Tagata o te Moana for 14 September 2019

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; Police forces around the Pacific have been caught off guard by the growth of the methamphetamine trade in the region; Nauru's newly elected President Lionel Aingimea says no government has ever interfered with the country's courts; Papua New Guinea's government has approved a 1-billion kina or 460-million NZ dollar facility to generate economic development in Bougainville over 10 years; Over two weeks after 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, and; Former Kiwis rugby league coach Frank Endacott will take the reins of Mate Ma'a Tonga in the upcoming tests against Great Britain and Australia.