カテゴリー: Vanuatu
With not enough workers to pick the upcoming harvest, Australia faces potential food shortages, and its farmers face economic devastationAs Victoria’s Covid-19 outbreak threatens to spiral out of control and beyond its borders, Australia faces another …
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsThe total number of cases of Covid-19 infection listed by the World Health Organization for the region stands at 382, an increase of 22 since last week.With increasing evidence that many of th…
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific Islands • Sign up to get this Coronavirus in the Pacific briefing delivered to your email every WednesdayThe total number of cases of Covid-19 infection listed by the World Health Organization for th…
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsSign up to get this Coronavirus in the Pacific briefing delivered to your email every WednesdayThe total number of Covid-19 cases across the Pacific stands at 314, with new cases reported this…
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsHere is the latest news about the Covid-19 outbreak across the Pacific, from Dan McGarry and Tess Newton Cain on Wednesday 10 June.The total number of cases of Covid-19 infection across the re…
Pentecost Island, devastated by Cyclone Harold in April, has been left a silent shadow of its former self. But its people endureTouching down on the island of Pentecost in Vanuatu, it takes hours to notice the silence. After a while it hits you: there’…
Concerns have also been raised about Vanuatu, where it is illegal to publish stories on coronavirus without government approvalA Fijian military leader has said the government was justified in “stifling criticism” of its policies by the press during th…
Bob Loughman, an MP from the island of Tanna, will become the next prime minister of the south Pacific nationVanuatu’s parliament has elected a new prime minister more than a month after the country went to the polls, as the country is reeling from a d…
Humanitarian supplies flown in by Australian government can’t be touched for three days due to strict quarantine rules The distribution of urgent cyclone relief supplies brought into Vanuatu by the Australian government has been delayed due to coronavi…
Pacific nation lashed by heavy rain, flash flooding and ‘phenomenal seas’A category five cyclone has made landfall on the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, causing damage across large parts of the country, as it tries to prepare for the coronavirus outbreak.C…
A country with fractured and shifting political alliances, Vanuatu heads to the polls at a crucial moment in its history In the coffee shops and kava bars of Vanuatu’s capital of Port Vila, there are two subjects that dominate conversation: Covid-19 an…
As the south Pacific nation votes this week, there is a move to make sure women are among those electedMotoralivoa Hilda Lini stands at the front door of Vanuatu’s parliament, wearing an elegant pink dress and customary pig tusks on her wrists, signify…
In Vanuatu, where cyclones regularly interrupt trade, we are watching the west’s collective panic with bemusementI’ve lived in the south Pacific island nation of Vanuatu for 16 years. Tropical weather regularly interrupts trade. Even when they’re hundr…
Dan McGarry of the Daily Post told at Brisbane airport the Vanuatu immigration service had barred him from flying back to the island countryThe media director of a Vanuatu newspaper whose visa renewal was refused this month has been barred from flying …
Vanuatu’s Daily Post has always held the government to account and will continue to do so, with or without me as editorOn Thursday, the Vanuatu government issued instructions that after 16 years living here and, despite having a Ni Vanuatu spouse and c…