Digital Response for connecting Citizens – “Supporting the Pacific close the digital divides in...
The European Union (EU) and the Pacific Community (SPC) today launched a FJD$1.6 million project, Supporting the Pacific Close the Digital Divides in Response...
COVID-19 in the Pacific
By Sheenal Sharma
A little over two years ago, countries were announcing border closures and lockdowns as COVID-19 cases started surging around the globe.
In...
Tonga restrictions eased as COVID cases drops across the country
The Tongan Government has agreed to allow bars and kava clubs and certain face to face education in classrooms to open and put in...
World Bank increases its COVID-19 assistance to Solomon Islands
With Solomon Islands’ COVID-19 situation having significantly worsened over the past several months – with over 14,000 confirmed cases and 141 reported deaths –...
From China to climate and COVID: does Australia really care for the Pacific?
Opinion by Hamish McDonald
In the debacle of Canberra’s handling of the security agreement with China just signed by Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh...
Vaccinations vital as COVID cripples Pacific countries
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are increasingly concerned for more than 1 million people in Pacific nations as they...
ADB provides $10 million grant to help Samoa manage COVID-19
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has released a US$10 million (25.6 million tala) grant from its Pacific Disaster Resilience Programme (Phase 3) to help...
Cook Islands reports first Covid-19 death
Cook Islands has announced its first death from Covid-19 on Sunday, over two years since the pandemic began.
The country had long been free from...
PNG government puts UN on notice
Papua New Guinea Police Commissioner David Manning, and head of the COVID-19 National Control Centre, has placed United Nations agencies on notice that they...
Palau COVID travel rules still remain for Our Ocean Conference
In a few days, an estimated 1000 members of NGO executives, ministers, and high-level officials from different countries, including the Pacific nations, will be...
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Pacific nations push for universal carbon levy for international shipping at IMO talks
The 83rd session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC83) reconvenes this week, and a global shipping levy remains on the table, Marshall Islands'...
PNG Parliament adjourned to 15 April
Papua New Guinea Parliament has been adjourned to 10am, 15 April 2025, to allow members to deliberate on a motion of no confidence against...
Indigenous leaders want same clout as world leaders at UN climate talks
Members of about 200 Indigenous communities from Latin American and Pacific territories, including Aboriginal Australians, were taking part in an annual gathering of Indigenous...