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2017 Issues
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June 07, 2017
2017 June
The great plastic threat
THE region faces an enormous threat from plastic bags and other synthetic material initially designed to make life…
June 07, 2017
2017 June
Tonga’s Game of thrones reaches epic…
BY month’s end, The fate the 2019 Pacific Games will be known. A journey that began five years ago when Tonga won the…
June 07, 2017
2017 June
Kiribati leads the way
IN what could best labelled as an out -of-the-box idea, Kiribati says it won’t sit around waiting for global funds but…
June 07, 2017
2017 June
Amex Fiji ironsand project enters next…
PORT facilities at Fiji’s second largest city, Lautoka, will take on a new look in 12 months’ time with the expected…
June 07, 2017
2017 June
Truth and justice
Bishop stands firm on environmental issues
AS the Pacific and global focus turns towards COP 23 and the Oceans Summit,…
June 07, 2017
2017 June
Search for the perfect ship
Low carbon, cost-effective This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on sustainable sea transportation for the Pacific. We talk…
June 07, 2017
2017 June
Tongan upgrade
FOR the first time in more than a century, the Anglican Church in Tonga will have its own bishop. Although men with…
June 07, 2017
2017 June
Samoa targets arrivals
Tourism growth inspires island ambitions SAMOA will aim to continue improvements in its local tourism market after a…
Solomons stays unique
Jun 07, 2017
1049
Islands Business talks to Freda Unusi, Solomons Islands Tourism Bureau’s…
2million and counting
Jun 07, 2017
887
Relationships key to Pacific tourism WITH Pacific tourism arrivals hitting two…
Chocolicious
Jun 07, 2017
996
How a 1-week contest inspired farmers and boosted Solomons cocoa exports TEN…
PNG agro products take…
Jun 07, 2017
1132
The 33rd Australia Papua New Guinea Business Forum and Trade Expo was a bonus…
Pods of gold
Jun 07, 2017
998
New flavour offer for choco industry as Vanuatu cashes in ON Malo Island in…
Business as usual?
Jun 07, 2017
985
Pacific challenges for new French President FRANCE Has a new Presiden after…
Costly price of conflict
Jun 07, 2017
1066
Solomons rises again from the ruins of the past THE United Nations’ Sustainable…
Spotlight on Honiara
Jun 07, 2017
939
Region watches as assistance mission comes to an end AT the end of June, the…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
Code Blue for our reefs: Using the…
Reef pillaging by Vietnamese Blue Boats seeking lucrative returns from beche de mer harvesting is being picked up under…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
Whales
Surviving in a changing ocean THE humpback whale was hunted almost to the point of extinction last century, with around…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
What integration means for ocean…
Message from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) OUR Ocean is an inherent part of who…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
State of our ocean
Change the narrative, says Pacific expert JUST under a month from the first-ever United Nations conference on the…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
Protect the environment
PROTECTION of the environment must be foremost in our minds as we watch the gradual demise of smaller island states…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
Give us Media Freedom
JUST over eight years ago this month, as thousands of Christians marked the death of Jesus Christ, Fiji’s interim…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
Heavy lift
Regional airlines ink flight deal TWO of the region’s smaller airlines have signed a deal which will link three…
May 23, 2017
2017 May
Installation of early warning system…
CLIMATE change has become a global phenomenon impacting the whole world. There are cynics who say that there is no such…
Big brothers get deal they…
May 23, 2017
1422
THE regional free trade agreement, known as PACER-Plus was concluded last month…
Saving face
May 23, 2017
1627
Forum seeks regional support IN a face-saving gesture, regional private sector…
PACER-Plus
May 23, 2017
1312
A wedgie in regional geopolitics from the recently concluded Pacific Agreement…
IGA the new shopping…
May 23, 2017
1556
THE New World Group is changing the landscape of retail sales in Fiji having…
The man behind the Panama…
May 23, 2017
1402
GERMAN journalist Frederik Obermaier would never have foreseen how his life…
A shared vision for green…
May 23, 2017
1489
100pc renewable electricity and sustainable biofuels ARGUABLY one of the most…
40 years on, Forum challenges…
May 23, 2017
1603
WHEN Pacific Islands Forum Leaders gathered in Apia, Samoa, in 1978, the then…
Room at the Inn
May 23, 2017
1434
Church ventures into hotel business BIBLICAL accounts of the birth of Jesus…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
