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By Ricky BinihiIf some Port VIla munIcIPal Councilors owe the council money or are accused of mis-use, then they should be indi-vidually held responsible in Court, but the Town Hall as a political institution must con-tinue to function, Opposition Leader Serge Vohor said.

It’s now over three months since the Internal Affairs Min-ister Georges Wells suspended the Port Vila town council and it seems it’s unlikely the Minis-ter will lift the suspension until 2013, when Port Vila returns to the polls.

“The Municipality Act Cap 126 was introduced during the Colonial times and there needs to be drastic amend-ments to the Act to safeguard the interest of voters in Port Vila and their elected repre-sentatives,” the Opposition Leader said.

Mr Vohor said the decision to suspend Municipal Councils has now developed into a habit but the government has never seriously considered finding solutions to the financial crisis constantly encountered by the town authorities.

The 14 Councilors which the voters in Port Vila elect-ed them in 2009 have not received their allowances which their electorate depend on since July this year while the government has appoint-ed a Commissioner to oversee the affairs the Town Hall.

Meanwhile Mr Vohor too feels the government should give grants to the Port Vila Municipal so that it could perform its role as service provider for the over 50, 000 population in Vanuatu’s cap-ital.

If the council has suffi-cient funds then it could guarantee the welfare and health of its citizens because there is an outcry for the Port Vila Municipality to enforce the Powers of the Munici-pal Council in Cap 126, but due to shortage of funds, the Municipality could not employ enough compliance officers.

The government does not provide grants to Port Vila Municipality as it expects it to generate its own revenue from property tax collection, even though the collection of property tax in Port Vila has been very poor since Inde-pendence.

Daily Post has been relia-bly informed that 80 percent of the ni-Vanuatu property tax payers do not pay their taxes worth more than Vt150 Million over the last decade but the successive Munici-pal Councils have not found a breakthrough to encour-age property owners pay their taxes.

In a recent exclusive inter-view with the Opposition Leader, Mr Vohor also com-mented on the desperate need for qualified people required in some in some sectors of the government like Health, Finance, and Education.

“For instance if we have doc-tors as very senior civil serv-ants charged with the affairs of the hospitals throughout Vanuatu the Department of Health will rarely complain over the shortage of medi-cine,” Mr Vohor said.

He claimed there are many wrong people in the wrong place currently in govern-ment.

Municipality Act is outdated, says Vohor

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L o c a l N e w s[ 2 ] vanuatu Daily Post | Friday September 30, 2011

By Thompson MarangoThe 160 plus sTudenTs of the former Pango Esnar French School who were scattered into different schools early this year will be able to reu-nite into their old school’s replacement, a new school.

This new development comes thanks to no other than the same company who bought and pulled down the former Esnar School for new development. The company, Terrafirma, built a new school much closer to the village as a substitute for the old Esnar School.

The new school was ready to be used on time when the old Esnar School was closed but was left vacant due to allegations that the site was inappropriate.

After the official go ahead by the Education Authorities, Alan Salpietro from the Ter-rafirma finally handed over the keys to the new school this week to the Shefa Provin-

cial Education Office’s Princi-pal Education Officer, Robert Reggie.

According to Mr Reggie, the school has been ready for some time and the Min-ister for Education request-ed if the school can be made

available.On hand to witness the

handing over of school was landowner, Seule Kalwatman who is also the School Chair-man.

He acknowledges both the government and the compa-

ny for developing the land. “The school is set for next

year as a French School to reunite the students from the old Esnar School. We are looking at developing it into a bilingual school in a few years time,” he added.

New school for scattered Pango students

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By Ricky Binihi The secreTary General of the Nagriamel Political Com-mission Jeff Joel Patunvanu said the decision by Prime Min-ister Sato Kilman’s majority in Parliament to elect Nagriamel MP Havo Molisale as Deputy Speaker is appreciated.

“It’s the first time in the his-tory of Nagriamel for an MP to acquire such esteemed posi-tion and we are grateful to the incumbent Prime Minister for fulfilling the promise he made to Nagriamel,” Mr Patunvanu said.

