Category: Culture

Newspaper: New Caledonia’s only daily newspa...

Posted by Ted Wood | Mar 17, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, Business, Culture, Economy, Justice, New Caledonia

The New Caledonian daily newspaper in bankruptcy

by Ted Wood | Mar 10, 2023 | Area, Business, Culture, Economy, New Caledonia

It will stop publishing on Thursday 16 March. This concerns its weekend paper version and its...

Polynesia honoured at Cesar 2023

by Ted Wood | Feb 25, 2023 | Area, Culture, French Polynesia

Benoit Magimel was awarded the César for best actor for the film Pacification-Tourments sur les...

Winners of the Papeete International Oceanian Film Festival

by Ted Wood | Feb 12, 2023 | Area, Culture, French Polynesia, New Caledonia

The Caledonian film Waan Yaat won the second special prize of the Jury at the FIFO (International Oceanian Film Festival of Papeete). The film recounts the case of the Hienghène ambush in 1984. On 5 December 1984, in Waan Yaat,...

Fifo: the International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival

by Ted Wood | Feb 9, 2023 | Area, Culture, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna

The International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival is taking place in Tahiti from February 12 to...

A new Grand Chief for the Isle of Pines

by Ted Wood | Oct 19, 2022 | Area, Culture, New Caledonia, Politics

The Grand Chief of the Isle of Pines was enthroned on 14 October. Guillaume Këëwa Vendegou, aged...

Death of Déwé Gorodey, figure of Kanak literature and independence in New Caledonia

by Ted Wood | Aug 21, 2022 | Area, Culture, New Caledonia, Politics

The writer and politician has died at the age of 73 Déwé Gorodey, the first Kanak novelist and a...

A “Peace Square” in Noumea

by Ted Wood | Jun 29, 2022 | Area, Culture, New Caledonia, Politics

The handshake between the anti-independence Jacques Lafleur and the independence Jean-Marie...

Two new traditional chiefs were officially installed in Wallis and Futuna

by Ted Wood | Jan 12, 2022 | Area, Culture, Politics, Wallis and Futuna

Tuihoua for the village of Tepa in the South district of Wallis and Folaufakate for the village of Ahoa in the central district. Two new traditional chiefs of the King Takumasiva Aisake chiefdom were installed on Saturday 8...

Customary Senators want “Kanak” to respect mourning.

by Ted Wood | Dec 9, 2021 | Area, Breaking News, Culture, New Caledonia, Politics

With three days to go before the referendum, the Customary Senate reiterates its call to respect the dead linked to Covid-19. At a press conference on Thursday 9 December, the Customary Senate of New Caledonia asked “the...

Europe invests in culture

by Ted Wood | Oct 22, 2021 | Area, Culture, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Pacific, Pacific, World

The European Union will fund projects to promote the culture and heritage of its outermost regions...

New letters of Queen Pomaré found in Tahiti

by Ted Wood | Nov 8, 2020 | Culture, French Polynesia

There are about fifty handwritten letters from the one that ruled in Tahiti for fifty years in the...

No more vacancies in Wallis and Futuna cemeteries

by Ted Wood | Nov 7, 2020 | Culture, Religion, Wallis and Futuna

Wallisians and Futunians are very attached to the cult of the dead. The cemeteries hold an...

Covid returns to Tahiti
The Covid-19 epidemic is back on the rise in French Polynesia. Sixty-six new cases were confirmed last week, according to Tahiti Infos. According to the health watch bulletin, the cases are mainly concentrated in Tahiti (46), then in the Tuamotus (11) and the Leeward Islands (6). The XBB.1.5 sub-variant, responsible for this upsurge, appears to be more contagious, but has so far caused very few serious cases.