Tagata o te Moana. 2012-03-10. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman, Radio New Zealand International. Programme content provided by broadcaster.

In this weeks programme:
Fiji's interim government outlines how it will take the country towards a new constitution. The judicial standoff in Papua New Guinea. A memorial for the victims of the region's Marie Celeste. The struggle faced by women living in rural areas in the Pacific and anger over the way Samoa is going about plans to increase the number of women in Parliament. Fiji's Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde, has invited the head of a British lawyers group back to Fiji to get a more balanced picture of the Fiji legal system. Organisers of a commemorative service this week in Wellington for the 25 people who mysteriously vanished from the Tokelauan boat MV Joyita in 1955 are seeking a formal coronial declaration over their fate. The Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme says the likelihood of a funding gap for fighting HIV/AIDs in the Pacific needs to be addressed. Solomon Islands militants surrendering their weapons, riots in the capital and the strengthening of the Royal Solomon Islands police force are all subjects covered in a photo exhibition that opened in New Zealand this week.