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 – The police commissioner of Papua New Guinea has assured athletes and visitors coming for next month’s Pacific Games they will be safe in Port Moresby.
PORT VILA – The trial of 16 members of the Vanuatu parliament charged with bribery offences is due to be heard in court next Tuesday.
YAREN – Landowners on Nauru are threatening to shut down a government-owned hotel on their land if the government continues to ignore their concerns.
YAREN – The Nauru government says many more people will be arrested over protests outside the country’s parliament.
YAREN – A Nauruan opposition MP has been forcibly removed from an aircraft and prevented from leaving the country a week after he gave a controversial interview to the ABC.
Koror – The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its waters, has set fire to four boats belonging to Vietnamese fishing companies caught poaching sea cucumbers and other marine life in its waters.
SAN DIEGO – Red crabs, by the thousands, have invaded Southern California beaches, washing ashore from San Diego to Newport Beach.
PORIRUA – Jerry Collins’ last act of heroism, sacrificing his life to protect his baby daughter’s, was revealed to thousands of mourners at the former All Black’s funeral on Wednesday.
PORT MORESBY – Port Moresby is safer now than it ever was and its time for razor wires to come down, according to the National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop.
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s former police commissioner Geoffrey Vaki has been found guilty of contempt for not arresting the country’s prime minister on corruption charges.
suva – The Fiji Muslim League says it is unaware of any Fiji links to alleged Fijian teenage terrorist Irfaan Hussein who died recently in the Middle East where he was fighting with Jihadists.
YAREN – Protests have erupted outside Nauru’s parliament in a response to government corruption revealed last week, with an opposition MP arrested and allegedly beaten.
SUVA – The Fiji Police Force is warning members of the public to monitor their frustrations vented on social media regarding the country’s process of creating a new flag.
PORT MORESBY – The strongest weightlifting field in Pacific Games history will be on show in Port Moresby next month.
Some may find it hard to believe that witch-hunting would occur in the 21st century. But it’s wreaking havoc still in some parts of the world – writes Ray Cavanaugh for NZCatholic, New Zealand’s national Catholic newspaper.
APIA – Samoa is “more than ready” to host the Fifth Commonwealth Youth Games in September this year.
CANBERRA – Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott has repeatedly dodged new questions about whether Australian officials paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to return 65 asylum seekers to Indonesia, only saying that his government is “prepared to do what is necessary to keep the boats stopped”.
This goes further than hypocrisy. Tony Abbott’s primary justification for condemning people smugglers is that they cause deaths.
TAVARUA – Australian surfer Owen Wright notched up perfect scores twice on his way to to winning the 2015 Fiji Pro mens championship.
Efforts to conserve the world’s oceans are continually challenged by both what people put into them, and the rates at which we are taking biodiversity out of them, writes Wayne Sentman – a conservation biologist, naturalist, educator, and director of international eco-travel programme for the Oceanic Society, America’s oldest non-profit group dedicated to ocean conservation.
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