Pacific Islands

Nine Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency Observers have been successfully repatriated to their respective countries on a chartered flight on Tuesday 7th July, 2020.

American Samoa’s Governor says some members of Cabinet have not filed their tax returns in years.

Vanuatu continues to be in desperate need of aid in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Harold, which swept through the Pacific in early April.

Samoa’s Ombudsman, long serving public servant Maiava Iulai Toma, has voiced his office’s opposition to proposed Constitutional changes aimed at an overhaul of the Judiciary.

Tropical Cyclone Harold showed us that Climate Change is still the Pacific’s biggest existential threat, according to Vanuatu’s opposition leader.

One man’s dream to spend three years sailing solo around the Pacific nearly turned to disaster after borders started closing around the region, leaving him stranded alone at sea for three months.

Tonga’s only domestic airline, the privately-owned Real Tonga, is reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy.

A report has found that Papua New Guinea’s daily newspapers often displayed a “deference” to the office of prime minister in their stories.

Vanuatu Health authorities have another challenge to deal with after a local outbreak of malaria in Sola, which is in the northern province of Torba following Tropical Cyclone Harold.

Pacific islanders living in the United States have an infection rate two to three times the average in at least four American states.

Papua New Guinea has reported its eighth confirmed case of COVID-19, in Eastern Highlands province.

The Covid-19 stimulus package passed by Samoa’s Parliament last week may have come too late for some hotels and their workers.