Daily Post understands that Nagriamel has demanded conditions as part of the deal to join Kilman’s coalition and it seems that the government has responded to nearly all its demands.

The Nagriamel MP was a former Minister of Agriculture in the Prime Minister Edward Natapei led government just after the 2008 election.

The VanuaTu police Force (VPF) must do everything to protect young people from the abuses committed upon them. The Police must do what they can to prevent young people from committing crime and coming into conflict with the law.

These were the messag-es given by the Command-er Co-operate service unit Mr Job Esau who is in charge of the training to graduating VPF officers from the Investigations Involving Children and Youth Training course held last week at the VPF training college.

For five days last week, 20 specially selected officers from across the VPF attended train-ing designed to develop oper-ational skills for Police officers who are required to respond to the needs of young people.

“It is a world-wide phe-nomenon that young people are increasingly at risk from abuse and crimes committed by youth are becoming more common,” Commander Esau told the group at the gradua-tion and presents their certifi-cates last Friday afternoon.

Chief Inspector Fred Mahit of the Vanuatu Police Col-lege said, “In recognizing the need for greater protection of children and youth , the VPF asked for assistance from child protection representa-tives in the UNICEF Vanuatu Field Office” , A two phased project was developed where policy statements concerning young people were produced and subsequently adopted by the VPF . “These policies dem-onstrate the VPF’S commit-ment to protecting the welfare of young people and provide guidance to assist police in circumstances when they have to deal with children or youth,” Inspector Mahit added.

The second phase involved a complete review of way police respond to incidents involving young people. This review resulted in the devel-opment of new operational procedures and a pilot training package for delivery to all VPF police officers.

Senior Sergeant Peter Marru of the VPF Training Col-lege said that a complete-ly new training package was

developed by the Training Col-lege. This training package focused on the issues specif-ic to Vanuatu and the issues and intended for use by local police. Sergeant Marru said that to his knowledge, this is the first time the partnership approach with UNICEF had been undertaken in the Pacific Islands region.

The Training addressed over 24 operational situation police need to consider when conducting investigations involving young people. Those officers attending the training discussed the special needs of children, particularly in the areas of protection of their personal welfare and rights. Being aware of and respond-ing to abuse and neglect com-mitted upon young people was one of the most critical topics of importance.

Commander Esau explained that the Republic of Vanuatu is a signatory of many United Nation Conventions. He said that it is essential police proce-dures embrace the provisions of the convention on the rights of the child.” New policies, new procedures and new training programs are a good start , but there are many organiza-tions , government and non government , who are want-ing to achieve the same things we envisage . I want to see the police more proactively involved in community pro-grams which promote positive relationships between youth and police.”

Police/youth clubs are widely used throughout policing in many countries and are considered very suc-cessful at engaging young people in productive and healthy activities. Schools based programs involving police have been found to promote opportunities for police to established posi-tive and trusting relationships with school aged youth.

Commander Esau specifi-cally thanked UNICEF for their on this program and said that he hopes future co-operation will continue this momentum of change.” For the sake of community, we must do what we can to protect and help our youth,” he concluded.

Youth training for VPF Police

Finally…keys to the PO, new school for Pango children

Nagriamel SG thanks PM Kilman

By Midori Sakashita(JICA Volunteer) MusicCoordinator of Shefa Provincial Education OfficeThe Music panel Group (MPG) will be organizing today (Friday September 30th) a joint music show fea-turing primary students from 14 different schools in Port Vila and Vanuatu Institute of Teachers Education (VITE).

The theme of the music show i s “Students and the Music! “Bildimap mo strengthenem save blong ol tija mo ol pikinini long music long Vanuatu!”

MPG is composed of Ni-Vanuatu teachers and JICA/Music volunteers from 16 primary schools in Port Vila including Vanuatu Institute of Teacher Education (VITE). The music show is giving a chance to a lot of students and teachers to express what they achieve though music studies.

