FOB PATROL AND A RAPPING MEDIC
Ben Bohane goes to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, stepping outside the wire with more Micronesian troops and finding a medic who “raps” his mission in song.
Development with responsibility
Poverty in the Pacific may need to be re-defined. Most definitions do not take into consideration the attitude of people about themselves, their needs, and the solutions to meeting those needs. We must work on a development approach that calls for responsibility and ownership of the problems and the solutions.
Compact 2024: What’s ahead for Marshall Islands and FSM?
If trust funds are inadequate as predicted, the FSM and RMI will face economic chaos in 2024. A variety of outside advisors have urged the islands to bolster the trust funds with additional investments from funds that could be saved through reform.
VANUATU BUDGET 2014
In this special interactive feature, we provide a detailed, drill-down view of annual government spending.
DESERT ISLANDERS
Pacific island soldiers in the the US Army’s Guam Battalion share their experiences of the decade long conflict in Afghanistan.
Battle for the future of the Pacific tuna fishery
Scientists have warned for several years that tuna is being overfished at its maximum level of sustainable exploitation. The message is clear: fewer boats and cutbacks in tonnage caught must be implemented. But can the region’s Tuna Commission reach a united agreement?