Author: Staff-RNZ

Story by RNZ Pacific Fiji’s biggest Christian denomination has joined forces with the state in its efforts to address illicit drug use and the spread of HIV and AIDS in the population. It comes following the soft launch of a three-year prayer and fasting campaign by the Methodist Church in Fiji and the Ministry of Policing in Suva on Monday. Fiji has been gripped with a hard drugs crisis as it serves as a gateway for the movement of hard drugs from Southeast Asia and North America bound for the lucrative Australia and New Zealand markets. The drugs issue is…

This story by RNZ Reporter Tim Brown discusses graphic details of violence. Convicted murderer Clayton Weatherston has told the Parole Board that his mutilation of Sophie Elliott was “just an F-U to everything about her”. The 50-year-old has been declined parole and will remain behind bars until at least November 2027. Weatherston was an academic at Otago University who lectured in economics and had been in a relationship with the honours student. Elliott, 22, had left Weatherston and was packing up her life to move to Wellington to take up a job at Treasury on 9 January 2008, Weatherston’s 32nd…