AUF providing options to decrease unemployment
By Josepheen Tarianga. Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and the Breadfruit Consulting company have taken an initiative to organize a two-week workshop to...
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Making a dream come true with TVET
Growing up in the small village of Bonvor in South Malekula, a young girl, Kelina Abongranis, dreamt of owning an agricultural business in the future. Little did she...
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Transparency Vanuatu Returns to Vila suburbs
The Community Advocacy Group (CAG) at the TIV Office is going around Vila and its suburbs doing awareness talks and giving out printed materials on how you can access...
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Fisheries Directorate moves to Tongoa
By Anita Roberts. The Fisheries Directorate under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB) is now based at Morua in...
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TAX EXEMPTION ON CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS UNREALISTIC
By Mavuku Tokona. Last Friday Prime Minister Bob Loughman reminded the public during the launch of Vanuatu Fresh Market at Tagabe that import tariffs for construction...
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Wilco and Vila Distribution to Stabilize Cement Price
By Mavuku Tokona. Vila Distribution and Wilco Hardware have chartered a general cargo ship named Ming Xiang Da 1 to transport 6500 tons of cement from Vietnam to...
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VFIPA ready for MIS development
The Vanuatu Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (VFIPA) is now headed towards achieving a Management Information System (MIS) by the end of this year. This will...
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AUF Innovation workshop underway
By Jason Abel. A 2-day Innovation Workshop conducted by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) in partnership with Breadfruit Consulting commenced at the...
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Would you go to a kava bar? Producers of the psychoactive drink want a mainstream market
By Emily Clark, Lice Movono and Fletcher Yeung in Suva. You can’t just take a sip of kava; you have to drink the whole bowl down in one go and you can’t have it when...
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Big Plans for VIT
Compiled by Kizzy Kalsakau and Jason Abel. Vanuatu Institute of Technology (VIT)’s newly appointed Principal, Wade Evans, believes there is great potential for VIT...
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Businesses close doors temporarily
By Glenda Willie. Almost all business houses and shops in Port Vila closed their doors yesterday from midday, following the Tropical Low experienced in parts of the...
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VT5M grant for Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
The University of the South Pacific (USP) and the Ministry of Justice and Community Services (MOJCS) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to formalise...
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New cybersafety resources for girls launched
A new information kit to be released this week will help girls and young women in Vanuatu to be safer and smarter when they use social media and go online. Built...
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Inter-Island Shipping Services Suspended
Compiled by Glenda Willie. The Office of the Maritime Regulator (OMR) has instructed all mariners, including ship owners, agents and masters and skippers of banana...
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Digicel Telstra deal was an off again, on again affair, Treasury documents reveal
A $1.9 billion deal for taxpayers to fund Telstra to buy a key Pacific telecommunications company – to stopChina getting it – may have been close to falling...
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Fibreglass Vanuatu Wins Bid to Supply Solar Fibreglass Refrigeration System
Fibreglass Vanuatu in partnership with RME Electrical are now supplying a ‘plug and play’ fully integrated off grid solar fibreglass refrigeration system designed,...
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VNPF COLLECTS VT2B CONTRIBUTION, VT1B REVENUE
By Anita Roberts The Vanuatu National Provident Fund (VNPF) has collected over VT2.5 billion from contributions and over VT1 billion in revenue last year....
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Vila Marine signs Contract for Rollout of Boats under 70/30 Subsidy
In response to the ongoing economic shocks of COVID-19 and the impact of severely reduced tourism-based income, the Vanuatu Government announced a plan for subsidies...
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