Compare to previous joint music shows, the MPG will be organizing presentations at lunch time for the first time

ever this Friday. Curriculum Development Unit (CDU) has created the Vanuatu Nation-al Curriculum Statement (VNCS) and is revising each subject’s curriculum stand-ards this year. These includes Performing Arts (including music) curriculum standard. However, they do not have a professional Performing Arts coordinator therefore they will need ideas from any per-son to judge as a perform-

ing artist to make the frame of Performing Arts subjects through presentation.

The MPG is inviting par-ents and the general pub-lic to the Seafront Stage at 9am this morning to enjoy the music activities per-formed by the children, and give opinions of music edu-cation for Vanuatu’s future. It is important that all stu-dents must learn Performing Arts in school.

Primary students to showcase music skill

L o c a l N e w s vanuatu Daily Post | Friday September 30, 2011 [ 3 ]

UNELCO reportedly refuses to supply info to URA

By Thompson MarangoVanuaTu’s leadinG elecTriciTy services provider, UNELCO is said to be holding back infor-mation on tariff required by the Utilities Regulatory Authority (URA).

The URA requires the infor-mation to carry out an initia-tive to evaluate the various tariff categories or plans that UNELCO customers may sign up for.

“These categories can have a significant influence on cus-tomer bills,” said URA Chair-person, Johnson Naviti during a press conference Monday this week.

He said the information is needed to carry out the URA’s mandate of “ensuring afford-able access to electricity”.

“The evaluation of tar-iff categories for customers in Malekula, Port Vila, and Tanna is currently ongoing, however is being delayed due to UNELCO’s refusal to pro-

vide required information,” he added.

The information was denied although it requirement for the URA is provided for under the URA Act in order to pro-

vide better analysis. According to the URA, in

the meantime Luganville cus-tomers are benefiting since January 1 2011 from the Authority’s original 6.8%for

small consumers. The URA aided by the cooperation of VUI (electricity provider in Luganville) has also put in place a revised tariff struc-ture which streamlines the

various plan options to the benefit of customers.

Another issue raised by the URA Chairperson is a required investment plan which UNELCO as the elec-tricity provider is required to provide.

“The application of a Cap-ital Asset Pricing Model (or CAP M) ensures that beyond the actual costs, UNELCO is rewarded with a return on investment at a fair and rea-sonable level.

“This ensures that UNELCO maintains investments in net-work infrastructure, which is paid by customers through the tariff. It also ensures that UNELCO does not ben-efit from profits beyond fair returns for those invest-ments.

“The Authority has pro-vided for almost Vt 3.5 Bil-lion for investments over years, which is already being paid for by customers

through the tariff.The Authority has made

a point in it tariffs deci-sion that only investments included in an approved an approved investment plan will be allowed to be passed through to customers.

“Should such a plan not meet defined requirements, the authority will make a claim for customer.”

According to information revealed at the press confer-ence such investment plan is yet to be made by UNELCO.

Meanwhile the Authority is said to be well aware that energy costs are a significant factor in Vanuatu’s economic development.

Due to the government’s concern over high electric-ity prices has requested the Authority to undertake a full tariff review of UNEL-CO’s operations in Lugan-ville, Malekula, Port Vila and Tanna.

By Godwin LigoparT oF The VanuaTu priMe Minister’s speech to the UN General Assembly last week touched on the issues of colo-nialism and imperialism.

He told the 66th Session of the UN that colonialism and all forms of imperialism must be addressed by the United Nations.

“One of the reasons why the United Nations system was created was to devel-op friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equality rights and self-determination of peoples.

“Therefore colonial rule is obsolete and must be addressed with new drive and vision.

“The United Nations as well as the international com-munity must continue in their efforts to address issues of decolonisation in those non-self-governing territories who are still yearning for free-dom,” Prime Minister Kilman told the UN General Assem-

bly last Saturday. He went on to state that:

“The mandate of the Special Committee on Decolonisation must be strengthened and all means should be accorded to the Committee to allow it to magnify the suppressed voic-es of the peoples in all non-governing territories who are still under the control of administrative powers, espe-cially where serious human rights violations are report-ed.”

