Saturday, 8 May 2021, 5:28 am
Staff
and members of Kiribati Parliament engaged in a knowledge
sharing session in Tarawa, joined by their counterparts in
other Pacific Island countries in Fiji, Solomon Islands and
Tonga online. (Photo: Kiribati
parliament)
(Tarawa, Kiribati)
– Parliamentarians have a unique opportunity and
constitutional responsibility to promote and monitor the
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Staff and members of Kiribati Parliament engaged in a
knowledge sharing session with their counterparts in other
Pacific Island countries in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Tonga,
to enhance their role in implementing the SDGs.
The
two-day knowledge sharing session that concluded today was
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Russell Mantz says he is just a guy with an idea.
He’s also the man who, more than 10 years ago, designed The Camp Lejeune cocktail shirt, a uniquely comical and lighthearted take on a tragedy.
“I was just driving down the road and I threw it together in my mind,” Mantz said. “I said, ‘What a drink that it is,’ and my mind runs like that.”
What Mantz envisioned while traveling home from a meeting about the base’s toxic water crisis was an ad for a cocktail served at special locations during the contamination era from 1953 to 1987.
GREG KOZERA
Lynnda and I took our first airplane trip in over a year this week. We took some long trips to places like the Outer Banks for Thanksgiving with family and Kiawah Island, South Carolina for a half marathon with our daughter. We even went to Disney in Florida with our youngest and his family. All of these were by car. We were afraid to fly because of COVID because we had no control of the situation at the airport and on the plane. With a business trip planned where we must to fly, it was time to overcome our fears. Being vaccinated helps.
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 5:26 am
SUVA, Fiji – On 26 April, the United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) flew vital medical supplies to Kiribati via
the Pacific Humanitarian Air Service, which WFP manages on
behalf of the humanitarian community. This air delivery
demonstrates WFP’s continued support to the COVID-19
response in the region.
On 22 April, the Government of
Kiribati raised an urgent request for intravenous (IV)
fluids which was about to run out in its hospitals. WFP
responded immediately - together with the Australian
Government who procured 6 metric tonnes of IV fluid within
24 hours. The supplies were delivered by WFP to Tarawa via
Climate change creates migrants
President Joe Biden s administration is studying the idea of offering asylum or other legal protections to people displaced specifically because of climate change since no nation does
Author:
Julie Watson
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the tiny Pacific island nation they fled, one of the lowest-lying countries on Earth.
While New Zealand s courts didn t dispute high tides pose a risk to Kiribati, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, laws dealing with refugees didn t address the danger so the government deported them.