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A special Pacific Islands Fisheries Ministerial dialogue was held in Kokopo, East New Britain Province, on the commitment of Fisheries Ministers of certain Pacific Island countries agreeing to achieve Forum Leaders vision in the 2050 strategy by leveraging their shared tuna resources. Ministers from Palau, Solomon Islands and 14 other Pacific Island countries including Australia and New Zealand attended the...

Tuvalu has been appointed Chair of the 31st SPREP Meeting of Officials taking place at Taumeasina Island Resort in Samoa. The Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs, Government of Tuvalu, Dr Tauisi M. Taupo, takes over the role from the outgoing Chair of the 30th SPREP Meeting, the Kingdom of Tonga. The Republic of Marshall...

World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont and other dignitaries gathered in Paris on Monday, four days before France and New Zealand get Rugby World Cup 2023 underway at the Stade de France. French Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, World Rugby Chief Executive Officer Alan Gilpin, Jacques Rivoal, Chairman of Rugby World Cup France 2023 and Fédération Française de Rugby (FFR)...

World Rugby has today announced the team of Emirates Match Officials selected for the upcoming September and October women’s internationals and three-level inaugural WXV competition to be held in New Zealand, South Africa and Dubai between 13 October to 4 November. A total of 19 match officials representing 13 nations will take charge of the 10 warm-up fixtures in September...

The Government of Japan has been criticised by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat for using the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report to justify what it calls the ‘mischievous and at worst, disingenuous’ discharge of treated nuclear waste water into the Pacific Ocean. A statement released Monday by its MSG Director General, Leonard Louma claimed that, “Nowhere in the...

By Brittany Nawaqatabu, USP Student The Melanesian leaders have imposed a moratorium on deep sea mining within their respective jurisdictions, and are calling for a Pacific wide approach. The moratorium on deep sea mining in Melanesia was declared during the 22nd MSG Leaders’ Summit on 24 August, 2023. Leaders representing Fiji, the Front De Liberation Nationale Kanak Socialiste (FLNKS), Papua New Guinea,...

The gathering of SPREP members, partners and donors in Samoa this week embodies the collective commitment and priority Pacific leaders have placed on the protection and management of environment resources of our blue Pacific for the present and future generations. The point was made by Samoa’s Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, on Monday night when she opened the 31st SPREP...

Invasive species are costing the world at least US$423bn every year and have become a leading threat to the diversity of life on Earth, according to a UN assessment. From invasive mice that eat seabird chicks in their nests to non-native grasses that helped fuel and intensify last month’s deadly fires in Hawaii, at least 3,500 harmful invasive species have...

Vanuatu's parliament elected Sato Kilman as the nation's new prime minister Monday after a court upheld a vote of no-confidence in the nation’s former leader and amid China-U. S rivalry in Pacific Islands. Kilman, a former prime minister and leader of the People's Progressive Party, was elected prime minister 27/23 in a secret ballot by MPs. “First and foremost I want...

The Pacific region remains vastly underserved by access to climate finance, according to the Pacific Community (SPC)'s director of climate change and sustainability, Coral Pasisi. By her estimation, the region currently receives less than 0.22 percent of the promised US$100 billion that donors pledged in 2010 – to be mobilised annually by 2020. “The Pacific region will need US$2 billion a...