Monthly Archives: April 2020

By RNZ News New Zealand has recorded just 29 new cases of Covid-19 infection in the past 24 hours, but the prime minister says a...

The Guardian's Pacific Project disaster video. By the Pacific Project Tropical Cyclone Harold lashed Vanuatu, ripping off roofs and downing telecommunications, before moving towards Fiji and...

COMMENTARY: By Georgie Bright, Australia associate director of Human Rights Watch Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the fragile health system in Papua New Guinea was...

By Felipe F. Salvosa II in Manila Renz Paas is an avid consumer of medical literature. Following news of an outbreak of a novel coronavirus...

By Kelly Vacala in Suva Fiji disaster authorities have lifted movement restrictions imposed yesterday during the height of Severe Tropical Cyclone Harold have been lifted...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch After some weeks of heavy criticism of Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape’s government amid...

By RNZ News Social media misinformation about Covid-19 is putting Pacific communities in New Zealand at particular risk, government advisers say. The government announced a $17...

By Maggie Boyle of FBC News Fiji disaster authorities have put the whole of Viti Levu island on restricted movement due to TC Harold. Director for...

By Wansolwara staff Fiji now has 15 coronavirus cases after a single new case has been confirmed by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. The new case was one...

Former Chief Justice Sir Arnold Amet ... emergency powers up to controller alone. Video: EMTV News By Martha Louis in Madang Papua New Guinea's former Chief...

By Florencio Miranda Ximenes and Antónia Gusmão in Dili Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak has explained the decision to dismiss the vice-health minister, saying...

Pacific Media Centre Health authorities in Papua have reported a spike in the number of people under surveillance (ODP) in the southern Merauke district, with...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila While the Vanuatu government is investing its resources in tackling the coronavirus pandemic threat, it is now stretching its...

By RNZ News New Zealand has 54 new confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 1160, the Health Ministry...

ANALYSIS: By Sally Young of the University of Melbourne Many newspapers betrayed their readers during the Great Depression and now some are doing so again...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Health Minister David Clark has revealed that he took a trip to the beach during the alert level 4 lockdown...

By RNZ Pacific There has been no communication early today from the Vanuatu islands hardest hit by the powerful Tropical Cyclone Harold. The category 5 storm...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does not want New Zealand to be at level four for "a minute longer than needed", but says...

Pacific Media Watch From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an "authoritarianism creep" by governments in the...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. As New Zealand...

By Samantha Bagayas in Manila A campus journalist from the University of the East (UE) in the Philippines was allegedly forced to issue a public...

Pacific Media Watch Authorities are cracking down to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus in Fiji, which already has 12 cases, reports TVNZ...