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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.

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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.

Six new parties register for Fiji's next election

The Fiji Times reports that this includes the proposed HOPE party, created by the youth activist Peter Waqavonovono and former opposition leader Mick Beddoes, who both defected from the main opposition Sodelpa party.

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Growing disquiet over election rule changes

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – There’s growing disquiet in Papua New Guinea over government plans for tweaking election rules ahead of the upcoming polls.

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Indecision over Pacific Games golf venue

TONGA – Freeze that back swing – a golf venue isn’t quite guaranteed yet for the 2019 Pacific Games.

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MOU for floating city is signed

French Polynesia agrees to ‘seastead’ proposal

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Pacific ministers in Tokyo for development talks

PACIFIC – Pacific island ministers are in Tokyo this week to discuss the region’s development partnership with Japan.

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MSG membership criteria discussed

VANUATU – The chair of the Melanesian Spearhead Group has arrived in Port Vila for discussions that cover membership guidelines.

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Hall of Fame for snubbed coach

FIJI – Despite not being up for coach of the year at the inaugural Fiji Rugby Awards, former Olympic Gold medal winning coach Ben Ryan has been inducted into the Hall of Fame. The award nominations sparked controversy when Ryan was left off the list of finalists for coach of the year in favour of three local club coaches. The apparent snub came a month after Ryan had tangled with the Fiji Rugby Union over player payments. However the FRU said Ryan had simply not been nominated by any local club affiliates. The Fiji Rugby Union had earlier this month hit back at the former coach saying in a statement it was disappointed at Ryan’s constant remarks about the Fiji Sevens team and his ongoing tweets about their performances at recent sevens events. CEO John O’connor said it seemed difficult for Ryan to move on.

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Australia 'deeply disappointed'

Whaling deplored in wake of Sea Shepherd photos

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Scouts in NZ representing their country

A GROUP of Cook Islands Boys Scouts is representing their country at the 21st New Zealand Jamboree in Blenheim, South Island.

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Tonight's family fireworks fizzle out

THE NEW Year Family Festival scheduled for this evening at the new Constitution Park has been cancelled.

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Festive joy moves south

THE SOUTHERN group islands are getting plenty of joy from this festive season following an influx of visitors, including tourists, to their shores this month.

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New Zealand vote seen as 'declaration of war'

NEW ZEALAND – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly told New Zealand’s foreign minister that support for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlement-building in the occupied territories would be viewed as a “declaration of war”.

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Bodies of bus crash victims on way home

TONGA – The bodies of the two Tongan victims killed in a bus crash in Gisborne on Christmas eve will be returned to Tonga on Saturday.

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Asylum seekers hold peaceful protest

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Detainees on Manus Island are demanding answers about the death of a refugee as advocates call for a royal commission into medical care at Australia’s offshore detention centres.

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Pleas for treatment were ignored

Unwell refugee’s friends wrote letter asking for medical intervention a week before he died

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Samoa's Olympic silver is official

Eight years after Beijing, Ele Opeloge’s Olympic success is recognised

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Refugee death 'hard to believe'

Medical facilities on Manus Island need attention

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Deluge delivers worst flooding in decades

FIJI – Rakiraki Town residents have dubbed the recent flooding as the worst in more than a decade.

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Fijians facing a muddy Christmas

FIJI – Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is calling on every Fijian to share the Christmas spirit through helping those that are in need and those that were affected by Tropical Cyclone Winston and this week’s severe flooding from tropical depression TD04F.

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Airliner hijackers surrender

MALTA – The hijacking of a Libyan plane has ended peacefully after armed men who seized control surrendered in Malta.

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