[New post] Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 7 July 2015

WordPress.com bobmakin posted: "Carnival Australia is meeting with the Chamber of Commerce concerning the issue of careers for ni-Vanuatu in tourism and on cruise liners coming to Vanuatu, including P&O ships. A public conference has been arranged at the Reserve Bank for tomorrow, 8" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Vanuatu Daily Digest Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 7 July 2015 by bobmakin Carnival Australia is meeting with the Chamber of Commerce concerning the issue of careers for ni-Vanuatu in tourism and on cruise liners coming to Vanuatu, including P&O ships. A public conference has been arranged at the Reserve Bank for tomorrow, 8 July. Business owners and operators in the tourism industry are invited to attend, VBTC News reported today. Australian Governor General Cosgrove spoke of Australia's concern especially for Tanna, Radio Vanuatu said today. They added that he would be reporting back to the Australian Government on the needs remaining and still not accomplished following the destructive passage of cyclone Pam. Building materials were carried by the Governor General's plane last week when he flew to Tanna to see the damage. Vanuatu has lost a well-known and highly respected businessman in Roy Gallimore who was to be buried this afternoon after a funeral service at Paray Catholic Church. Gallimore Hardware was his business, built up over many decades. The vegetation of Vanuatu was extremely well established before man's arrival in the Vanuatu islands, and there was an abundance of edible and nutritious food in a garden which was like a green desert. Vanuatu flora was all edible and without predators, Dr Vincent Lebot observed in a presentation to the 8th Lapita Conference taking place in Port Vila this week. Dan McGarry has begun work for the Daily Post companies as their Media Director. He is well-known for his work in the media for over a decade. Daily Post today announces 167 candidates for the Luganville municipal election. Names of candidates are being broadcast according to the Electoral Commission. bobmakin | July 7, 2015 at 3:34 pm | Categories: The News, Digested | URL: http://wp.me/p2A4RK-CY Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Vanuatu Daily Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://ift.tt/1KJ2ewT Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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[New post] Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 6 July 2015

WordPress.com bobmakin posted: "The Eighth Lapita Conference introduced the Lapita-related families from Taiwan to New Zealand as "one big, gouty family" this morning. The migrating Lapita families from South-East Asia to Polynesia demonstrated obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid ar" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Vanuatu Daily Digest Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 6 July 2015 by bobmakin The Eighth Lapita Conference introduced the Lapita-related families from Taiwan to New Zealand as "one big, gouty family" this morning. The migrating Lapita families from South-East Asia to Polynesia demonstrated obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lifestyle diseases, according to their remains which have been meticulously studied throughout the region. It was especially interesting to learn, however, that the most recently discovered remains from Vanuatu's Teouma Lapita showed a diet low in fats and sugars. The Lapita people were those who most likely introduced dogs, pigs and chickens into the areas they colonised, taking them as far as Eastern Polynesia. Their burial practices, often involving the famous fired pots which from Lapita, New Caledonia, give these people their name, ensured a post-mortal interest in their migrations a millennium before the Christian era. The pots were often used as reliquaries for the bones or cranial remains of their owners, from Indonesia and Borneo to Teouma, Vanuatu. Prime Minister Kilman brought his take on Indonesia into a prayer breakfast over the weekend as Daily Post points out today. Kilman insists that Indonesian membership of the MSG is good. It was his first explanation of his stand which saw him ignoring the visit of the West Papua United Liberation Movement representative with the petition of 150,000 West Papuans seeking independence. "Our freedom as independent nations and people must also accommodate Indonesia," Kilman told Post's Jonas Cullwick. Kilman was also critical, in Radio Vanuatu News today, of the Vanuatu Opposition, for not allowing debate on the motion of no confidence last week. He said the Opposition's action in this regard further increased the costs of instability. bobmakin | July 6, 2015 at 1:01 pm | Categories: The News, Digested | URL: http://wp.me/p2A4RK-CX Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Vanuatu Daily Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://ift.tt/1ewyg1l Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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[New post] Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 4 July 2015

