Dateline Pacific for 13 September 2019

Papua New Guinea's government has pledged a 287-million US dollar (1-billion kina) facility to generate economic development in Bougainville over 10 years; Over two weeks following the mysterious deaths of five family members in Fiji's Nausori Highlands the mother of the baby found alive with the dead says she is still waiting for justice. ; tributes have been flowing from across the Pacific after Tonga's prime minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva, died aged 78; the West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda denies he and other activists are behind violent riots in the region; Penrhyn Islanders in the Cook Islands fear they may have an infestation of the red palm weevil.