A tale of two magazines
IN April 2015 the owners of Front Page Limited bought Islands Business magazine from the Godfrey Scoular and the Estate…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
Pacific loses gifted icon
“ACADEMIC space is so precious because it allows us to ask questions that sometimes we’re punished for asking off…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
Whispers
No bull here AT least one person has fallen foul of the PNG-Fiji impasse on the bully beef trade. Fiji’s Biosecurity…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
Rape in the name of religion
The vulnerable misled AFTER two convictions and with a third pastor still on trial for rape, social media discussions…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
Silence of the rams
A WHITE New Zealander sits on a couch and spreads his legs from the knees, feet close together. He forms his arms,…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
End of the road for Somare
AN era came to an end on April 4 when Papua New Guinea’s ‘father of the nation’ and one of the longest serving…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
PM O’Neill upbeat
PNG prepares to go to the polls RIDING on the perceived success of the government’s core policies, Prime Minister Peter…
April 12, 2017
2017 April
Hilda pushes her world agenda
AFTER 16 months in office, Marshall Islands President Hilda C. Heine has a busy schedule. On the international stage,…
Ending the journey of Girmit
Apr 12, 2017
1846
THE last Indian immigrant ship, SS Sutlej, carrying 875 indentured men, women…
UNICEF pushes for proper data
Apr 12, 2017
1704
POOR data collection continues to be a resource challenge in Papua New Guinea…
Step up in women’s rights
Apr 12, 2017
1822
IN recent years, there has been increased awareness on gender-based…
Chaotic Melanesia
Apr 12, 2017
1853
Is Melanesia the new Asia with its chaotic traffic ills AS an office worker in…
Pacific exports increase
Apr 12, 2017
1635
Exports Survey has found that business confidence among Pacific Island…
Kava evolution
Apr 12, 2017
1581
HIGH along and beneath the ridges above Fiji’s Old Capital from where defiant…
Kava - is it the answer to…
Apr 12, 2017
1540
NEW research that found traditionallyprepared kava could be the answer in the…
Fulfilling the prophetic role
Apr 12, 2017
1732
Time for the churches to speak THE church continues to play an integral part in…
March 15, 2017
2017 March
Tuna price-fixing probe
Veteran faces time behind bars BUMBLE Bee Foods veteran Walter Scott Cameron will likely see a prison term of at least…
March 14, 2017
2017 March
The journey of life
THOUSANDS of Catholics across the Pacific celebrated Ash Wednesday this month as they began preparations for Easter.…
March 14, 2017
2017 March
Whispers
Ego clash FOR how long will Fiji stay away from the region’s biggest tourism event in the manner of the school yard…
March 14, 2017
2017 March
River poisoning alert
Heavy metals concerns in proposed Sigatoka River mine MINING of the Sigatoka River on the southern coast of Fiji’s main…
March 14, 2017
2017 March
Koila’s House
Scion of chiefly family turns fashion heads KOILA Ganilau is descended from two of the most powerful households in Fiji…
March 14, 2017
2017 March
Out of the shadows
Fashion emerges as new business IN a span of 10 years, fashion has emerged as a growing new industry in Fiji. This is…
March 14, 2017
2017 March
Out of the race
EXCLUSIVE Kepa wants support for Winston victims FIJI’S OPPOSITION Leader, Ro Teimumu Kepa, is out of the 2018 Election…
March 14, 2017
2017 March
At death’s door
How Winston killed a sugar mill IT’S been a year since Tropical Cyclone Winston roared through Rakiraki in…
How Cyclone Winston left us…
Mar 14, 2017
1173
THE successive natural disasters that impacted the Fiji Islands in the first…
TC Winston Recovery Action…
Mar 14, 2017
1314
THE European Union (EU) has supported several disaster response and recovery…
Ode to a Queen
Mar 14, 2017
1351
Halaevalu Mata’aho Ahome’e May 1926 - February 2017 MUCH loved by her subjects,…
Red flag day
Mar 14, 2017
1477
China pledges to cut fleet sizes CHINA has pledged to reduce its fleet of…
Fiji chases tuna across the…
Mar 13, 2017
1548
FIJIAN diplomats are making good progress on negotiations with Tuvalu and…
Fishing boom
Mar 13, 2017
1581
Industry sees huge last quarter DESPITE industry complaints that fishing has…
Survivor Tonga
Mar 13, 2017
1580
Pohiva defeats Nobles’ motion THREE years after winning an election,…
Mixing sports and politics
Mar 13, 2017
1193
Tonga’s bid to host 2019 Pacific Games reaches political climax SPORT has an…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
Making a Pacific mark
IN December we highlighted the achievements of Fiji’s national rugby sevens coach and named him Pacific Person of the…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
