Race for FFA top job
Pacific lawyers to replace fisheries boss THERE are two definite frontrunners in the race for the position of Director-General of the Forum Fisheries Agency. Marshall Islands Attorney-General, Dr Filimon Manoni, and
The Flip Side of RAMSI – Some Observations
My frame of reference for RAMSI always goes back to June 2003 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney, Australia when I listened carefully to Minister Lawrey Chan described how bad things had become in Solomon Islands and
Fiji looks North
Kiribati, Tuvalu on Fiji’s tuna radar By NETANI RIKA, Pasay City, the Philippines FIJI will seek approval to conduct exploratory tuna fishing in Kiribati and Tuvalu waters for the next five years. The move comes as
Race for FFA job
Pacific lawyers to replace FFA chief By NETANI RIKA, Pasay City, the Philippines A TWO-WAY race is on for the position of Director-General of the Forum Fisheries Agency. With the contract of incumbent James Movick
Closing the fisheries loop holes
Authorities battle with e-monitoring By NETANI RIKA, Pasay City, the Philippines WHEN the Pacific met its international partners at the 12th Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in Bali, Indonesia in
Blue boats unacceptable – New Caledonia
French navy intercepts Vietnamese fishermen By Netani Rika in Manila. THE French Navy has intercepted two Vietnamese blue boats fishing illegally in New Caledonian waters. This is the second
Whispers
Melanesia blues IS the big boss of the secretariat of the Melanesian Spearhead Group in trouble over his decision to be seconded again to his former employer in Fiji after taking up the Port Vila-based position? Rumours
Pacific Entity of the Year
RAMSI is our choice “MY brother wanted to escape down to the river but they chased him down and got him. They partly cut his head and dragged him back to where he was. They took him close to where we were and they cut
The flip side of RAMSI
MY frame of reference for RAMSI always goes back to June 2003 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney, Australia, when I listened carefully to Minister Lawrey Chan described how bad things had become in Solomon Islands and
It’s PM Hou, but Sogavare stays
2003 Islands Business Magazine’s ‘Pacific Man of the Year’ Rick Hou has taken the helm as the new Prime Minister of Solomon Islands with barely a year to go before the next election is due in early 2019. He
Sustainable scheme for our tuna
THE Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) controls the world’s largest sustainable tuna purse seine fishery. PNA Members are Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea,
