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WELCOME EVERYBODY

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Thank you so much for visiting the above four Domains. I am very pleased to be able to share with you that further limited advertising on the Republic of Kiribati Home Page and other Kiribati pages, along with other Web Pages within the above three Domains, are now available. Potential advertisers are cordially invited to choose from several thousand Web sites available for placement of your important advertisements. For further information, please contact me at:

jane@janeresture.com or jane@pacificislandsradio.com

For further information about the Republic of Kiribati, please contact the following e-mail addresses:

sto@mict.gov.ki
secretary@mict.gov.ki

For Christmas and Fanning Islands, the rest of the Line Islands and the Phoenix Group, please contact:

Kiraren T Tebetanga
Tourism Development Officer
Tourism Office
Ministry of Communications, Transport and Tourism Development
Ronton, Kiritimati
E-mail: tourismxmas@tskl.net.ki


A Kiribati family living next to the sea re-enforce their property with a sea
wall made of sand bags to stop the 'king tides' from eroding their land
Click on the above image for more images courtesy of Greenpeace




Kiribati dancers, South Tarawa, Kiribati


Bathing lagoon, Christmas (Kiritimati) Island, Kiribati


Christmas Island, Line Islands, Kiribati - Operation Grapple 1957 (UK)


Kiribati & Tuvalu Association (KTA)
at the Great Dunmow Carnival 2004, Essex, UK


A 1957 image taken on the airfield at Christmas Island (Kiritimati),
Line Islands, Republic of Kiribati, during Operation Grapple {UK}
Photo: Courtesy of Ian Green

Kiribati singers and dancers welcome visitors

to Fanning Island, 25th February 2004

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Micronesia Music Anthology

Welcome everybody to Micronesia Music Anthology which is available on

Micronesia Music Radio

The anthology can be accessed by clicking on the 'Broadcast Schedule' after logging in to Micronesia Music Radio. This should allow you to determine when the anthology is available in your part of the world. For example, in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Australia, the anthology is available at 12 noon each Saturday. In Kiribati, the anthology is available each Saturday afternoon at 2 pm; California at 7 pm each Friday evening; New York at 10 pm each Friday evening, along with Florida and Boston, Massachusetts, USA, etc.

The anthology runs for 90 minutes in which the traditional chants are introduced with many from Kiribati, including Banaba and Rabi, followed by the beautiful songs of Micronesia. Thank you!

The schedule can also be accessed here

Supporting Web site to the anthology:

Micronesia Music Anthology

GOSPEL MUSIC

Pacific Islands Radio is very pleased to be able to advise that a collection of some of the most exciting and absorbing gospel music from the Pacific Islands is now being featured on Pacific Music Radio (FM mp3PRO Stereo), Pacific Islands Radio 33K (24 kbps) as well as Pacific Islands Radio 28K (16 kbps).

With an extended running time of three hours, the gospel collection has proved to be extremely popular and features music of a number of very talented artists such as Bata Teinamati, Betania Gospel Singers and Emmaus Family Singers (Republic of Kiribati), Lia Osborne (Fiji), Vanessa Quai (Vanuatu), Aoloau Youth Choir (Samoa), and The Auckland Pacific Gospel Choir.

Please monitor the Broadcast Schedule of the above three Pacific Islands Radio stations for the availability and time of the Gospel Music collection. At present, this exciting collection is available every Sunday from 12 midday to 3 pm Australian eastern standard time.

For further information, please visit the following:

http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm

Thank you everybody and Best Wishes



A KIRIBATI POEM

By Jane Resture

KIRIBATI, ABAU KIRIBATI

Like a shimmering string of pearls on a clear blue sea

So strong and yet so delicate you mean so much to me

I miss those coral atolls where gentle breezes flow

A land of remarkable people where friendships seem to grow.

Kiribati, Abau Kiribati I always think of you

Wherever I may travel across the sea so blue

And deep inside me I know that it will be

Kiribati, Abau Kiribati you always think of me.

Your sons and daughters travel away to distant lands

They leave their homes and families so that they will understand

To study truth and knowledge in sadness and in pain and then

Kiribati, Abau Kiribati you welcome them home again.

Kiribati, Abau Kiribati may God�s blessings be on you

To give you strength and courage to see the future through

And may our blessed people hold their heads up high

Kiribati, Abau Kiribati I will love you till I die.



KIRIBATI

By Jane Resture

Like a blue silk ribbon floating
In a vast expanse of sea
Fringed by white sand beaches
With a covering of trees.

They say the sea will one day claim
Our beautiful Island chain
Where palm trees grow and children play
Nothing will remain?

Will our culture all be lost?
And nothing be left there
Of the land we love out in the sea
And our beautiful mwaie.

But if it is the good Lord�s will
That we should float away
The spirit of our people
Will live on another day.

Our culture lives within us
The sea, the earth and the sky
Within the hearts and minds of our people
Kiribati will never die.

		Pacific Islands Radio 33K (24 kbps)
		Pacific Music Radio 32 kbps mp3PRO FM Stereo
		Pacific Islands Radio 28K (16 kbps)
		Micronesia Music Radio 33K (24 kbps)

Jane's Pacific Islands Radio Stations broadcast selected

Playlists of Pacific Island Music continuously 24 hours a day,

7 days a week. The Playlists include many tracks from almost all of the

Pacific islands of Oceania. I sincerely hope that you enjoy listening to

our beautiful and traditional Pacific Island music.

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The following poem was inspired in this case by the frigate bird, as shown on our Republic of Kiribati national flag, flying over the ocean to the backdrop of a tropical sunrise. The frigate bird carries messages from place to place and symbolises freedom and power. Looking at the Republic of Kiribati flag, the seventeen rays of the sun represent the seventeen islands of the Gilbert Group including Banaba. The three waves in the lower half of the flag stand for the Gilberts, Phoenix and Line Island Groups. The vast ocean over which the bird is flying is a reminder that Kiribati is a sea territory with far more water than land.

In making a wish upon the frigate bird and the flying fish, it is hoped that they will carry a message of peace from place to place both over and under the vast Pacific Ocean. It is also hoped that this message is one which will allow the people of the Republic of Kiribati, including Banaba, as well as the rest of the world, to live in peace, prosperity and harmony.


My Wish
by Jane Resture

The frigate bird
The flying fish
It is time for us
To make a wish

And I wish for the sunrise
To be beautiful each time
With days that are perfect
And nights so sublime

And I wish for the sunset
To be like a long red sail
Each and every day
And you and I will always stay

Whatever we wish
Will surely come true
And I wish for happiness
For me and you

And I wish for the world
To live in peace
To live and love as one
To a simple beat

And I wish for us all
To have our lives full of love
Full of joy and happiness
And eternal love

(E-mail: jane@janeresture.com -- Rev.8th June 2009)