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Apia, SAMOA — In Samoa, a repeat drug offender has been jailed and will serve two years and eight months in total for several concurrent sentences.
The Samoa Observer reports Junior Filifili Prichard of Vaigaga had also been assessed to have a severe dependence on both methamphetamine and marijuana...
Washington — The powerful January 15 underwater eruption of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the South Pacific produced a plume that soared higher into Earth’s atmosphere than any other on record – about 57 km – as it extended more than halfway to space, researchers said on Thursday....
Mt Hagen, PNG — Police in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea, have arrested a mother who allegedly killed her three children and dumped their bodies in a river.
The National reports the children as one eight-year-old boy and two girls aged five and three.
Western Highlands police commander Superintendent...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Pacific island nations are dealing with disappearing islands, worsening storms, increasing outmigration and other serious effects of climate change, illustrating the need for more climate financing.
Over the past decade, Pacific nations have received about $2.2 billion in...
Hagatna, GUAM — The United States is considering the establishment of military bases in the Federated States of Micronesia.
The Pacific Islands Times reports that at a recent Joint Committee Meeting on Guam, the U.S and FSM delegations created a working group to identify possible military sites in...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's deputy police commissioner has become the first Pacific member of the Australasian Council of Women and Policing to win the prestigious Audrey Fagan Memorial Award.
Papali'i Monalisa Tia'i-Keti was among four Pacific law enforcement members of the council recognized at an...
Nadi, FIJI — Fiji's weather office predicts that up to seven tropical cyclones may affect several Pacific countries in the coming cyclone season and up to four of them may be severe.
In its 2022/2023 Tropical Cyclone Seasonal Outlook, the Fiji government predicts that the region will experience...
Apia, SAMOA — The MV Lady Naomi service to and from Samoa and American Samoa will come to an end this week.
This was confirmed by Chief Executive Officer of Samoa Shipping Corporation Limited (S.S.C) Leiataualetaua Captain Samuel Decca Phineas in an interview with Savali, Samoa’s Government...
HONOLULU — Hawaiian Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines reached an agreement this past week with Amazon.com and its subsidiaries to operate and maintain an initial fleet of 10 Airbus A330-300 freighters starting in the fall of 2023.
Hawaiian will maintain and fly Amazon’s A330s...
Apia, SAMOA — The constituency of suspended Samoan opposition leader and former prime minister has rallied behind him.
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has been suspended for 24 months, along with his party secretary, as a result of contempt of parliament charges.
A spokesperson for the Lepa...