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A prospective first-time election candidate in Nauru says despite fundraising, he doubts he will raise the necessary fee to run for election. The government had hiked the candidate fee from US$143 to $1,436, and Joseph Harris said with the current cost of living and extremely low pay, that ruled out most people. Mr Harris joined 18 people in an application to the Supreme Court asking for an injunction on the move, arguing it went against the constitution.

Legislation for the alcohol testing of drivers or operators of vehicles has been gazetted and is now in force.  The Police and Transport Legislation (Amendment) (Alcohol Testing) Act 2016 commenced operation on 1st June 2016. The Act provides police with the power to require the driver or person in charge of a vehicle to submit to a breath test in accordance with the police officer’s direction.  ‘Vehicles’ includes motor vehicles, vessels and aircraft. 

With a crowd of supporters joining her, Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo officially filed her candidacy paperwork Tuesday at the local election office in Hagåtña to run for her eighth term as the island’s representative to Congress. Bordallo, who also celebrated her 83rd birthday Tuesday, announced in January she would run for re-election. Her official entrance into the race comes after collecting 1,134 signatures from registered voters on island and submitting necessary paperwork to get on the ballot.

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner may be small in stature but the girl from the tiny island nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands has a big voice that resonates the message about climate change that caught the attention of the leaders of the world’s super powers. Jetnil-Kiljner, who was on Saipan to hold a free poetry workshop, traveled thousands of miles from the Marshall Islands to address the United Nations members on Sept. 23, 2014, for the opening of the Climate Change Summit in New York.