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Kiribati Islanders Seek Land to Buy as Rising Seas Threaten

Feb. 9 2009 Bloomberg, New York, USA by Subramaniam Sharma

Kiribati, a Pacific island-nation in danger of being submerged because of global warming, may purchase land elsewhere to relocate its people, President Anote Tong said.

“We would consider buying land,” Tong said in an interview in New Delhi. “The alternative is that we die, we go extinct.” Kiribati, between Hawaii… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 9, 2009 at 10:48am — No Comments

Troubled island nation (Kiribati) receives food aid from Taiwan

THE UNIVERSITY REGISTER – Campus newspaper of University of Minnesota, Morris USA

Written by Mitch Grussing

Sunday, 01 February 2009

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati (pronounced ki-ri-bas) recently received a 200-ton donation of rice from Taiwan. According to a report by Television New Zealand, rising world food and petroleum prices have had a dramatic… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 2, 2009 at 9:04am — 6 Comments

Election Updates

Message #425 | 30-Jan-09, 16:55:45, GMT +10 | Perplexed

Banaban Message Board

Ken & Stacey

Congratulations for pegging the first milestone…..passing the first 100 members mark! It simply goes to show how popular and useful the website has become not only to the Banabans but also to the Non-Banabans who have taken your interest to heart. Looking forward to your achieving the next 100… Continue

Added by Ken Sigrah on January 30, 2009 at 8:14pm — 3 Comments

Fiji accuses regional powers of chequebook diplomacy

RADIO AUSTRALIA NEWS

Pacific correspondent Campbell Cooney

30 Jan 2009

Fiji's military-backed interim government has given its clearest indication yet that it will reject a Pacific Islands Forum ulitmatum to hold elections this year.

"Fiji's position is not going to change," said Fiji's interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.

Commadore Bainimarama has also… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 30, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

Moving back from the coastline

THE BOSTON CHRONICLE

By H.D.S. Greenway

January 27, 2009

EVER SINCE Captain Cook, mutiny on the Bounty, and Paul Gauguin, the South Pacific has held a special place in the Western imagination. The islands and atolls, swaying palms, and care-free people seemed to symbolize the great escape, a place where cares might be left behind, the closest thing this… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 28, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments

* CONGRATULATIONS - Ata Terawea for being our 100th Member **

Today Ata Terawea a male from Nasinu, Fiji joined Banaban Voice and became our 100th member.

Congratulations!

Stacey & Ken

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

Ancient Polynesian seafaring renaissance

SYDNEY (Reuters)

By Michael Perry

Sun Jan 25, 2009

A Polynesian voyaging canoe will set sail from Hawaii in March and head into the South Pacific, aiming to reach tiny Palmyra Atoll near Kiribati using only an ancient seafaring skill known as "wayfinding."

The double hulled canoe, similar to the canoes that sailed across the Pacific thousands of years before European… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 9:14am — No Comments

Kiribati facing food crisis

ONE News - New Zealand

Sunday January 25, 2009

WATCH the video (2:39) The central Pacific islands of Kiribati face a looming food crisis, as basic food items soar out of reach of the people there.

In one of the poorest countries of the Pacific, Kiribati families are struggling to fill their stomachs.

World prices and the cost of fuel have meant rice… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 9:05am — No Comments

Rudd to attend Pacific Islands Forum

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

ForumIlya Gridneff January 25, 2009

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will fly to Papua New Guinea to attend the special Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) meeting to discuss Fiji's route back to democracy.

