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April 2021 Vol 47 No 4
CONTENTS

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4 Editor’s note 32 Opinion: The low-down on USP
5 View from the West 42 Culture: Royalties and respect
6 Guest opinion: Environmental protection 43 Fit for business

8 Briefs 44 Movers and Shakers
10 Whispers
12 Vale finally sells nickel assets in New
Caledonia
www.islandsbusiness.com April 2021 FJD $8
18 Insurance: Saving for a rainy day
22 Palau travel bubble hits a snag Fiji Cover: Vunilagi Book Club reader, Adi
NEAR HORIZONS
VUNILAGI AND THE PACIFIC LITERACY CHAMPIONS Lydia. Photo: Vunilagi Book Club
APTC • VALE MINE • PALAU’S TRAVEL BUBBLE
23 Training coalition faces a reckoning
27 Vunilagi’s community literacy efforts
29 Tuvalu’s ‘Mother of Information’ www.islandsbusiness.com April 2021 FJD $8
30 Opinion: Forum’s moral failure for
Melanesian people PRECARIOUS PACIFIC BUBBLES Pacific Cover: Photo and concept: Richard
Brooks/Lightening Strike Productions
APTC • VALE • LITERACY

Australia ....................... AU$6.00
French Polynesia .............. CPF500
New Zealand .................NZ$10.00
Solomon Islands ............. SL$30.00
Australia ......................AU$10.00 Hawaii ........................US$10.00 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Samoa ............................T10.00
Tonga .............................P10.00
Niue ...........................NZ$10.00
Cook Islands ..................NZ$10.00 Kiribati ........................AU$10.00 New Zealand .................. NZ$6.00 Solomon Islands ............. SL$20.00
Hawaii ......................... US$6.00
Cook Islands ................... NZ$6.00
FSM ............................US$10.00 Marshall Islands .............US$10.00 Niue ............................ NZ$6.00 Tonga .............................P10.00
Kiribati ......................... AU$6.00
Tuvalu .........................AU$10.00
Federated States of Micronesia ......
Palau ..........................US$10.00
Marshall Islands .............. US$6.00
US$6.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$8.00 Nauru .........................AU$10.00 Palau ........................... US$6.00 Tuvalu .......................... AU$6.00 Vatu500
Vanuatu ........................
Papua New Guinea .............K15.00
Nauru .......................... AU$6.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$4.35
Samoa ............................T12.00
French Polynesia .............. CPF500 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Papua New Guinea .............K10.00 Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
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