Pacific stumbles on tuna targets
By NETANI RIKA in Port Moresby AS Pacific fishing nations end their first week of discussions on tuna, the…
CSOs want limits to tuna fishing
By NETANI RIKA, Port Moresby CIVIL society groups have called for limits to tuna caught in the Pacific and…
Pacific Trade Invest: 40 years in the Pacific
By Caleb Jarvis As a young boy growing up in Papua New Guinea (PNG), every Saturday Dad would drive up a…
Small states push for climate change resolution…
By NETANI RIKA in Port Moresby THE world has gathered in Madrid, Spain to discuss the existential threat…
Climate change worry for Tuvalu tuna
By NETANI RIKA in Port Moresby CLIMATE change threatens Tuvalu’s national survival through direct impact on…
White tip shark in danger
By NETANI RIKA in Port Moresby THE Pacific must act now to stop Oceanic White Tip Shark from extinction. With…
Marape fires warning shot
By Netani Rika, Port Moresby PAPUA New Guinea has warned that illegal fishing vessels in its national waters…
Climate change focus for fishing nations
By Netani Rika, Port Moresby INNOVATIVE ideas on fuel consumption and fleet management will take centre stage…
Measles epidemic shuts down Samoan government…
The ongoing measles epidemic in Samoa has prompted the government to announce the closure of all government…
Excited voters post celebrate on-line
By Netani Rika, Port Moresby A NEW phenomenon has emerged in the Bougainville referendum - Balfies. Defined…
Special treatment for women, disabled voters
By Netani Rika, Buka-: Bougainville VOTERS with special needs have received quick, relevant assistance in the…
Weather causes delays in Bougainville vote
From NETANI RIKA on Buka, Bougainville HEAVY rain and rough seas overnight have delayed the delivery of…
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BOUGAINVILLE VOTES
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You’ve got to back yourselves”” Tuikuitonga
PNG BARRAMUNDIS MAKE CRICKET HISTORY
December 09, 2019
Bougainville votes
in November
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Do you agree for Bougainville to have: A)Greater autonomy? B)Independence? This is the question Bougainvilleans are answering this month in a…
December 09, 2019
We say - Upheaval continues at USP
in November
by
“It has been a year of hell. I have suffered enormously and so has my family for doing the right thing.” That was the testimony of University of…
December 09, 2019
Tuvalu’s 100-day splurge
in November
by
An across-the-board pay rise for all government employees including cabinet ministers and parliamentarians, an incentive payment for senior citizens…
December 09, 2019
Nauru judge orders retrial
in November
by
It is back to square one—and the attendant frustrations, fear of political persecutions and absence of legal representation at trial for the so…
December 09, 2019
PNG political tussle continues
in November
by
Anti-corruption campaigner and now minister of police in Papua New Guinea, Bryan Kramer, has taken to social media to expose the challenges in…
December 09, 2019
Why is the Nobel Prize for Economics important for the Pacific? It’s changing the way we do development
in November
by
Last month three development economists won the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, working in an area of economics that is only now…
December 09, 2019
InDepth: You’ve got to back yourselves”” Tuikuitonga
in November
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After almost six years at the helm of the Pacific Community, Dr Colin Tukuitonga is at the end of histerm. On January 22 next year he makes way for…
December 09, 2019
FEW NON-SEASONAL WORK OPPORTUNITIES IN AUSTRALIA FOR THE PACIFIC
in November
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Australia’s Pacific Step Up, announced in September 2017, has made much of providing more access to work opportunities in Australia. The Foreign…
December 09, 2019
Kiribati government loses majority
in November
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Will Kiribati have a new government by December? That is the million-dollar question with the split in the ruling government of President Taneti…
December 09, 2019
ANOTHER REFERENDUM FOR NEW CALEDONIA
in November
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New Caledonia will hold a second referendum on self-determination in early September 2020. On 10 October, the annual Committee of Signatories to the…
December 09, 2019
SUSTAINING PEACE, NOT SUSTAINING PATRIARCHY
in November
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Next year the global women’s and feminist movement will commemorate Beijing+25 – the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Platform for…
December 09, 2019
Going viral - Measles outbreak takes a heavy toll
in November
by
The deadly measles outbreak currently spreading through the Pacific is exacting a great human, andlikely significant economic cost. At least 60…
December 09, 2019
PNG Barramundis make cricket history
in November
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“We’re going to the big dance”. These were the words of Papua New Guinea’s star bowler, Charles Jordan Amini after the PNGBarramundis made history by…
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December 09, 2019
Bougainville votes
Do you agree for Bougainville to have: A)Greater autonomy? B)Independence? This is the question Bougainvilleans are…
July 26, 2019
Keeping our seafarers safe
In what has been called a ‘landmark decision’, Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) member states are to include crew…
June 15, 2019
A rocky start for USP’s new Vice…
WITH the leak of a damaging internal report about the University of the South Pacific, which details allegations of…
May 09, 2019
Not for sale
FIJI’S iconic flower, the Tagimoucia, is not for sale. Fijian authorities have made this statement to Islands Business…
March 27, 2019
A murky mix of vested interests
AN oil spill in Rennell, Solomon Islands is turning into a disaster of catastrophic proportions, threatening the…
March 01, 2019
Choosing crypto over tax free ‘utopia’
Will the decision by the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) to become the world’s first country to issue its own…
