Tag: No confidence vote

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says further resignations from Cabinet are imminent, as Prime Minister Matthew...

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has blasted Solomon Islands cabinet ministers who moved against their leader on the...

RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale's Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) coalition appears headed for a major test after...

RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale made an emergency trip back to Honiara on Sunday morning from Palau after a motion of...

RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has doubled down on his decision not to convene Parliament as he hangs on to power leading...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament must be recalled on April 8 to debate a...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Avarua, Rarotonga China has confirmed details of its meeting with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown for the...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has successfully thwarted a vote of no confidence after 75 MPs...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has declared that he will not resign in spite of the defection of many Pangu...

RNZ Pacific A Papua New Guinea MP who is being touted by the opposition as the next prime minister of the country says "my life...

Interview by Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The man being touted by the opposition as the next leader of Papua New Guinea says the...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's opposition has vowed to remove Prime Minister James Marape and his government from power. During a media...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The opposition group in Papua New Guinea's Parliament staged a walkout yesterday after a fiery exchange, amid an ongoing...

By Hilaire Bule in Port Vila Power has transitioned from Vanuatu's government to the opposition in Parliament during the Fifth Extraordinary Session convened to debate...

By Hiliare Bule, RNZ News correspondent in Port Vila Forty nine regional and international observers have arrived in Vanuatu to monitor the running of...

RNZ Pacific The Chief Justice of Vanuatu has ordered the amendment of a constitutional application against the dissolution of Parliament to exclude the president of...

By Koroi Hawkins and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists, with reporting and photography from RNZ correspondent Hilaire Bule in Port Vila The Vanuatu Prime Minister...

RNZ Pacific The Solomon Islands prime minister came in for searing criticism when he faced a confidence vote in Parliament today. A motion of no confidence...

RNZ Pacific Vanuatu Supreme Court judge Justice Oliver Saksak has upheld a decision by the former Speaker of Parliament to expel 19 government MPs from...

RNZ Pacific The speaker of the Vanuatu Parliament has declared the seats of the prime minister, the deputy prime minister and 16 other government MPs...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's parliament has adjourned for almost four months, dashing an attempt to oust Prime Minister James Marape. The adjournment allows Marape to...

ANALYSIS: By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News Was Tonga's Hon. Vuna Fā’otusia betrayed by his close friends from the nobility and cabinet while being...