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.
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.
FIJI – Nearly 50,000 students in Fiji affected by Cyclone Winston still need replacement books and other learning material.
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.
VANUATU – Air New Zealand is maintaining its suspension on commercial flights to Vanuatu, despite emergency remedial works being completed at Vanuatu’s main airport.
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 – 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.
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.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NEW ZEALAND – One of the Pacific’s greatest musicians, Bill Sevesi, passed away on April 23. He was aged 92.
NEW ZEALAND – Tourism bodies are calling for a visa that would allow overseas tourists to travel seamlessly between Australia and New Zealand.
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.
samoa – Samoa appears to have emerged largely unscathed by Cyclone Amos which was predicted to violently hit the country on Saturday night.
Papua New Guinea – Tribal conflict in the Papua New Guina provinicia. town of Madang town is destroying the tourism industry in the Madang Province.
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.
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.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Transparency International PNG has called on the Police Commissioner of Papua New Guinea to immediately reopen the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate .
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