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By the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland In 1967, American civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King said in a speech, "we are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late." For far...

The ONOC Athletes’ Commission (ONOC AC) conducted elections for their new executives Thursday. Convened virtually and facilitated through an electronic voting system (Lumi Global), a total of seven candidates, nominated by six national athletes’ commissions contested the four positions available. The four positions were allocated equally to two male and two female candidates. The nominated candidates contesting the four positions were: *Ajah...

Seven times defending champions New Zealand have overcome a stern challenge from hosts Fiji to get their OFC U-19 Women’s Championship campaign off to a winning start. Leon Birnie’s side have won 3-0 thanks to goals from Emma Pijnenburg and a second-half brace from Rebekah Trewhitt. New Zealand dominated possession from the outset and Trewhitt and Manaia Elliott had half chances...

The Solomon Islands have struck first in Group C of the OFC Women’s U-19 Championship 2023 following a 1-0 victory over Tahiti at HFC Bank Stadium in Fiji. Tahiti dominated the early exchanges and controlled possession in the midfield and will be disappointed they weren’t ahead at the break. The Tahitians suffered a massive early blow when captain Hinavainui Malfatti hobbled...

Small island states sinking under rising seas are encouraged by a summit starting Thursday charged with revamping the global financial system to better cope with climate change and other 21st-century challenges, their representative to the talks told AFP. The two-day summit in Paris, hosted by France, “is very good news because it fits well with what we are trying to...

By Sera Tikotikovatu-Sefeti  France’s Ambassador for the Indo-Pacific says the Indo-Pacific Strategy should not fuel further strategic competition in the region. During a recent visit to Fiji, Ambassador Marc Abensour said while there is great interest in the Pacific and different visions, guidelines and strategies for engagement, “at the end of the day, what is most important is that all...

A fifth Pacific-SIDS regional and capacity development workshop and a high level panel for sustainable management of seabed minerals of the Blue Pacific continent is being held this week in Nuku'alofa. Participants from other Pacific Islands include, Fiji's Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources, Filimoni Vosarogo; Nauru's Deputy Minister on RONPHOS, Delvin Oneil Thoma; and the Secretary General of the...

With a couple of months into the welcoming of Pacific Islands leaders for the 52nd Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting, resorts on Rarotonga have started receiving bookings. The 52nd Forum Meeting, held in the Cook Islands for the first time since 2012, will take place between 06 - 10 November. Edgewater Resort and Club Raro CEO Andrew Whittaker said they have...

World leaders will gather in Paris this week with ambitions to reimagine global financing for a new era shaped by climate change, as a cascade of crises swamps debt-burdened countries. French President Emmanuel Macron has said the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact is aimed at building a “new consensus” to meet the interlinked global targets of tackling poverty,...

Contributing to this week’s Marshall Islands Summit on Democracy: Public Engagement, Communications and the Media, the Pacific Anti-Corruption Journalists Network (PACJN) has launched a new toolkit for Pacific Journalists Reporting on Corruption. The toolkit is part of PACJN’s efforts to support Pacific journalists to strengthen their investigative journalism and anti-corruption reporting through more effective engagement with the UN Convention against...