Still on the issue of colo-nialism and imperialism, the Vanuatu Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly: “My country, Vanuatu was the last in the Pacific region to be decolonized. Since our inde-pendence in 1980, we have continued to speak out for the inalienable rights of the colonised indigenous peo-ples of Oceania and in cer-tain parts of the Asian region where either administrative or colonial powers still retain authority.”

“Mr President, my gov-

ernment also calls upon the United Nations to ensure that demands for French Poly-nesia’s right to self-determi-nation, are not just rejected.

“We along with many other Pacific nations support calls for the re-inscription of the French administered territory with the United Nations Spe-cial Committee on Decoloni-sation.

“This would be the first major step in the proc-ess of their self-determina-tion. Vanuatu encourages the French administered territo-ry of French Polynesia, and in the same spirit that of New Caledonia to continue to seek meaningful dialogue with France in order to find ways to ensure that freedom of the colonized peoples of Ocean-ia is fully realised,” PM Kil-man said.

He stated that embedded amongst the core principles of the UN Charter, this Organisa-tion must guarantee universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms of all

the oppressed. The universal pursuit of

democratic reforms, good governance and adherence to human rights conventions have often concealed the sufferings of many peoples, denying them their rights to decide their destiny without fear and reprisals, Kilman said.

“The United Nations must step up its efforts to exercise their freedom from the tenta-cles of foreign rule, a misgiv-ing so troublesome in these modern times.

“One day, I said one day, al l the indigenous peo-ples of Oceania and beyond must reach their destination of freedom, a destination promised to all humani-ty, a right that the Creator endowed upon on all peo-ples, and that no earthly power can deny where they could live and be self-ruled in free association with the international community of nations,” PM Kilman told the UN Assembly.

By Johnety JeretyThe people oF Malekeula in MalaMpa proVince haVe welcomed the new initiative taken by the Australian gov-ernment to fund the maintenance of roads in their island but also raised concern that the width of the road may be too small for their vehicles and may result in acci-dents in future.

The Australian government through its transport sec-tor support program funded the road project rom PRV round about to Lambubu Wharf in Northwest Malekula.

The concern was raised mainly by vehicle owners and drivers who were using the road daily, but also praised the Australian government for the initiative taken to improve the condition of the road on their island.

Daily Post was informed by the Malampa Public Works Unit in Lakatoro who is coordinating the program that the width of the road is 4 meters which is too small for two vehicles.

Malampa public works unit has confirmed that the width of that road was reduced based on what is known as the traffic count initiated by the project.

“We have employed few people to count the number of vehicles that are using the road every day and the finding shows that not too many vehicles are using the road.

“There should not be any problem for those vehicles that are using the road”, a representative of the Malam-pa Public Works unit explained.

Daily Post was also informed that there will be a sim-ilar traffic count after 15 years and it may be possible then to increase the width of the road based on the number of vehicles.

Several local contractors on the island have won the contracts to use their man power to work on the road.

Road improvements on Malekula welcomed

Colonialism and imperialism must be addressed by UN: Kilman

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Deeper insight into criticisms against a 'sleeping delegate'

This piece is noT To pro-TecT the lone fighter in the picture, but to underscore the truth and encourage a national spirit of oneness and to promote greater sense of defence of nation-alism and patriotism in our nation.

First, let’s understand some facts. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the UN environment and the way the cameras are set up from a bird’s eye view (along the walls, several meters up), it is not hard for pro-fessional photographers to pick their moments and take these kinds of nice pictures instantly when such relaxing and diplomatically impartial postures are observed. It is more appropriate for one to pause and pretend to be seriously concentrating had one knew that a photograph is about to be taken.

However, this shot was unexpected. We have seen such experiences many times everywhere, done by pro-fessionals who have author-ity over their own camera and have all the power to angle a shot in such a way that supports their choice of interpretation.