WordPress.com bobmakin posted: "Karen Blixen gave us "Out of Africa". The "Out of Taiwan" model gave us the Austronesians, and then all sorts of others got involved - Polynesians, Micronesians and the Melanesians. And presumably someone will one day write "Out o" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Vanuatu Daily Digest Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 4 July 2015 by bobmakin Karen Blixen gave us "Out of Africa". The "Out of Taiwan" model gave us the Austronesians, and then all sorts of others got involved - Polynesians, Micronesians and the Melanesians. And presumably someone will one day write "Out of Teouma" to draw attention to the Lapita people, rapidly becoming better known to anthropologists around the world. "Out of Teouma" they probably weren't, but your blog editor is only a journalist, and he is delighted to have a listener / reporter's place in the 8th International Lapita Conference this coming week at the Emalus Campus of USP and knows he will learn a lot about these remarkably different people whose largest community to date was discovered just a few miles east of where the conference is taking place. No scholar, your editor is likely to abridge or delay reports of all events in Vanuatu for the next week simply because the Lapita people are so fascinating and have such a lot to tell us. Pre- and post-Lapita are to be of special interest at this conference. And, as well as the conference, a special exhibition is opening at the Cultural Centre. And the Bastien Foundation is exhibiting the works of regional artists and scholars (both young and old) to show what Lapita means to people of the Pacific - or elsewhere. And elsewhere is probably where most journalists would today prefer to be when Daily Post headlines "Gov't eyes media regulation law." The head of government has reportedly said people were taking excessive liberty and putting out what he characterised as "extreme statements" on talkback shows and the Yumi Toktok Stret Facebook group. And so on and so forth. This would seem to be a primary interest of our new PM. And in another story Kilman also says Transparency International must not advocate political instability by questioning the government stand on West Papua as on the TIV page this week. Sela Molisa is being recalled as Ambassador to China. His predecessor was recalled by a previous PM but then went on to become Ambassador in Jakarta, a place which seems to feature more and more in ministerial calculations. Why? The Erakor Chief will not be charging for extensions over water in the lagoon areas, Chief Denny Kalmet advises in Port today. And The Independent has the two breweries moving their operations off-shore before long. Both want to see an excise reduction. bobmakin | July 4, 2015 at 4:26 pm | Categories: The News, Digested | URL: http://wp.me/p2A4RK-CW Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Vanuatu Daily Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://ift.tt/1H5GkzR Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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[New post] Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 3 July 2015

WordPress.com bobmakin posted: "The principal news of yesterday came out late afternoon and here it is again in case you missed it ... The Vanuatu Parliament met late Thursday afternoon in accordance with court orders. Movers of the motion of no confidence in PM Sato Kilman, the MPs Ed" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Vanuatu Daily Digest Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 3 July 2015 by bobmakin The principal news of yesterday came out late afternoon and here it is again in case you missed it ... The Vanuatu Parliament met late Thursday afternoon in accordance with court orders. Movers of the motion of no confidence in PM Sato Kilman, the MPs Edward Natapei and Ham Lini Vanuararoa, citing a lesser number on the Opposition side of Parliament, then decided to withdraw the motion against PM Sato Kilman. Parliament immediately closed. Daily Post tells us today the numbers were Government 29 and Opposition 23. If you have difficulty finding the Digest for any reason, just remember when you search the net for it as vanuatudaily.wordpress and receive the email of the day, you should then click on "Like" at the bottom of the email. The same text reappears but with a space for you to fill in your email address. It then comes daily to you, automatically. No need to search for it. Not a lot of world shattering news today ... Radio Vanuatu started with the Electoral Commission checking candidacy applications for the Luganville Municipal elections. The Independence celebrations budget for the year is just VT 3 million, to economise in view of the huge outgoing as a result of cyclone Pam. Daily Post has the Australian Governor General visiting Vanuatu's post-Pam disturbed spots and thanking the volunteers. He also calls on that significant receiver of Australian assistance, the Vanuatu Women's Centre. Post also has Police intervening in a beachfront dispute between expatriates at Havannah Harbour. And it reports Marcellin Abong being re-appointed to his old post as Cultural Centre Director, after a week or two as First PA Home Affairs, after his ministry has terminated the old Cultural Council board and set up a new one to reappoint Abong the same day as the new Board was announced. No interviews. bobmakin | July 3, 2015 at 10:43 am | Categories: The News, Digested | URL: http://wp.me/p2A4RK-CV Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Vanuatu Daily Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://ift.tt/1FWrUOC Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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[New post] Vanuatu Daily News Digest | Motion withdrawn

