PNG bans India flights in diplomatic spat over Covid breach
Papua New Guinea COVID-19 National Pandemic Response Controller and Police Commissioner David Manning has expressed anger and disappointment at the way in which India’s...
Fiji records 302 new cases of COVID-19, Nine new deaths reported
Fiji has recorded 302 new cases of COVID-19 and nine new deaths Tuesday, increasing the total number of cases to 44,420 and 451 deaths...
Whooping cough kills two, Guadalcanal province in Solomon Islands declares outbreak
Two children have died of whooping cough in Mbabanakira, Guadalcanal Province in Solomon Islands as the province’s health sector declares whooping cough an outbreak.
Dr...
Support mounts to keep Limited Preferential Voting system in PNG
Opposition to the proposed amendment of the Papua New Guinea electoral voting system is mounting.
The proposed amendment notice is before Parliament as a Private...
Fuimaono Sefo Ainuu is acting Samoa Attorney General
Samoa's Assistant Attorney General, Fuimaono Sefo Ainu’u is now acting for the Attorney General, Savalenoa Mareva Betham-Annandale while she is suspended until 03 September.
The...
Unexploded Ordnance is an ‘ugly legacy’ of WWII: Solomon Islands PM
The issue of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) is an ugly legacy of World War II, Solomon Islands is still experiencing its effects to this day.
Prime...
COVID-19 threatens Asia and Pacific’s progress on SDGs, ADB data show
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is threatening Asia and the Pacific's progress toward critical targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a...
Independence referendum campaigns launched in New Caledonia
New Caledonia's pro and anti-independence camps have launched their campaigns for the third and final referendum on independence from France.
In 2018 and 2020, a...
Solutions to food insecurity top agenda in meeting of Small Island Developing States
By Catherine Wilson
The urgency of finding solutions to the most pressing development challenges of our times has increased as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens...
President of the Cook Islands Football Association Lee Harmon banned for six years
The Adjudicatory Chamber of the OFC Disciplinary and Ethics Committee in a decision notified on 06 July 2021 has found Lee Harmon, President of...
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New report warns of Solomon Islands health system under strain
Australia is being accused of draining skilled health workers from Pacific Island countries to fix its own shortage of care workers, pushing fragile health...
Fiji secures agreement on Ocean and climate action Resolution at UNEA-7
Pacific delegations at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) are celebrating a breakthrough in Nairobi with Fiji securing an agreement on...
The Late Akilisi Pōhiva: A Tongan Voice for Justice and Liberation of West Papua
By Mele Tuuakitau, USP Journalism Student
Tonga’s Support for decolonisation in the Pacific: Can we do more?
As a small island state in the Pacific,...