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Pacific
Tahiti sailors win 2024 Regatta in Raro
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 PM Puna first Cook Islander elected to East-West Center Board
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.
Court clears way for case against PM O'Neill
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The director of Papua New Guinea’s police fraud and anti-corruption unit has welcomed a decision by the Supreme Court to discharge orders preventing his team investigating the prime minister over alleged fraud.
Samoa's 'Panama Connection' revealed
SAMOA – An officer at Samoa’s high commission in Australia routinely assisted Mossack Fonseca in creating shell companies, files from the firm reveal.
Welding work caused fuel tank fire
APIA – An investigation is underway to determine the cause of an explosion at one of the diesel fuel storage tanks on the wharf at Apia on Tuesday.
Police will enforce evacuations
FIJI – Fiji police say they will forcefully evacuate people who refuse to move to safety.
Saturated Fiji braces for cyclone
FIJI – One person is reported dead and another missing in the heavy rain and flooding that has saturated Fiji over the past few days.
Weather hits Fiji's poorest
FIJI – Continuous bad weather over the past few weeks has started to take its toll on some of Fiji’s poorest.
Heavy rains a major setback for Fiji
FIJI – Evacuation centres have reopened in Fiji after heavy rain and flooding since Sunday.
Fiji hit by widespread flooding
FIJI – Heavy rain has caused widespread flooding in Fiji, just over a month since Cyclone Winston battered the country.
One dead in fuel tank inferno
SAMOA – An explosion followed by a raging inferno at the main fuel depot in Samoa’s capital, Apia, on Monday local time killed one person and injured one other.
Tensions rising over squatter settlements
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Tensions are rising in Solomon Islands over the encroachment onto Guadalcanal provincial lands by residents from the capital Honiara.
Fast-sailing cargo ships of Melanesia
The Fijian drua were large and fast – reaching speeds of up to fifteen knots in a good wind. They were among the most finely crafted vessels in Fiji, similar in design to the Samoan ‘alia and the Tongan kalia.
Plan to restore Fiji's only original drua
FIJI – A group of conservators from New Zealand’s Te Papa Mueum is in Fiji to advise on the restoration of one of Fiji’s oldest and last remaining double-hull sailing canoes, the Ratu Finau.
Guam seeks vote on its political status
GUAM – Voters in Guam may finally get the chance to vote on the territory’s political status, with the governor announcing an ambitious plan to add a plebiscite, or referendum, to November’s general election ballot.
No faith in police commissioner
FIJI – The former Fiji Police head of intelligence and investigations says he has no confidence in the country’s recently confirmed Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho.
Sheriff guilty, not Fiji PM
FIJI – Fiji’s Prime Minister didn’t plagiarise someone else’s Easter message after all.
Tsunami threat passes
VANUATU – The tsunami threat from a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck off Vanuatu has largely passed, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWS) says.
Fiji bracing for weather bomb
FIJI – People in Fiji are being warned of heavy rain and flash flooding over the next few days.
Tusi Pisi signs for Bristol
SAMOA – Samoan rugby union international Tusi Pisi has signed with English Premiership Championship rugby club Bristol ahead of the 2016/17 season on a two year deal.
Samoa's prison inadequate
SAMOA – The shocking state of Samoa’s Tafa’igata Prison facilities, which is housing a growing number of prisoners, has been highlighted once more.
Sacked Tonga coach not paid a cent so far
TONGA – The sacked Tonga sevens coach Andy Katoa says he has not been paid at all during his 18 months at the helm.
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