Page 4 - IB February 2024
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February Vol 50 No 2
CONTENTS
16 25 33
5 Editor’s Note 23 WHO watches out for new COVID variants
6 Briefs 24 Prepare for ‘Disease X’
8 Whispers
10 Whose tune is sweetest in the Pacific game Special Feature: Education
of musical chairs? 25 Dropouts declining, but education
12 Standoff in Tonga challenges remain
13 Sky-high hopes from Starlink 28 The growing impact of technology on
education
14 Pacific women and online abuse
COVER STORY Sports
16 Black Wednesday: PNG’s tinder box 31 Lifting through his struggles: Taniela
explodes Rainibogi
20 Opinion: The politics of riots in Melanesia 33 Eroni Leilua, the Samoan Olympian
36 Movers and Shakers
4 Islands Business, February 2024
