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GUAM GOVERNMENT NEW HIRES TOTAL US$ 3.4 MILLION

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HAGÅTÑA, Guam (February 27, 2001 – Pacific Daily News)---The administration hired 110 new employees this fiscal year, at a cost of $3.4 million, lawmakers learned yesterday.

"Some were not (critical), some were," said Ways and Means Chairman Sen. Kaleo Moylan, R-Dededo.

The Legislature met in session to discuss the $11 million fiscal 2001 supplemental budget, and focused its discussion on agency personnel needs.

Moylan said today's session will focus on a proposal to provide additional funding to a federal child-care program to keep it running the rest of the fiscal year.

The federally funded program has run out of money and will end this month without an appropriation of local taxpayer money.

For additional reports from the Pacific Daily News, go to PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT News/Information Links: Newspapers/Pacific Daily News (Guam). 

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WOMEN WANT HONEST ANSWERS FROM PNG GOVERNMENT ON PRIVATIZATION

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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (February 24, 2001 - The Independent/PINA Nius Online)---Papua New Guinea's National Council of Women is calling on the government to give truthful answers to questions on privatization addressed in a just-launched brochure.

The women claim that the brochure does little to answer honestly questions that many women, youths and minimum wage earners are asking about the government’s privatization program.

This came on the eve of the Privatization Commission’s initial tour of the major regional centers to hold public awareness campaigns to educate the public on the program. The tour, which started yesterday in Mount Hagen, is understood to herald a national tour, which will be visiting provincial capitals later on this year.

The National Council of Women claims that questions raised in the privatization brochure titled "Privatization - Your Questions Answered" and the answers given are "half-hearted and beating around the bush."...

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SPORADIC POWER CUTS COULD DISRUPT LIVE BROADCAST OF FIJI COURT CASE

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SUVA, Fiji Islands (March 1, 2001 – Radio Australia)---Sporadic power cuts in Fiji's capital Suva, could disrupt the proposed nationwide broadcast of today's historic court of appeal ruling.

Radio Australia correspondent Sean Dorney reports that the military-installed interim government will find out in a few hours whether it has a legal legitimacy or not.

"Schools are opened and shops are trading but there's a heavy security presence on the streets.

"It's not only the impending court ruling that's causing apprehension though, there's a cyclone bearing down on Fiji from Vanuatu.

"Fiji television and radio stations have been granted permission to broadcast the court of appeal ruling to the nation. But they were intermittent power disruptions this morning to the main government buildings where the Court of Appeal is located.

"Fiji's electricity authority blames the sporadic losses of power on a cable fault.

"Sean Dorney, Radio Australia, Suva...

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POWERFUL CYCLONE BREWING IN CORAL SEA

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SUVA, Fiji Islands (March 1, 2001 – Radio Australia)---An intensifying cyclone is brewing in the Coral Sea threatening the French territory of New Caledonia.

Regional weather services say the cyclone, codenamed Paula, was at last report 740 kilometers (444 miles) north of New Caledonia.

A weather advisory says Paula is forecast to track generally southward, toward New Caledonia, before turning southeastward.

The advisory says cyclone Paula should continue to intensify over the next 24 hours.

Currently, the cyclone is producing 160-kilometer-an-hour (96-mile-an-hourwinds gusting to 190 kilometers (114 miles) an hour.

For additional reports from Radio Australia, go to PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT News/Information Links: Radio/TV News/Radio Australia.

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CYCLONE PAULA THREATENS VANUATU

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NADI, Fiji Islands (February 28, 2001 - PINA Nius Online/Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation)---Tropical Cyclone Paula was threatening Vanuatu this morning, the Fiji Meteorological Service reported from its regional Tropical Cyclone Center at Nadi Airport.

It said Paula was gusting up to 100 knots (185 kilometers per hour) and still intensifying.

On its current track it is expected to cause destructive-storm to very-destructive hurricane force winds over central and southern parts of Vanuatu today and tomorrow, the Nadi center said.

It said Paula is expected to turn and accelerate towards the east-southeast tomorrow. If this happens then its effects would be felt over Fiji beginning Friday, it said.

The Nadi center said that at 9:00 a.m. Paula was located about 180 nautical miles (about 330 kilometers) northwest of Port Vila.

It was moving southeast at about 15 knots (about 28 kilometers per hour) but expected to gradually turn and accelerate...

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PCRC CELEBRATES February 28, 2001

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PACIFIC CONCERNS RESOURCE CENTRE (PCRC) Suva, Fiji Islands

MEDIA RELEASE February 27, 2001

PCRC CELEBRATES NUCLEAR FREE AND INDEPENDENT PACIFIC DAY

Thursday, March 1st is Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) Day. The day commemorates the biggest ever day of destruction in Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, when the US military detonated the most powerful hydrogen bomb code named 'Bravo', the biggest bomb ever tested on earth's surface, on March 1, 1954.

The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC), the secretariat for the NFIP Movement, will be having an Open Day to mark the event, as a reminder and call that Pacific Islanders must always continue the struggle to be nuclear free, and that independence is vital for a sustainable future for the Pacific region.

Former Fiji Deputy Prime Minister, and the first woman in Fiji's history to act as Prime Minister, Mrs. Taufa Vakatale, will give the keynote address at the NFIP Day on the theme '...

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FIJI POLICE COMMISSIONER ISSUES WARNING

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SUVA, Fiji Islands (March 1, 2001 – Radio Australia)---Fiji's Police Commissioner has warned that anyone who causes trouble today after the Court of Appeal rules on the validity of the country's constitution will be arrested.

Radio Australia correspondent Sean Dorney reports that the police and the military are out in force in the capital, Suva.

"The Police Commissioner, Isikia Savua, says people who cause chaos before or after the Court of Appeal Ruling this afternoon will not escape what he calls ‘the long arm of the law.’

"The Fiji Police Force has recruited 100 special constable to help its coverage of potential trouble spots.

"The central government buildings where the Court of Appeal is located are heavily guarded by police and armed soldiers.

"Fiji's President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo is expected to make a national address after the five Court of Appeal judges rule on whether or not the 1997 Constitution remains in force.

"Sean Dorney,...

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