Pacific Waves for Tuesday 17 March 2020

5:03 AM.The risk of Covid-19 spreading around the Pacific has caused the cancellation of New Zealand's premiere Pacific high-school competition, Polyfest. Read more Audio

5:02 AM.Police in Papua New Guinea's Enga province say a massacre in which at least nine people were killed last week was a payback for a brutal tribal massacre last year in a neighbouring province. Read more Audio

5:01 AM.Rio Tinto should take responsibility for its failings at Bougainville's Panguna mine, which was at the centre of the region's 10 year civil war, an academic says. Read more Audio

5:00 AM.A student from Auckland's Pacific community says more women should get into the building and construction sector. Read more Audio