Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol. 64 N 0.12

The News Magazine

December 1994

□ Letters 4

□ Headlines 7

□ South Pacific Commission

Tightening the belt 9

□ Cover Stories

Fiji’s television dilemma 13 Fiji’s Media: Who pulls the strings 15

□ Tourism

Another year, another convention 19

□ Business

Goods news for New Caledonia 21 Coconut oil price soars 23

□ Solomon Islands

Mamaloni back at the helm 27

□ Opinion

Justice delayed 29

□ Money

Aid, AIDS and perdiems 32

□ Advertising Feature

What a pity 35 Peddling the Pacific 39

□ Focus

Pacific’s own literary forum 45 The angry warrior 46

□ Election

Democrats sweep thorugh the islands 49

□ Sports

League’s here to stay 54

□ Yatching

Storm of 1994 56 Cover design by JAMES RANUKU

Publisher: Brian O’ Flaherty Editor: Mala Jagmohan Senior Writer; Yunus Rashid Correspondents: Christine Hatcher, David North, Ed Rampell, Ian Williams, Karen Mangnall,

Liz Thompson, Roman Grynberg, Waliy

Hiambohn.

Columnists: David Barber (Wellington), Futa Helu (Tonga, cover ing the Pacific Islands), Jemima Garrett

(Sydney). Alfred Sasako (The Forum).

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