24 Jun 2021

Pacific Waves for 24 June 2021

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Today on Pacific Waves

  • Fiji was once first in line for a travel bubble with New Zealand and Australia, but now the Pacific island nation is grappling with an escalating Covid-19 crisis.

  • The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked Port Moresby near the bottom in an index of international cities, but the governor of the Papua New Guinea capital has described this as harsh.

  • The leader of the autonomous Bougainville Government, Ishmael Toroama, has laid out a clear timeline for the assumption of independence by the region in 2025.

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