Dateline Pacific for Monday 2 March 2020

An economic watchdog says Pacific nations will bear an unbalanced burden under the regional trade deal PACER Plus; a Samoa government official says women in the country are already part of the decision-making process and if their voices are not being heard it is because of a lack of interest on their part; the Catholic Curch in Papua New Guinea wants landowners to be better informed before they make deals with developers; New Zealand's first Tuvaluan Christian congregation has a new church 28 years after its establishment in Aotearoa; a school in New Zealand's south Auckland has established a unit to teach i-Kiribati students their language.