Mr Rudd had cancelled his travel plans after PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare shocked PIF members by announcing on Friday… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 9:02am — No Comments

RCL Elections Deferred

FIJI TIMES ONLINE

THE election of councillors to the Rabi Island Council which was scheduled for Thursday has been deferred to April because of the flooding in the North. Commissioner Northern Inia Seruiratu sought the postponement of elections because all available government personnel were involved in the assessment and rehabilitation of the Northern Division after the floods. Council members are elected on a four-year… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 8:57am — No Comments

British court to hear Pacific nuclear test (Christmas Island - Kiribati) compensation case

Radio New Zealand International

The Voice of New Zealand, Broadcasting to the Pacific

Te Reo Irirangi O Aotearoa, O Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa

Posted at 03:14 on 21 January, 2009 UTC

The first court hearing is due to start in London later today in a multi-million dollar compensation case brought by veterans of British nuclear weapons tests, including those in the Pacific.

The… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 21, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Washed Up? Niue trying to save itself

NOW on PBS

Week of 12.12.08

Video: Washed Up?

The remote country of Niue is the world's smallest democracy, but it faces enormous environmental and economic challenges. See how this island nation is relying on new techniques—and some old ones—to save… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 20, 2009 at 8:23pm — No Comments

Paradise Lost- Kiribati

NOW on PBS

Week of 12.12.08

Video: Paradise Lost

Just this week, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by increasingly severe storms and floods caused by climate change. But for many island nations in… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 20, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Australia's Pacific Islander Seasonal Worker Scheme delayed

January 19 2009 Country News Australia

The proposed Federal Government Pacific Islander seasonal worker scheme has been delayed but it is not expected to affect Goulburn Valley horticulture.

The scheme proposes to bring Pacific Islanders to Australia on a guest worker basis to help with seasonal crops.

It will involve up to 2500 seasonal workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea,… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 20, 2009 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Kiribati plea for international air service

Last Updated: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:55:00 +1100

ABC Radio News

The island nation of Kiribati is trying to increase the number of international flights which service it.

Pacific correspondent, Campbell Cooney, reports the government of Kiribati has asked for expressions of interest from airlines across the Pacific for the provision of both international services to Tarawa, and the other major population… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 17, 2009 at 2:18pm — No Comments

Fiji Kava producers seek government funding

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Updated Fri Jan 9, 2009 2:09pm AEDT

The future of Fiji's kava industry looks bright now that the European Union lifted its bans and reopened the European market. Ratu Josateki Nawalowalo, Chairman of Fiji's Kava Council, regards kava as the only hope for the country's economy as the sugar industry declines further. Ratu Josateki sees kava as one day becoming a multimillion dollar industry but says it is essential that the fledgling industry… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 14, 2009 at 6:09am — No Comments

Environmental Refugees: a reality of things to come

For anyone that has any doubts over rising sea levels they need to visit Tarawa in Kiribati when the next westerly's and king tides hit the island and take a drive along the causeway between Betio and the island's capital Bairiki. When the waves start crashing over the roof of your car with the whole force of the Pacific Ocean behind them you can only hope and pray that you will not get washed away in the wild seas. Once you are on the causeway which is about 3klms long you are at the point of… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 11, 2009 at 1:30am — 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

Additional names to hopeful nominees Rabi Elections 2009

by Ranoba Banan Rabi: 5 January 2009 8:33am

Here are a few more names which I have highlighted:

Candidates are:

Tabwewa

Baeba Abetai

Katauea Ueue

Nei Terikano Terikano

Namatan Tiaterenga

Paulo Vanualailai

Uma

Butau Bureitetau

Teatu Rewi

Tebaia Tawita

Tuateira Buratake

** Ioane Terama **

** Burenimone Biara… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 5, 2009 at 8:53am — 1 Comment

Rare and Ancient Banaba fossils discovered in 1960s

I am sure many of our young Banaban generation will find these photos very interesting. They are photos of fossilized ancient and extinct Shark's tooth and other shells and phosphate rocks that were discovered by Roger Anderson in the 1960's amongst the phosphate diggings topside on Banaba.

Roger has had the Shark's Tooth dated and identified by an Australian Museum. Roger was the younger brother of Peter Anderson who also had a wonderful artifact collection from Te Aka village that… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 29, 2008 at 2:27pm — No Comments