Whispers
Tietjens faces the heat THE sevens coach everyone loves to hate - Sir Gordon Tietjens - has come under fire in Samoa…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
Rabuka ready for big race
Loyalty pledge by MPs WITH around 12 months before the next election in Fiji, former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka has…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
SPC, 70 years on
THIS year marks the 70th Anniversary of the Pacific Community – SPC, and we are excited at the timely opportunity to…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
Melanesia’s new single market economy
THE Melanesian countries in the Pacific dominate the economic landscape in the region and with that vantage point; they…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
Kava ban
Suspect exports under scrutiny as Fiji prepares to stop two-day kava FIJI will soon ban the importation of the suspect…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
Bad kava ‘not good for sex’
Uproar over kava-drinking women WOMEN’s advocates have lashed out at criticism against kava-drinking women who beat men…
February 14, 2017
2017 February
Tuvalu steps up climate action
TUVALU Prime Minister Enele Sosene Sopoaga has not rested. Barely settled at home after the 22nd session of the…
Women to the fore
Feb 14, 2017
1833
Bank governor calls for greater effort FIJI’s central bank wants to see more…
Papy John - a life well lived
Feb 14, 2017
1918
THE Pacific lost one of its greats on Christmas Day 2016, with the death in…
Donald’s Trump card Time will…
Feb 14, 2017
2027
HAS the new US President played his “trump card” too early in his presidency?…
Entrepreneur defies the odds…
Feb 14, 2017
2173
SIX years ago, a physically challenged woman in a wheelchair ventured out into…
Movers & Shakers
Feb 14, 2017
2017
KIRIBATI’S partially state-owned fisheries company Kiribati Fish Ltd, which is…
India deal for Fiji hospital
Feb 14, 2017
2040
THEFIJIANS could expect an upgrade to their medical health services, in light…
Slip, slipping away-Indon…
Feb 14, 2017
1211
LAST month, New Zealand-based analyst Jose Sousa-Santos commented on Twitter…
Strengthen the borders
Feb 14, 2017
2003
IT has taken an Iranian asylum seeker to show just how porous the region’s…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
Walk the talk
THIS year Fiji will chair the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change – COP 23 in…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
Whispers
Telecom expansion TAKING over the ocean of the Pacific seems to be the goal of Fiji’s mega telecommunication company…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
Lamb to the slaughter
FijI TV discards CEO WHEN Fiji Television Limited CEO, Geoffrey Smith, finally steps down this month, he will put to…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
The clock ticks
Indonesia fails media test in West Papua JUST five months before Indonesia is set to host UNESCO’s 2017 celebration of…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
Skies fill with new birds
Air deals to boost Tonga, Samoa arrivals POLYNESIAN neighbours Tonga and Samoa hope to boost visitor numbers to their…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
Death of a warrior
Pacific loses anti-nuclear advocate FOR decades John Taaroa Nui Doom stood against the French Republic in a defiant bid…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
Fiji deports land reform critic
Land sold for US$10 as retrospective law takes effect OUR ‘Paradise Lost’ story last month about controversial land…
January 25, 2017
2017 January
Tuvalu demonstrates against top charge
Former PM seeks re-election PROTESTS in Funafuti, capital of Tuvalu, against Tuvalu’s newly appointed Chief Justice saw…
Samoan boxer
Jan 25, 2017
2077
JOSEPH Parker became the Pacific’s first world boxing champion after beat - ing…
‘Wild-catch’ tuna tonnage may…
Jan 25, 2017
2185
GROWING global market demand for MSC-certified tuna and fishing industry…
ABC ditches short wave radio
Jan 25, 2017
1718
Cuts to undermine Australia’s reach IN September 2016, New Caledonia and French…
From Paris, to Marrakech to…
Jan 25, 2017
1734
WHILE the twenty-second Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on…
Saint of Fiji 7s rugby
Jan 25, 2017
2192
Ben Ryan, the legacy THE Free Dictionary defines a saint a person of great…
More work, fewer workers
Jan 25, 2017
1876
Deadline looms for Northern Mariana Islands ONCE the clock turns 12 midnight on…
Juffa stands his ground
Jan 25, 2017
2313
Vocal governor an example to all THE Pacific need more legislators like Gary…
No place for ill discipline
Jan 25, 2017
2197
Disciplined services must be held to account THE appalling behaviour by members…
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