Tag: Deportation
Fiji immigration officials detain Grace Road cult leader Daniel Kim
By Vijay Narayan and Mosese Raqio in Suva
Grace Road group Fiji president Daniel Kim is currently in Fiji immigration custody as he has been...
Interpol ‘red notices’ against 7 Grace Road cult figures, but court...
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
The High Court in Lautoka yesterday issued orders to the Fiji police and the Immigration Department not to remove four...
Former Kiribati president warns judicial crisis could undermine democracy
RNZ Pacific
A former president of Kiribati warns the crisis involving the island nation's government and the courts has left the country with a "dysfunctional...
A View From Afar: Could Auckland’s LynnMall stabbing attack have been...
Host Selwyn Manning with security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan on this week's A View From Afar podcast. Video: EveningReport.nz on YouTube
A VIEW FROM AFAR: Podcast...
NZ government makes apology over Dawn Raids targeting Pasifika
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today delivered the government's apology for the Dawn Raids against Pasifika overstayers.
She apologised for the raids in...
50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of...
RNZ Pacific
Today marks 50 years to the day that six Pacific Islanders grouped together in central Auckland to form the Polynesian Panther Party.
The party...
Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over...
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ News Pacific correspondent
As the New Zealand government confirmed it would apologise for the 1970s Dawn Raids against Pacific Islanders, memories...
Media alliance calls in Jokowi’s pledge to allow foreign journalists into...
By Achmad Nasrudin Yahya in Jakarta
The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) is calling in a pledge made by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in 2015...
Future of USP vice-chancellor in limbo but Samoa keen to be...
By Soli Wilson of the Samoa Observer
The deported vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific has told the Samoa Observer that his future...
Ahluwalia still USP’s vice-chancellor, says Aingimea
RNZ Pacific
Deported Canadian academic Professor Pal Ahluwalia is still vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South Pacific, says chancellor Lionel Aingimea.
Professor Ahluwalia...
Australian deportation of boy breach of rights, says Children’s Commissioner
By Charlie Dreaver, RNZ News political reporter
The New Zealand Children's Commissioner is even more concerned about the deportation of a 15-year-old from Australia, now...
Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP
RNZ News
Australia is facing condemnation from National and Green Party MPs over the deportation of a 15-year-old boy to New Zealand.
Little detail has been...
How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for...
Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis
Last month, I wrote on Facebook that the resumption of my blog Grubsheet for 2021 was being postponed out of consideration...
The future of USP is at stake – do Australia and...
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva
The whistleblowing vice-chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has described the illegal...
Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional...
REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne
The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific...
Samoa goes public with bid for USP to move headquarters from...
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist
Samoa's prime minister has gone public with his desire to "rehouse" the University of the South Pacific (USP) in...
‘No crisis at USP,’ says Sayed-Khaiyum – ‘Untrue’, says Ro Teimumu
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
There is no saga at the University of the South Pacific, claims Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.
“There is no saga, there...
Deportation of USP academic head hinted at in Fiji media veiled...
By RNZ Pacific
There are signs Fiji's deportation of the University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor was engineered to avoid his contract being given...
Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation
By RNZ Pacific
The Speaker of Fiji's Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South...
Fiji bought time to deport USP vice-chancellor and his wife
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva
Documents tabled at last week's special council meeting of the University of the South Pacific suggest that plans to amend...
USP open letter: How Fiji infiltrated a campus and kidnapped a...
OPEN LETTER: By USP staff, alumni and students
Vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia has only been at the University of the South Pacific (USP) for three...