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The people of Banaba island in Kiribati have expressed their concerns about delays in the completion of a boat being built by the government. The Kiribati Independent reports it has been four years since the project began. The boat, which is big enough to run between Banaba and the capital Tarawa regularly, will help ease problems of food shortages on the island. The boat-building manager of the…
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PM Voreqe Bainimarama speaks to delegates at the 9th Pacific Islands Conference on Conservation and Protected Areas Taken from/By: FBC News
Report by: Apisalome Coka
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says some or all of the people of Kiribati may have…
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Rnzi/Pacnews Wednesday, September 04, 2013
LANDOWNER Raobeia Ken Sigrah from Banaba island in Kiribati says his people will keep fighting for compensation for the depletion of the island's phosphate resources.
The Kiribati government is still considering various claims for compensation to former workers of the British Phosphate Company in Banaba. Banabans have sought compensation for decades and while some payments have been made, local…
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Kiribati Must Urgently Prioritize Sanitation To Save Lives – UN Expert
Tarawa/Geneva (25 July 2012) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, called on the Government of Kiribati to address the human…
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UN expert on right to safe drinking water and sanitation heads to Kiribati
TARAWA / GENEVA (20 July 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque continues her country missions in the Pacific and will visit Kiribati from 23 to 26 July 2012 to examine the situation of the human right to water and sanitation. Her mission will…
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ABC RADIO Pacific Beat - Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:35:18 +1000
Nauru has become the first Pacific nation to formalise the seasonal worker scheme with Australia which comes in to effect next month.
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Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i… |
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PACIFIC BEAT ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated 14 June 2012, 11:10 AEST
The Rabi Council of Leaders has denied there are plans to re-open phosphate mining on Banaba Island in Kiribati.
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Dozens of radio signals heard after her plane crashed add to evidence that the legendary aviator didn't just vanish.
Rossella Lorenzi Fri Jun 1, 2012 06:00 PM ET
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Researchers say the famed aviator hated her spots
By Christine Roberts / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 8:06 PM…
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NZ Radio International Posted at 23:12 on 21 May, 2012 UTC
The publisher and editor of the Kiribati Independent newspaper believes the government’s move to stop its publications is politically motivated.
Taberannang Korauaba says the Kiribati Independent received instructions from the Ministry of Communications on Friday to cease publications until it has been registered.
Mr Korauaba says the paper received a similar instruction in March, and after filing…
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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated
A program which allows people from the Pacific to work for a limited period mainly in Australia's horticultural industry is to be expanded.
A three-year test scheme will enable people to work in the tourism, cane and cotton industries.
The original two-thousand-and-eight program allowed up to two-and-a-half thousand workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and…
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 10:25 Written by News Release Tuesday, 20 December 2011 10:14 Guam News - Guam News
Suva, Fiji - “With a project as significant and exciting as this, we expect that there will be…
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The way the Australian government spends millions of dollars on overseas scholarships is in the news again.
This time the Kiribati Government has allegedly barred Australian government officials from meetings to determine which students will get offers to study in Australia. An audit of AusAID's office in the capital Tarawa, obtained under freedom of information law, warns the closed-door approach…
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THIRTEEN renowned musicians and a comedian from Kiribati will showcase their talents for the first time here in Suva at the Suva Civic Auditorium today from 12 noon to 4pm.
The team leader and CEO for the Kiribati Broadcasting and Publication Authority, Betarim Rimon, said the tour was a tribute to musicians and composers in Fiji who had influenced the development of the Kiribati's…
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Attempts to identify bodies thought to possibly be New Zealand coastwatchers beheaded on Tarawa by the Japanese in World War Two may achieve a result by early next year.
The men volunteered during World War II to be coast-watchers, a chain of radio operators stationed on Pacific islands to look out for enemy fleet movements.
Some were postal telegraphists while others were unarmed…
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