Nauru

YAREN, Nauru --- For the third consecutive week the Nauru Parliament has not been able to undertake any business because it has lacked a quorum.

YAREN, Nauru ---- The president of Nauru is considering legal action to force the speaker of parliament to dissolve the institution and allow the country to go to elections.

YAREN, Nauru --- The Parliament of Nauru still lacks enough members attending the sittings to enable a continuation of parliamentary business notably the second dissolution advice made by the President last month.

YAREN, Nauru --- As a poltical stalemate continues on Nauru there are reports from the island that the President is considering declaring a state of emergency.

YAREN, Nauru --- The Nauru government has scotched criticism it is in disarray and incapable of processing asylum seekers waiting on the island to have their refugee status determined.

YAREN, Nauru---- The minister responsible for the asylum seeker regional processing centre on Nauru, Dominic Tabuna, says business opportunities spawned by the camp are being fairly shared on the island.

YAREN, Nauru ----The Supreme Court in Nauru has indefinitely overturned an order by the speaker to dissolve the country's parliament.

YAREN, Nauru (RNZI) --- A Nauru Government spokesperson says the speaker of parliament may have set a dangerous precedent if he does not reconvene the House.

YAREN, Nauru ----The Supreme Court in Nauru is expected to make a judgement on whether the country's Parliament will have to reconvene.

YAREN, Nauru -- Nauru’s Supreme Court has declared the speaker of parliament Ludwig Scotty’s dissolution of the assembly null and void, cancelling the election planned for 06 April.

SUVA, Fiji --- Volunteers from Fiji have expressed their appreciation to the Fijian and Nauruan Governments through the Public Service Commission (PSC) for the opportunity to serve in the various schools in Nauru under the Fiji Volunteer Scheme (FVS).

Parties to the Nauru Agreement Director Dr Transform Aqorau has been nominated and selected to join a select panel on oceans.

YAREN, Nauru --- Nauru’s president Sprent Dabwido has withdrawn his notice, which he submitted to the speaker of Parliament on the 1st of March, advising that parliament be dissolved.

YAREN, Nauru --- The fractious Nauru parliament met briefly this morning but could not consider any business because a new Speaker was not elected.

YAREN, Nauru --- A Nauru MP allied with the President Sprent Dabwido says the new Speaker, Godfrey Thoma, is acting unconstitutionally in not dissolving Parliament.

Nauru’s President Sprent Dabwido faces a vote of no confidence following a Supreme Court ruling that a dissolution order of parliament made by his Speaker was unlawful. Nauru’s Speaker, Ludwig Scotty, adjourned Parliament early March while revealing President Dabwido’s intention to dissolve parliament.

Nauru, an island nation spanning 21 square kilometres located on the equator and in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is a desolate place to a foreigner.

Thirty years ago, Majuro was a regular stop for Air Nauru, which flew a fleet of Boeing 737s into Pacific and Asian destinations. But the days when the Nauru government burned $20 million a year to subsidize its national airline are long gone, and so is Air Nauru.