Pacific Waves for Friday 13 May 2016

3:05 PM.A firm stand on West Papua by the chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group; a Fiji politician says the body which scrutinises public accounts is now toothless; PNG's fraud squad is back to work but… Read more Audio

3:04 PM.The chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, Manasseh Sogavare, says the regional body is pushing for an urgent intervention by the United Nations in West Papua. He made the statement while… Read more Audio

5:04 AM.Fiji's Prasad says accounts body now toothless; PNG fraud squad under close watch by police hierarchy; More jobs than people to fill them claims Norfolk's director; And West Papuan plight a… Read more Audio

5:03 AM.Fiji's deputy opposition leader Biman Prasad says he has been effectively removed from a key parliamentary body and that's a further erosion of democracy and accountability in the country. Audio

5:02 AM.Detectives working for Papua New Guinea's police fraud squad have been allowed access to their office and files again, but under tight conditions. Audio

5:01 AM.Norfolk Island's executive director says report from the island that dozens of people are losing their jobs in the administration are wrong. Audio