Dateline Pacific for 12 November 2019

A trial beginning on Tuesday in Nauru has been called "a parody of justice"; Vanuatu's Labour Commissioner says her decision to refuse an application for the renewal of a work permit for the Daily Post's media director Dan McGarry is about localisation of employment positions, and not a politically motivated move against media freedom; Samoa's Director of Health says behavioural and not cultural issues have contributed to the recent deaths of babies in the country, and; The region is confronting what the head of the Pacific Community calls a "double-headed crisis" with the climate crisis and the non-communicable disease crisis.