Commentary

If there is anything Vanuatu voters want, it is leadership, leadership that is fair when it comes to redistributing national wealth; leadership that can represent and articulate people’s interests; and leadership that commands authority and respect, writes Kiery Manassah.

Do we want people living there 20 years from now? If the answer is “yes,” then there are many development issues that should be addressed. If the answer is “no,” then continuing on the current path will quite likely produce the result of emptying the outer islands, writes Giff Johnson.

Tonga’s political reform agenda may be about to enter a final staging as there is a strong likelihood that the pro-democracy movement’s ‘Akilisi Pohiva, might become Prime Minister which means for the first time, Tonga will have a pro-democracy government, writes Kalafi Moala.

Dan Gay lists some of the things that seem to be less understood about poor countries, such as, poverty is the rule, not the exception; most countries aren’t well-off; and the distinction between “developed” and “developing” countries is meaningless.

The Marshall Islands government must take nuclear advocacy to the next level because 13 years after its compensation petition was submitted to the U.S Congress, it is clear the government has little interest in addressing these issues, writes Giff Johnson.