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Bernadette Carreon

Bernadette Carreon is a freelance reporter in Palau

January 2022

  • Commuters, some continuing to wear face masks, arrive at Waterloo station in London.

    Coronavirus live
    UK reports 89,176 new cases and 277 deaths – as it happened

    UK cases and deaths fall day-on-day; Hong Kong government to compensate pet shops affected by culling of hamsters for Covid reasons
  • Health workers roll out the Covid vaccination campaign in the village of Tuanaimato in Apia, Samoa.

    The Pacific project
    Fear and dread: Covid-free for two years, Pacific islands experience explosion in case numbers

    The virus has swept into remote island countries, sowing panic and confusion
  • Arnold Latu, a Tongan fisheries observer, died onboard a fishing vessel in September, three months later there are still no answers about his death.

    The Pacific project
    ‘It’s a mystery for us’: the puzzling death at sea of a Tongan fisheries observer

    Arnold Latu was found dead in his berth – one of numerous deaths of monitors who ensure fishing boats follow the rules

December 2021

  • Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen addresses the National Press Club in Canberra

    Labor rules out post-election climate deals, dismissing Coalition scare campaign

    Chris Bowen says party’s stance is not negotiable as Morrison claims a vote for Labor is a vote for ‘Greens targets’

November 2021

  • A fishing vessel in the coastal waters off Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, whose economy is hugely dependent on fishing.

    The Pacific project
    Kiribati to open one of world’s largest marine protected areas to commercial fishing

    The Phoenix Islands Protected Area is about the size of California and has been fully closed to commercial fishing since 2015

September 2021

  • People commute on boats to Port Vila, capital city of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu

    The Pacific project
    Vanuatu to seek international court opinion on climate change rights

    The Pacific island nation wants clarity on the legal responsibilities owed to its people related to climate change

June 2021

  • Eritara Aati Kaierua and his sister, Nikora Kaierua. He was killed while he was working as a fisheries observers. Over fishing in the Pacific.

    Full Story
    A death at sea and why answers are so difficult to find

  • Eritara Aati Kaierua’s wife Tekarara, with their four children Robert, Aatii, Elizabeth and Tutu at his grave in Tarawa, Kiribati. The family have been left without their father after he was murdered on a fishing boat. Murder, fishing, over fishing.

    Pacific plunder
    Death at sea: the fisheries inspectors who never came home

April 2021

  • Damage in Koror state in Palau from Typhoon Surigae.

    The Pacific project
    The typhoon that hit my island didn’t make the news. This is what the climate crisis looks like

    Bernadette Carreon
    Palau was hit by Typhoon Surigae last week, but even the typhoons that don’t claim lives or flatten cities are devastating for those who live through them

March 2021

  • Two-dogs beach in Palau's Rock Islands, is a popular spot for tourists to have lunch

    The Pacific project
    Palau to welcome first tourists in a year with presidential escort

    Palau is opening up to visitors from Taiwan under strict Covid-safe measures, but locals still have doubts

February 2021

  • Pacific leaders

    The Pacific project
    Pacific Islands Forum in crisis as one-third of member nations quit

  • Henry Puna, former prime minister of the Cook Islands, has been elected Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum

    The Pacific project
    Future of Pacific Islands Forum in doubt as Palau walks out

January 2021

  • President-elect of Palau Surangel Whipps Jr will be sworn in as president of the Pacific archipelago this week

    The Pacific project
    Palau's new president vows to stand up to 'bully' China

  • Young men play a game of rugby at sunset in Nuku’alofa, Tonga. The largest cluster of places without the coronavirus can be found in the scattered islands of the South Pacific

    The Pacific project
    Life without Covid: the nations that have sidestepped the pandemic so far

December 2020

  • A Chinese fishing boat detained by Palauan authorities on suspicion of illegally harvesting sea cucumber.

    The Pacific project
    Tiny Pacific nation of Palau detains 'illegal' Chinese fishing vessel

    The archipelago nation, whose close relationship with Taipei has angered Beijing previously, stops boat believed to be harvesting sea cucumber in its waters

September 2020

  • Defense Secretary Mark Esper flew nearly halfway around the world this week to Palau, which no Pentagon chief has ever visited

    The Pacific project
    Pacific nation of Palau invites US to build a military base to counter China

    Move follows a visit by US defense secretary Mark Esper, who accused Beijing of ‘malign influence’ across the region

August 2020

  • Sailors leave the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam in April. 1156 sailors and officers on board were infected with Covid-19, one died.

    The Pacific project
    'We are in dire straits': Pacific stands on Covid brink amid surging infections

    Rising cases in Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, and Guam raise fears of uncontrolled coronavirus outbreaks across Pacific

June 2020

  • Reinalda Ebiklou at the entrance to Belau National Hospital, the only hospital in the Pacific nation of Palau, which has recorded no cases of coronavirus.

    The Pacific project
    'Fear will always be there': Covid-free island prepares to bring home stranded citizens

    Pacific island of Palau tries to balance the rights of citizens to return, with protecting a country that is entirely free of coronavirus
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