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23 September 2024
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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.
PNG: Jail term for police boss
Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner Toami Kulunga was jailed for seven months for contempt of court on Friday – but he has been granted bail to appeal against the sentence in the Supreme Court.
PNG prime minister faces charges
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Papua New Guinea’s prime minister.
Samoa: Minister rewarded after resignation
Samoa’s former minister of finance, Faumuina Tiatia Liuga, has reportedly been appointed by the prime minister as the new Associate Minister for Natural Resources and Environment.
Fiji: Plea for fugitive father to come home
“Daddy, please come back home. I forgive you.”
Growers excited as kava ban lifted
Kava growers around the Pacific are hoping the industry can come back to life, following the overturning of a 12 year ban on kava.
PNG: Action demanded on sorcery
The United Nations has issued an appeal to Papua New Guinea to take further action to prevent attacks on women accused of sorcery.
Fiji: Leaders called to reveal salaries
A new candidate for this year’s election in Fiji says the government ministers should make their salaries public, now that the Fiji First party has been registered and launched.
Fiji: Rejected party fights back
The proposed Fiji United Freedom Party intends to seek further clarification with the registrar of political parties following the rejection of its application to register as a political party last week.
Big names set to take on Fiji regime at elections
Fiji’s biggest opposition party, and the party most likely to hurt the September election prospects of the regime-led Fiji First Party, has named its list of election candidates – with some high profile Fijians putting their weight behind the Social Democratic Liberal Party.
Samoa: Key's support seen as a political gimmick
The idea of the New Zealand All Blacks playing a Pacific test match on Samoa soil is just a political gimmick to gain recognition and support from the Pacific people as the voters go to the country’s election in three months’ time.
First Pacific test for All Blacks?
The IRB has pledged to put its weight behind the All Blacks’ proposed first ever test in the Pacific Islands as the historic fixture edges closer to becoming a reality.
NZ: Climate change 'not taken seriously'
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is not taking climate change seriously, the Green Party says.
Pacific rowers head for Hawai'i
The Great Pacific Race, a rowing competition where 13 crews in seven-metre boats row more than 3400 kilometres from Monterey, California, across the Pacific to Waikiki, Hawai’i, began on Monday.
Fiji: Pledge of media freedom
The leader of Fiji’s new National Federation Party, economist Professor Biman Prasad, has pledged to review the controversial media decree and pass a freedom of information law if it gains power in Fiji’s September general election.
Resurgence of leprosy cases
A resurgence in the number of cases of leprosy throughout the Pacific has experts saying the disease is far from eradicated there – with several cases reported in New Zealand.
83-days to cross Papua New Guinea
Two hardy British adventurers have walked, climbed and paddled for 83 days across one of the world’s wildest and least explored countries.
Fiji: Telecoms spying admitted
Anti-regime websites in Fiji are confirming there is cause for concern over possible phone and internet tapping by the Fiji government leading up to the election.
Loans board backtracks on Fiji student stripped of scholarship
A student in Fiji has had his government scholarship reinstated after he was reportedly stripped of it for becoming involved in politics.
Solomon Islands health care under pressure
Health facilities in Solomon Islands are under pressure with the diarrhoea outbreak which has claimed the lives of 18 children over the past two weeks.
Tonga: Islands warned about debts to China
The New Zealand Prime Minister is warning Pacific countries that if they cannot pay their debts to other countries, New Zealand will not be bailing them out.
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