Results for Press Releases

Efforts to ensure children have better access to medicines appropriate for them intensified today with the unveiling of a new research and development agenda by the World Health Organization (WHO).

It is with great sadness that the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) learnt of the passing away of the Editor of the Kele'a newspaper in Tonga, Tavake Fusimalohi.

The Tongan Minister for Lands, Survey, Natural Resources and Environment, Tuita has called on the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission's (SOPAC) Governing Council to consider the decision made by the Forum Leaders to rationalize SOPAC's function in a constructive way.

The ITUC and Global Union Federations are participating in a global initiative to stop violence against women, running from 25 November (UN Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women) until UN Human Rights Day on 10 December.

The Commonwealth Minsiterial Action Group on the Harare Declaration (CMAG) met at the Serena Hotel, Kampala on 22 November 2007. The meeting was chaired by Hon Michael Frendo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta. Other members of the Group who attended the meeting were Hon Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lesotho, Hon Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, Hon Bernard Membe, Foreign Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon Samuel Abal, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration of Papua New Guinea, Rt. Hon David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary, Hon Helena Guergis, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, and Hon Dato' Joseph Salang, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia. A statement was read out on behalf of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of St. Lucia.

Independent television journalist Ingrid Leary last night won the premier new Pacific prize in the annual NZ Media Peace Awards for a pair of "inspirational" documentaries about island women community workers suffering from HIV/AIDS.

Scotland's biggest city, Glasgow, has been awarded the right to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) at its meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, today.

For the first time at an SPC governing body meeting, the Secretariat has rewarded one of its programmes for its gender-inclusive approach to activities developed in countries throughout the region.

A spokesman for the Chief Commissioner of Revenue has released information outlining the total tax arrears by businesses and the strategy to collect them.