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.

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…

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 …

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…

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.

You think those SWP approved employers (AEs) really care about our families? No they don’t!

Happy ‘Yumi 41’ Independence anniversary, Vanuatu!

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…

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.

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).

The big ugly elephant called ‘Poor Performance’ keeps haunting our Government agencies. It affects our overall service delivery and reflects very poorly on our leadership.

NAME: Stanley Wales

ICT & Digital Transformation (DT) are hot topics today. Not only that, but irreversible and permanent because of Covid, which is a perfect host. All the conditions under Covid tick the boxes: social distancing, mandated shut downs and restricted activity, reduced human-to-human contact a…

When he is sought after for his signature on a document to help a total stranger, and he pauses to sign the letter without any question as if it were part of the meeting he is addressing, then you know that he is someone special.

No matter where you live, the simple act of buying a product can affect the human rights of someone you have never met. Business activity – from producing to selling, to investing, and buying – impacts the lives of billions of people worldwide. Every day we engage in some sort of business ac…