Press Release – ENZAFOODS

A company credited for revolutionising the apple industry by creating a market for fruit that used to be “mopped up as rubbish” has turned 50. Read more »

Press Release – ChildFund

ChildFund is encouraging New Zealanders to reconsider the traditional Valentine’s Day bouquet, and sow the seeds of love instead with a gift of vegetable seeds to a family in the developing world. Read more »

Press Release – NIWA

A NIWA scientist has been looking at the effects of shifts in climate on water resources, in water-limited parts of New Zealand. Read more »

Press Release – Australian High Commission

Prime Minister Julia Gillard today announced that Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu have been invited to join the Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme. This will provide an important economic boost to communities in our Pacific neighbourhood and … Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

Das Komba, 30 years old, left home early in the morning on Friday, 19 August to go to his banana garden, two hundred metres from home to cut down some bunches of bananas for a family celebration. After filling his sack with several bunches he started … Read more »

I-Kiribati people in Warkworth ... labour pool for Southern Paprika but some jobs now at risk. Photo: Taberannang Korauaba

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Taberannang Korauaba

The Amalgamated Workers Union has condemned a redundancy proposal to lay off more than a dozen Pacific workers by Southern Paprika Limited, a horticultural company specialising in capsicum production.

Southern Paprika, which employs about 70 I-Kiribati in Warkworth, north of Auckland, has held consultations with its employees on this proposal.

A spokesperson for the union, Michael Kyriazopoulos, said SPL was seeking to slash 7 jobs at the glasshouse and a further 6 in the packhouse. Read more »

Press Release – TVNZ

Sunday 3rd July 2011 Q+A interview with NZ’s Trade Minister, Tim Groser. Points of interest: Trade Minister on Pharmac’s place in the Trans-Pacific Partnership: “We’re not about to negotiate its fundamentals”, but won’t describe fundamentals Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

Good morning. It is a pleasure to be invited to speak at the RSE Employers’ Conference this year, as we head into the fifth season of the RSE scheme. Read more »

Article – Scoop Audio

Audio: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey discuss how candidates are lining up for the Te Tai Tokerau by-election including a respected Kaumatua taking on Hone Harawira. Also, Labour exposes National’s export-led research and development policy weaknesses. Read more »

Press Release – United Nations Development Programme

[Nadi, Fiji – May 2] “Food production in the Pacific need not decrease as a result of climate change. On the contrary, farmers armed with relevant weather pattern information can plan their food production and increase yields in the face of climate change.” Read more »