May 29, 2021 9:00 am | Posted in Features
Flight Centre Travel Group one of the world’s largest travel agency groups, with more than 2,000 leisure, corporate and wholesale businesses have […] Read more»
May 1, 2021 11:15 pm | Posted in Features
“The reports published regarding the status of Vanuatu’s visa privileges, is nothing more than a malicious attempt to discredit Vanuatu and the work the country is undertaking, to manage and improve the structure of its highly successful Citizenship Investment Program. The article, materially and factually deficient, has achieved little traction or credibility in the mainstream media space.” Read more»
April 3, 2021 3:20 pm | Posted in Features
Instead of focusing on exports as the primary market for expansion it is suggested we should be seeking to grow demand from the domestic market where possible. For example, the substitution of imported rice with local kaikai, or growing the tourism sector – one of the key customers for this sector..... Read more»
April 3, 2021 3:39 am | Posted in Features
By Charles Hakwa Recently Air Vanuatu has been in the spotlight regarding the financial difficulties our national airline is facing. Let us […] Read more»
February 27, 2021 11:50 pm | Posted in Features
By Glen Craig This article starts by acknowledging two fundamental truths, which are all too rarely discussed together. Firstly, the nation’s health […] Read more»
January 30, 2021 11:38 pm | Posted in Features
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the worst since the end of WWII. Global economic shocks, pandemics, the rise of totalitarian regimesand the political disintegration of a superpower were all played out against the backdrop of the increasing and unabated progress of climate change.Help may be on the horizon for COVID-19 and the economic suffering it brought, but there’s no reason to believe that 2021 will mark the end of our pain. We need to be prepared for a long slog...... Read more»
January 30, 2021 2:07 am | Posted in Features
Your business has a story. It’s probably a great story, right? You gallantly fought a dragon to rescue a prince/princess who gave […] Read more»
December 29, 2020 2:51 am | Posted in Features
Only half a dozen nations have graduated so far. (One LDC was de-listed when its territory was integrated into another’s.) In the Pacific, Samoa was the first to graduate, in 2014. Vanuatu was originally scheduled tofollow it in 2015, but the devastation of cyclone Pam led to a request to defer that moment by five years. Solomon Islands is scheduled to be the next Pacific island nation to graduate, in 2024... Read more»
November 26, 2020 2:26 pm | Posted in Features
The VT 52 billion sticker on next year’s budget seems high, but it’s not entirely what it seems. Most of next year’s rise in spending compensates for money not spent this year. Every vatu the government wants to spend has to be approved by Parliament. But not everything approved gets spent. Read more»
October 29, 2020 4:42 pm | Posted in Features
VANWODS Microfinace Inc is a microfinance of networkdedicated to eradicating poverty by empowering womenin rural villages with the opportunity to start, growand maintain sustainable, income generating microenterprises. Read more»
