by Richard Butler | 15 Jan 2016 | Live & Work
Vanuatu Daily Post January 15, 2016
Tuesday this week witnessed a major development in the country’s energy sector as authorities put pens to paper to formalize a power purchasing agreement for the first Grid Connected Solar System in Port Vila.
This project refers to the installation of the 767 kWp of solar power plant; rooftop and grounded-mounted at the Parliament premises and the Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-Hazards Department (VMGD) building at Nambatu Area.
The project is financed Read more [...]
by Connie Ng | 14 Aug 2015 | Live & Work, Retire
By Jonas Cullwick | Daily Post
One hundred new citizens of Vanuatu were awarded their citizenship certificates in a ceremony at Au Fare restaurant at Melcoffee in Port Vila Thursday.
All of them recently received their citizenship after the Government’s Citizenship Commission approved their applications for the citizenship of Vanuatu.
In welcoming the men, women, and children into the ni-Vanuatu (citizen of Vanuatu) family, the First Political Adviser of the Office of the Prime Minister, Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 30 Apr 2015 | Live & Work, Radio Show
Last weekend was a highlight for hundreds of thousands in this country. The annual day when Australians, New Zealanders and others in the South Pacific remember those who fell in conflicts since WWI. This year there was some controversy over whether real estate auctions should be held on Anzac Day. I state my view in this week's show, and reveal whether the issue affected prices.
The balance of the discussion this week is with Ruth Myers, who with her husband Malcolm has founded Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 29 Jul 2014 | Live & Work, Play
An unspoiled, tribal way of life still holds sway in the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu. But, as Nick Squires is relieved to discover, they don’t eat visitors any more.
A dozen semi-naked men ululated in a jungle clearing as the ticklish business of how best to cook a human being was patiently explained to me.
“First, our ancestors would dig a hole in the ground like this,” said villager Berna Kambai, using his finger to draw a rectangular shape in Read more [...]
