Sunday, January 26, 2020

Pacific Anti-Corruption Updates (25 January 2020): PNG, Solomon Islands, Fiji

Storms brewing: Pacific outlook for 2020.  As a new decade dawns much of the Pacific is grappling with major upheavals from climate and health crises to political disruption and self-determination struggles. RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana and Johnny Blades look at the state of play across the region's countries and territories and what's on the cards for 2020.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/407554/storms-brewing-pacific-outlook-for-2020

 

PNG:

Human Rights Stagnate Under New Leadership in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape came to power last year with a promise to set straight the country’s troubled legacy of corruption, economic mismanagement and widespread human rights abuses, but progress remains slow according to a damning report released last week by Human Rights Watch. 

https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/human-rights-stagnate-under-new-leadership-in-papua-new-guinea/

 

SOLOMON ISLANDS:

Mangau: Janus still exists Acting Police Commissioner. Mostyn Mangau says anti-corruption taskforce Janus still exists and continuing with investigations into corruption cases.

http://www.solomonstarnews.com/index.php/news/national/item/22574-mangau-janus-still-exists

 

FIJI:

Former Assistant Treasurer of iTaukei Affairs Board pleads guilty to charges of corruption. FICAC charged Taniela Jerema with a count each of Obtaining a Financial Advantage and Causing a Loss.

https://fijivillage.com/news/Former-Assistant-Treasurer-of-iTaukei-Affairs-Board-pleads-guilty-to-charges-of-corruption--9s5k2r

 

Former staff of the Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and Natural Disaster and a company Director plead not guilty to corruption-related charges. A former staff of the Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and Natural Disaster and a company Director have pleaded not guilty to corruption-related charges in the Labasa Magistrates Court.

https://fijivillage.com/news/Former-staff-of-the-Ministry-of-Rural-and-Maritime-Development-and-Natural-Disaster-and-a-company-Director-plead-not-guilty-to-corruption-related-charges-25k9sr/

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