Monday, August 22, 2011

[pima.nius] FIJI: Regime attacks NZ journalist over death report

11:27 AM |



Title – 7583 FIJI: Regime attacks NZ journalist over death report 
Date – 23 August 2011
Byline – Sofaia Koroitanoa
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – Fiji Village.com, 22/8/11
Copyright – FV
Status – Unabridged
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GOVT HITS OUT AT INTERNATIONAL MEDIA REPORTS

By Sofaia Koroitanoa

SUVA (Fiji Village.com/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji government has hit out at international media reports on the death of a New Zealand woman in the country as inaccurate.

Permanent Secretary Sharon Smith-Johns said a recent report by New Zealand journalist Michael Field was "grossly inaccurate, mischievous, insensitive" and "deliberately misinforming" the public.

It has been highlighted by international media reports that the Fiji police force had concealed information and the Fiji media censored for the sake of the tourism industry.

Smith-Johns claimed it was clear that Field needed to check the reliability of his sources of information so he could stop publishing stories based on rumors and gossip which were written to undermine tourism, the Fiji police force and government.

Sharon Smith-Johns also refuted claims made by Field that media enquiries to the Fijian government had been ignored.

She said 33-year-old Cheslia Mary and her 61-year-old partner were on a cruise in the Yasawa group when she reportedly went missing.

Mary's body was found washed up on the beach on June 16 by two women from the Matacawalevu village.

Post mortem results confirmed drowning as the cause of death as she had been intoxicated on the night she disappeared, said Smith-Johns.

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[pima.nius] Tongan overstayers in NZ warned of visa scam

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Tongan overstayers in NZ warned of visa scam

Updated August 22, 2011 17:20:55

Tongans who have overstayed their visa in New Zealand are being warned about a new scam to con them out of their money.

The scammers build trust by talking about religion with their victims before promising to arrange permanent visas in exchange for payment.

It's the latest in a long list of ploys targeting the 3000 Tongans living illegally in New Zealand.

Melino Maka the chair of New Zealand's Tonga Advisory Council told Cameron Wilson, it's disappointing that scammers continue to target vulnerable people.

Presenter: Cameron Wilson
Speaker: Melino Maka, the chair of New Zealand's Tonga Advisory Council

MAKA: It's nothing new, I think as you mostly said right through the last couple of years, it's always been scammed by people who actually targeted, people who actually overstayed their permit here in this country. And the latest one appeared to be more quite innovative as a man and a woman seems to be identified people who already been here overstay and they start to approach, find the use of religion as their entry point and from there, they start to develop a trust between them and the person who overstays here and from there, they start getting information about their status here and then they start throwing out the bait, this has always been trying to take advantage in terms of money to gain permanent resident here in this country and it's really, really sad to see people who are retired and vulnerable people like that.

WILSON: When you say they're using religion the people in this instance. What do you mean? How are they using religion?

MAKA: They approach and then they talk about then when the overstaying, this particular case in South Auckland, identifying themselves at this very delegated in terms of the religion and from there, the conversation shifts to be a more compassion and care about their well being and as they disclose their information and then the bait starts coming out in terms of, but it's mainly targeted to really get money out of them.

WILSON: Do you know what sort of amounts they're looking for?

MAKA: It varies, but from the past history range from $500 to up to $3,000.

WILSON: Do you know if it's widespread this latest scam?

MAKA: This particular case that we've been trying to identify the family, but this once you actually get out in the media, they just go underground and what we really wanted to do is trying to help them, to have a look at their status. It's often was a problem from the past as I don't know whether you know there's a new rules and regulation now that you have to be registered to become an immigration advisor. But before that, there was a lot of cowboys and people actually lost thousands and thousands and they're status hasn't changed and they decided to go underground and from there other people have identified about they're staying and from there, they start approaching them, saying they're going to help them. The whole case is quite bizarre, because they giving a Maori citizenship to Maori adoption to and the case goes on.

WILSON: This is what they promise, Maori citizenship, is it?

MAKA: Yes, yes, some of them they say that they will give them a Maori citizenship and then from a Maori immigration minister. And our Tongan community is quite gullible and they got and they are quite vulnerable and people know that they in this type of situation and they just really targeted them.

