Benny Wenda’s daughter in Port Vila
Koteko Wenda was invited to a Tannese community at Teouma Bush for lunch on her first arrival in...
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Thirty Years of The Vanuatu Women’s Centre: Her Story
On 30 August 1992, three ni-Vanuatu women were on a plane back home to Port Vila, after attending...
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MP King’s Allocation Distributed
The only female Member of Parliament (MP) and the Third Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Julia Malas...
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MALAMPA and TAFEA Domestic Violence Cases Increase
The provinces of MALAMPA and TAFEA have had a significant increase in the number of Domestic...
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Clerk prohibited from entering PVCC premises
The Port Vila Mayor has ordered the Clerk of Port Vila City Council (PVCC) to refrain from...
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Port Vila Town Clerk gets suspended sentence
The Supreme Court has sentenced Port Vila Town Clerk, Peter Sakita, to six months’ imprisonment...
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Nurses Question Risk Allowance Delay
Some frontline health workers who participated in delivering much needed health services during...
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SHEFA Recorded Highest Crime Rate from 2021 to 2022: VPF
Out of the 6,905 cases that have been recorded by Police across the country from 2021 to 2022,...
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VT4M Needed to Help Cervical Cancer Patient
While Vanuatu Private Hospital (VPH) is taking the step to help a woman diagnosed with...
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Australian Awardee Maliliu Secures Bachelor in Security Studies
Four Vanuatu women who recently won Australian Awards will now work as highly qualified...
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National Feminist Forum Embraces The Collective Power Of The Feminist Movement
On Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2022, the first ever National Feminist Forum...
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Save the Children ‘Cash Ready’ as Vanuatu enters Cyclone Season
The Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-Hazards Department (VMGD) has recently announced in the 2022/2023...
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No Nurse Intakes For Next 5 Years
The Vanuatu College of Nursing Education (VCNE) will not accept new intakes for the next five...
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Female Taking Lead In Overall year 12 Awards
Three young girls at Malapoa College have received awards of excellence in Commerce, Science and...
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Weightlifting Federation konkrajuletem Wilbur mo Lolo long gudfala pefomens
Vanuatu Weightlifting Federesen (VWF) i konkrajuletem gudfala pefomens blong tu (2) long ol atlet...
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HIV/AIDS THREAT
Although Vanuatu currently has low numbers of people living with Human Immunodefiency Virus (HIV)...
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New nurse graduates eager to serve
Two students from the Vanuatu College of Nursing Education (VCNE) who graduated last week intend...
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Gaetan Pikioune Junior launches second book
Gaetan Pikioune Junior has launched his second book titled ‘The adventures of Sean the Squirrel...
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Big progress in mainstreaming climate policy: Waiwai
The Director of Climate Change, Mike Waiwai, said the progress in mainstreaming Vanuatu’s Climate...
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PM wants civil servants to dress formally
All civil servants are expected to dress formally for work. This is part of an instruction issued...
Read MoreSupply of toiletries for female detainees inadequate
Female detainees in the Te’a Silae Welu N’matu Correctional Services Facility at Stade, Port Vila are facing challenges with their limited supply of toiletries, particularly one (1) toilet paper for two weeks and a single packet...
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Caught in the middle of ‘Welkam’
What immediately caught my attention as I walked down towards the Handicraft Centre in Vanuatu’s...
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CCTV Cameras for Port Vila and Marobe Markets
Australian High Commissioner Heidi Bootle has added a smile to the faces of the Mama Market...
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Police Briefs
2 men remanded for alleged rape of Year 8 Student Two men from the village of Alack on Epi have...
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Healthcare workers attend STIs, HIV and Monkeypox training
Healthcare workers from six provinces participated in a clinical capacity training to address...
Read MoreAnother Glass Ceiling Shattered by King
Gloria King continues to break glass ceilings for women in politics as she nominated as the third Deputy Speaker of Parliament. An appointment that is unprecedented for women in Vanuatu....
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VNCW Applauds First Female Third Deputy Speaker
Executive Director of the Vanuatu National Council of Women Leias Cullwick congratulates MP Gloria...
