SYDNEY, 08 JUNE 2020 (PACIFIC TRADE INVEST) — Pacific businesses are feeling the full impact of COVID-19 restrictions, with 91% reporting a decline in revenue. Fiji has been particularly hard hit by the crisis (93% reported a significant decline in sales/revenue). The results have been published in the PTI Pacific Business Monitor Report. The PTI […]
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Virtual Pacific Islands Dialogue on COVID-19 Assistance
The United States and Taiwan are enhancing our important cooperation to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We want countries around the world to benefit from the generous contributions and impressive expertise that Taiwan—a vibrant democracy and a force for good—brings to the global community, and improve the health and welfare of their people. As part of that effort, on June […]
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Palau awarded $19.7 million under CARES Act for unemployment benefits
Palau will receive a grant of $19.7 million under the US CARES ACT to help those who have lost their jobs or income to COVID-19 pandemic. Eligible citizens are Palau, FSM, RMI and United States citizens only. The funds go to assist those people that have lost their jobs or have their hours reduced due […]
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Indian government donates $150k to aide with COVID-19 response in Palau
A total of $152,767.50 was presented to Minister Emais Roberts through a short handing over ceremony held at the Ministry of Health offices on April 29th. The procurement of this grant was made possible through the help of Permanent Mission of the Republic of Palau to the UN that submitted a request and the India-UN […]
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President Trump Proposes $619 Million for the U.S. Territories and the Freely Associated States in the FY 2021 Budget
WASHINGTON –U.S. President Donald J. Trump today proposed $619 million for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) fiscal year (FY) 2021 budget for the benefit of fellow Americans in the U.S. territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The proposal […]
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A united Pacific push to tackle corruptionUN-PRAC joins with Kiribati for a regional commitment to anti-corruption
Tarawa, Kiribati 3 February 2020 –Leaders and representatives from 11 Pacific island countries are meeting in Kiribati on 4-5 February to explore options to advance Pacific unity against corruption, in the lead up to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on anti-corruption in April 2021. At the Kiribati Pacific Unity Against Corruption Leaders’ Conference, […]