13 Apr 2018

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 13 April 2018

From , 5:06 am on 13 April 2018

Tonga's Prime Minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva, has fired the Minister for Internal Affairs 'Akosita Lavulavu; Samoa village payments for customary land lease queried on how it got distributed; concerns in the Cook Islands over domestic assault charges against a police being dropped; people in Fiji are cleaning up and taking stock after two cyclones and days of rain in the space of two weeks; Vanuatu's Foreign Minister says his government can play more of a role in bringing its various aid partners together for more effective results; Tonga's PM says his government's efforts to control the appointments of the attorney general and the police commissioner are in line with recommendations from the 2014 Pursglove Report.