3ème édition de la Fête de la Science à Port-Vila – Les étudiants présentent leurs travaux scientifiques)
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Pour sa troisième édition, la Fête de la Science investira la salle de l’Espace Culturel Français.)
Pour sa troisième édition, la Fête de la Science investira la salle de l’Espace Culturel Français.)
La Banque Européenne d’investissement -dont le siège est à Luxembourg et qui a installé un bureau régional à Sydney- soutient à hauteur de 650 M. Vatus (4,3 M. Euros) l’édification de la ferme d’éoliennes dont le promoteur est Unelco Vanuatu Ltd)
Pour sa troisième édition, la Fête de la Science investira la salle de l’Espace Culturel Français.)
Mme Françoise Maylié, Ambassadrice de France au Vanuatu et M. Marcellin Abong, Directeur du Centre Culturel du Vanuatu ont inauguré, le mercredi 23 septembre, l’exposition de photographies « Vanuatu, terre vivante » avec la participation de M. Fabrice Colin, Directeur du centre IRD de Nouméa, délégué pour le Pacifique Sud, en présence du photographe M. David Becker, des autorités locales et d’un public venu nombreux, au Centre Culturel du Vanuatu.)
La Banque Européenne d’investissement -dont le siège est à Luxembourg et qui a installé un bureau régional à Sydney- soutient à hauteur de 650 M. Vatus (4,3 M. Euros) l’édification de la ferme d’éoliennes dont le promoteur est Unelco Vanuatu Ltd)
[Originally published in the Vanuatu Daily Post’s Weekender Edition.]
I heard a fascinating tale the other day. A woman of my acquaintance, happily married with children, had apparently been married twice already. Each time, the husband had become abusive and, each time, had died suddenly, without explanation. Word was that she was adept at ‘posen’ – subtle potions that kill suddenly, hours or even days after their ingestion.
Whatever his motivation, her current husband was the model of good behaviour; he never ‘passed behind’ (the Bislama term for adultery) and looked after the children as if they were his own.
Doubtless polished and embellished in the telling, the story remains, at its core, perfectly credible. Spousal abuse is rampant in Vanuatu society, and the police, courts and kastom do almost nothing to protect women. It’s not at all beyond imagining that a woman might take matters into her own hands and act to stop her own suffering using whatever means necessary.
Originally published at the Scriptorum. You can comment here or there.
[This week's Communications column for the Vanuatu Independent.]
With the recent passage of a new telecommunications Act (awkwardly titled the TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADIOCOMMUNICATION REGULATION ACT), Vanuatu has taken another important step in ensuring continued success in building openness and fairness into the business of communications.
Parts of the Act, currently awaiting the President’s signature, validate and give force of law to terms and conditions already included in the licenses issued to our two incumbent telcos. It also provides an overall framework for continued growth, expansion and innovation. Most importantly, it makes permanent the office of the Telecommunications Regulator.
(Before I go on, I should make it clear that the text of the Bill was under discussion until shortly before it was voted on. The version I was able to view was not the official text. That will only become available once the Clerk of Parliament receives the signed Act from the President. That said, I’m pretty confident that those parts of the Act discussed here are unchanged.)
Perhaps the most notable aspect of this new legislation is the delegation of the right to issue telecoms licenses to the Regulator. Until the Act takes effect, this power is retained by the Minister.
John Crook, the Interim Telecommunications Regulator, has made it clear that he wants to see the process of obtaining what’s termed a Telecommunications Operator License to be as simple and direct as possible. All that should be required to start a new Internet Service Provider is to demonstrate that you have the right to operate such a business in Vanuatu, that you have the means to do so and that you’re willing to play by the rules.
Originally published at the Scriptorum. You can comment here or there.
Mme Françoise Maylié, Ambassadrice de France au Vanuatu, et M. Fabrice Colin, Directeur du Centre IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement de Nouméa et Délégué pour le Pacifique Sud, ont procédé, le mardi 22 septembre à la signature d’une convention de financement destinée à la reconstruction de la station sismologique de Port Vila, suite à sa destruction par un incendie en 2007.)
Mme Françoise Maylié, Ambassadrice de France au Vanuatu et M. Marcellin Abong, Directeur du Centre Culturel du Vanuatu ont inauguré, le mercredi 23 septembre, l’exposition de photographies « Vanuatu, terre vivante » avec la participation de M. Fabrice Colin, Directeur du centre IRD de Nouméa, délégué pour le Pacifique Sud, en présence du photographe M. David Becker, des autorités locales et d’un public venu nombreux, au Centre Culturel du Vanuatu.)
Le Groupe interparlementaire du Sénat France-Vanuatu/Iles du Pacifique, présidé par M. Jean-Pierre DEMERLIAT, Sénateur socialiste de la Haute-Vienne, effectue une mission au Vanuatu, du 15 au 18 septembre, dans le cadre d’une tournée dans le Pacifique, du 9 au 20 septembre 2009.)
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