The Just Play Programme has four objectives as it works to make social change throughout the Oceania region, one of which is the promotion of gender equality. With 8 March 2014 marking International Women’s Day, the inroads this programme makes all year-round in the realms of gender equality and female empowerment comes under the spotlight.…
OFC Champions League Group Stage is five weeks away our focus on the competing clubs continues as we shine the spotlight on New Caledonia’s AS Magenta. Noumea-based Magenta has enjoyed a sustained period of domestic dominance that has seen them win eight local titles in the last 14 years. And now AS Magenta are back…
Basketball fans and supporters are in for some big actions this year as the Namson Tran Basketball competition kicks off today. Four matches will be played today with the first to kick off at 1pm at the Multipurpose Hall. A uniform parade will mark the start of the pre-season competition. The parade will be led…
Club champions Solomon Warriors head off to neighbouring Vanuatu yesterday for a series of friendly matches as part of their preparation ahead of the Oceania Club Championship. The team left with few new additional players. Lethal left footer, James Naka, and a handpicked defender from KOSSA FC are joining the team on this friendly tour.…
ON gender equality – it is no secret that the Pacific is lagging. The region is home to some of the world’s highest domestic violence rates. Economic empowerment of women in many countries, particularly in Melanesia, is desperately low. Women lack access to finance, land, jobs and income. In my country, Solomon Islands, there is…
WHEN you think of SIEA (Solomon Islands Electricity Authority), you normally think of men in orange overalls working on power poles or fixing generators, or checking meter boxes. You never think of women doing this, they are usually in the office behind desks or serving customers. But at around the turn of the century, two…
MEMBERS of the South Seas Evangelical Church (SSEC) attending their 50th golden jubilee celebrations at Ambu, Malaita, yesterday heard of the challenges and tough times the church had been through in the last 50 years. Leaders of the church from the various regions of the country shared the history about the arrival of the church…
MANY people in the Kwaio region of Malaita are yet to hear the gospel, a large gathering of South Seas Evangelical Church (SSEC) followers heard in Auki yesterday. Rev. Micah Raoiasi highlighted this when he made a presentation to thousands of church members who gathered at Ambu, near Auki, to celebrate the church’s 50th golden…
CHURCHES must stand and speak for the rights of the voiceless in the community. And they should speak in a united voice on the atrocities conducted by Indonesian security forces on the people of West Papua. Pacific Conference of Churches General Secretary, Reverend Francois Pihaatae said the church had remained silent for too long…
PACIFIC communities must allow more opportunities for women to lead and play critical roles in development in all levels of society. Speaking ahead of the World Women’s Day of Prayer, Pacific Conference of Churches General Secretary Reverend Francois Pihaatae said women were not second class citizens. “We often hear that Pacific cultures confine…