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Kalsakau Leads 13th Legislature
Union of Moderate Parties (UMP) President, Ishmael Kalsakau, is the new Prime Minister (PM) of the...
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IWG members awarded medals of recognition
Ten members of the Vanuatu International Women’s Group (IWG) have been awarded with medals of...
Read MoreI Am Representing All Women in Parliament: King
The only female winning candidate and Member of Parliament-elected in the Efate Rural constituency, Gloria King, has confidently assured that she has no problem sitting inside a Parliament full of male politicians. Mrs. Gloria...
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Anger management course for man guilty of domestic violence
A man who pleaded guilty to three counts of domestic violence was given a condition to undertake...
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Malekula MP-elect Contested Snap Election Despite Suspended Sentence
A winning candidate from the Malekula Constituency, Sanick Asang, was declared eligible and...
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Pinktober: Breast Cancer Awareness
When were you diagnosed? After Aneesha, my second child, was born in 2014, I felt like there was a...
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Church leader gets 10 years in jail for rape
An Anglican Church leader has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping a child under his care...
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Man jailed for unlawful sexual intercourse with 13-year-old
A 23-year-old man was sentenced to almost 5 years’ in jail for having unlawful sexual intercourse...
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Man jailed for sexually abusing young girl
A man has been jailed for 14 months after pleading guilty to exposing himself to a teenage girl...
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Man sentenced for sex with wife’s 15-year-old sister
A man was sentenced to almost 5 years in jail for having sexual intercourse with his wife’s...
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Husband gets suspended sentence for threatening to kill wife
A 28-year-old man from south Santo was given a suspended sentence for threatening to kill his wife...
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VWACC Leader wants voters to register under parties
Director of Vanuatu Women Against Crime and Corruption (VWACC), Jenny Ligo, has called for...
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3 women challenging caretaker DPM and other male contenders in Port Vila constituency
Three female candidates have been campaigning very hard since the opening of the snap election...
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Former Justice DG aims for gender balance in Parliament
Independent candidate Doresday Kenneth Lui falls into her own category as the latest female voice...
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Increase in number of candidates likely
The final list of names of the eligible candidates for the snap election was expected to be...
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217 Applicants for Snap Election
At least 217 individuals have applied to contest the upcoming Snap Election. Deputy...
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Women are to blame for the absence of women in parliament
Merilyn Temakon, an accomplished legal mind that has contributed not only to establishing labour...
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Screenings are the best prevention for Cervical cancer
Cervical cancer has the longest precancerous stage where cancer tissue can be identified upon...
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Hope for Deaf People in Vanuatu
Two specialists from the USA and Canada, Rachel Miles and Rebekah Schumacher from SIL...
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Police Briefs
Two females arrested for alleged involvement in marijuana transportation Two female, aged 18 and...
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Man found guilty of sexual interccourse without consent
A man has been found guilty of sexual intercourse without consent, contrary to the Penal Code Act...
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Market vendor lauds Biogas benefits
A food vendor has extolled the benefits of the biogas plant that was launched at the Port Vila...
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Australian Ambassador visits Masma’s Poultry Project
Mama’s Chicken Poultry Project of the ‘Women I Toktok Tugeta’ (WITTT) on southeast Efate has...
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VWC Celebrates Women’s Rights in 30 Years
Sixteen women have been commemorated with medals by the President of the Republic, Nikenike...
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Women Centre Pictorial Page
Vanuatu Women’s Centre celebrated 30 years of service yesterday. The event was attended by...
Read MoreRegional Wrap Up
Australian Foreign Minister visits PNG and Timor Leste The Foreign Minister of Australia is visiting Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste this week. In PNG, Senator Penny Wong held talks with her counterpart Justin...
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Police Briefs
10 domestic violence cases this month The Family Protection Unit (FPU) of the Vanuatu Police Force...
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Man convicted of multiple sexual offences
A 37-year-old from Malekula has been convicted of multiple sexual offences against a woman from...
