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Secretary of Health Elizabeth Iro has been appointed the chief nursing officer at the World Health Organisation (WHO). The appointment was made by the WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier this week at the 68th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in Brisbane, Australia. “I am thrilled to welcome Ms Iro to our team as WHO’s chief nursing officer,” said Dr Tedros in a statement.

District Court for the NMI designated Senior Judge John C. Coughenour on Thursday acquitted Analyn Nunez and Shahinur Akhter, who were implicated in a foreign labor scam. Nunez, a document preparer for United Brothers which is doing business as TBK Auto Cares, was accused of mailing fraudulent CW-1 petitions to U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services.

Here have been a total of 336 Australian projects registered in Fiji between 2010 and 2016, worth around FJD$1.4b [US$680 millon]. This was said by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama's at the Australia-Fiji Business Council Forum in Sydney today. Mr Bainimarama said the Government has focused on two fronts, 'realising greater opportunity for Fijians at home and deepening our economic ties abroad, including here in Australia.'

A French Polynesian municipality has been ordered to pay $US200,000 over the drowning death of a paddle boarder 6 years ago. An appeal court ruling in Paris has upheld the complaint by the paddle boarder's family that the commune of Moorea had been negligent in warning about the risks at the reef passsage at Haapiti and that it had failed in its rescue efforts.