Samoa will be without a patrol and rescue boat until September after its only dedicated vessel was returned to Australia. Police commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil said he was worried about an incident happening in the next four months.
Posted on - 2019-06-25EU member states have blocked the grouping from committing to a net-zero carbon emissions target for 2050.
It comes after the leaders of Fiji and the Marshall Islands urged the EU to join them in making the commitment.
Leaders from the 28-nation bloc are entering the second day of the European Summit talks in Brussels today.
Posted on - 2019-06-23Pacific fisheries ministers have agreed to step up efforts at the World Trade Organisation to end the use of harmful subsidies but want to ensure this doesn't undermine small island states. One of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is an end to harmful subsidies by 2020 and at a meeting last week in Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia ministers agreed to do more to achieve this.
Posted on - 2019-06-23