WordPress.com bobmakin posted: "The Vanuatu Parliament met this afternoon in accordance with court orders. Movers of the motion MPs Edward Natapei and Ham Lini Vanuararoa, citing a lesser number on the Opposition side, then decided to withdraw the motion against PM Sato Kilman. Parliame" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Vanuatu Daily Digest Vanuatu Daily News Digest | Motion withdrawn by bobmakin The Vanuatu Parliament met this afternoon in accordance with court orders. Movers of the motion MPs Edward Natapei and Ham Lini Vanuararoa, citing a lesser number on the Opposition side, then decided to withdraw the motion against PM Sato Kilman. Parliament then closed. bobmakin | July 2, 2015 at 4:33 pm | Categories: The News, Digested | URL: http://wp.me/p2A4RK-CU Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Vanuatu Daily Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://ift.tt/1FTDSbE Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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[New post] Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 2 July 2015

WordPress.com bobmakin posted: "The big issues today are the appointment of the new Public Prosecutor, the Malvatumauri claiming the Government is interfering politically in custom and culture and the Lapita Conference all of next week. Daily Post has all three. Vanuatu's new Public Pr" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Vanuatu Daily Digest Vanuatu Daily News Digest | 2 July 2015 by bobmakin The big issues today are the appointment of the new Public Prosecutor, the Malvatumauri claiming the Government is interfering politically in custom and culture and the Lapita Conference all of next week. Daily Post has all three. Vanuatu's new Public Prosecutor is Josiah Naigulevu. Head of State Baldwin Lonsdale made the appointment last week. Naigulevu is a Fijian, until now based in the United Kingdom. The appointment of acting Public Prosecutor John William Timakata lapses early next week. He has not been dismissed as rumour tries to suggest. The Malvatumauri Chairman Chief Senimau Tirsupe is filing a case against the Minister of Internal Affairs in court for interfering politically in matters of custom and culture. The Minister has terminated the services of many, if not all, on the Vanuatu National Cultural Council illegally, or not in conformity with the VNCC Act of Parliament. The newly appointed Cultural Centre Director Lazre Asal has also been terminated. Since that news yesterday, in Post today, it has now been rumoured about that the former Cultural Centre Director, now First Political Adviser in the Kilman Government, Marcellin Abong, has been appointed to the directorship. Over a hundred delegates are expected for the Lapita Conference taking place all of next week. Held every four years, the event this time is the first here after the discovery of the most important Lapita site at Teouma. The conference hopes to "get back to Lapita basics" and learn more about the societies in the region before and immediately after the Lapita people. A permanent exhibition sponsored by the French Embassy is also being held at the Museum. And, of course, today's big news has not yet happened. It's the Motion of No Confidence in the Kilman Government in Parliament at 4 pm. bobmakin | July 2, 2015 at 11:31 am | Categories: The News, Digested | URL: http://wp.me/p2A4RK-CT Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Vanuatu Daily Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://ift.tt/1Ktf1BO Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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Melanesia Weekly update ⋅ July 1, 2015 NEWS SBS Melanesia takes lead on future West Papuan peace SBS United Liberation Movement of West Papua receives first diplomatic recognition after 50 years campaigning for independence from Indonesia ... MSG's future on agenda - Solomon Star MSG Summit described as a test for Melanesian identity - Radio New Zealand ULMWP gets Guale's full support - Solomon Star Full Coverage Flag as irrelevant Fiji Broadcasting Corporation West Papuans given Melanesia bloc access, but not full membership ABC Online A coalition of West Papuan organisations has been accepted into a regional grouping of Melanesian countries but denied full membership. The United ... Indonesia says it will help develop Melanesia - Radio New Zealand O'Neill says Melanesia will gain from PNG's economy - Radio New Zealand Reaching out across Melanesia - Islands Business Full Coverage Flag as irrelevant The Interpreter Pacific Island links: MSG Leaders' Summit, Papua, Nauru, Melanesia New Voices and more The Interpreter The Lowy Institute convened the first Melanesia New Voices dialogue last week, providing a platform for 25 emerging leaders from the five MSG ... Flag as irrelevant Wenda optimistic of people's support Solomon Star The wind of change is here making it impossible for Melanesian leaders to ignore the significant growing support for West Papua, says Benny Wenda ... Flag as irrelevant Radio Australia Ol Melanesian lida i wanbel long planti samting Radio Australia Theme or nabawan toktok long maba 20 MSG Miting nau em i 'Let's Build a Strong Melanesia in the Pacific Where Peace, Progress and Prosperity Is ... Flag as irrelevant See more results | Edit this alert You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. Unsubscribe | View all your alerts Receive this alert as RSS feed Send Feedback

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