Tonga’s Parliament passed the 2022-2023 annual budget this week, reports Tonga Wires. Totalling $764.7 million pa’anga (US$328.36 million), it is the Kingdom’s
Faced with the prospect of another cut to aid while the COVID-19 pandemic continues – and in some ways intensifies in our
Pacific islands health care faces the crisis of a lifetime The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t just highlighted the Pacific’s fragile health systems. It’s
The task that the Fiji government has faced since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis has been challenging, involving difficult choices and
Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific says Australia will want to see COVID cases under control in Fiji before any
When Fiji’s Minister for Economy delivers his budget address this evening many eyes will be on figures around the country’s debt-to GDP
Cook Islands parliament has passed what Prime Minister Mark Brown has dubbed “a budget of revival.” The US$212 million budget includes an
Australia has supplied Fiji with direct budget support, vaccines, rations for front liners, funds for NGO emergency food distribution, medical supplies including
At a brief sitting of Papua New Guinea’s parliament in November – with all Opposition MPs absent – the James Marape government
The Australian Federal Budget delivered last night has increased aid to the Pacific. An extra A$211 million has been allocated to COVID-19
As the 2020-21 Fiji Budget debate has commenced in parliament, a number of community organisations have expressed their concern about what they
Fiji’s 2020-21 National Budget will see the Government attempt to spend its way out of the COVID-19 induced recession. “Barring drastic intervention,