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Vanuatu Poultry welcomes WITTT
Owner of Vanuatu Poultry, Mathieu Laurent, welcomes the Women I Tok Tok Tugeta (WITTT) network...
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Police Briefs
High number of father-daughter incest The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) has recorded a high number of...
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Priests who rape deserve to be in prison: VCC
Recently a priest was arrested by the Vanuatu Police Force for sexual offences. This crime...
Read MoreFather charged for alleged fatal assault of 1-year-old son
A man has been charged and remanded in police custody on Santo for allegedly assaulting his 1-year-old son to death. According to the Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) Media, the incident happened early morning last Wednesday at...
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Victim Support Centre Inaugurated
The Office of the Public Prosecutor (OPP) officially opened the newly refurbished and...
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More dialogue on addressing Violence Against Women and Girls
A dialogue held recently at The Grand Hotel, on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls...
Read MoreMalvatumauri – Breastfeeding comes first, employment second
President of the Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs Chief Willie Gray Plasua says women need to reprioritise what’s really important and that’s their children. “It is important to think about breastfeeding first then other things,...
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Barriers to women’s political participation in Vanuatu
The way politics is played in Melanesian countries has very little national inclusivity...
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Breastfeeding in modern Vanuatu
Awareness for breastfeeding has increased greatly in the last few years, as more mothers...
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VT20M Claim For Unjustified Termination
The former Director General (DG) of the Ministry of Justice and Community Services,...
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Fine Foods supplying local food to Air Vanuatu Catering
After two years of working with farmers and suppliers across Vanuatu, Fine Foods is now supplying...
Read MoreMan jailed for assaulting and threatening to kill partner
A man who pleaded guilty to offences of domestic violence and threats to kill his de facto partner has recently been jailed for 2 years and 8 months. Samson Konpikon assaulted and threatened to kill his partner several years...
Read MoreBrown appointed Vanuatu’s Acting High Commissioner to Fiji
The First Secretary to Vanuatu’s High Commission in Fiji, Viran Brown, has been appointed as the Acting High Commissioner. The Director General (DG) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kalfau Kaloris confirmed that Mrs....
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Creating Safe Workspaces for Women Market Vendors in Vanuatu
Women market vendors in Luganville and Port Vila now have a safer work environment, thanks to the...
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VT1.5M revenue collected in Port Vila Traffic Operation A three-day Traffic operation in Port Vila has generated more than VT1.5 million in revenue. The joint operation was conducted by the Vanuatu Police Force (VPF), Municipal...
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POLICE Briefs
Student suicide A 16-year-old female student from Malapoa College was reported to have committed...
Read MoreCourt Briefs – July 12 2022
Father penalised for intentional assault to de-facto partner Ple Micah pleaded guilty to one charge of intentional assault. The maximum sentence for that offence is a term of 5 years’ imprisonment. The starting point that was...
Read More9 year – jail term for sexual abuse of underage niece
A man who pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual intercourse with his niece, aged less than 13 years old has been jailed for nine years. 31-year-old Erick Mael abused his underage niece when she was in class 2 and class 4. The...
Read MoreFive gets suspended sentences for kidnapping and assaulting person with disability
Five people have been given 2 years suspended sentences for kidnapping and assaulting another person with disability over a Facebook post last year. Melinda Denny Bill, Leah Rory, Hudson Tari Junior Bebe, Morris Isaac Bebe and...
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VNPF GM PLEADS NOT GUILTY
General Manager of the Vanuatu National Provident Fund (VNPF), Parmod Achary, pleaded not guilty...
Read More5-year jail term for man who stabbed partner
A man who stabbed his estranged de facto partner with a small knife at Chapuis on Santo early this year has been given 5 years’ imprisonment. Marky Jimmy and the victim lived together in a de facto relationship for 12 years and...
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Landslide kills 51-year-old
A 51-year-old woman died yesterday in Leulik village on Tanna, after being swept by a landslide....
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22 female candidates for Port Vila Municipal election
Political parties are now campaigning and putting posters of their candidates throughout different...
