26 Nov 2016

Tagata o Te Moana for 26 November 2016

From Tagata o te Moana, 5:30 pm on 26 November 2016

The eight police officers and one military officer who were convicted of rape and sexual assualt in Fiji, have been sentenced to up to nine years in jail; girls on the Vanuatu island of Tanna are missing up to a week of school a month because of the difficulty in dealing with menstruation; community concern over PNG seabed mining runs deep; More than a decade after Niue lost its old museum in a cyclone preparations are underway to build a new cultural centre to help preserve the country's heritage; the Cook Islands Marae Moana, a plan to manage the country's entire marine environment sustainably, is close to being put into operation; Fiji's appointment as a co-chair of next year's UN Climate Change Conference is good news for the region, according to the Pacific Community; Occupational Safety and Health remains a critical challenges for workers around the Pacific region; A Samoan-Welsh New Zealander has become an unlikely and accidental voice for Pacific climate change awareness.