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Banaban Family - Burenaimaneaba Kureta and Family in Aitutaki Cooks

Ken and I would like to wish our family in Aitutaki all the best wishes and prayers. Ken had a lovely phone call conversation from te umane (Bure), wife and daughter just before Christmas. Bure was saying how much he was missing all his family back in Rabi and asked Ken to convey his greetings to all his family in Rabi and Banaba. We hope that they are all OK and are not suffering to much from the devastation caused by Cyclone Pat. If anyone has an update with news on the family please let…

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Added by Stacey King on February 16, 2010 at 8:30am — 3 Comments

New Zealand Banabans 15 December Celebration 2009

Banabanmedia website Fiji

Written by Teitirake (Henry Teke) Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:43

Just to update you on our 15th Dec celebration. We celebrated our 15th in Auckland at one of the Marae (Maori meeting place) where our community camped from Fri 18th to Sun 20th and close to 200… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 15, 2010 at 9:09am — No Comments

Please Help with the Banaban Child Welfare Project for 2010

During my visit to Rabi with Niki Taxidis last October 09, we met up with a remarkable young Banaban woman - Radhika Teaoka, who is now working for the Rabi Council of Leaders in the Social Welfare Department. Radhika has launched a project to assist improverished Banaban children on Rabi to be able to attend school.

Education on Rabi is not free and parents stuggle to find the money to send their children to school. This project provides… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 7, 2010 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Five survive two months adrift in Pacific

By MICHAEL FIELD - Stuff.co.nz 18/11/009

A boat from Papua New Guinea has been rescued after drifting in the Pacific for two months, but three of its passengers have died.

An American fishing boat Ocean Encounter landed seven survivors in Majuro, in the Marshall Islands.

One of the rescued men died on board Ocean Encounter soon after rescue and another yesterday.

An eighth passenger of the small boat, a 17-year-old, was washed overboard and lost at… Continue

Added by Stacey King on November 18, 2009 at 4:55pm — No Comments

Rabi: Peace and quiet on an island

Fiji Time Online Sunday, November 01, 2009

IN an area behind Rabi island, sits four houses - typically Banaban styled homes - occupied by families who depend on the limited land in the area for food.

Albert Cove which sits in the northern end of Rabi island is mostly surrounded by its beautiful white sandy beaches and mountainous area behind the homes.

The four families that live on the island plant a variety of root… Continue

Added by Stacey King on November 1, 2009 at 10:17am — No Comments

Rabi - A picture of beauty

FIJI TIME ONLINE - Serafina Silaitoga Sunday, November 01, 2009

IT can almost blind you. If you're not careful about screening the beauty of Albert Cove and Ringgold Atolls with your naked eyes, then you'd certainly go blind.

It sits behind Taveuni and Rabi islands in the northern division.

The blending colours of the blue skies, crystal clear shallow waters, white sandy beach with a backdrop of green is breathtaking.

That's just how stunning and… Continue

Added by Stacey King on November 1, 2009 at 10:14am — No Comments

FUNERAL NOTICE - Rabi - Nei Bereti Konono

Tia kaotia ma te nanokawaaki ba ea tiba weteaki naba man te maiu aei Nei Bereti Konono about an hour ago. Te funeral gathering ae karaoaki ngkai ni mwengaia i Tabwewa Meang. A bane n roko aia utu, kaain te Wetire ao aia friends ma aia neighbours

Message from Biara Touakin - Rabi 10.47am 19.10.09

Added by Stacey King on October 19, 2009 at 6:06pm — 1 Comment

Great snippet in NZ newspaper about Banaban elder from Rabi

NZHerald - Sideswipe

The story about the lost propeller on the Great Barrier Island Trislander reminds Hugh Ragg of a similar event in Fiji. "Some years ago, a pilot friend of mine was flying a Trislander from Savusavu to Suva when the propeller on the tail engine sheared off. There were two passengers on board, an elderly Rabi Islander and a Fijian woman. As he was over… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 10, 2009 at 11:04am — No Comments

Fiji Local News in brief -

Fiji Times Online - Briefly Thursday, May 14, 2009

ROTUMA will receive about $20m for major capital works on the island for the next five years. The interim Government made the decision based on its remoteness and strategic location between Fiji and other countries in the northern Pacific. Commissioner Eastern Tomasi Tui said Rotuma could play a vital role in the exchange of commodities to Pacific islands such as Tuvalu and was… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 14, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Aust universities look to increase funding for Pacific studies

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:25pm AEDT

This is a radio interview with Dr Max Quanchi who is a good friend and supporter of the Banabans. He visited Rabi to attend 15 December celebrations with Ken and our other good friend Assoc. Professor Grant McCall.

To view a photo of Dr Max… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 15, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

PNG atoll-dwellers to be resettled on mainland due to Global warming

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:15pm AEDT

Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Bougainville region plans to resettle some 1400 people from the Carteret Islands to the mainland starting this year.

The islanders are facing food shortages as their island is sinking.

presenter: Firmin Nanol

speakers: Martin Mose, director of PNG's National Disaster Centre; Patrick Koles,… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 15, 2009 at 7:49pm — No Comments

Climate refugees — the hidden cost of climate change

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

“If these people can spend millions and millions on sending troops to fight other countries, why can’t they spend maybe a couple of billions just to save people, like ourselves; the marginalised, poorest of the poor. Why? Because we are taking the brunt, we are the victims of these green[house] gas emissions, the pollution made by industrialised countries.”

These words were spoken by a Carteret Islander in an unfinished documentary,… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 9, 2009 at 6:06pm — 2 Comments