Dateline Pacific evening edition for 15 February 2018
Tonga's disaster authorities say good progress is being made getting emergency shelter provisions out to more remote villages on Tongatapu after damage from cyclone Gita; Gita the worst cyclone in living memory on Fiji's Ono-i-Lau; leaders of Melanesian Spearhead Group countries have referred a West Papuan application for full membership of the group to its secretariat for processing, amid concerns that the group is losing sight of its founding principle; researchers find that Tuvalu is growing not sinking; And it could be a long time before residents of the volcanic island of Kadovar in Papua New Guinea can return home.