Pacific Waves for 22 February 2023

Pacific leaders are trickling into Nadi for an all important Special Leaders Retreat on Thursday.Top of the agenda for the Pacific Islands Forum special leaders retreat will be welcoming Kiribati back into the fold; Top officials from the Free West Papua movement are in Fiji to lobby leaders to back their full membership into the Melanesian Spearhead Group; A Samoa seasonal work recruiter says his team in Hawke's Bay have been overwhelmed by generosity after his workers were rescued from their accommodation roof during Cyclone Gabrielle; A team leader of a Fijian RSE worker group says his team of 21 is safe in Flaxmere Community Centre in Hastings.