WILSON: Is it disappointing from your point of view though that this continues to happen, that you continue to see these people coming up with new scams, targeting what you've described there as a vulnerable population?

MAKA: Oh, absolutely. Unless our government is really getting to stem this type of scam out, you will see to happen from this one will phase out, a new one will come in.

WILSON: So what do you do then, how do you try to stop this happening again in the future?

MAKA: It is really hard for those who overstay in this country to really make themselves publicly known they are overstay, because the trust sector has already gone out, because they been duped, they've been sucked into to paying a huge amount of money, but their immigration status hasn't changed and it's really, really disappointing because we trying to work with authorities and work with some of those immigration specialists. But it's really hard to really gain their trust, because once they gain their trust, they slowly work with them and try to assist them and point them to the right people who actually can help them, advise them about their immigration status.

WILSON: Is the bigger problem here actually trying to reduce the number of people from Tonga who do overstay?

MAKA: Oh, it is, it is, because I think for those overstayers, they weigh up their chances of going back to Tonga, to virtually nothing or they take their chances and the majority of them are prepared to take the risk.


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Sunday, August 21, 2011

[pima.nius] Profile: The birds are crying for their great chief, Sir Paul Reeves

11:36 AM |

Fiji Methodist Church given ultimatum by government

Updated August 19, 2011 16:10:25

Fiji's influential Methodist Church has been given a deadline of Monday to agree to restrictions from the interim government on who will be allowed to speak at its annual conference.

The church's deputy General Secretary, Reverend Tevita Banivanua, says the coup installed military government wants assurances that the President, Reverend Ame Tugaue, General Secretary Reverend Tuikilakila Waqairatu, and prominent Church leader Reverend Manasa Lasaro will not speak at next week's conference.

Around a thousand people are expected to attend the meeting.

Reverend Banivanua says rumours that the interim government has demanded the three men resign are not true, but he was taken to the military barracks two weeks ago to be informed that the conference should not be political.

Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speaker: Reverend Tevita Banivanua, the Fiji Methodist Church's deputy General Secretary

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[pima.nius] CLINTON: BUDGET CUTS THREATEN U.S. PACIFIC PRESENCE

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CLINTON: BUDGET CUTS THREATEN U.S. PACIFIC PRESENCE
'All elements of national security must be present'

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/

MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, Aug. 16, 2011) – Budget cuts in the United States could force an abrupt pullout of the US security presence in the Pacific at a time when China's power is rising, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Congress passed legislation approving US$2.1 trillion in cuts to government spending over 10 years.

The first round of cuts will reduce military spending by US$350 billion.

Mrs Clinton said the debate over reducing US debt casts a cloud over the direction of the nation's security policy.

"We are asserting our presence in the Pacific. We are a Pacific power. That means all elements of our national security team have to be present," she said.

Mrs Clinton said the US should not abruptly withdraw from the Pacific when it faced long-term challenges about coping with the rise of China.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard recently acknowledged that political power is changing in the Pacific.

"US global leadership and its influence rapidly changing in Asia Pacific depends on continued economic strength," she said in a speech to the Australia American Leadership Dialogue. "Ultimately it is economic power that underpins strategic power."

Professor Biman Prasad, from the University of the South Pacific, told Pacific Beat the United States' economic problems may influence its engagement in the Pacific.

"The US, perhaps, may not have the same kind of attention it probably should or could have in the Pacific because of that," he said.

Professor Prasad said while there was clear evidence of China's rising influence in the region, historic and cultural ties to the US, Australia and New Zealand would endure.

"More recently with the political situation in Fiji, there has been a need to look at the whole issue of democracy and human rights, and the economics of the region," he said.

"It might call for the US to look at policy and the politics in the region."

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

[pima.nius] Girls have edge in Pacific education gender gap, says Tagaloatele

12:13 PM |

Girls have edge in Pacific education gender gap, says Tagaloatele

Tongan schoolgirls

Tongan schoolgirls ... educational trends favour girls, especially in Polynesia. Photo: Matangi Tonga

The success of educating girls in the Pacific, particularly Polynesia, has been a notable trend in the Pacific. Educating females has been difficult in some countries that have strong patriarchal views about the cultural role of women and girls in society.

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Henry Yamo

Numbers of girls enrolling and completing primary and secondary education in the Pacific region is growing and comparing strongly with male students, according to a leading educator.

