Tagata o te Moana. 2012-05-19. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman, Radio New Zealand International.
In this weeks programme:
Papua New Guinea election process underway; There's sniping in Fiji as to whether political parties have an ethnic agenda; Mass arrests in Vanuatu over its links with Indonesia; A land development in PNG draws the people ire and the Opposition Leader is left bruised and battered after being manhandled by police; As Fiji starts consultations on a fourth constitution, there are calls for discussion to include the role and size of the military; Two grandmothers from Tonga have begun installing solar panels to homes in Nuku'alofa which currently have no electricity; Children as young as ten are set to receive HIV/Aids education in Papua New Guinea as authorities try to curb an increasing rate of infection among youth; A principal climate scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research says it appears that tropical cyclones are decreasing in number but gaining in intensity; One of the judges of the controversial Miss World Fiji 2012 competition says the whole event was a scam and all the participants should hand back their crowns.