Dateline Pacific evening edition for 9 June 2017

Vanuatu says it won't sign PACER Plus next week; A Fiji opposition party says banning whole villages from seasonal employment schemes is ruthless and unfair; Since 2012, Cook Islands school students have been involved in a programme that teaches them about healthy lifestyles in an effort to combat the country's non-communicable disease crisis: the premier of Western Province in Solomon Islands says banning plastic bags will benefit tourism; and works from four female choreographers from the Pacific will open the second Pacific Dance Festival in Auckland.