Therefore the manner, the angle and the moment this picture was captured con-veys an interpretation of napping. What I would sug-gest is a factual interpreta-tion and should be conveyed as the real message, setting aside all other demeaning, childish and immature inter-pretations. First, such pos-tures are habitual for some people and in this case it was absolutely no differ-ent. However, it is easy to give false interpretations to any posture seen in a pic-ture, and unfortunately this has been the case. The Min-istry of Foreign Affairs has provided adequate explana-tions.

The moment this picture was shot by a foreign jour-nalist was an interesting session in which Iran deliv-ered a very provocative statement against Western Powers, prompting a mass walkout from the UN Gener-al Assembly hall by all West-ern powers including Israel who have bad relations with Iran. You could imagine that

the environment at that time was dense and many chairs were empty. And who could sleep at such an interesting hour when the commotion was intense and political differences between great nations of the world was being played out? This is something not many critics of the governmenthave seen in regional meetings.

A trained diplomat would understand that a walk-out in such a moment is a symptom of a strong disap-proval and protest. Similar-ly a posture as observed in the picture is a sign of with-drawal from the commotion and political differences of those who create enemies with each other. Vanuatu has a non-alignment policy. It grows friends and chooses to avoid creating enemies or seen to be associating with some of our close partners who have significantly dif-ferent world views on inter-national political relations.

Vanuatu’s non-alignment policy encapsulates, inter alia, a fundamental belief that it will remain abso-lutely neutral from the glo-bal politics between the East and West. Vanuatu govern-ment officials are not igno-rant of these diplomatic skills and political divides. It would have appeared very embar-rassing for our people to be unrepresented during such moments. Our officials need to be present to observe and obtain these differences of opinions by world leaders so our government could be served with impartial poli-cy suggestions which would constitute our national state-ment.

But then the question arises over the wherea-bouts of other members of Vanuatu delegation. It has to be understood that there are other bilateral meet-ings going on at the same time. Delegation members have also been assigned duties to cover other meet-ings, simultaneously being held around the other facil-ities of the United Nations Headquarters. Often dur-ing such times, the capacity of all Vanuatu government officials accompanying the Head of Government would be absolutely stretched to

the limit. Sleepless nights, frequently missing meals, and having late dinners after attending other diplomatic engagementsare common of life at the United Nations.It becomes an enormous chal-lenge, imposing great strain on a few members of dele-gation striving to do their utmost best for their coun-try. This is no easy life for small delegations. Yet gov-ernment officials have to do it to serve their nation with little appreciation, little pay, no life insurance and huge criticisms from the very peo-ple they have pledged to serve and guard. Such is the irony of a life of service of a patriot and a pilgrim in this unkind world.

Second, it may have been that the posture portrayed a napping f igure , wi th the body language over-w h e l m e d b y d r u n k e n -ness, as had been nicely expressed by some critiques from the staff of one of the foreign diplomatic offic-es in Port Vila. Indeed, the idea of drunkenness again is false, let alone the bruis-ing comments concerning night clubbing, and the like. When you are a dip-lomat, the idea of being in strange places is ludicrous under such circumstances when assignments are ever before you. Certainly, the critics had been succumbed to a foreign journalist’s idea of discrediting our nation, a country that has a growing reputation internationally. Perhaps their tactic was to instigate intimidation and mockery of our government, our nation and our people by all foreign journalists and external powers.

The ac t o f be l i t t l ing younger nations like ours, led alone our representa-tives, is unforgivable to all nationalists. We have seen these kinds of imprudent games played out in many international negotiations and meetings. But as peace-makers, Vanuatu govern-ment officials should remain calm and be under control, nor should they be intimi-dated by sarcasm, ignorance and irrationality of those interested in making money while murdering the spir-its of our people. We have a

strong spirit. Third, such situations

have given al l of us an opportunity for self-assess-ments , on the bas i s o f maturity, the kind of early parental trainings received, respect, defence of our very own nationals and such other virtue. We all accept that such situations do emerge from time to time. But we should always remember that we exist as a nation and not individual government officials fighting on their own. Individuals shall one day vanish from this earth. But the legacy of brotherhood and patriotism

will live on if we live today as one nation, one brother-hood in arms in defence of our nation and people. We should be ready to fight even for a disabled child, a mother and our leaders against peo-ple who have evil intentions against us as a people.

