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16 November 2024
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19 November 2024
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23 October 2024
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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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8 October 2024
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5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
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23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
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7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
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MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
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Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
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Challenging ‘rape culture’
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Pacific
Cook Islands National Council of Women welcomes NZ High Commissioner
The Cook Islands National Council of Women (CINCW) welcomed New Zealand’s new high commissioner to the Cook Islands, Catherine Graham, at their office in Takuvaine yesterday.
PM Brown confident in Pacific Islands Forum leadership despite political change in Tonga
The sudden resignation of Tonga’s former prime minister Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni had left a temporary gap in the leadership of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), but Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown remains confident that the situation will soon stabilise.
Will pay for funeral expenses
PORT MORESBY – PNG’s National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has pledged 50,000 kina for the funeral expenses of the two Hanuabada villagers shot last Friday, and offered to help in paying compensation “if police acted wrongly”.
PACIFIC BRIEFS: POLICED ORDERED TO HAND IN THEIR GUNS
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Twenty police reservists in Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, have been ordered to hand in their guns and vehicles.
Tonga's brand new island
NUKU‘ALAOFA – Tonga’s disruptive volcano has gone quiet, leaving behind a temporary island of ash.
Decolonisation support
PORT VILA – Vanuatu has reconfirmed its support for New Caledonia’s and West Papua’s decolonisation.
Appeal to remove roadblocks
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner Geoffrey Vaki has appealed to Hanuabada villagers to remove the roadblocks which are affected the city’s power and fuel supplies.
Road blocks cut fuel supply to capital
PORT MORESBY – Angry Hanuabadan villagers are still maintaining roadblocks following Friday’s shooting of two men as the result of a betelnut raid by police.
Earhart search on remote atoll
MILI ATOLL – A further search for clues of the whereabouts of aviator Amelia Earhart’s plane has taken place on a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands.
New research blows Rapa Nui collapse theory
RAPA NUI– Newly-published research into ancient land use on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, shows the collapse of pre-European society there wasn’t as dramatic as first thought.
PACIFIC BRIEFS: SOLOMONS NEW PM LAUNCHES POLICIES
SOLOMON ISLANDS – The Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is launching his government’s Policy Framework today.
Tonga determined to qualify in Hong Kong
HONG KONG – The 28 participating teams have been confirmed for the Hong Kong Sevens in March, with Belgium the only newcomers in the main draw.
Severe La Ninas becoming more likely
Extreme “La Nina” weather events that cool the Pacific Ocean and can disrupt weather worldwide will paradoxically happen almost twice as often in a warming world, an international team of scientists said on Monday.
'Where did the money go'
APAI – Samoa police have rejected a claim that police officers who arrested a man for theft several years ago took a large sum of money that was in his bag.
School drop outs of concern in Tonga
NUKU‘ALOFA – Non government organisations and regional bodies are urgently trying to curb the alarming rate of secondary school drop outs in Tonga as it climbs to around an average of 1000 a year since 2008.
Police bosses back war on marijuana
SUVA – Despite opinions posted in Letters to the Editor forums in the local dailies, and comment on radio talk back shows about the possibility of legalising the cultivation of marijuana in the country, Fiji’s Police Commissioner Ben Groenewald says this is “not a healthy option”.
Protest leaders transferred to prison
LORENGAU – Staff at the Manus Island detention centre for asylum seekers are reportedly preparing to transfer a group of detainees to a prison complex in Port Moresby after days of protest at the centre.
PACIFIC NEWS UPDATE
SEARCH ON FOR GUNMAN WHO SHOT POLICE — The search is on in New Caledonia for the gunman who shot two police officers last Thursday.
Australia in grip of 'ice' epidemic
SYDNEY – Australia is in the grip of an ice epidemic and hundreds of clandestine drug labs are springing up around the country each year, in suburban homes, motels and even in car boots and trucks.
PACIFIC BRIEFS: GUN FIGHT SUSPECTS APPEAR IN COURT
SAMOA – One of the men involved in a gun fight with police in Samoa before Christmas last year has been charged with possession of narcotics.
Remittances affecting value of education
A Tongan social worker says remittances have contributed to a culture of dependency which is affecting how people value education.
PNG mobilises to fight measles
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Department of Health has dispatched a team to a remote part of Chimbu province where a measles outbreak has reportedly killed six people.
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