neill and his two predecessors over his refusal to stand aside over fraud claims.
Refugees wary of freedom from detention centre
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Detainees in Australia’s offshore immigration detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have said they will soon be allowed to leave detention during the day.
Bureacractic blunder blamed for man's death
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The urgent medical evacuation of a gravely ill asylum seeker from Manus Island was delayed by almost 30 hours partly because a public servant had gone home for the day and did not check his emails until the following morning.
Maestro of the Pacific island sound
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – One of the Pacific’s greatest musicians, Bill Sevesi, passed away on April 23. He was aged 92.
Call for a trans-Tasman tourist visa
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Tourism bodies are calling for a visa that would allow overseas tourists to travel seamlessly between Australia and New Zealand.
Fraud squad office still locked
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s police fraud squad remains unable to access its office and files amid a standoff over a major fraud case.
Cyclone 'miraculously' spares Samoa
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Published in Regional
samoa – Samoa appears to have emerged largely unscathed by Cyclone Amos which was predicted to violently hit the country on Saturday night.
Inter-tribal fighting ruining tourism in PNG province
Sunday 24 April 2016 | Published in Regional
Papua New Guinea – Tribal conflict in the Papua New Guina provinicia. town of Madang town is destroying the tourism industry in the Madang Province.
Japan starts work on building Tonga's new wharf
Sunday 24 April 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – A major US$30 million upgrade of the domestic wharf in Nuku‘alofa to be completed by 2018, was launched this week with a ground breaking ceremony by Tonga’s King Tupou VI.
Fiji's police commissioner visits Port Moresby
Sunday 24 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – In the middle of a growing political crisis in Papua New Guinea surrounding the closing down of the anti-corruption branch of the PNG police force by the police commissioner, the police commissioner of Fiji has arrived for an official visit.
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