Tag: corruption
Pacific tackles growing problem of human trafficking, smuggling and ‘slavery’
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
Since opening borders after the covid-19 pandemic, Australia and New Zealand have been aggressively sourcing Pacific Islander workers to help...
Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta ‘kidnap’
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya
Following months of legal limbo and a health crisis, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was arrested this week by the country’s Corruption...
Paris court overturns statute of limitation in Tahiti corruption case
RNZ Pacific
France’s highest court has revived French Polynesia’s largest corruption case, which had been closed almost more than three years ago.
Eight people, including former...
Shooting the messenger, Pacific style
Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far too narrow terms, as if Big Brother governments and politicians ignorant...
Archive: Tahiti: French first for Flosse
By David Robie
Born a demi in the Mangarevian village of Rikitea in 1931, Gaston Flosse is the first Pacific Islander to become a minister...