Australia’s Pfizer purchase from vaccine-sharing Covax stockpile under fire
Australia’s purchase of 500,000 Pfizer doses from the global vaccine-sharing Covax initiative has renewed debate about whether more Covid-19 vaccines should be reserved for...
Industrial hemp an alternative to illegal marijuana: Fiji Economy Minister
The Fijian government is hoping a study into the potential for industrial hemp will provide an alternative for the illegal marijuana trade in Fiji.
Minister...
Pacific Islands: Economic outlook
By Kishti Sen & Tom Kenny
It’s been a tough time for Pacific island economies. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated global supply chain disruptions...
Cook Islands quarantine free travel from New Zealand suspended
Cook Islands travel bubble with New Zealand has been suspended after health officials have reported new Covid-19 community cases in Auckland.
Four community cases were...
Fiji records 590 new cases of COVID-19, 11 new deaths reported
Fiji has recorded 590 new cases of COVID-19 and 11 new deaths Tuesday, increasing the total number of cases to 41,107 and 403 deaths...
SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula wins case
Fiji’s Chief Justice Kamal Kumar Tuesday ruled that the Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem's decision to vacate Niko Nawaikula as a Member of Parliament...
12 cases of delta variant confirmed in PNG
Papua New Guinea deputy Controller for National Pandemic response Dr Daoni Esorom says the country has 12 confirmed cases of delta variant.
He said the...
Pacific Step-up or business as usual?
By Leonard Louma
Despite claims of a Pacific ‘Step-up’ and ‘Reset’, very little has changed in Australia and New Zealand’s attitude to the region,...
Human ‘damage’ on the front-line of the climate crisis
The damage to people and livelihoods caused by climate change is happening at a scale that “people on the front lines cannot manage”, according...
Former PM Rabuka warns Fiji First government that COVID-19 failures could cost them votes
Former Fiji Prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says he wants next year's election to be about common beliefs and not personalities.
Rabuka has emerged from what...
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UN Climate Chief warns against backsliding as Bonn talks close with key divides unresolved
United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell has warned countries against reopening previously agreed climate commitments and delaying action, as the UN June Climate Meetings...
SB64 ends in delay and division as Pacific now looks to a crowded agenda...
The outcomes of the June Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany (SB64) is marked by delay, division and a dangerous weakening of ambition at a...
Hanson holding ‘gun to the head’ of Pacific nations: O’Brien
Australian Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Ted O’Brien has accused Labor of playing “partisan politics” over relationships in the Pacific and its leader Pauline Hanson...