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The government of today, through the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Utilities wants to tell the public and good users of the roads that poor road condition is always one of its top priorities.

Some of the causes that contribute to poor road condition include the continuous increase of the number of vehicles brought into the country every year, an improper drainage, old used roads and designs and the lack of government resources.

In March this year, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Health and the Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu, strengthening the working partnership in medical service delivery to the people of Vanuatu.

PCV stood to its agreement when it recently witnessed the official opening of a newly built ‘Eye and Dental Clinic’ located in the PCV premises opposite Paton Memorial Church (PMC). This has been a significant expansion on the services available that the church’s health services used to provide a few years back.

The Council of Ministers (COM) has asked the Organizing Committee of the 2013 Independence Anniversary give one day of the anniversary program to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Blackbirding.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the period of blackbirding. In Australia, the anniversary is celebrated by several events in cities that have blackbirding history beginning June to November.

The Ministry of Tourism, Trade, Commerce, and Ni-Vanuatu Business arranged a 5-day intensive training programme for its staff and representatives from Customs and Agriculture on protecting the domestic industry against unfair international trade practices and increased low-priced imports last week.

The Ministry says this training is part of the Government’s programme on implementing the requirements of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fisheries and BioSecurity, David Tosul, has told the Vanuatu Agriculture College Council to carry out further investigations on the suspension of the College Chairperson.

The minister’s order came following a report he asked from the current VAC Chief Executive Officer, Neil Netaf, about the performance of the chairperson. The second VACC meeting this year held last Friday heard about this order when he stressed in his speech the need to address urgent issues about Agriculture College.

Chinese Ambassador, Xie Bohua, has asked the Secretary General of Shefa Province for a copy of the plan for the Marobe Market Complex because he wants to see it.

Ambassador Bohua made the request during his courtesy call on Shefa Provincial President, Edward George Atavimarata, in his office yesterday.

During their discussions on how Shefa Province cares for the 78,000 people in its boundary, the President and Secretary General of Shefa Province, Michel Kalworai explained the increasing challenges it is facing and how the Council collects 50% of its revenue out of Vt108 million.

A retired Dunedin doctor who was honoured for his 11 years as a missionary in Vanuatu in the 1960s has opened a new medical facility in Luganville, Espiritu Santo.

Dr David Coulter (79), his wife Anne (75) and daughter Ruth Grundy (51) travelled to Vanuatu, formerly called the New Hebrides, to join more than 200 people at the opening of the Medical Santo clinic last month. The clinic will serve more than half the population of Vanuatu.

Dear Editor,

Mi refea long heding antap we i kam aot lo Daily Post News Paper Issue namba 3872 lo Saturday, 1 June, 2013.

Mi wantem givim smol mo personal tingting blo mi nomo lo mata ya. Sapos tingting blo mi i stret, i gud, mbe sapos ino stret bae yufala korektem mi.
Mi stap kwestenem se from wanem nao wan civil seven we hemi wok lo Lands Dipatmen we Gavman blo Vanuatu hemi employem hem mo i givim wok lo hem, i save stap tok akensem boss blo hem bakagen lo pablik. “Something is just not right”.

There have been 145 licenses for offshore mining exploration and prospecting and another three for offshore oil exploration issued over recent years by the Government of Vanuatu.

Minister Ralph Regenvanu made this shocking revelation when he opened the weeklong regional workshop on Offshore Mining and its Social Impacts at the Holiday Inn yesterday.

“When I learnt that this workshop was going to take place here (and I was going to launch it), as the Minister responsible (for lands, geology, mines, energy and rural water supply),

While South Sea Islanders prepare to commemorate the recorded 150 years after the black birding era in Australia, a solemn declaration has shown that the practice of kidnaping actually started happening some 16 years before the recorded 150 years.

“Those are the darkest days of slavery and they were not recorded,” said Chief Richard Fandanumata, Founder of Black Birding Issue in Vanuatu.
The declaration was made after new pieces of the scattered Black Birding history was discovered recorded in a Sydney Morning Herald article published in December 2 1847.