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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.
Not a good day for a cyclone
NUKU‘ALOFA – The Tongan government says one of the reasons it declared a state of emergency for Cyclone Ula was so people could work on Sunday in order to assist the islands of Vava‘u if necessary.
Samoa launches first credit bureau
APIA – Samoa has established its first credit bureau to promote greater transparency and efficiency in the money lending market.
Church to promote natural health
APIA – The Samoan Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church wants a healthier congregation.
Foreign advisors sent packing
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s government has removed more than a dozen foreign advisers working in government departments, a move that was foreshadowed several months ago.
PM 'rubbishes' same sex marriage
SUVA – Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has made it quite clear where he stands on the issue of same sex marriage.
Vanuatu campaigning begins
PORT VILA – Several political parties in Vanuatu have already launched their election campaigns despite delays to the publication of the official candidates list.
Democracy stuck in the doldrums
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Pesi Fonua Publisher of Matangi Tonga A year after Tonga’s second democratically elected government came into power at the end of December 2014, Tongan politics is stuck in the doldrums.
Tahiti flood damage costly
PAPEETE – French Polynesia’s assembly has approved US$8 million in funds to help rebuild parts of Tahiti badly damaged by floods before Christmas.
Tonga escapes major cyclone damage
NUKU‘ALOFA – The Tonga government has cancelled the state of emergency that was declared for the Vava‘u and Ha‘apai island groups on January 31 as Tropical Cyclone Ula entered Tongan waters.
Working on drought resilience
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s National Disaster Centre is working tirelessly to make the country more drought resistant, according to a report in the Post-Courier.
Making bid for French presidency
PAPEETE – French Polynesia’s pro-independence opposition leader, Oscar Temaru, says he plans to make a bid for the French presidency next year.
Vanuatu election funds falls short
PORT VILA – Vanuatu’s electoral office says it has been allocated US$142,000 less than what it estimates it needs to carry out this month’s snap election. The acting principal electoral officer, Joe Johnson Iati, says the office estimates the election will cost $765,000, but it has only been allocated $622,000. The election was called after the president, Baldwin Lonsdale, dissolved parliament to end weeks of political deadlock that stemmed from the jailing of 14 government MPs for corruption. Iati says the sudden announcement means that the office has had to bring forward election planning and stretch its resources. “There are a lot of challenges. Since we ran into this dissolution of parliament, we’ve had to source all the resources that we have in terms of budget and manpower and we are hoping to have everything smoothly running.” Iati says the office will try its best to run the election within its budget, but the government may be asked to provide extra if that’s not possible. The electoral office says it has received applications from 10 of the jailed former members of parliament to contest the election.
Where all the happy people are
SUVA – Forget police brutality claims and plots to overthrow the government – Fiji has polled highly on the Global Happiness Barometer, beating 66 other countries to be listed as the second happiest country in the world for 2015.
Funding approved for elections
PORT VILA – Vanuatu’s caretaker prime minister Sato Kilman has approved ten per cent of a yet to be passed budget to prevent the administration from faltering.
Helicopter service for Tonga initiated
NUKU‘ALOFA – Tonga’s own life-saving helicopter service is expected to start in early 2016.
Tong's son misses out
TARAWA – Maiana Island in Kiribati, the home island of outgoing president Anote Tong, will go to a second round of voting this week after none of the candidates got 50 per cent of the vote in last week’s initial general election.
Robots to spark seabed gold rush
TORONTO – If Toronto-based mining company Nautilus Minerals has it their way, there could soon be a swarm of deep-sea mining robots lurking around on the ocean floor of the Bismarck Sea, near Papua New Guinea, to snatch up deposits of copper, gold and silver.
Drowned
PAGO PAGO – A 31-year-old man who was washed out to sea while fishing in American Samoa is still missing, presumed dead.
Cyclone Ula hits Tonga and Fiji
SUVA – The first tropical cyclone for 2016 has lashed Fiji’s outlying islands, after causing destruction in parts of Tonga.
New light shed on Polynesian origins
PORT VILA – Scientists studying skulls found at a 3000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu say they may have unlocked a vital clue to the origins of Polynesian people.
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