Yearly Archives: 2021
Waikeria Prison protesters surrender to NZ authorities after 6-day siege
By RNZ News
The 16 protesters at Waikeria Prison have surrendered to authorities after a six-day stand-off.
The news that the men had ended the stand-off...
Amnesty calls for caution in ending NZ’s Waikeria prison protest
By RNZ News
Amnesty International is calling on New Zealand's Corrections Minister to ensure force is not used to end the impasse at Waikeria Prison...
Award-winning editor of Samoa Observer resigns after 22 years
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Award-winning editor Mata'afa Keni Lesa is moving on from the Samoa Observer after 22 years, reports Samoa Global News.
Mata’afa Keni Lesa...
Former Rappler reporter Carmela Fonbuena is new head of PCIJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has named former Rappler reporter and book author Carmela Fonbuena as its next executive...
Scott Waide: Open letter to PM James Marape: Treat our people fairly
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide in Lae
Dear Prime Minister Marape
Our government has to admit the fact that there is a glaring imbalance between Papua New...
PNG authorities slammed over ‘lack of control’ on alluvial mining
By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby
A concerned Papua New Guinean woman leader and NGO activist, Matilda Koma, has called on the Central provincial government...
A belated Papua Christmas morning story from Nduga’s internal refugees
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
"Merry Christmas, 25 December 2020," says the graffiti displayed in the yard of the Nduga student dormitory in the study...
At the heart of the Goilala landslide disaster – prayers for the buried 15
SPECIAL REPORT: By Central Governor Robert Agorobe at Saki, Papua New Guinea
It was with a heavy heart when we flew into the landslide disaster...
RSF’s 2020 Round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries ‘at peace’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive...
New Year’s Honours: Former boxing champion among 13 Pacific recipients
By RNZ Pacific
Playwrights, teachers, reverends, advocates, athletes and a former boxer are among the 13 Pacific people who have received New Year's Honours, a...