Archive - Aug 1, 2012

Eleven years before July 30th 1980, the Presbyterian Churches of New Zealand and Australia in consultation with the Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides decided to produce a documentary film on the involvement of the local church in health, education, agriculture as well as the views of the New Hebrideans on the future of the country they belong to.

The Vanuatu Christian Council calls on all Christians around the country to pray for a peaceful independence celebrations.
The VCC Secretary General, Pastor Shem Tema, said as a Christian country, the nation can only make a breakthrough and move forward putting God first in the life of the nation.

“Only through the Love of GOD that we can face difficulties and what lies ahead of us as we continue to develop and progress into the future. Everyone needs one another through God’s love,” he said.

Vanuatu will turn 32 on 30th July, 2012. When the economy was on the brink of collapse around 1997, we signed up to a comprehensive reform program (CRP) with the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The core mandate of that initiative as far as trade is concerned, can be summarised in two catchphrases: i) ‘private sector-led growth’, and ii) export-oriented production.

Sea transportation is still the most common and preferred means of transportation when travelling between our Islands for the majority of the population even before Independence in 1980.
But now 32 years after Independence, majority of the domestic vessels that are connecting routes between our Islands and hence allowing the flow of trade and development are uncertified therefore are officially insecure.

Under Vanuatu’s National
 Constitution, Chapter Three, states, “AVOIDANCE OF DUAL NATIONALITY

What happens in a Customs Audit?

But the VRP party is still split with both founder Korman and Education Minister Pipite both claiming Presidency to the party.
In 27 resolutions passed by the VRP faction led by Santo MP and Education Minister, Marcellino Pipite, the party faction stated that the Santo MP and Minister of Education who was elected VRP’s new President at a recent Tautu congress, accepted a custom reconciliation ceremony between the two leaders despite the current leadership rift in the VRP political party.

The National Executive Committee of the VRP faction led by founder Maxim Carlot Korman claimed in its recent National Executive Meeting that the Port Vila MP Maxim Carlot Korman is the rightful owner of the Vanuatu Republican Party (VRP).

Ever felt powerless to do battle against a lawyer, banker or public servant you feel has wronged you? A Commercial Lien may be just the legal tool you need to get even.
Here in Vanuatu though, one shouldn’t be surprised if people just laugh it off as most probably did when they received an e-mail addressed “Undisclosed-recipients - Subject: Public Notice Concerning Ridgway Blake Lawyers” that was doing the Port Vila rounds a couple of weeks ago. But should they?

The Wikipedia FreeEncyclopaedia defines First Aid as, ìthe provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessedî.
Timothy Vatu from the Vila Central Hospital Laboratory told graduating youths at Korvan Community Health School that First Aid is not just attending to an injured person right after an accident, but it is also a ìpreventive medicineî.