SPC: Pacific Island leaders will gather in Noumea, New Caledonia, on Monday (17 November 2014) to discuss critical issues linked to climate change with the visiting President of the Republic of France, François Hollande. Initiated by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the High-Level Dialogue on Climate Change will give Pacific leaders a platform…
RNZI: The World Health Organisation says the incidence of diabetes in the Pacific is now extreme and some countries have the highest rates in the world. Today is World Diabetes day and the WHO’s non communicable disease technical officer Peter Hoejskov says complications from diabetes, such as amputations and blindness, have a huge personal cost…
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PANG – The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) launched a briefing paper today outlining the many complex and dangerous ways that free trade agreements can impact and undermine custom land systems in the Pacific Islands. “Custom land is so central to life in the Pacific Islands that its importance cannot be overstated. Yet through the…
FIJI SUN – Another woman has been appointed to a leading role at the Fiji Sun, publisher of the biggest newspapers in the Pacific Islands. It comes as the newspaper company invests in expanding its digital media presence. Fiji Sun Publisher/CEO Peter Lomas confirmed that Rosi Doviverata has been named Managing Editor/Digital, in charge of…
SPTO: The South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) is organising the participation of member countries at the Adventure Travel and Backpacker Expo this week. It’s also excited to announce that three of these members have been nominated for the “Best International Adventure Activity” award. They are The Islands of Tahiti, the Solomon Islands, and the Kingdom…
FFA: Members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) have come away from a special session of their governing council with a fisheries management proposal for South Pacific Albacore. The proposed conservation and management measure will be tabled at the 11th WCPFC in Samoa. The proposal for a comprehensive Conservation and Management Measure is…
SPC: ‘Freight rates are lower, the frequency of services to our countries is increasing and there is evidence that our people are happier with shipping services,’ says the Chair of the Central Pacific Shipping Commission, Thomas Heine, Marshall Islands Minister for Transportation and Communication, at the opening of the CPSC annual meeting held in the…
Operation Kurukuru ends The region’s annual large-scale maritime surveillance sweep of Pacific fishing waters has netted a record 12 vessels in potential breach of their fishing licenses. The vessels, nabbed by Fisheries Maritime Police from FSM (6), PNG (5) and Palau (one) are flagged to Thailand, the Philippines and FSM. They were amongst 114 boardings…
The Australia West Papua Association thanks the Australian government for endorsing a petition for greater journalistic access to the Papuan territory under Indonesian administration. “Australia’s action is consistent with its legal obligations under Article 76 of the Charter of the United Nations for trust territories,” the association said in a statement. “We ask Prime Minister…