Archive - May 11, 2011

Vanuatu Futbol Federesen Teouma Academy hemi luk fes frut blong ol fes intek blong hem taem we i lukim vaes kapten blong U20 Brian Kaltak hemi redi naoia blong go joenem wan klab blong Niu Zealand samtaem nekis wik.

Brian Kaltak we bambae hemi gat 18 yia long yia ia hemi stap redi naoia blong go joenem wan premia klab insaed long Wellington long Niu Zealand, Columbus Waterside.

Vanuatu economist and consultant, Jamie Tanguay, is back in the second country in the world to develop economic ‘well-being’ indicators for use in national policy matters, Vanuatu.

He has been reviewing progress on the first country to have done so, Bhutan.

The United Kingdom is not far behind in utilising the concept.

Thirteen thousand King James Version Bibles will be distributed in schools, hospitals, prisons, hotels and motels throughout the capital Port Vila from the 18th of May onward. The Bibles distribution is undertaken by the local members of the Gideon International Bible Ministry whose headquarters are in the United States of America.

This is not the first time for the Bibles to be distributed in Port Vila and Vanuatu. The work of the Gideon International Bible Ministry in Vanuatu begun in early 1980 under the Vanuatu Christian Council and has been running since.

They say a picture says a thousand words and I cannot agree more.

Unfortunately, I’ve seen one too many of the same picture and it’s rapidly becoming a depressing reality.

Many of the Ni-Vanuatu patients attending our public health system are too familiar with doctors telling them they have some disease so foreign to them but we don’t have proper tests and treatment in Vanuatu. The patients then leave the health facility with more worries than when they arrived. It makes me wonder if sometimes the honesty is just too much.

Wan Smol Bag’s reggae band Young Life has returned with resounding accolades from its performance at the anticorruption show at the Sarakasi Dome in Nairobi, Kenya Africa.

In addition the Fest’ Napuan Committee have been so inspired by Young Life’s win (among other factors) and have decided to make the theme of this year’s Fest’ Napuan, “Unite and Fight Against Corruption / Kam tugeta mo faet agensem korapsen.”

Fest’Napuan 2011 will be on from the 9th to the 13th of November and ideas or projects revolving around this theme is welcome.

Dear Editor,

Mi ridim name blong olgeta players ia mo bae mi no sapraes blong lukim samfala nem blong player we i no stap plei Futsal but olgeta i plei long 11-a-side. Fasin ia i kam olsem wan 'habitude' nao...Futsal long country hemi gat wan Ligue blong hem mo fulap eria long port vila i gat tim we i affiliate long either Port Vila Futsal League or Shefa Futsal League. Question blong mi se; yumi save selectem olgeta player blong futsal league nomo?

Castro
Efate

The people of Kole Village have been blessed with a new double classroom at Lorethiakar-kar school built by the Pacific Partnership team comprising of engineers from United States Army, Vanuatu Mobile Force and New Zealand Army engineers.

The new school was officially opened Sunday this week by the New Zealand High Commissioner Bill Dobbie, the United States Ambassador Teddy Taylor and the Pacific Partnership mission Commander Captain Jesse Wilson.

Ticks are a particularly difficult group of parasites to control and a lot of chemicals that are good at controlling fleas are not very good at controlling ticks. Luckily here in Vanuatu we have only one type of tick, the brown dog tick or Rhipicephalus sanguineus.

The brown dog tick can be pulled of the dog easily without risk to the dog. Those of you who have lived on the east coast of Australia will have had some experience with the paralysis tick, we are very fortunate not to have it here thanks to strong Quarantine measures.

For the first time ever the Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) has introduced a Victim Impact Statement process to assist victims of crime through their ordeal and give victims actual involvement in the process of the sentencing of offenders.

“This is a valuable initiative that personalises the crime and gives victims greater involvement in the court process,” stated an official Police statement.

“We hope that it will assist in the emotional recovery from the crime that has been committed upon the victim.

A concerned Motalava Chief has raised his people’s disappointment over a song sung by a popular local string band group which he said has lyrics containing swear words in his native language.

He said it is definitely unknown to most of the band's fans that the one of their famous songs contain very rude verses although many including children have been singing along to the song.

Chief Jacob said the song was sung by Dausake String Band from Nguna whose recent releases have gained them popularity not only in the string band crazy North Efate but the whole country.