This week’s visit by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vanuatu Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (VFIPA) in the northern town has been a major eye-opener. Santo is poised for very interesting times in the coming years. The old sleepy Luganville as we’ve known it for many years ha…

With the government making this decision is to concentrate developing agriculture above all other sectors, the question is which is the best way to go under the current circumstances and what needs to be evaluated, is how long will it take in realistic terms for agriculture to become more pr…

On the partly sunny/cloudy afternoon of 15th Sept – the eve of Penama province’s Silver Jubilee – the former Secretary General (SG) of the Malampa Provincial Government (MPG) Pr. Keith Mala thundered the above words to his very own people of Penama on Saratamata’s historic provincial grounds…

Thank you, Prime Minister, (Bob Loughman Weibur), Minister of Trade (James Bule), Minister of Finance (Johnny Koanapo Rasou) and Minister of Infrastructure (Jay Ngwele) for this historic and memorable joint visit to PENAMA province to mark its Silver Jubilee (25th anniversary).

Paul Theroux once said that the short story is the most diabolically difficult literary form to master. I daresay he never tried writing a mid-term review of a justice or policing program.

When the Foreign Investment Act (FIA) was first created back in 1998, to safeguard the business interests of indigenous ni-Vanuatu, a Reserved Investments List (RIL) was inserted in the Act.

No matter what the crisis or disaster we know it will pass. We know there will come a time when life begins to settle down again even if it does not feel like that now.

We will very likely be ‘Food Secured’ from 2021 onward which will greatly help in reducing our imports bill and the harmful effects of NCDs. But our single most serious and greatest challenge is that of ‘Markets’.

We all want peace. Financial peace, to be more specific, especially when we’re confronted by a dark financial future as is our lot right now. How do you survive the crisis? Besides, cyclone season is barely 2.5 months away. Where do you turn? Where do you run? Is there any hope? Hotels are c…

Children’s Day is celebrated every year on July 24th across the country to raise awareness about children’s welfare, their rights and freedom. As an official public holiday of the country, everyone including the government, non-government organizations, churches, educational institutions, bu…

On Thursday this week, for the first time the joint institutions of the ‘One-Stop-Shop’ – VFIPA, Labour, Immigration and VTO – gathered together to celebrate their first ever flag raising ceremony at the Tamarama Building since moving into it in early December 2017. On behalf of the team I t…

In this series of articles, I am exploring the opportunities available to SMEs following the worst of the Covid 19 crisis, or indeed any crisis.

It is not easy to concede defeat. But we should at least take stock of our present and see eye-to-eye with reality as a checkpoint for real progress. Moreover, change that muddles and destabilizes our comfort zones is very discomforting. We’ve all been there before on other occasions in life…

The English poet John Donne (JD) coined a phrase which holds very true for us today. We are faced with numerous conflicting interests, demands and pressures that plague us at the present moment. The ‘present moment’ though neither worries about the past, nor really cares about the future. Ra…

The Trans-Tasman travel Bubble which we had eagerly anticipated would offer a potential lifeline for our tourism industry is not giving us much immediate hope as New Zealand struggles to contain any potential spread of the new COVID-19 cases which emerged last week from their ‘border blunder…