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.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s first prime minister, Sir Michael Somare, has called for current prime minister Peter O’Neill to respect the rule of law and stand down.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea has called on the Australian government to restrict coal mining amid doubts about the effectiveness of the Paris Agreement on carbon emissions.
FIJI – Hundreds of people in villages all over Fiji are in a desperate psychological state, say counsellors helping people recover after Cyclone Winston.
PACIFIC – As world leader gathered in New York to sign a historic climate change deal, Pacific islanders are anxiously watching the threatening approach of yet another tropical cyclone.
WALLIS AND FUTUNA – A Pacific Community (SPC)conference due to be held in Wallis and Futuna this week has been moved to New Caledonia because of the tension emanating from the installation of two rival kings over the weekend.
KIRIBATI – The former ruling party in Kiribati, Boutokaan te Koaua, of BTK, has publicly welcomed its defeat in the presidential election.
SAMOA – Samoa has admitted defeat in its efforts to secure some high profile fifteen-a-side stars to boost their chances of qualifying for the Olympic sevens competition.
PACIFIC – Record breaking temperatures worldwide last month is not good news for the Pacific’s low-lying islands.
NAURU – Australia’s Bendigo Bank is facing calls to close down its operations in Nauru, after Westpac announced it would cut ties with the island nation’s government.
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Campaigners in the Solomon Islands are celebrating a High Court decision to reverse a controversial tax exemption for MPs’ salaries.
FIJI – School students in Fiji are to make eight promises every morning as part of acompulsory nationwide initiative the Ministry of Education hopes will raise national pride, reduce absenteeism, bullying and disruptive behaviour – and even curb unwise sexual activities.
FIJI – In Fiji, an 18-year-old youth has been found after drifting at sea for nine days.
PACIFIC – On Thursday evening Tropical Cyclone Amos was moving southeast and intensifying but remained largely over open water as it headed towards the Samoas.
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Dr Binoy Kampmark Lecturer Melbourne University
NAURU – Refugee advocates in Australia are concerned that another refugee will be charged with attempted suicide after Nauru police arrested a 38-year-old Iranian refugee this week.
FIJI – Fiji admit they face an “almighty challenge” after being drawn against football giants Mexico, Germany and South Korea for their Olympic debut in Rio later this year.
PAcific – A new tropical cyclone has developed in the Pacific several hundred kilometres west of Samoa and about the same distance northeast of Fiji
FIJI – About 3000 people from nine coastal villages on the Fiji island of Ovalau in the Lomaiviti Archipelago will be relocated because of the devastation caused by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea Police Commissioner Gari Baki said he has not received the court summons restraining him from suspending National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate (NFACD) boss Mathew Damaru.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s former attorney-general says the country’s police commissioner has become too emotionally involved in the ongoing fracas involving the country’s fraud squad and its investigation into the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill.
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