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A weekly wrap-up of news, issues and current affairs from the Pacific. The programme is broadcast nationwide every Saturday evening on Radio New Zealand National and is produced by the newsroom of Radio New Zealand International. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s news system:
1. The Vanuatu National Disaster Management Office says it is beginning to feel the strain of having to run under its own steam as the international help in response to Cyclone Pam continues to scale back.
2. The Nauru opposition says the government has forced the country's only internet provider to shut down access to Facebook on the island.
3. The Samoan government and the Asian Development Bank are being criticised for not properly consulting the country on its plans to promote the economic use of customary land.
4. Kava-producing countries have been put on notice that nothing less than top quality exports are crucial in ensuring the industry thrives.
5. Whether the people of Norfolk Island want a say in determining the island's future political arrangements will be known at the end of this week.
6. Landowners in Fiji's northern division say they haven't received any royalties from a bauxite mine that they consented to in 2011.
7. The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands (i.e. Manasseh Sogavare) says he acknowledges the public outrage over MPs' salaries being made tax free this month.
8. The first book to chronicle the colonial history of Niue was published this week. Niue 1774 - 1974, 200 years of Contact and Change was written by Margaret Pointer, who spent three years on Niue from the late 1990s when her husband, Mike, served as the NZ High Commissioner.