Road upgrade works in parts of Fiji are being supported through climate finance secured under the Duavata Partnership between the Governments of Fiji and New Zealand. In November 2023, Fiji and New Zealand signed the Country Flexible Finance Partnership Arrangement, providing FJD 27.6 million in budget support for climate-principal projects. These proj...

Lion One Metals Limited  has entered into a subscription agreement with Arete Capital Advisory Pty Ltd, a specialist mining investment syndicate, marking a major strategic partnership for the company’s Tuvatu Gold Mine in Fiji. Under a non-brokered private placement, Arete has agreed to acquire 44,264,800 units at $0.34 per unit, generating gross proce...

The Government of Solomon Islands has exchanged notes and signed two grant agreements with the Government of Japan under the Economic and Social Development Programme, supporting key projects in waste management and forestry. Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade Peter Shanel Agovaka signed the agreements with the chargé d’affaires of the Emb...

Lion One Metals Limited has announced outstanding results from underground drilling at its 100% owned Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project in Fiji. The latest programme, comprising 4,040.90 metres of infill and grade control drilling, has returned multiple high-grade gold intersections, reinforcing the potential of the Zone 5 portion of the mine. Drilling focu...

As part of a major push to revive its international tourism sector, New Caledonia unveiled a comprehensive recovery plan aimed at welcoming at least 250,000 tourists by 2032. Christopher Gygès, a member of the government in charge of economic attractiveness, presented the plan on Wednesday in Nouméa alongside local partners. Following a crisis in 2024,...

The Agriculture Investment for Markets and Nutrition (AIM-N) Project successfully conducted a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Induction Capacity Building Training yesterday at St Barnabas Cathedral Leaf Hat Melanesian Haus, aimed at enhancing inclusive agricultural extension and service delivery in Isabel, Western, and Choiseul provinces. T...

A week-long Human and Institutional Capacity Development Workshop concluded in Honiara last week, marking a major step forward in strengthening agribusiness incubation and innovation systems in the Solomon Islands. The workshop, drawing on India’s experience in agribusiness incubation, focused on building the capacity of Agribusiness Incubator (ABI) st...

Fiji has reinforced its regional leadership on climate mobility after hosting representatives from the Government of Palau as part of a peer-to-peer exchange focused on climate mobility and planned relocation. Minister for Environment and Climate Change Lynda Tabuya hosted the delegation on Tuesday in an engagement supported by the International Organi...

As the sun rose over Tubou village, Lakeba became the setting for a moment its people have awaited for generations, as a high-level delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Viliame Gavoka visited the island for the first time. The visit signalled Lakeba’s formal entry into Fiji’s national tourism conversation,...

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele on 16 Januaryt led the opening of the upgraded Parangiju Mountain Lodge in Central Guadalcanal, marking a government-backed push to strengthen tourism as a driver of economic growth in Solomon Islands. Manele was the chief guest at the ceremony, which marked the completion of new bungalows, additional rooms and expanded s...

Fiji has taken a major step towards securing a sustainable and resilient ocean future with the official launch of the Fiji Blue Economy Framework 2025–2035, unveiled on January 15 in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and Blue Prosperity Fiji. The Framework was officially launched by the Minister for Environment and Climate...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MALD), through its Commercial Agriculture Development Project, has handed over a grant worth SBD750,000 to Kokonut Pacific Solomon Islands (KPSI) to support the purchase of a cocoa butter press machine. Presenting the cheque, Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Hon. Franklyn Derek Wasi said the ...

Remote health facilities across Vanuatu are now safer, brighter, and better equipped, following the completion of all planned solar installations under the Australian Government-funded REnew Pacific program. Respond Global’s HELPR-1 team completed the project in record time, delivering Vanuatu’s first fully operational REnew Pacific project since the p...

 Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele received Australian High Commissioner-designate Jeff Roach in Honiara on 14 January 2026, formally accepting his letter of introduction and reaffirming the strong partnership between the two countries. Roach, a senior career officer with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, presented his official crede...

The Ministry of Policing and Communications and the United States Government have formalised a grant agreement on ICT Modernisation Technical Assistance, reinforcing bilateral cooperation to strengthen Fiji’s digital infrastructure and cybersecurity capabilities. The agreement was formally handed over by the Minister for Policing and Communications, Io...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) has reaffirmed its strong commitment to supporting agribusiness development as a key driver of economic growth, rural development and food security in Solomon Islands. MAL Permanent Secretary Dr Samson Viulu made the statement as a five-day Human and Institutional Capacity Development Workshop, hosted by ...

The Solomon Islands' Ministry of Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening (MPGIS) hosted a week‑long peer learning exchange with a high‑level delegation from Vanuatu’s Department of Local Authority, strengthening regional collaboration on decentralisation, risk‑informed development, and performance‑based provincial financing under Solomon Isl...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Azusa Sato as Regional Director of its Pacific Subregional Office, based in Suva, Fiji. Sato will continue to develop ADB’s strong client relationships and manage seven offices in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu. She will lead engagement with member countries and partners a...

Fiji is intensifying efforts to address the global biodiversity finance gap, estimated at an alarming US$700 billion annually, as the country works to align national financing systems with international biodiversity targets under the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). According to the Little Book on Investing in Nature, meeting the G...

Fisheries Officers Collect Tilapia Fry for Research, Growth, and Community Support Fisheries officers at the Naduruloulou Research Station have been actively engaged at the start of the year in the systematic collection of tilapia fry from government ponds as part of the Ministry of Fisheries’ ongoing aquaculture research, development, and community su...

Pacific Towing (PacTow) has successfully refloated the grounded Coral Expeditions cruise vessel Coral Adventurer (IMO 9838644). The refloating operation was completed on the afternoon of December 30, 2025, near Dregerhafen, approximately 65 miles north-east of Lae, Papua New Guinea. Following the vessel’s grounding, Pacific Towing was engaged to lea...

Motibhai Group has announced plans to develop a new, purpose-built distribution centre in Labasa, a move aimed at improving supply chain efficiency across Fiji’s Northern Division and supporting sustainable economic growth. The modern facility will strengthen the company’s logistics and distribution operations while contributing to the broader developm...

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat has recently released a new annual report outlining regional e-commerce priorities for 2026, aimed at guiding coordinated action and investment across the Pacific’s digital trade ecosystem. The Pacific E-commerce Priorities Report 2025 draws on three online surveys of members of the Pacific E-commerce Committee and...

Adyton Resources Corporation has engaged Global Ore Discovery to advance an integrated exploration programme at its 100% owned Feni gold-copper project in Papua New Guinea. The appointment brings Global Ore’s epithermal and porphyry expertise to support targeting and technical oversight as Adyton seeks to expand resources at the Kabang prospect and ass...