Pacific Islands

A law is being proposed in New Caledonia to broaden access to the medical profession for doctors trained in New Zealand, Australia and Fiji.

French Polynesia’s COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the 14th life as the number of patients in hospital has risen to 61.

Papua New Guinea has opened its border to international travel from four more countries.

Solomon Islands have recorded their first case of Covid-19.

The spread of Covid-19 cases in French Polynesia is accelerating, with almost 100 new infections now being recorded a day.

Mining giant Rio Tinto is facing accusations that a mine it abandoned in Papua New Guinea two decades ago is leaking poisonous waste into rivers.

Two people in Solomon Islands have died after suffering injuries from a bomb blast in Honiara.

One more person has died from COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea, bringing the total to three.

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.