18-05-2025
Fiji government warned of coup in 2000, says former US embassy staff member
It's been exactly 25 years now since one of Fiji's darkest days. The 2000 Fiji coup. Nirmal Singh Cheema, who worked for the US Embassy in Suva, says he had been made aware about the threat of a coup and had warned the Chaudry Government beforehand.
A Pacific community leader in Australia who fought for the resumption of commercial kava imports. Fears they could be stopped again now that kava smuggling into the Northern Territory, where it's banned, has also resumed.
After surviving two recent attempts to remove her from office, Samoa's Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa is facing mounting pressure to call an early election.
Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele is pledging financial support for the Solomon Islands National Institute of Sport on an annual basis.
Women are hugely under-represented in the marine industries workforce across the world, making up just twenty nine percent of the workforce.
Photos of Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape playing basketball have been making waves on PNG social media.