A n y i n n o c e n t p e r -son could be subject to false accusation and be a victim of a fabricated interpreta-tion. But peace and calm must overwhelm our spir-it. A ni-Vanuatu is a peace-maker and not a slanderer. It is therefore important to bury this issue now and con-verge all our efforts in pro-

moting positive attitudes towards building this young nation. We must keep fight-ing. Be a man and defend the truth. Focus on the pos-itive side of things. Some-thing good will always come out of something bad. Our nation, founded on our faith in God, must choose to glori-fy God and others more than striving to win all the fame.Let’s focus on the future. The past lessons will strengthen and embolden our resolve. We should all dream that one day our nation will be united with strong sense of patriot-ism and pride against all divi-sive and alien spirit.

It is very unfortunate that the picture circulated has provided certain scenario of interpretations by our very good friends, an MP and other unfamiliar personalities. All comments were rather childish, untrue and

demeaning for our nation and our government, writes Johnny Koanapo from the Department of Foreign Affairs in New York, following the photo that was printed on the front page recently.

T I V vanuatu Daily Post | Friday, September 30 , 2011[ 5 ]

Despite all best efforts by the Ministry of Lands to bring some cohesion and coordination into the Environment Department, all the legislation in the world cannot assist until they have the fundamental management of these projects, cor-rect case management, best practic-es and correct office procedures in place to meet critical reporting time during the course of these develop-ments.

All the regulation will do is set out what is needed but it won’t fix the issues unless competent staff and other resources are available for enforcement.

Despite two years of trying, Transparency Vanuatu has been frustrated by the lack of certain fun-damental elements – the Environ-ment Department’s failure to answer letters, the Department’s failure to keep appointments, the constant answering to our telephone or email requests for appointments being “we have staff away on leave or holiday or attending a conference”.

With so much development cur-rently going on throughout the country, now more than ever before we need proper EIA’s proper follow up and proper enforcement of the law if and when breaches of plan-ning permissions or the Environ-mental protection laws are found to have taken place.

We need action if these devel-opments which are commencing or have commenced without the required EIA’s or PAA’s is to STOP ALL DEVELOPMENT UNTIL COM-PLIANCE IS IN PLACE – ie NO WORK – NO DEVELOPMENT – UNTIL AN EIA OR A PAA has been commissioned, consultation has taken place and only when all nec-essary approvals and laws have been complied should the project commence.

With the release of the first draft of the Environmental Protection and Conservation Act [Cap 283] it is possible to see some ground has been covered towards the institu-tion of some protection towards the environment and to stop the breach-es that have occurred in the past.

Unfortunately, this will not cover these projects which have been allowed to commence and are now causing disastrous affects on the environment with water pollution, air and dust pollution, health issues for residents where these non-com-pliant developments have been allowed to be built, noise pollution, loss of waterways and water quali-ty in the lagoons which may never been reversed.

Is this the environment we want to leave to our children?

It is now for the public to voice their concerns publically and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH. With the rapid population increase extreme pressures have been put on particu-larly our roadways, rivers, lagoons,

reefs and coastlines.Some developments of particular

concern are :(a) The development next to the ex Toa

Chicken Shop on George PompidouThis development is still with-

out a Preliminary Assessment or a Environmental Impact Assessment. How does the Environment Depart-ment think they can commence with new legislation if they can enforce the requests that have been set in the past?

