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We mix with the best, says Serevi

FIJI TIMES ONLINE - Tuesday, July 14, 2009

THE Pacific is not missing out on any international sports competitions, says Waisale Serevi, with Pacific teams fully participating in world-class competitions. He made the comment yesterday while speaking on the theme 'Sports the vehicle for health and identity in Pacific Island Countries' during the Pacific Youth Festival. Mr Serevi said weightlifers of Nauru, the… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 15, 2009 at 11:41am — No Comments

RABI: Island kids elope

FIJI TIME ONLINE - Monday, July 13, 2009

KINSHIP betrothals, poverty and missing parents are giving rise to an increase in girls as young as 14 years eloping on Rabi Island. Rabi Council chairman Bauro Vanualailai said the social problem was a major issue leaders were struggling to cope with.

"Our children are not finishing school and running away together from Rabi High School," he… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 13, 2009 at 10:45am — 2 Comments

A sanctuary for women - Rabi Island Fiji

FIJI TIMES ONLINE - Sunday, July 05, 2009

The Women's Interest Centre at Nuku is a sanctuary for women on Rabi Island. It's a place where they can bring in their handicrafts to sell and contribute to the family income. It's also somewhere they can gather for a lively game of bingo that can become a hilarious affair as they regale each other with jokes and laughs. The interest centre is an initiative of the… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 6, 2009 at 1:27pm — No Comments

CONGRATULATIONS 400th MEMBER - Nei Akka

Welcome to our niece Nei Akka Rimon for being our 400th member to join Banaban Voice. Akka is currently living in Sydney while completing her university course and will return to work back in Kiribati when she graduates.

Added by Stacey King on June 2, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Rabi Teen in police custody after knifing granny

FIJI TIME ONLINE - Wednesday, May 06, 2009

A TEENAGER was arrested after he attacked his grandmother with a cane knife on Friday. The alleged incident happened on Rabi Island within Cakaudrove province and police on the island are holding the 19-year-old in their custody. They have not charged him.

Rabi Island Council executive director Molly Amon said the islanders were shocked over the attack which took place at Nuku… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 7, 2009 at 9:25am — No Comments

Rabi Villager knifed, hospitalized

FIJIVILLAGE.COM Publish date/time: 05/05/2009 [07:30]

A 49 year old villager of Rabi is in serious condition at the Rabi Health Centre after he was struck with a cane knife by a 35 year old fellow villager. Assistant Spokesperson Sergeant Atunaisa Sokomuri had confirmed that an argument developed between the two after the suspect assaulted the victim's grandson.

The victim tried to stop the… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 6, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

Rabi Victim Recovers

FIJI TIMES ONLINE - By THERESA RALOGAIVAU Wednesday, May 06, 2009

(Thanks to Koro for emailing story through to us)

Elliot Rota with relatives at Labasa Hospital yesterday

A TWELVE-year-old is nursing serious head injuries, while an iron rod impaled another, and about 20 other students were treated for shock and abrasions when the truck they were travelling in… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 6, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Space Probe to Measure How Sloshed Mother Earth Is

MILLER-McCUNE - Science and Environment

A European satellite scheduled to launch today will provide hard data on rising seas

By: Bruce Dorminey | March 15, 2009

What do the fates of the tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu, Tonga, Kiribati and the Russian launch of a gleaming new European gravity satellite have in common?

Gravity… Continue

Added by Stacey King on March 16, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Water plan helps sinking Kiribati stay afloat

The West Australian Online

2nd March 2009, 13:15 WST

A group of Australian scientists is helping to save a tiny central Pacific island nation from a dangerous byproduct of rising sea levels.

Kiribati is slowly being swamped by salt water, shrinking the land mass and threatening the islanders' precious supply of fresh water stored in underground reservoirs.

A team of experts… Continue

Added by Stacey King on March 2, 2009 at 3:18pm — 1 Comment

Some Very Creative Individual Pages now on Banaban Voice

Have noticed some very creative designs going up now on individual Banaban Voice pages. I must say that I am very impressed with the level of design flair some of our members have shown. Maybe we will have to run a competition to see who is voted the best one!

I have been working and designing on computers since my brother, Dan Bridges gave me my first computer back in 1990, his old XT model he assembled.

That was 19 years ago and makes me feel very old. It's so wonderful… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 22, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

First wave - The presidents of two island nations draft escape plans, anticipating sea level rise

By Cristine Russell

February 28th, 2009; Vol.175 #5 (p. 24)

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TRICKY LANDING

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Much of the Maldives, including the land on which the Malé International Airport sits, is… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 16, 2009 at 3:31pm — No Comments

Kiribati Seeks Relocation as Climate Change Sets In

SOLOMON TIMES ONLINE

Monday, February 16, 2009 10:59 AM

(Source: www.sciencenews.org)

The island nation of Kiribati is following in the steps of the Maldives by preparing for relocation for its people as the rising sea level threatens to submerge the nation.

Late last year, the Maldives' newly-elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, announced the nation's plans to buy land for the relocation of its people due… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 16, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Environment: Takesy Full of Optimism for the Future

Islands Business

Asterio Takesy 10 Feb 2009

As many of you know, this will be my final director’s column. Please allow me a few last observations as director on the state of the Pacific’s environment.

During the six years of the column, I have addressed both challenges to and successes of the… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 10, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Kiribati looks to move sea threatened communties abroadLast

Australia Network News provided by ABC Asia Pacific News Centre

10 Feb 2009

The President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, is reportedly looking to purchase land in other countries so it can relocate communities that are in danger of being submerged by rising sea levels.

Much of Kiribati is no higher than five meters above sea level and the ocean around it's 21 inhabited islands have been rising… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 10, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

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

Australia looking to expand its proposed Migrant Worker Scheme

ABC Radio Australia

3 Feb 2009

Australia's Trade minister says he wants to expand the country's termporary Pacific workers' scheme to become a broader, training and workers exchange mechanism. His comments to Radio Australia come as trade officials from Pacific countries prepare to meet in Australia later this month for further… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 3, 2009 at 8:20pm — 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

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

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

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