Archive - 2011

Dear Editor,

I do not work for TIV or ALAC and any issues between them and Tarosa are for them to sort out between them.

Your regular readers will know that the source of Tarosa's resentment comes from being exposed by Transparency Vanuatu for having acquired a personal title over central town unregistered "green space" while he was employed by the Government as Valuer General.

Dear Editor,

Mi luk naoia ikat tumas Chinese long Vila.

Ol new stoa I stap kam ap blong ol Chinese mo klosap evri week ikat new face long town.

Wan samting we inogud nao se taem niufala stoa I kirap, oli salem semak samting nomo long 100 nara Chinese stoa long town.

From wanem nao oli alawem olgeta blong ranem semak bisnis nomo olsem?

Hu ia I stap letem olgeta I ranem semak bisnis we I salem semak samting?

Olsem wanem I kat bribery I stap tekem ples blong hemia I happen?

Dear Editor,

This Christmas was not much busy as those in the past.

People were not rushing to get items from the shops in Port Vila and the streets were not crowded.

I don't know why this is so but maybe it is something to with goods being more expensive in shops or people have changed their habits of celebrating Christmas?

Or maybe it was just because Christmas fell on a Sunday.

But whatever the cause this Christmas was certainly different.

Even there was not much fire-crackers like last Christmas.

It is good to see a quieter Christmas.

Dreaming of a quiet Christmas

Dear Editor,

Mi wan memba blong Club Vanuatu blong plante yia be mi luk olsem sevis blong Club Vanuatu I go daon we I go daon mo I mekem se mi stap ting se lukaot wan kruket wok blong ol bigfala bos blong klab ia we wantaem I gat moa ni-Vanuatu memba bitim eni nara klab long Vanuatu.

Oli wantem blong daonem ol asset blong klab ia blong so tat bae oli save salem long wan bisnis fren blong olgeta.

Tru God wan smel blong tolet blong ol man long Club Vanuatu I semak olsem wan prapa bus tolet long aelan we fulap man I stap yusum be I nogat man I stap klinim.

The Acting Secretary General of the Union of Moderate Parties (UMP) Georgio Calo has said there is no faction in the political party.

He clarified the article in Daily Post yesterday as misleading and reiterated that UMP has no faction but only one political party.

Mr Calo explained that that the UMP MPs who were disciplined by the National Council included Efate MP and Minister of Lands Steven Kalsakau and Ambrym MP Raphael Worwor who had resigned their political affiliation as UMP MPs and joined the Green Confederation Party and as such can no longer claim to be UMP MPs.

Outgoing Clerk of Port Vila Town Council Toco Mara has warned all children showing tourists their parrots and iguanas’ in the city to go home and tell their parents that what they are doing is illegal as they have not paid for any business licence to ask tourists to give them money for showing them their pets.
Daily Post was present when a little boy of about seven or eight years old held his iguana above the table of breakfast at the La Terrace and asked the La Terrace customers on the table to give him some money.

In his Christmas Message televised over the national television on Christmas Eve, Prime Minister Sato Kilman reiterated his government’s stand to reduce corruption and corrupt practices in the country while at the same time reminded the population of Vanuatu that the beginning of 2011 has not been an easy one because of the political instability that persisted at the time.

Over Vt70 million will be spent on the national parliamentary elections on November 2012 which is only eleven months away.

This was revealed to Daily Posy Monday morning by the Deputy Principal Electoral Officer, Guilain Malessas, who was already back in his office on Monday of this week despite being a public holiday.

It cost the country around Vt45 Million for the 2008 general Elections and the amount has increased by around Vt30 million to make up a total of Vt70 million for the 2012 general elections.

This year’s Christmas celebrations in Luganville wee the quietest time ever compared to past celebrations according to Luganville residents.

People from different areas celebrated the day in their various little ways to remember the day with respect.

Most households went to church in the morning and after the church service feasting proceeded until noon without any disturbances.

The celebration was quiet different from the past maybe because Christmas fell on a Sunday.

Daily Post observed a big difference in the behavior of those who consumed alcoholic beverages.

Member of Parliament for Malekula and President of the Namangi Aute Political Movement, Paul Telukluk and Port Vila MP and President of the Shepherds Alliance Party David Abel joined the UMP faction led by MP Charlot Salawai, MP Steven Kalskau, and MP Raphael Worwor and MP Bruce Asal to sign a solidarity agreement last Friday just before Christmas Day at the Green Light Nakamal in Port Vila.