Archive - Mar 1, 2012

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The Mayor of Luganville, Trevor Moliva, says his council wants to lead by example that is why they must start from within to sort their financial resources and refurbish the Town Hall before asking others to follow suit.

Mayor Moliva stated this in response to concerns raised by Mr Rex Issacher on the development of the northern town.

Moliva said the Council cannot go ahead to tell others to address an issue when the Council itself is faced with the same problem.

A total of over 30 participants were at the Vanuatu Agriculture College conference room yesterday to draft the first Agriculture Policy in place that will help to drive the Agriculture sector forward in the future.

Stakeholders and all departments under the Agriculture Ministry were present to support and give ideas to the new initiative that will be a road map and to help benefit all farmers and investors.

VUI (Vanuatu Utilities and Infrastructure Limited) has extended its service in terms of power energy further in Banban.

Over 20 houses benefit from this extension of power which the company intends to install for them.

Work was complete and the company is waiting for all Banban residents to purchase their power box meters before electricity can be connected. All the materials were donated by VUI and the community assisted with free labour.

Member of Parliament for Port Vila Ralph Regenvanu is expected to return today after attending the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) launching in Australia.

MP Regenvanu was among Pacific colleague parliamentarians such as Port Moresby’s Governor Powes Parkop, who were invited on the wish of Senator Di Natale and the Australian Greens alongside parliamentarians from Papua New Guinea and New Zealand and representatives from the IPWP and the West Papuan community.

United Nations Women (UNW) in collaboration with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is working together with the Shefa Provincial Government to design a project to improve markets, increase women’s leadership and participation in market management and to increase their incomes.
In a 4-day workshop starting yesterday, rural women and community leaders, key stakeholders in both provincial and government level will be engaged in designing the project.

The project will be Phase 3 of the UN Women’s Partnership to Improve Markets (PIM) project in Vanuatu.

The Telecom Regulator, Alan Horne, has expressed disappointment that what the First Political Advisor (PA) to the Ministry of Public Utilities, Yoan Mariasua, told media that Mr Horne has not yet responded to his notice of suspension was incorrect.

Horne said his response to the notice of suspension was sent to Mr Yoan Mariasua and the Minister of Public Utilities on February 17, 2012.

The Regulator said his response was hand-delivered to the minister and its contents was explained by two staff of the Telecom Regulatory office.

The administration grouping inside Vanuatu’s six Provincial governments, municipalities including the Lenakel Municipality are presently attending a two-week Commonwealth upskilling training in Port Vila.

This generally is the Secretary Generals (SGs or acting SGs) and Human Resources Officers.

An incentive of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) the first week is a Trainer of Trainers (TOT) workshop for the Local Elected Leaders facilitated by Suva based lecturer Mr Feue Tipu.

Will the famous “Vanuatu Climate Change Swimming Pigs” become a topic in vocational education and training in Vanuatu? What may sound very funny is in fact of great importance: students need to know and understand expected climate changes, the impacts on their environment and sources of income and should be supported to develop skills to deal with the challenges and perhaps also new opportunities ahead of all of us.

Dear Editor,

Illusion is "something that deceives the eye or mind." It might be waving your hands in the air and (seemingly) produce a coin from behind the ear of someone. Fishing in itself is the art of illusion. Fish do not normally just bite an empty hook or hang onto your line and let you pull them in. Bait is put on hooks as an illusion to entice fish to bite. Once they bite the fisherman sets the hook and winds in the fish. Once the fish realize there is a hook (as it is hooked in their mouth) they will do their best to get off the line. Some success to live another day.