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February Vol 51 No 2
CONTENTS

12 29 27 32

5 Editor’s note 24 New Zealand’s strange diplomatic stoush with
Do your part today Kiribati

6 Briefs 26 Cook Islands
8 Whispers 27 Trump’s foreign aid freeze
9 We Say Who will step in for the Pacific?
It’s time to stop the rot
11 Prepare now for emergencies Garment industry
29 Fiji’s garment industry at (another) crossroads

Cover 30 Pacific designers: The survivors, young guns
and patriarch
12 Paradise Lost
Eight years later, Freesoul site still a mess

15 Kangava community demands justice for 32 Super Rugby Pacific 2025: Island teams have a
2019 oil spill solid start
34 Movers and Shakers

Education
18 Providing stability and school
22 Envisioning ocean literacy across the Pacific

23 The tide turns
Fresh approach to regional education

4 Islands Business, February 2025