AUT University's professor of Pacific studies, Tagaloatele Dr Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, compares the trend with a widespread global pattern where girls are often doing better than boys at school.

"While there may be some disparity in the three Pacific groupings – Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia – caused by cultural perceptions about education and gender, the results so far are notable," she says.

Tagaloatele notes some commentators argue that the strong female showing is because the curriculum used in some Pacific countries is "female friendly" or female teachers encourage female students more than males.

While these views have some merit, Dr Fairbairn-Dunlop says early female maturity is a major factor that ensures better results by girls than boys.

She says females often settle down much quicker to the school experience so are able to do better than their male counterparts.

"Education for girls has many positive effects. They learn and become more involved in society and leadership as they become women," Tagaloatele says.

More self-esteem

Tagaloatele Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop ... Polynesian societies faring well. Photo: Josephine Latu/PMC

"Girls also gain more self-esteem from greater knowledge that has often led them to be equal competitors with the male folk."

With more educational opportunities, girls are now seen as equal competitors in society, excelling in all facets of life.

Education gives them power and enables them to contribute effectively to improve the conditions of living that many Pacific people still face today.

This is a notable trend in the Pacific, where educating females has been difficult in some countries that have strong patriarchal views about the cultural role of women and girls in society.

But this success story differs from one country to another.

According to Tagaloatele, Polynesian societies are faring well with sweeping results in educating girls, although, problems faced in educating children across the Pacific are common to the three groupings -Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.

NZ standards
One possible reason for the Polynesian success as seen by Tagaloatele is that Polynesian countries are using New Zealand curriculum and standards and thus display almost identical results to New Zealand.

This assessment was reinforced by Jonah Tisam, an AUT doctoral student and former chief executive to the deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.

Tisam says the Cook Islands government has invested heavily in education and social sector services, and these efforts are paying off handsomely, as more students – particularly more females – are being educated.

The strength of the Cook Islands education system, according to Tisam, is that children are kept longer in schools, allowing for repeats where necessary. This reduces drop-out rates and increases the number of educated young people.

This is a direct result of the government subsidising fees for education and health programmes. Tagaloatele says this initiative has enabled full participation from girls who have overtaken and are often doing one third better than boys.

While this is the "Polynesian story", Tagaloatele says: "These results are quite the contrary when you look at Melanesian and Micronesian countries. Girls don't even seem to be getting into schools on an even basis so that is different from quality output."

For the girls, it has been a hard time in some Pacific countries with a history of conservative patriarchal customs that have marginalised their education.

Early marriage
Traditions of early marriage in parts of Melanesia and girls being forced to focus more on family management than education has created gender gaps in certain groupings of the Pacific.

In Papua New Guinea, the world organisation UNICEF has stepped in to assist the government to achieve universal primary education.

However, the impediments encountered since are highlighted by UNICEF Country Representative Dr Bertrand Desmoulins, "despite significant advances made in ensuring quality education in PNG, persistent gender gaps in enrolment, quality and retention continue to hamper efforts towards achieving educational goals."

He also emphasises that challenges faced by girls were more pronounced, not only globally, but specifically in Papua New Guinea.

According to Dr Desmoulins, the 2009 education data shows that boys have a net enrolment rate of 66 percent compared to girls' 61 percent, a gross enrolment rate of 82 percent compared to girls' 74 percent and a gross completion rate of 59 percent compared to girls' 45 percent.

He stresses that investing in girls' education is an effective route to ensuring both long term economic growth and sustainable social development.

While these indicators do look promising for a country that is culturally and linguistically diverse, Rachael Torombe, a former primary teacher in PNG and a masters student studying education at the University of Waikato, argues that, overall, the outcome based education (OBE) system introduced to the country in 2003 had not fared well.

Poor showing
She says the grade 10 performance results for the final lower secondary education examinations last year showed that many students had done poorly.

Torombe attributes this to inadequate planning, insufficient resources, capacity and poor infrastructure, which could barely accommodate the requirements of the new system.

Although similar experiences are spread across other bigger island countries, the slightly increasing pattern between countries indicates that countries with fewer difficulties and less density may surge ahead in both educating girls and providing universal education to all school age children.

