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Fiji Rugby Board of Trustees chair Peter Mazey has confirmed that an investigation committee will be set up at the rugby house to look at issues surrounding the funding, budgeting and approval of allowance for players. Mazey in a press conference Monday expressed his disappointment that funding was not looked after properly. “We want to know the approval of Fijiana allowance...

We do not have the $200,000 (US$100,000) that has to be paid to the Fijiana at the moment. Fiji Rugby Football Union Trust Board Member, Jenny Seeto stated this in a press conference at Rugby House adding they will explain to the Fijiana that they have a debt, they will find the money but it will take some time. Seeto said...

The Pacific Islands Forum remains fully committed to addressing strong concerns for the significance of the potential threat of nuclear contamination to the health and security of the Blue Pacific, its people, and prospects, says Secretary General Henry Puna. Even before Japan announced its decision in April 2021, Pacific states, meeting for the first time in December 2020 as States...

Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna has commended the efforts of Pacific delegations progressing the global climate agenda at this month's meeting in Bonn, Germany. The 2023 Subsidiary Bodies meetings were attended by almost 8,000 participants including national delegations, observer organisations and media. “Our Pacific negotiators are truly holding the line for all people of the Blue continent, and the...

Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) coordinator Maureen Penjueli says the adoption of the high seas treaty last week by UN Member states was important considering the various threats the ocean faced. The agreement was adopted at the UN headquarters and had gathered large support from the Pacific. She said there needed to be a level of consistency to how the high...

South Korean Foreign Ministry has slammed the Democratic Party (DP) for sending an official letter to the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to ask them to work with the party to oppose Japan’s planned release of its treated nuclear water into the sea. “The Democratic Party's delivery of this letter disregards the joint efforts of the international community, including with the...

The United States of America is upping its investment in media freedom in the Pacific. And to underline the U.S commitment to preserving democratic institutions, assistant secretary of state Bill Russo recently visited newsrooms throughout the Pacific to understand how to better support journalists across the region. Russo, who’s in the state department’s bureau of global affairs says that having previously...

Pacific communities are advised to prepare for the potential impacts of an El Niño, with the latest El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Outlook shifting from El Niño Watch to El Niño Alert. The alert means there is approximately a 70 percent chance of El Niño forming in 2023, roughly three times the normal chance of an El Niño. El Niño is...

The proposal to release water from the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean is robust enough to start, at least in the short term, according to an Australian radiation expert. University of Adelaide Associate Professor Tony Hooker is a member of the five-person scientific advisory panel to the Pacific Islands Forum on the proposed disposal of 1.25 million...

The lack of agreement on the nuclear legacy issues holds up the Marshall Islands’s Compact Review negotiations with the United States, according to Marshall Islands Speaker Kenneth Kedi during the Marshall Islands Media Summit on Democracy last week in Majuro. The disagreements over nuclear legacy issues not being addressed by the United States are holding up the Compact Review progress....