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Lakapi Samoa has announced the death of former Manu Samoa front rower Jake Jacob Grey. The 37 year-old passed away at Tupua Tamasese Meaole hospital in Apia on Sunday, after a long battle with cancer. Grey was a product of local rugby development and had played through the ranks of age groups rugby playing Under 20 and Manu Samoa A. “Jake became...

The Games Organising Committee (GOC) for the 2023 Pacific Games in Solomon Islands launched a funding programme to support National Sports Federations in Solomon Islands. This aims to support the functionality and enhancement of National Sports Federations (NSFs) ahead and beyond 2023 as part of the Federations’ commitment to engage with the GOC in delivering their respective sport competitions at...

The New Zealand boxer Joseph Parker has bagged a unanimous points decision win over British veteran Dereck Chisora in their heavyweight rematch in Manchester. Parker, who won the first fight back in May by a controversial split decision, won this morning's bout far more decisively, by at least two rounds on all three judges scorecards. The former WBO heavyweight champion was...

The disappointing outcomes of COP26 have shown the lack of political will from world leaders to address climate change at the global level says Civil Society Organisations in Vanuatu. Despite the ever-increasing climate change issues impacting billions of lives around the world, governments are not committed to climate action. The Civil Society Organisations in Vanuatu are calling out to the government...

The 9th session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) officially commenced in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on 13 December 2021. Samoa is one of 152 countries meeting to advance action through the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and strengthen integrity responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The CoSP is taking place over the course of five days from 13 –...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging Papua New Guinea to increase its Coronavirus vaccination rates in its efforts to prepare for a Omicron variant surge. Dr Takeshi Kasai, WHO regional director for Western Pacific, was concerned as vaccination rates for the Covid 19 in the country still remained extremely low. He said based on his observations, the country only experienced...

After one of the busiest years in the history of the Human Rights Council, President and Fijian diplomat Ambassador Nashat Shameem Khan insisted on Thursday that the UN forum remains more relevant than ever, citing action on COVID-19 vaccine inequity, climate change and no less than five Special Sessions in Geneva. Speaking to the UN as she prepares to step...

Arguing that the world “cannot defeat a pandemic in an uncoordinated way”, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday that countries “must take concrete action in the coming days” to vaccinate 40 percent of the world’s population by the end of the year. Speaking to journalists in New York, António Guterres also asked Member States to be “far more ambitious” in...

The United Nations Members States are urged to support the large Oceanic States within the Blue Pacific Continent, which have a profound connection to and reliance on the oceans, at the heart of our geography, cultures and economies. This was conveyed in a statement delivered by the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair, at UN and Fiji’s Permanent Representative at UN,...

China is focusing on establishing three centers to assist Pacific Island countries including Fiji in addressing certain issues. Chinese Ambassador to Fiji, Qian Bo explains that the three centres are Pacific Island countries emergency supply reserve, Poverty Alleviation & Cooperative Development and Pacific Island countries Climate change cooperation limited. Ambassador Bo said the China Pacific countries emergency supply reserve centre has...