Dateline Pacific for 17 April 2019

Solomon Island MPs will vote for the country's prime minister next Wednesday; less than three months after Fiji's Education Ministry met with faith-based representatives over the appointments of school heads, one of the country's churches has fully privatised its second college; the Asian Development Bank has painted a quite positive view of Papua New Guinea's economy; the World Health Organisation says the combination of betel nut and tobacco is heightening the dangers to health as both substances contain cancer causing agents and are very addictive.