During this series I will look at a number of issues relevant to all small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) and identify both the opportunities and challenges associated with each issue.

During this series I will look at a number of issues relevant to all Small and Medium Sized businesses (SMEs) and identify both the opportunities and challenges associated with each issue. Topics to be covered include planning; staff and recruitment; customers and service; marketing; competi…

This week we celebrated the life of our very first Prime Minister, Fr Walter H Lini. During his 11-year reign as PM there was only one Opposition party – what we now know as the Union of Moderate Parties (UMP).

Welcome to the last of a series of articles where I have focused on this year being a year of success.

Welcome to a series of articles where I focus on this year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we have started by looking back on last year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

We set out weaving a nicely-devised plan to capture big money (Citizenship Program [CP]) and create a lot of jobs (Seasonal Work [SW]) for our nationals. Sure we did, seemingly with a lot of success in the early days. Easy money? Big money? Quick money? Windfall profits leading to very ambit…

Welcome to a series of articles where I focus on this year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we have started by looking back on last year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

Welcome to a series of articles where I focus on this year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we have started by looking back on last year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

Such a shame that after 42 years of Independence we still have foreign nationals running some of our key State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). We remain their subordinates. We comply with their instructions or we get disciplined and fired. Besides the very bad experiences with one or two of the fo…

Welcome to a series of articles where I focus on this year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we have started by looking back on last year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

One moment we celebrate. The media is present to capture the smiles. The news swamps social and traditional media. Widespread publicity. Then, the next moment we fizzle out and disappear very quietly, never to be seen or heard again. A lot of our past worthy ‘initiatives’ in Vanuatu went dow…

Welcome to a series of articles where I focus on this year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we have started by looking back on last year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

Happy New Year 2023! We’ve been on hiatus over the past 3 months. Extensive debate in the social media in recent days concerning one of our key national institutions prompted me to pen this article. So, here we are.

Happy New Year everyone and may 2023 be a prosperous, peaceful and productive one.

Welcome to a series of articles where I focus on next year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we have started by looking back on this year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

Welcome to a series of articles where I focus on next year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we have started by looking back on this year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

Welcome to a new series of articles where I focus on next year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we need to start by looking back on this year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

Welcome to a new series of articles where I focus on next year being a year of success. To begin our journey of success we need to start by looking back on this year, 2022, and identifying what we have learned and what we can build on into 2023. This process is called reflection.

I am now at the end of this series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the last few weeks, I have been exploring tools for exploring and developing ideas, what it means to ‘think outside the box’ and ‘get out of your comfort zone’…

Vanuatu has one of the highest prevalence rates of violence against women and girls, and the highest prevalence of sexual abuse of girls under 15 years in the Pacific and globally.

Welcome to this series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the last few weeks, I have been exploring tools for exploring and developing ideas.

Long term visitors to Vanuatu have always taken the opportunity to buy the local beer when they land at Port Vila Airport. I myself don’t drink beer, but my husband ‘Smiling Steve’ loves beer and his favourite beer in the world is Tusker.

Welcome to this series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the last few weeks, I have been exploring tools for exploring and developing ideas.

Welcome to this series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the next few weeks, I will explore tools for exploring and developing ideas and then focus on ideas in particular situations – land, water, food, transport environment, he…

Welcome to this series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the next few weeks, I will explore tools for exploring and developing ideas and then focus on ideas in particular situations – land, water, food, transport environment, he…

Welcome to this series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the next few weeks, I will explore tools for exploring and developing ideas and then focus on ideas in particular situations – land, water, food, transport environment, he…

Welcome to this series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the next few weeks, I will explore tools for exploring and developing ideas and then focus on ideas in particular situations – land, water, food, transport environment, he…

Welcome to this new series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the next few weeks, I will explore tools for exploring and developing ideas and then focus on ideas in particular situations – land, water, food, transport environment…

On March 18th 2021, Dorosday Kenneth Watson, then Director General (DG) of Vanuatu’s Ministry of Justice and Community Services, was terminated from her high-level position, ending a 34-year career as Vanuatu’s most senior female public servant.

Welcome to this new series on ideas, what they are, how we get them, what we do when we have them and how we grow them. Over the next few weeks, I will explore tools for exploring and developing ideas and then focus on ideas in particular situations – land, water, food, transport environment…

Around 4:30pm on Friday 25th of February this year, two high ranking chiefs from north Ambae – Chairman of the Port Vila North Ambae Area Council of Chiefs John Atkins Arukelana and paramount Chief John Tarilama – paid an important visit to the esteemed Director General (DG)of the Ministry o…

A duly elected government gets its legitimacy from the people to govern by participating in an election, which demands that such elections be conducted in a free and fair manner.

Small and medium size businesses are the backbone of all Pacific Island cultures – without them the economy would not survive or thrive. In this series I have been looking at different ways in which we can grow and develop our small businesses sustainably.

Small and medium size businesses are the backbone of all Pacific Island cultures – without them the economy would not survive or thrive. In this series I look at different ways in which we can grow and develop our small businesses sustainably.

Small and medium size businesses are the backbone of all Pacific Island cultures – without them the economy would not survive or thrive. In this series I look at different ways in which we can grow and develop our small businesses sustainably.

Last weekend in Suva a coalition of civil society organisations – including my own Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change – attached a floating banner to a traditional vaka spelling out in large red letters on the ocean surface: Endorse the AO! In Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and even …

Small and medium size businesses are the backbone of all Pacific Island cultures – without them the economy would not survive or thrive. In this series I look at different ways in which we can grow and develop our small businesses sustainably.

Friday, 17th of June 2022 was a big day for several hundred USP students at the Emalus Campus (EC). Fine and very beautiful weather. Dawn brought with it the biggest graduation ceremony ever, at EC.

Our struggle for self-determination was driven by the basic desire for freedom. ‘Big money’, that some have tried to entertain and mislead voters with in recent times, was never part of the equation.

As we watch the parade and the race of ambition, for wealth, power, authority and popularity unfold before our very eyes, I can’t help but think of the story of one man – Steve Jobs. He was no ordinary American, but one hell of an entrepreneur, inventor, business magnate, media proprietor, a…

Small and medium size businesses are the backbone of all Pacific Island cultures – without them the economy would not survive or thrive. In this series I look at different ways in which we can grow and develop our small businesses sustainably.