Pacific Waves for 13 May 2021

With fresh elections called in Samoa purportedly to break the month-long deadlock between the two major parties, only the caretaker HRPP government is campaigning; Mauritius and Fiji are both former British possessions that developed similar economies and grew in much the same way for more than 100 years, but in recent years the Indian Ocean nation has drawn significantly ahead; New Zealand's first Pacific television drama series written, directed, produced and crewed by entirely Pacific people looks at modern day issues impacting Pacific women who look to ancient Pacific goddesses of the past for guidance.