Tagata o te Moana. 2011-02-12. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman, Radio New Zealand International. In this weeks programme:

The Papua New Guinea government's under fire for allowing huge the development of huge private out of control security forces: Claims that Australia is trying to undermine the Solomons' government are called nonsense; a six hour swim by a fisherman saves his two mates after their boat capsizes; Government ministers from six Pacific nations, including Australia and New Zealand, are to meet in Port Vila, early next week to assess what progress has been made towards democracy in Fiji; Habitat for Humanity New Zealand is urgently appealing for volunteers to help its rebuilding programme in a part of Fiji battered by a cyclone a nearly year ago; Guam's only public hospital has been given a financial lifeline with a $12 million US dollar loan; The Fiji Media Industry Development Authority has begun holding regular meetings to explain its work to the country's media representatives and stakeholders; Chiefs of Pentecost Island, the home of nangol or land-diving in Vanuatu, say the tradition has become too commercialised and are seeking to take full control of the ritual; The Cook Islands Minister of Finance is denying earlier reports that parliament has overspent its budget; The Pacific's lack of progress on many of the Millennium Developments will be a key issue at a conference next week in Wellington.