South Cen­tral Zone is ap­peal­ing for sup­port to ex­pand its Ca­lyp­so Work­shop for young peo­ple, in an at­tempt to pre­serve one of the old­est cul­tur­al art forms in the coun­try.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has an­nounced that gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops for sec­ondary school stu­dents will be dis­trib­uted by the end of No­vem­ber.

For now, the Pacific Islands have mostly sought to avoid explicit alignment with either China or the United States and its partners. At this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders ...