Tagata o te Moana. 2009-07-11

Tagata o te Moana is a weekly round up of news from the Pacific from Radio New Zealand International, broadcast on Radio New Zealand National on Saturdays at 5.30pm. This week's edition is presented by Johnny Blades and the items are:

Pacific people show they are determined not to be forced out of their countries by climate change;
Fiji Police claim crime has fallen more than 50 percent with church help;
The issue of whether Fiji's powerful Methodist Church's annual conference will go ahead remains unresolved;
A look back at the goodwill tour of the Pacific by the New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key;
In French Polynesia, veteran politician and current French senator, Gaston Flosse, is under investigation;
American Samoa petitions the US President to repeal the federal minimum wage law;
Early childhood teachers in Vanuatu ask for pay and recognition;
A Bougainville conman promises investors he'll pay them in his own currency.