bribery claim

Election bribery reports a concern to Vanuatu NGO

TI Vanuatu's chairman, Dr Willie Tokon, said he had received about a dozen reports, including some landowners who threatened to shut down a school if people didn't vote for a particular candidate.

He said the alleged incidents were largely in rural areas, away from those polling stations manned by international observers.

Solomons PM makes bribery allegation

Sogavare accused the opposition MPs Bodo Dettke and Mathew Wale of trying to bribe the tourism minister, Bartholomew Parapolo, soon after the death of his wife on Tuesday.

He says the MPs met Parapolo at the hospital while he was grieving with other relatives.