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Papua New Guinea's Government is closely monitoring the drop in global copper and oil prices as the downturn appears to be lower than its budget estimates for this year. Treasury...

.The second reading of a bill to increase the salaries of American Samoa's Governor and Lt. Governor has been halted after Senator Tuaolo Fruean questioned the revenue source for the...

The Solomon Islands 2007 budget will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow by the Minister for Finance and Treasury Gordon Darcy Lilo. The SIBC reports It will be the first one...

Tonga's devastated business community in Nuku'alofa has been allowed to delay their payments of Consumption Tax and Duty for up to six weeks. The Minister of Finance, Honorable Siosiua 'Utoikamanu...

An economics academic Dr Satish Chand is warning larger Pacific countries need to improve their financial management, or risk failing to achieve their millennium development goals by 2015. Dr Chand...

The Solomon Islands Finance minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has described the Australian treasury report describing the country's economic growth as poor and corrupt, as "grossly outdated". The report…

An Australian Treasury Department report says Fiji is among Pacific countries which have squandered 75-million US dollars since independence though poor governance. And it says most of Australia's…

American Samoa is still trying to find a Comptroller of Finance and a territorial auditor. The comptroller position has been vacant for about four years and Treasury has been unable...

The Solomon Islands government is reminding public servants that their pay increase must be met by an improvement in their performance at work. The acting Finance Minister, Gordon Darcy Lilo,...

American Samoa's Treasury says it is taking a tough stance on individuals and businesses writing bad cheques to the government. Treasurer Velega Savali says in June alone it was given...

The union representing Solomon Islands public servants says it is expecting to see the pay rise agreed to by the government show up in this week's pay packet. The acting...

The contracting out of legal work by Papua New Guinea's Justice Department is to be investigated after millions of dollars were paid out to private firms last year. The Justice...

A state governor in Palau, Elmis Mesubed, has been found guilty of 106 criminal charges, including perjury, grand larceny, forgery, conspiracy, embezzlement and violations of the Code of Ethics…

The Papua New Guinea Finance secretary Thaddeus Kambanei has been sacked. The National newspaper reports that Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare made the move yesterday just before he flew to...

A Nauru parliamentary report has named former justice minister Russell Kun as part of a scheme which illegally sold Nauru passports. A statement released by the government today says the...

The office of Papua New Guinea prime minister says yesterday's cabinet reshuffle was minor. A spokesperson Rodney Kamas says Sir Michael Somare found the move necessary after the housing minister...

The Papua New Guinea Treasurer Bart Philemon has been stripped of the Finance portfolio and Housing Minister Atimeng Buhupe has been dumped in the latest Cabinet reshuffle. Mr Philemon retains...

The Solomon Islands Public Employees Union is to demand the removal of the permanent secretary of finance and treasury and the accountant general. This follows a resolution by the union...

The Niue Treasury has written to the premier Young Vivian advising him of a critical financial situation and urged ministers to implement more stringent controls. The report on the first...

The Director of American Samoa's School Lunch Programme has criticised an advance payment made to a local company to supply 40,000 pounds of fish fillet for the programme. Dr. Levine...

American Samoa Governor, Togiola Tulafono, has signed into law the supplemental budget for the fiscal year 2006. The bill was approved during the recent special session of the Fono. The...

Papua New Guinea's Nurses Association says its more than five thousand members are seeking industrial action over pay and working conditions. The Association's Lawrence Namaro says members are…

America Samoa's Treasury says the actual revenues collected by the government have fallen far short of projections in the fiscal year 2006 budget. Treasurer Velega Savali told a hearing of...

Fiji's police commissioner, Andrew Hughes, is sounding a warning of caution to locals involved in a proposal for a bank for indigenous Fijians following an Interpol report. An Australian, Keith...

Papua New Guinea's opposition leader Peter O'Neill says the government is continuing to drag its heels over health issues. Mr O'Neill called on the government last week to overhaul its...