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Jarvis: Vigorous COVID-19 testing can resuscitate tourism in the Pacific

Source: Jarun Ontakrai / Shutterstock By BEN BILUA Australia’s Trade and Investment Commissioner Caleb Jarvis says tourism industry in the Pacific can resuscitate if respective countries improve coronavirus (COVID-19) testing mechanisms. Speaking to journalists this week, Mr Jarvis said COVID-19 testing was an important component of reopening the boarders under the Pacific Bubble initiative. Jarvis: Picture: Pacifictradeinvest.com He said the resumption of air travel through the trans-Pacific Bubble was critical for the tourism industry. "But equally important is to know the level of information with regards to the presence of COVID-19 in country of destination," he said. Mr Jarvis said…

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Solomon Islands students assist victims of TC Harold

Students and officials head to families affected by TC Harold at Naikorokoro Settlement in Lami. Picture: SUPPLIED By BEN BILUA Solomon Islands students studying at various universities in Fiji braved the rain on Saturday to donate food, clothing as well as cash to 18 families who were badly affected by Tropical Cyclone Harold. President of Solomon Islands Students Association (SISA), Peter Maclean, and Solomon Islands Education Attaché to Fiji, Francis Tavava, led the relief distribution program with the help of an officer from the Fiji National Disaster Management Office. A family at Nakasi thanked SISA president Peter Maclean for the…

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Hosting Pacific Games hinders other development goals in the Solomon Islands

Identified sites for the Pacific Games along with the name of donors to fund the proposed facilities. Picture: SUPPLIED By BRIAN LEZUTUNI A Solomon Islands Government Minister says hosting the 2023 Pacific Games has had an impact on the plans of the government to pursue other development projects in the country. The country is in a race against time to ensure infrastructure and other preparatory works are completed on time and have sought the financial assistance of its development partners to ensure ground work begins. Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade Jeremiah Manele told Wansolwara that the Government’s focus was…

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Students’ commemorate nuclear victims

Two kids holding a poster with a powerfull message.  Picture: Epeli Lalagavesi/Wansolwara By REILEEN B. JOEL The Marshall Islands Students’ Association (MISA) on Tuesday (March 2) organised a march commemorating the 32nd Nuclear Victim’s Remembrance Day at The University of the South Pacific’s, Laucala campus. The march began at the USPSA Foyer along the main road to the Aus-Pac Lecture Theatre where a formal commemoration for victims and survivors of the nuclear testing was held. Marshall Islands was the site of a series of nuclear testing program carried out by the United States of American between 1946-1958 Through the effects…

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Journalism students urged to be peace-builders

Journalism students pose for a group photo with (sitting from left to right) Wansolwara supervising editor-in-chief Geraldine Panapasa, Dialogue Fiji executive director Nilesh Lal, USP Journalism coordinator Dr Shailendra Singh and USP Journalism teaching assistant Eliki Drugunalevu. Picture: Epeli Lalagavesi/Wansolwara By BEN BILUA Journalism students studying at The University of South Pacific's Laucala Campus have been urged to be peace-builders in the future. Executive Director of Dialogue Fiji Nilesh Lal said the media played a vital role in the development of peace process, enabling the underlying conflict in society to be expressed and argued through a non-violent manner. He told…

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Regionalism, a double-edged sword

Flags representing USP member countries in the region. Picture: SUPPLIED/DR GORDON NANAU By JARED KOLI PACIFIC regionalism is described as a double-edged sword used to carve the region while at the same time wounding its peoples. A doctoral researcher in Politics, Diplomacy and International Affairs at The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) School of Government, Development and International Affairs (SGDIA), George Hoa’au echoed this statement in an interview with Wansolwara. “The thing that we say will work for us is also not going to work for us, but we choose to – it’s a marriage of convenience between states,”…

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USP opens new $4.4m entrance

The new entrance linking Queen Elizabeth Drive to Moana Drive at The University of the South Pacific. Picture: SUPPLIED/SPAC By IAN CHUTE The University of the South Pacific achieved another milestone yesterday with the opening of the new $4.4 million entrance at Laucala campus in Suva yesterday. The new entrance, aptly named University Avenue, along linking Queen Elizabeth Drive to Moana Drive was opened by the Tongan Minister for Education and Training, Siaosi ‘Ofa Ki Vahafolau Sovaleni. The development project includes a new 300-metre concrete paved road, parking for 100 cars, footpaths, streetlights, stormwater drainage, security booth and landscape. Tongan…

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USP journalism student wins Nadi pageant

Miss Sharma Music Centre, Kirisitiana Uluwai (middle), after being crowned Miss Nadi Bula Festival 2018 at Prince Charles Park in Nadi last week. Picture: FIJI SUN/ARIETA VAKASUKAWAQA   By EPARAMA WARUA Aspiring journalist Kirisitiana Uluwai was crowned the 58th Miss Nadi Bula 2018 queen last Saturday at Prince Charles Park in Nadi. The 23-year-old journalism and politics student at The University of the South Pacific joined the week-long festival and focused her attention on charity side of the pageant. “It’s not about me. It's not about what I know or who I know, or what I can do. It’s about…

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