Read MoreCourt briefs – June 15 2022
Only 3 year jail term for 73-year-old stepfather who sexually violated pregnant stepdaughter Naling Willie Ikoiko appeared in Court for sentencing on a charge of sexual intercourse without consent. The complainant was 2 months...
Read MoreMan jailed for sexually violating 7-year-old niece
A 35-year-old man who admitted to sexually violating his 7-year-old niece on Santo last year has been jailed for six years. The married man pleaded guilty to committing an act of indecency with a young person and unlawful sexual...
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VNPF GM’s case committed to Supreme Court
The Magistrate Court committed the case of the General Manager (GM) of the Vanuatu National...
Read MoreSenior Police Officer Suspended
The senior Police Officer who is facing allegations of sexual harassment with two female police officers has been suspended earlier this week. Daily Post is informed that the Officer concerned who also heads an important unit...
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Neonatal tetanus death recorded at NPH
A newborn baby has died from neonatal tetanus at the Northern Provincial Hospital (NPH) on Santo...
Read MoreCourt Briefs – May 24 2022
Tony Jimmy pleaded guilty to charges of an act of indecency with a young person, as well as unlawful sexual intercourse with a child under 13 years of age. He committed these acts when the victim who calls him uncle, was only 7...
Read MoreProsecution asked to prove VNPF GM interfered with witnesses
The Magistrate Court is expected to deliver its ruling on the Prosecution’s application to revoke the bail conditions of the Vanuatu National Provident Fund (VNPF) General Manager (GM) at 4pm today. Yesterday afternoon, the...
Read MoreSenior Police Officer investigated for alleged sexual harassment
A senior Police Officer is currently being investigated by the Vanuatu Police Force (VPF)’s Professional Standard Unit (PSU) for his involvement in an alleged sexual harassment incident. The incident involved two female police...
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Over 20 Prosecution Witnesses in VNPF GM’s case
The legal counsel handling the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) of Vanuatu National Provident Fund (VNPF)...
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VNPF GM’s PI today
The General Manager (GM) of the Vanuatu National Provident Fund (VNPF), Parmod Achary, will be...
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Report unlawful sexual intercourse to police: VPF
The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) is calling on the public to report unlawful sexual intercourse...
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Don’t Abolish Justice Ministry: President
Head of State, Pastor Obed Moses Tallis, has called on the Loughman-led Government not to abolish...
Read MoreCourt briefs – 17 May 2022
Father kills family John Amos Pakoa had taken his family to the independence celebration in 2001. After returning home, Mr. Pakoa and his wife Helly went to drink kava and returned home just before morning. Soon after he stabbed...
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Man found guilty of sex offences jailed for 10 years
A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, after being found guilty of several...
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Parents skeptical about Home-school Packages
Many parents and teachers have criticised the Home-school Packages (HSPs) provided by the...
Read MoreMan allegedly stabs partner with knife
A man from Tekelele in south Epi has been charged, after he allegedly stabbed his partner on the back of her head with a knife recently. Police on Tongoa released him on bail after charging him with intentional assault. He was...
Read MoreCourt Briefs – 19 March 2022
Man being investigated for wife’s death denied bail Richard Harry was remanded on the 27th of December, 2021 after he was charged with intentional homicide, in which his wife was the victim. He applied for bail, stating that it...
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WACC welcomes PM’s assurance to probe allegations against MPs in quarantine fiasco
Women against Crime and Corruption (WACC) Founder, Jenny Ligo, has welcomed Prime Minister Bob...
Read MoreWoman Who Tested Positive For COVID-19 Dies
A woman in South Santo who had an underlying condition and tested positive for COVID-19, died on Sunday. South Santo Area Two Council Administrator, Terry Daniel, said the SANMA Rural Health authority confirmed on Sunday that...
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Santo Mother Delivers Baby After 8-hour Walk
The lack of accessible roads in Middle Bush Santo did not deter the commitment of 12 men from...
Read MoreWACC challenges Gov’t to prosecute leaders behind COVID-19 community outbreak
The Women Against Crime and Corruption (WACC) group has called for a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into whether some Members of Parliament are responsible for the current COVID-19 community transmission and the lockdown. The...
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