Barbara Dreaver

Guest writer

Barbara Dreaver ONZM is a Kiribati-born New Zealand broadcast journalist and author of Be Brave: The Life of a Pacific Correspondent.

Barbara Dreaver on location. (Photo: Megan van Staden)

Barbara Dreaver on the time she uncovered drug trafficking in Tonga

'I was given some documents that allegedly linked powerful people in Tonga to a Colombian drug cartel.'

By Barbara Dreaver | 7th March, 2026