AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Julie Bishop visited the Pacific state of Fiji last Friday and Saturday, promising steps to drop sanctions against its military government as part of efforts to “normalise” diplomatic relations between the two countries. Canberra imposed various sanctions after the Fijian military, led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama, seized power in 2006. The Australian…
GRIFFITH University and the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 30th January 2014 at the Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia to consolidate a framework for long-term collaboration and partnership between the organisations. The purpose of the MoU is to provide clear direction to the agreed activities and to strengthen…
THE water, sanitation and sustainable energy crises are among the world’s pre-eminent development challenges, senior United Nations officials warned yesterday. And they urged Member States to adopt coherent integrated policies and innovative strategies to tackle these issues, which take a tragic toll on the lives of millions of poor people, especially women and young girls.…
RNZI: The Papua New Guinea police say it has not had any reports of Manus island locals being involved in attacks on asylum seekers in Canberra’s off-shore processing camp. One asylum seeker is dead following two nights of rioting and escapes from the Manus camp, 13 suffered serious injuries, including one flown to Australia in…
United States Congressman and chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security Homeland Defence and Foreign Operations in the House of Representative Jason Chaffetz has thanked the Papua New Guinea government for its ongoing support of the PNG LNG project. He expressed gratitude when paying a courtesy call on Prime Minister Peter…
SUVA, (NCWF) – The National Council of Women Fiji (NCWF) launched its “Civic Education & Empowerment for more Women parliamentarians in Fiji” in September of last year. The project is funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) for a term of two years, and having its main objective to: “increase the representation of women…
Last week we looked at the first of the purpose-oriented characteristics of leadership ‘A leader must be a visionary person.’ The second characteristic of a purpose-oriented leadership is ‘turning vision into action.’ It’s easier to be passionate about the future if we can visualise where we want to go and how we are going to…
Dear Editor – We are almost two months into 2014 and if reflect on what we have been through till now, we would agree that life is going from bad to worst. We continue to experience uncontrolled goods price rise, increased school fees, lack of basic drugs in both urban and rural clinics, no more…
Dear Editor – I refer to the article in the Star on Monday 10th February 2014 announcing the launching of Westpac Banks’ Mobile Banking Service. Congratulations to Westpac on the successful launch of this new product. However, the reason for my letter is to add support to the comments made by the Governor of the…
Dear Editor – It is high time that our leaders realise the fact that our sovereignty is being manipulated to fulfill the interest of someone Invisible. This “invisible force” that dwells within our system and influence our national leaders, senior government officials and the RSIP to do the wrong thing that perceived illegal and abuse…