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Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 18 – July 24, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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July 25, 2025
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$45M IN HOTEL REDEVELOPMENT
Solomon Star
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July 15, 2025
The redevelopment of King Solomon Hotel in Honiara is expected to cost around $45million. This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Solomon Islands National Provident Fund (SINPF) in a statement over the weekend. The plan was agreed after...
Lauru FA to challenge decision
Solomon Star
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July 16, 2025
Lauru Football Association (LFA) says it would challenge the decision by the Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) Disciplinary Committee for penalising Makira which subsequently denied the team from earning a semi-final spot. In a short...
ROOMS SECURED EARLY
The Islandsun
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July 21, 2025
-Accommodation committee locks in 700 rooms, aims to secure 600 more by mid-August BY SAMIE WAIKORI PREPARATIONS for the 54th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting are well underway, with 700 hotel rooms already secured for the expected...
‘Washington Black’ Season 1 Recap: Did Wash And Tanna End Up Together?
Digital Mafia Talkies
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July 24, 2025
Washington Black is a 2025 Hulu Original drama series that encapsulates the difficulties Black folks faced in the early 19th century, even after having evaded the cruel grasp of slavery. The plot is centered around George Washington Black, a young...
‘Washington Black’ Star Ernest Kingsley Jr. on Being at the Center of Hulu’s Globe-Trotting Adventure Series
KULR 8 - Montana
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July 24, 2025
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Washington Black Season 1.] Hulu’s adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel Washington Black has arrived, and up-and-coming star Ernest Kingsley Jr. has taken on the major task of filling the titular...
Asylum seeker from barge sexually assaulted young woman on beach
Dorset Echo
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Moffat Konofilia was staying on the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge at the time he carried out the offence in December last year. The 48-year-old sat next to the troubled 17-year-old girl on the beach and began talking to her. The girl, who cannot...
Why Ignoring Procurement Costs More Than You Think
CFO Dive
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US now only has 10th most powerful passport in world...with top three nations now all in Asia
Daily Mail
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July 24, 2025
By MARTHA WILLIAMS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 11:06 EDT, 24 July 2025 | Updated: 11:17 EDT, 24 July 2025 The United States has dropped to its lowest position yet in the ranking of most powerful passport in the world. Americans once held the...
UK and other countries can be sued over climate change, top UN court rules
BBC
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July 23, 2025
Esme Stallard and Georgina RannardBBC News Climate and Science ShareSave Storms and tidal surges linked to climate change are causing devastation in low-lying countries, including Marshall Islands A landmark decision by a top UN court has cleared...
10,000 local workers now employed under PALM scheme
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
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July 9, 2025
By Lachlan Eddie The Australian Government and Solomon Islands Government (SIG) have celebrated a significant milestone, with 10,000 Solomon Islands workers now employed under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme in Australia. The...
Workshop for National Action Plan on Coral Reef Conservation conducted in Isabel Province
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
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July 10, 2025
Honiara, Solomon Islands – 3rd July 025 – The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), in partnership with the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) and the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources...
Climate Change: ICJ Ruling Is A Landmark Win For Children
Scoop
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The historic climate change ruling at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today is a landmark win for child campaigners, acknowledging the adverse impacts of climate change on child rights, and offering children renewed hope, Save the...
Iola Evans Poured Everything Into 'Washington Black'
Marie Claire U.S.
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July 23, 2025
From her very first scene in Hulu’s new miniseries Washington Black, Iola Evans is a force to be reckoned with. In the series adapted from Esi Edugyan’s book of the same name, the actress plays Tanna Goff, the daughter of a 19th-century scientist...
’SECOND HIGHWAY PLEASE’
Solomon Star
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July 8, 2025
SOLOMON Islands Government through the Government of National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) regime has been urged to consider constructing a second major road corridor or highway to ease the daily traffic congestion in the city. The Honiara City...
Asylum seeker staying on Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset sexually assaulted teenager on the beach after telling her, 'I've never been this close to a white woman'
Daily Mail
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July 21, 2025
By NOOR QURASHI Published: 07:10 EDT, 21 July 2025 | Updated: 02:32 EDT, 22 July 2025 An asylum seeker staying on the Bibby Stockholm barge sexually assaulted a teenage girl on the beach saying he had 'never been this close to a white woman'....
Hulu’s Washington Black changes the novel’s ending entirely
Mashable
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July 23, 2025
Hulu's Washington Black is based on Esi Edugyan's 2018 novel of the same name, and, as is the case with every book-to-screen adaptation, it makes its fair share of changes from its source material. Where Edugyan tells the novel in fairly linear...
Kadere party denies rumours of GNUT collapse
The Islandsun
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July 23, 2025
BY NED GAGAHE Kadere Party has rejected claims circulating online that the Government for National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) is on the verge of collapse following recent overseas trip and Cabinet reshuffle. In a statement, Kadere executives...
Washington Black review: Take to the skies with Hulus thoughtful historical adventure
Mashable
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July 23, 2025
In Washington Black, an unwieldy structure hampers an otherwise moving adventure. Based on Esi Edugyan's Giller Prize-winning novel of the same name, Hulu's latest miniseries follows its titular character, George Washington "Wash" Black (played at...
An exciting opportunity for Marine Protected Areas professionals in the Pacific
Pacific News Service
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An opportunity exists for an early to mid-career professional in the Pacific, working in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), to attend the 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5) in Vancouver, Canada. The global forum, which brings...