The Distant Voice is a weekly column focusing on various aspects of life and development in Vanuatu
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This week I went to Manlang Kava Bar at Freshwota 6, on the Malasitapu road opposite the Isaac Store. It has 5 Windows. For today’s edition of word from the Kava-vines, I sampled kava from Window number 3 - kava from Santo.
I was recently informed that the Solomon Islands nurses who are stranded in Vanuatu, or Freswota 1 to be exact, are here because the Solomon Islands government has a quarantine limit similar to Vanuatu, while ours is 120 per quarantine, Solomons must be around the same amount which is why th…
The Distant Voice is a weekly column focusing on various aspects of life and development in Vanuatu.
This week I went to Manioc Nakamal at Freshwota 4, there are 4 windows. For today’s edition of word of Kava Vine, I sampled kava from Window number 4 and the kava I drank was Melomelo from Ambae.
Is the Namele leaf on Malekula being abused? There are good arguments on both spectrums of this dilemma.
The Takuare name has landed in the Island Court — a hefty compensation could be the end goal of this case.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is regularly quoted for saying, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
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Over 30 Chinese nationals are coming to Vanuatu from China on Monday, under CCECC. Previously for high-risk countries, the Vanuatu government steered clear from bringing more than five at a time.
It has been 18 months since Covid came crashing into our lives causing Vanuatu to close its borders and ruining the livelihoods of most people in Vanuatu.
The Vanuatu Government will consider dialogue on re-opening the borders once 90% of everyone 18 years old and above have been vaccinated. According to the 2020 census, our total population is 301,695 and the census data records those aged 0-19 as 143,479, so the remainder is 158,216.
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What is the Ombudsman doing now? This is the question that Daily Post attempted to answer over two months ago yet the Ombudsman’s office and his staff have remained silent.
The bewildered primary school kid standing immediately next to him had to take a second, very puzzled look at the guy with the ice-cream to ensure the latter hadn’t lost his mind and that he wasn’t mad? He literally painted ice-cream all over his face, nose and beard as he danced away to the…
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The Presidential powers to Pardon Convicts under Article 38 of the Constitution should be reviewed and amended so as to provide certain criteria by which the Head of State could be guided instead of being pressured by politicians.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the Prime Minister’s Office commented this week stating that Vanuatu needs to assist its citizens in Afghanistan.
Most of the restaurants in Port Vila are owned by certain nationals, and their menus are pretty much uniform across the board. All except for a group, self-styled as the “Port Vila Local Market Restaurants”, housed under the upgraded main market Downtown. Thanks to the joint funding support …
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In a move that surprised us all, immediately after the Independence anniversary celebrations, on the 6th of August, the Prime Minister, with the endorsement of the Council of Ministers wrote to the Speaker of Parliament requesting a special extraordinary session of Parliament to sit from Aug…
Our ATR-72 flight touched down on Whitegrass Airport’s breezy tarmac just before 11am on Monday 9th of August: EOs MALFFB and Trade, and this writer. Yes, it was nearing lunchtime. But this delegation representing the NWA Technical Advisory Committtee (TAC) had to find comfort under the suns…
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No retail shop sells spare lungs, spare organs, or spare lives. Guard yours, they’re your only ones!
Many treat their health as if there are retail shops in town that sell spare lungs, spare organs, or spare lives. But there aren’t. Not in Vanuatu, and not on the face of the entire planet.
For a lucky few, the mid-20th century was a golden age of air travel: there was plenty of room and the cabin crew were attentive. Back then foreign trips were glamorous and mass tourism was unknown. Sound familiar?
We, the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) sub-committee of the Law Council of the Republic of Vanuatu, read the above noted article with much interest.
It seems like we have had our fill of drama, suspense and scandal in the country for the year, however as they say, it’s only Tuesday.
You think those SWP approved employers (AEs) really care about our families? No they don’t!
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Happy ‘Yumi 41’ Independence anniversary, Vanuatu!
We are free today to choose our destiny
It would be a natural reaction for anyone reading the Guardian’s article (published on 16 July in the Daily Post) entitled “Citizenship for sale: fugitives, politicians and disgraced business people buying Vanuatu passports” to simply shake their head in dismay. Here we go again – another ar…
An interesting post on social media regarding the work of lawyers and what it takes to be considered one caught attention recently, although the post may have been published earlier on in the year.
Intellectual property refers to the creations of the mind. Your ideas and creativity are expressed in different ways through inventions, designs, writing, music, art, performances. When your ideas and creativity are exist within the mind of a person, it is an intangible property and is expre…
The question of “will Pentecost have kava factory one day?” remains unanswered until today.
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NAME: Kalo Kaloran Raruawa
The first-ever e-Commerce Symposium hosted by Vanuatu Post (VP) last week was perfectly timely. Congratulations and Thank You VP! Of course VP needed to remain relevant in an era of high speed technological developments and innovation.
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Every child has a dream. But that dream certainly cannot grow in a vacuum. When you plant a garden, you need to both nurture, prune and weed the plants in order for them to bear good fruit from your own Tender Loving Care (TLC).
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken released the 21st annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report), documenting the efforts of the world’s governments to combat human trafficking in all its forms, as well as the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the human trafficking…
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