Category: Sports
Kite surfer attacked by shark
by Ted Wood | May 30, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, Environment, French Polynesia, Sports
The attack took place in Arue on Sunday May 28. After New Caledonia, Polynesia… A young woman kite-surfing on the Arue lake “was bitten quite seriously on the buttock by a shark at around 2:35 pm”. The...
Read MoreNew shark attack in Noumea
by Ted Wood | Feb 4, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, Environment, New Caledonia, Sports
This is the second attack in a week The attack occurred at 6:30 pm on Saturday 4 February, in the bay of Anse-Vata. At around 6.30pm, a person was attacked while practising wing-foil in the bay of Anse-Vata. The victim was not...
Read MoreFootball: a Caledonian at the top of France
by Ted Wood | May 8, 2022 | Area, Breaking News, New Caledonia, Sports
New Caledonia is at the top of the French football world on 7 May 2022. The Nantes football club...
Read MoreRugby: the Pacific is a reservoir for France
by Ted Wood | Mar 22, 2022 | Area, New Caledonia, Pacific, Sports, Wallis and Futuna
Two Caledonian players from Wallis and Futuna have won the Six Nations tournament with the French...
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- Former Caledonian High Commissioner at the Elysée Palace
Former haussaire Patrice Faure has been appointed to the strategic position of director of the Élysée cabinet. The new arrival is a 56-year-old former non-commissioned officer who worked for the DGSE (secret service). He was prefect in the Morbihan region and above all high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia, where he was responsible for organizing the referendum on self-determination. He greeted the French President in French Guiana in 2017 with a resounding: "The problem with the French administration is that there are more underpants than balls!