Tag: covid-19
Chinese businessmen ‘complied with quarantine measures’ – 10 PNG cases
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says an aircraft with four Chinese businessmen on board had complied...
Forget Australia, open up to covid-free Pacific bubble, says Cook Islander
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand's "intransigence" over wanting to allow Australians in before New Zealanders out to the covid-free Pacific does not stand up...
Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story on...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim...
PNG Defence Force in lockdown over fears of coronavirus spread
Pacific Media Centre
PNG Defence Force soldiers are undergoing mass testing for covid-19 while there is controlled access into Murray Barracks to reduce further possible...
Fiji works on its own ‘Bula Bubble’ in spite of Australian,...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says while Australia and New Zealand work out their Trans-Tasman bubble, Fiji’s equal greater success against the...
Stop harassing USP protesters, global human rights groups tell Fiji
Pacific Media Watch
The Fiji authorities must respect the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly for university staff and students and immediately cease...
Selwyn Manning: National ‘sat on’ vital covid-19 infection information before dropping...
ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz
It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their "want...
NZ’s covid-19 border botch-up: ‘Next few days will be crucial’
COMMENT: By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor
Public confidence in New Zealand's border controls has been shattered.
The obvious anger of the prime minister when...
‘Raise our game’ on NZ border safety says expert after covid...
Professor Sir David Skegg says New Zealand is endangering all the covid-19 gains made if new cases are allowed in at the borders such...
Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru challenges court over French judicial ethics
By RNZ Pacific
A Paris-based lawyer acting for French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has taken his client's treatment in the case in Tahiti to...
2 new covid-19 cases in NZ, but elimination target still stands
By Shaun Hendy; Alex James of University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Michael Plank of University of Canterbury; Nicholas...
Two new covid-19 cases in NZ visited dying parent, says Bloomfield
By RNZ News
Two new cases of covid-19 in New Zealand were women aged in their 30s and 40s who visited a dying parent in...
Fiji police question USP librarian as crackdown on criticism grows
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji police today questioned two University of the South Pacific staff over the "solidarity" rallies for the vice-chancellor last week at the...
Devendran Kumaran: USP – the case of a diminishing novel corona
COMMENTARY: By Devendran Kumaran
Universities of today are a key part or component for modern economies’ socioeconomic prosperity. For centuries, higher learning institutions have been...
Pacific leadership in spotlight as pressure rises over USP impasse
By Christine Rovoi of RNZ Pacific
A former vice-chancellor of Papua New Guinea's University of Technology says politics has no place in university governance.
Professor Albert...
Covid, culture and USP’s fight to save academic freedom
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie
What an irony. The 12-nation regional University of the South Pacific that prides itself on its pan-Pacific culture has...
Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today.
Auckland's Aotea...
Police hunt four covid-suspect Papuan prisoners after escape from hospital
Indonesian police in West Papua say four prisoners isolated for suspected covid-19 infection have escaped from Bhayangkara Police Hospital and are still at large.
A...
Secret report reveals widespread salary and allowance rorts at USP
By Michael Field in Islands Business
Senior academics and staff at the University of the South Pacific in Suva are accused in a special audit...
Bryan Bruce: Why I have run out of words – and...
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
Every time I wrote a sentence to describe the slow motion collision of social, economic and political forces that are simultaneously...
New Zealand relaxes covid restrictions after ‘remarkable’ virus fight
By RNZ News
"Covid-free" New Zealand has moved early today to its lowest restrictions - alert level 1.
The change happened at midnight after New Zealanders...
NZ hits 95% chance of eliminating covid – but new cases...
By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Nicholas...