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Dec 23, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
December 24, 2024 _ Samantha Magick _ 98th USP Council Meeting, USP, Vice Chancellor _ 2024, December, Latest Magazine Articles, University of the South Pacific (USP) Council members meeting in Cook Islands in late November heard Vice Chancellor and President (VCP) Pal Ahluwalia state his intention to resign, and that he wanted to negotiate the package and terms of his resignation. Professor Ahluwalia’s leadership of the University has been plagued by controversy, culminating in a strike by...
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
In a highly anticipated session of the Tongan parliament to debate and vote on the second vote of no confidence (VONC) scheduled for Monday 9th December, Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni Hu’akavameiliku surprised everyone by announcing his resignation even before the actual debate had begun.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
The recently completed Fijian Cup Championship is a sports festival that blends top-quality competition with authentic Fijian travel experiences. Established by tourism experience and travel company TourismHQ, this year’s championship involved multiple sporting codes played over three weekends from 15th to 30th November in Sigatoka. TourismHQ founder Richard Henry said after trying various locations around Fiji, the championship has “really found our home here in Lawaqa.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
by Nic MaclellanA no-confidence motion in the French National Assembly has ousted the government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier. But for New Caledonians, still reeling from the economic, cultural and social impacts of six months of conflict this year, the collapse of the Barnier government raises concern about future support from Paris.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
December 2, 2024 _ _ Climate Change, climate chante, magazine, Renewable Energy _ 2024, November, Please Subscribe to view full content... Log in to renew or change an existing membership.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Nic Maclellan |Samantha Magick
We’re sitting on mats in the garden around a public housing tower in Noumea, as a small group of women and elders listen to updates from independence activists about the ongoing crisis in New Caledonia. Local residents—mostly indigenous Kanak—are proudly flying the flag of Kanaky rather than the French tricolour. The apartment buildings are covered in graffiti, denouncing the French police and conservative anti-independence politicians. But our discussion soon moves from politics to the economy.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and the Environment has a scathing assessment of COP29’s outcomes. “The commitments made in Baku—the dollar amounts pledged and the emissions reductions promised—are not enough. They were never going to be enough. And even then, based on our experience with such pledges in the past, we know they will not be fulfilled,” said Ralph Regenvanu.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
Country negotiators at COP29 are all struggling to push for their agenda items in negotiation rooms, but it is a special kind of challenge for the Pacific when you are up against those who claim to be friends of the Pacific. Fiji’s Environment and Climate Change Permanent Secretary (PS), Dr Sivendra Michael, gave an insight into what it is like in the negotiation room for Pacific delegates.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
It’s a warm night in Sydney. A neighbourhood climate action group gathers at a pub in the inner-city suburb of Rozelle, to meet a visiting delegation of Pacific climate justice activists. For the six young advocates from Tuvalu and Kiribati, it’s a chance to share information with their Australian counterparts, and explain how young people across the Pacific region are responding to the climate emergency.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
islandsbusiness.com | Samantha Magick
As the urgency surrounding climate change mitigation strategies increases and the significance of renewable energy sources grows on a global scale, many Pacific Island countries edge closer to irreparable damage to their delicate ecosystems. In Fiji, the dire circumstances have been addressed by the enactment of acts of Parliament, policies, regulations, and strategic plans.
