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Te Umanibong (also Te Umwanibong [1]) or the Kiribati Cultural Museum, or Kiribati Museum and Cultural Centre, is a museum in Bikenibeu on the atoll of Tarawa in Kiribati It displays artefacts and other items of cultural and historic significance.
This is a list of newspapers in Kiribati. [1] [2] Kiribati Independent: private, fortnightly; circulation 500 [3] Kiribati Times: weekly; Kiribati Voice: weekly, close to Teburoro Tito; The Kiribati Newstar: private, weekly, owned by Ieremia Tabai; Tarakai: weekly, owned by the Fishermen's Association; Te Mauri: weekly, religious (Protestant, KUC)
Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Republic of Kiribati, [1] [2] [3] in the Micronesia region of the central Pacific Ocean. It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in common with other more remote islands of the Gilbert group, and South Tarawa, which has 56,388 inhabitants as of 2015, half of the country's total population.
Kiribati (/ ˈ k ɪr ɪ b æ s / ⓘ KIRR-i-bass, [10] Gilbertese:), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), [11] [12] [3] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa atoll.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development (MFMRD, in Gilbertese, Botaki I bukin te aka sa ao karikirakean kaubwaira mai taari) is a government ministry of Kiribati, headquartered in South Tarawa.
26 April - Australian-born High Court justice David Lambourne is ordered deported from Kiribati following a long-running legal battle with the latter's government. [1] He voluntarily leaves the country on 16 May. [2] 14 August - 2024 Kiribati parliamentary election (first round): Kiribati islanders vote for the 45 members of the House of ...
This is a list of towns and villages in Kiribati. There are no cities in the country. List of villages. Banaba Island. Banaba. Antereen; Umwa; Tabewa; ...
Arorae was first sighted in 1809 by Captain John Patterson of the British vessel, Elizabeth and called Hope Island. For the Kanakas, the years of blackbirding in the mid-19th Century came slowly to an end in 1870 upon the arrival of the London Missionary Society (Protestant) missionaries, from Samoa, who were able to give some protection against the black birders, together with the ...