Pacific Islands

The Commissioner of Prisons in Samoa, Taitosaua Edward Winterstein, has been suspended after two prisoners escaped from Tanumalala prison on Sunday.

For 74-year-old Teaga Esekia, a chief from the Tuvalu island of Vaitupu, the ocean is lifeblood.

Victims of the 2009 Pacific tsunami are being remembered with services in American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga.

Tonga’s Parliament has elected a new prime minister to replace the late ‘Akilisi Pohiva.

Today is the final day for nominations in Tonga’s Parliament of candidates for the election of a new Prime Minister to replace the late ‘Akilisi Pohiva.

The Tongan Prime Minister and long-time democracy campaigner, Akilisi Pohiva, has passed away.

A Samoan village has backtracked on a move to banish a villager allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi.

The Lauli’i village council in Samoa says it believes a baby found floating off a beach near their village was dumped there last Wednesday.

Rarotonga’s multi-million dollar water reticulation system is about to come online and the government wants to purify it.

An Australia federal court judge has ruled that a refugee on Nauru must be transferred to Australa for urgent medical treatment by next Friday.

A barge has reportedly lost its cargo of bauxite in Solomon Islands near where efforts continue to clean up oil spilled from a grounded cargo ship.

A court hearing for 20 faife’au or ministers from Samoa’s largest church who are facing tax evasion charges will sit for its final day today.