Sailors from Tahiti edged over Rarotonga, proving to be very competitive taking out first place in both the Lasers and the Optimist classes, winning the 2024 sailing challenge overall trophy.
Former Cook Islands prime minister and secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Henry Puna, has been confirmed as the first Cook Islander appointed to the East-West Center Board of Governors based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
SAMOA – The newly-crowned Miss Samoa Fa‘afafine, Precillia Mulinuu Ulberg, believes that fa‘afafine deserve a special day in Samoa in line with Mothers Day, Fathers Day and White Sunday.
Samoa’s Tuilaepa has spiritual writing translated
PITCAIRN ISLAND – A search is underway for treasures from Pitcairn Island which have been disseminated abroad along with Pitcairn’s diaspora.
FIJI – A Fiji businessman was reportedly beaten and left for dead after being attacked in his home on Tuesday, allegedly by security forces.
NORFOLK ISLAND – A cross party delegation of British MPs has called on Australia to review its decision to remove the autonomy of Norfolk Island.
AUSTRALIA – An Australian NGO says Wilson Security’s decision not to renew its contract for security at detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru has left Australia’s offshore detention policy foundering.
FRENCH POLYNESIA – There is a call for France to extend its state of emergency in force since last year’s Paris bombings to French Polynesia to counter Islamic radicalism.
Spectator killed in brawl after match in Port Moresby
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s founding prime minister Sir Michael Somare has denied receiving bribes or inducements, after a Singapore court said he got more than A$1 million from a money laundering scam.
AUSTRALIA – Australia’s prime minister has said he “read the riot act” to three ministers after they went home early, meaning his government lost a series of votes.
HAWAI ‘I – Barack Obama has issued perhaps his most personal plea yet to overcome the existential threat posed by climate change.
PACIFIC – Pacific island leaders have called for continuity in the region’s relationship with the United States ahead of the imminent change of government in Washington.
AUSTRALIA – An Australian NGO says Wilson Security’s announcement that it will not renew its contract for security at detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru is yet another serious blow for offshore detention.
SAMOA – A Samoan tattooist says people wanting to get tattoos – including the traditional Samoan tatau for men and malu for women – should have blood tests beforehand.
Sir Michael named as money laundering recipient
SAMOA – Bright lights, glittering dresses and dazzling smiles are a feature of every beauty pageant, but Samoa’s Miss Fa’afafine is a pageant with a difference – an annual celebration of the island nation’s third gender tradition.
NEW ZEALAND – A tsunami warning issued following a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck before dawn off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island was later cancelled,The earthquake, which struck at 4.37am local time, prompted evacuations along the East Coast of the North Island and the upper South Island, but there were no reports of damage.
Wilson withdraws from offshore detention centres
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Executives from a leading Australian rice company have travelled to Port Moresby to fight the Papua New Guinean government’s decision to impose a 20 per cent import quota on the Australian company.
BOUGAINVILLE – The gaping hole carved into the mountains of Bougainville was at one time the world’s largest open-cut copper mine.
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