Politics

Keeping the Pacific nuclear-free, in line with the Rarotonga treaty, was a recurring theme from the leaders of Tonga, Cook Islands and Samoa to New Zealand last week. The New Zealand government’s Pacific mission wrapped up on Saturday with the...

A new funding arrangement to strengthen climate change resilience in the Pacific has been announced in Samoa. New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Secretariat of the Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) director general Sefanaia Nawadra announced the new funding at...

Senior electoral officer Semi Malaki told RNZ Pacific bad weather has delayed boats traveling out to the islands. In the meantime, ousted prime minister Kausea Natano remains the caretaker prime minister. Natano, who powered forward with the Australia Tuvalu treaty,...

Tonga’s Acting Prime Minister Samiuela Vaipulu says the government will resolve its differences with the King “the Pacific way”. This comes after the government rejected a directive from the Privy Council, which said King Tupou VI was revoking the ministerial...

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters and the Minister for Health and Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti are visiting Tonga, Cook Islands and Samoa this week. This is Peters’ second trip to the region after he visited Fiji in December where he...

Waitangi Day always stirs up emotions for Valeria Gascoigne, a woman with both Samoan and New Zealand Māori parents. “It’s a celebration of being Māori and also Samoan and being proud of both; it’s making me a bit emotional now,”...

Solomon Islanders are set to hit the polls on 17 April. Chief electoral officer Jasper Anisi told the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) the tentative date of the Governor-General’s proclamation is 20 February. This would mean the elections would take...

Fiji has launched its national energy policy but it comes with warnings for the path ahead. Minister for Agriculture and Waterways Vatimi Rayalu presented the report, which was endorsed by Cabinet last May, on Friday. He said it supports their...

Tuvalu’s senior electoral official has confirmed there will be six new MPs and 10 returning to Parliament following the 2024 general election which saw former Prime Minister Kausea Natano ousted. The country went to the polls on Friday to elect...

Tuvalu is gearing up for its national election tomorrow. Tuvaluans will cast their votes to fill the 16-member parliament when polls open from 8am till 4.30pm Friday, local time. Elections are held every four years on tiny island nation with...