June 2010 Blog Posts (21)

Make sure you check out the samples of Niki Taxidis Banaba Collection that is now available via Flickr. These first samples were taken on Rabi. Can't wait to see her full collection that will be exhibited throughout Australia next year. Fantastic Niki and this collection will be wonderful legacy for future Banaba generations.…

Friday, June 25, 2010 Fiji Broadcasting Corporation

Bigger fishing countries are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of small island states to over-fish and plunder their fish stocks, says Fiji Fish Managing Director Graham Southwick.



Southwick says these bigger countries have destroyed their fishing grounds due to poor management and are now setting their sights on the South Pacific.



While the Tuna Commission governing…

Pacific Scoop: Report – By Taberannang Korauaba.

A small Pacific island community in Hamilton, New Zealand, is experiencing an adverse impact of a legal battle.

In August last year, several members of the Kiribati Waikato Association brought their case before the court to challenge the election of new office bearers.

Last week, the High Court formally closed the case after lawyers from both parties agreed to settle…

Updated June 23, 2010 08:31:17 ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Spreading rumours that Fiji will be hit by a disaster today has landed the head of the country's Rugby Union in police custody.



Bill Gavoka was taken in by police after sending e-mails to tourist operators about a "prophecy" made by a pastor in Nadi about earthquakes and waves hitting Fiji at 2.30pm local time today.



A prominent church leader has…

Updated June 23, 2010 16:38:32 ABC Radio Pacific Beat

In Fiji today at 2.30 pm local time, nothing happened. Ordinarily, that wouldn't exactly make the news, but the nation had been told via a prophecy by a church minister in Nadi that Fiji would be struck by earthquakes and tsunamis today at that precise time.



Such was the level of concern by the government at the effect this was having that the head of the…

It was foretold by an obscure pastor who has now been locked up by the military regime for rumour mongering.

The US Geological Survey has reported that an earthquake of magnitude of 5.5 hit the Fiji…

Word from Rabi is that everything has been postponed today in the wake of predictions by a Church Minister that natural disasters will befall Fiji today. Over the past weeks Banabans have been preparing emergency shelters on high ground and will spend the day in these camps in case…

Updated June 21, 2010 08:03:10 ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Kiribati will convene an international climate change conference in October. President Anote Tong says it is necessary because of the disappointing outcomes from the climate change conferences in Bonn and Copenhagen.



The president believes solutions to damage caused by emissions from industrialised nations need to be found sooner rather than later.



Before…

Thursday, June 17, 2010 Fiji Times Online

RABI Island is without an ambulance as the Health Ministry sorts out the van registration four years after it has been operational on island roads.

Health spokesman Iliesa Tora confirmed they were pursuing the process of registration.

"We discovered the van was not registered when they brought it in for repairs last year," he said.

Council chairman Dr Paulo Vanualailai said he was not aware of the ambulance's…

Fiji Times Online Samantha Rina Thursday, June 10, 2010

THE Banaban Trust continues to review its investment in the Momi project and is now hoping to secure partners to help it recover its $1million investment in the project.

Trust chairman Arnold Richmond said they had received verbal expressions of interest from potential investors.

"If possible, we will try to look for partners in buying out our shares in the Unit Trust of…

This is pretty cool basic idea for anyone in need of hot water without all the expense. The product caught my eye because there are so many situations you might need something light enough to use as a temporary solution but the camping hot water bags wont cut it. I am thinking about when we buy our land outside of…

Twenty years ago when I had the opportunity to dive to 18,000 feet in the Japanese research submersible, Shinkai 6500 in the Sea of Japan I fantasized about the amazing animals our team might see deep on the ocean floor: rat-tails, deep sea sharks, and octopi. But when we reached the sea bottom, it was littered with trash that included food bags, soda cans, empty boxes, and even a broken toy doll. I shudder to imagine what that same sea bottom looks like today. But,…

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