Achieving universal primary education has been one issue discussed more often among Pacific Education Ministers, most often reaching the attention of the peak body, the Pacific Islands Forum, which is meeting in Auckland next month.

During the 2006 Pacific Education Ministers meeting, a two-pronged plan for introduction of a "fast track initiative" within all educations sectors in the Pacific was worked out.

The two objectives of the grant-based programmme was to accelerate progress in every Pacific country towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal completion of providing quality primary education by 2015.

The plan was taken on board by respective countries and, according to Tagaloatele, most Pacific countries are achieving the goal.

But she adds the challenge has been harder in larger countries such as PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Common difficulties such as isolation, infrastructure and inappropriate staffing are still an ongoing hurdle.

Henry Yamo is a Masters in Communication Studies student on the Asia-Pacific Journalism course at AUT University.


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[pima.nius] Seeking Pacific Nominations for Australian Leadership Awards in Journalism

12:11 PM |


Talofa Pacific Colleagues,
On behalf of the Pacific Alliance of Development Journalists, I am seeking nominations of Journalists from the Cook Islands and Marshall Islands for an Australian Leadership Award Fellowship in Journalism with the Asia Pacific Centre for Journalism.
Please email me the name and contact details of a prospective nominee who should be a practising journalist or in a senior newsroom position. The fellowship will take place in Australia for six weeks begining at the end of November.
 
Fa'afetai,
 
Cherelle Jackson
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Monday, August 15, 2011

[pima.nius] Fiji: Fatality highlights news support roles -- condolence message from PFF

12:02 PM |

via PFF

Colleagues, the www.pacificfreedomforum.org site has been updated with
the text below. Thanks for your publication and sharing with relevant
networks.

in solidarity, lis

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PFF, Rarotonga, COOK ISLANDS -- The Pacific Freedom Forum is extending
condolences and sympathy to family, friends and media colleagues of
the Fiji Times circulations staffer killed in a vehicle accident on
Monday 8 August in Fiji.

The deceased has been confirmed as 24-year old Kaveni Korovou, of
Nabouciwa Village in Tailevu. He was part of a Fiji Times collections
team doing runs when the vehicle reportedly lost control and
overturned in Nalovo, near Nadi. Two other passengers in the vehicle
were treated for injuries at the Nadi Hospital. In keeping with
tradition, the newspapers management visited Korovou's widow and
father as part of the police team relaying the direct news  of his
death.

Police are still investigating the cause of the accident and have
charged the driver, a 50-year-old Fiji Times employee related to
Korovou, with careless driving.

"Korovou was one of many behind the scenes staff who make daily
newspapers such as the Fiji Times a key information source for tens of
thousands of readers who have little notion of those who do the behind
the scenes work of news delivery," says PFF chair Titi Gabi of  Papua
New Guinea.

"We are reminded that news journalists are only a small part of the
many teams involved in news production, and extend our deepest
condolences to his colleagues, village, and family at this time of

bereavement,"

It's understood Police are dealing directly with the Fiji Times
newspaper management as Korovou died while on work assignment for the
company where he was a casual staffer.

Korovou's funeral arrangements are still being finalised.

"It's our hope that the company's insurance policy covering workplace
and work related accidents will cover Korovou's widow and their two
young babies," says PFF co-chair Monica Miller of American Samoa.

"We commend the actions and sensitivity of management so far."--ENDS

CONTACT: PFF Chair Titi Gabi | Freelance Journalist | Papua New Guinea
Mail: PO Box 7776, Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea | Mob: (675) 7314
3929 | Email: titi.gabipng@gmail.com

PFF co-Chair Monica Miller | KHJ Radio | American Samoa Mob 684
258-4197 | Office 684 633-7793 | Email: monica@khjradio.com

The Pacific Freedom Forum are a regional and global online network of
Pacific media colleagues, with the specific intent of raising
awareness and advocacy of the right of Pacific people to enjoy freedom
of expression and be served by a free and independent media. We
believe in the critical and basic link between these freedoms, and the
vision of democratic and participatory governance pledged by our
leaders in their endorsement of the Pacific Plan and other commitments
to good governance. In support of the above, our key focus is
monitoring threats to media freedom and bringing issues of concern to
the attention of the wider regional and international community.

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Media Freelancer
Regional Coordinator, IFJ Pacific Media for Democracy and Human Rights
Project
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