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Samoa Cabinet has approved Space X's Starlink satellite services to operate in the country. This was confirmed by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, La'auli Leuatea Schmidt. He said this was the government's vision for enhanced internet accessibility and affordability for all Samoans. Speaking during an interview on Soalepule on Wednesday night, La'auli disclosed that the Cabinet, in its weekly deliberations,...

By Satyendra Prasad The Blue Pacific as an Ocean of Peace has evolved as one the core ideas of Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and the Fijian Government. An early outline of the Blue Pacific as an Ocean of Peace was presented to Pacific Leaders at their meeting in Rarotonga last year. Fiji’s Prime Minister intends to present a fuller...

It's win-win for Fijian Drua fans, who can't wait for Wallabies sensation Mark Nawaqanitawase and his NSW Waratahs cohorts to light up Lautoka. The Waratahs will play their historic first Super Rugby Pacific match in Fiji on Saturday after NSW's previous two “away” games fell in Super Round in Australia. One of several players in the squad with Fijian heritage, Nawaqanitawase's...

Moana Pasifika assistant coach Stephen Jones is conscious the team will have to manage what they have as travel and time off the pitch during the week has not matched up for the side. Moana Pasifika played Western Force in Perth last Friday night before flying back to Auckland to prepare for their next game against the Brumbies, who they...

The main reason for political instability in Vanuatu is that there are too many political parties and the frequent switching of sides by politicians. This was conveyed by Prime Minister Charlot Salwai at a press conference Wednesday in regards to the upcoming Referendum, as he listed these factors as major obstacles to maintaining Government stability. The PM reflected on Vanuatu’s political...

Fiji's former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho are at the centre of a legal case where the defence counsel has called for a suspended sentence, contrasting with the State’s push for a custodial sentence favouring the upper range of the tariff. Magistrate Seini Puamau had refrained from pronouncing Bainimarama and Qiliho guilty as directed by...

Despite compromises that have been reached on nuclear reparations, the lingering impact of the massive U.S nuclear testing in Bikini Atoll is likely to be the recurring centerpiece of future dialogues between the U.S and the Marshall Islands, a State Department official said. “This is a sensitive issue, and we remember just on 01 March, we commemorated Nuclear Remembrance Day,”...

U. S deputy secretary of State Kurt Campbell last week met with a high-level delegation from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) including Secretary General Henry Puna as well as the Prime Minister of Cook Islands Mark Brown. The deputy secretary highlighted the United States’ growing engagement in the Pacific region and ever closer U.S relationship with the PIF, as evidenced...

The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has launched a major upgrade and development to their monitoring and surveillance efforts, with two new systems built for vessel registrations and Port State Measures. The Electronic Vessel Register and the Electronic Port State Measures (e-PSM) System was unveiled by FFA Director General Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen at the 27th Annual Monitoring Control Surveillance...

By Rebecca Kessler Chris Malgan sits in his outrigger canoe, singing and shaking a ring of coconut shells in the water next to the boat. The inky skies backdropping the reef portend a late-morning storm that will bring a deluge of rain and tumultuous seas, likely skunking any attempt to “call” sharks to his boat. So today, he’s merely doing...