A new two-tier immigration system that favours the wealthy means that fewer Pacific Island migrants may be able to gain New Zealand residency. The government will scrap the sibling and adult child immigration categories to “reduce the number of unskilled migrants who find it difficult to get jobs and are more likely to get benefit Read more
La cathédrale anglicane de Christchurch, gravement ébranlée par le séisme qui avait frappé la ville le 22 février 2011, sera finalement déconstruite, en dépit des comités de soutien qui avaient lutté contre cette décision. La sentence est tombée par une annonce de Victoria Matthews, qui dirige l’évêché et qui a tenu à préciser que cette Read more
Voreqe Bainimarama has condemned Australian and New Zealand policies in the Pacific while new power brokers are at work in their backyard. Shunned by Canberra and Wellington since Bainimarama’s 2006 coup, Fiji now has new friends – such as Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, making the first ever visit to the region by a Russian leader. Read more
The World Council of Churches has expressed concern at the escalation of violence in Indonesia’s Tanah Papua area [West Papua], urging the authorities to stop the killings of civilians at the hands of armed forces. It has issued a statement at its meeting which was held in Geneva , Switzerland, 14-17 February 2012 highlighting what Read more
A controversial book revealing a suppressed report into the reconstruction of the Nuku’alofa central business district in Tonga following the 2006 riots has been launched at AUT University. The author, Dr Teena Brown Pulu, is a lecturer at AUT and launched the book, Shoot the Messenger, at the Manukau Campus. Brown Pulu, who with Melino Read more
Le roi de Tonga, George (Siosi) V, a été reçu vendredi 24 février 2012 en audience avec le Pape Benoît XVI, lors d’une visite officielle au Vatican, ont annoncé les services officiels de cet État. Au menu de cet entretien, selon ces sources : des questions d’ordre international et un « accent » sur les Read more
The Fijian leader, Frank Bainimarama, has strongly denied claims made by two prominent former local journalists – writing in the New Zealand media – that he made three coup attempts before his successful takeover in December 2006. In his interview with Grubsheet in Suva, the Fijian leader said the allegations were “not true”. In the Read more
Tongan Bishop, Paini Mafi, says church leaders need to open their eyes and look beyond the bible in order to understand and combat a “huge problem” of gender based violence. “As leaders of our churches we ought to be at the forefront of current issues such as violence against women and children, which are affecting not Read more
And English bishop is getting on his bike to support women in PNG. The Rt Rev Jonathan Meyrick who is a suffragan of the Bishop of Norwich, in the north of Enland, decided to take on the bike tour to get to know his area better, meet new people and raise the profile of a project to Read more
In November 2006 Andrew Hughes, an Australian who was the Police Commissioner in Fiji rang The New Zealand Police Commissioner to see if any offence under New Zealand law existed for which the New Zealand Police could arrest Bainimarama while he was visiting the country. At the time it was reported that a request had been Read more