We set out below our schedule of correspondence and contact made with the Environment Department which shows the difficulties Trans-parency Vanuatu has faced on just one file:

SCHEDULE OF CORRESPONDENCE /CON-TACT MADE

WITH THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENTProgress since reporting of complaint in

February 2009:- 26/02/09 – Letter to Trinison

Tari: RE: please check to see if EIA has been conducted

- 10/03/09 – Letter to David Kel-len Esrom: seeking confirmation that Eco-Man Consultants Ltd is monitoring the development of the activities at Foreshore Develop-ment and Rehabilitation of Ewanesu Island, Emtem Lagoon

- 02/04/09 – Meeting with Trini-son Tari: PAA conducted by EU that did not require a full EIA. Drew

plans to level the bottom of the cliff for the construction of a ware-house.

- 14/05/09 – Letter to Trinison Tari: request for PAA reports for Ex Toa Chicken and Tuna Fishing Plant at ex VMA Wharf

- 18/03/10 – Letter to Albert Wil-liams: RE: no response to previous letters and still no access to PAA

- 14/06/10 - Meeting with Trinison Tari:

o Mr Williams informed ALAC that:

• Letter has been sent to Les-sees to stop work at Ex Toa Chicken Shop

• Mr Tari stated that the depart-ment does not want to take legal action against the Lessees as they are short staffed

• Same situation has been seen with Kakula and Department of Environment being issued with heavy legal damages

- 28/06/10 – Letter to Albert Wil-liams: RE: minutes from meeting with Department of Environment

- 01/11/10 – ALAC trying to con-tact Reedly Tari (EIA Officer)

- 04/11/10 – ALAC spoke to Reedly Tari RE: developer (Drew) advised by Department to stop work due to unsafe conditions for residents and grave environmental impact. Week of 01/11/10: was when the ‘stop work’ was ordered by the develop-

ers.- 03/12/10 – After a phone call to

Director Williams, ALAC was not given any information on how this case is progressing.

- 17/01/11 - Telephone call to EIA Unit (Mr Tari) who was out of office asking for update. Left mes-sage for him to call. No response. Tried to call later in day.

- 03/02/11 – Letter to Harry Iauko, Minister of Lands, Geology & Mines seeking a reply to all letters and awaiting advice on EIA report to issue. To date, no reply.

- 25/03/11 - Letter to Prime Minister and copies to Ministers of Land and Infrastructure and Ombudsman

April – September 2011 – meetings have been unsuccessfully coor-dinated – stating, “Director too busy, other staff away on leave, staff on conferences, we will ring you back”.

Results of No EIAAs a result of this development

having no Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) there are now serious concerns with regard to pollution in this area and from the fish handling facility in the area which all adds to the pollution within the harbour.

If the EIA had been correctly implemented at the commence-ment of this project there would

be no need for bringing this mat-ter to the attention of the Public.

What is of concern is that in The Independent newspaper it was reported on 2 July 2011 that ..."the Director of the Environ-ment Albert Williams said he was not in a position to com-ment over the matter as his office did not receive any official complaint in rela-tion to the matter raised”.

This statement from Director Williams is entirely incorrect as Transparency Vanuatu first lodged their complaint in February 2009 and if the Director was at all aware of incoming correspondence with-in his office and most addressed to him personally he would be well aware that this official complaint being lodged with his office.

Transparency had also held meetings with him and his Depart-ment during the course of this file as itemized above. This matter has been unsatisfactorily dealt with from the outset and as such, the situation is being aggravat-ed by their lack of efficiency and effectiveness in dealing with the issues put to their Department.

If this error is due to lack of “Training” and “Awareness” by their employees, then we call upon the Government to bring in the trainers so that these staff members can receive correct train-ing or bring in trainers who can show them how to run their files correctly and provide proper case management.

The Government is endeavour-ing to strengthen the law but with-out staff who are properly trained these laws will be just as ineffec-tive because the staff will not have the skills and resources needed to bring about the changes required.

Transparency Vanuatu has offered to help and seek some assistance from Australia where EIA staff or volunteers could be sought to offer assistance. How-ever, this offer has received no response.

On the other hand, when we quite correctly bring an issue to the fore-front such as these environmen-tal disasters awaiting to happen we are often targeted with emails which are both slanderous and obnoxious, attacks which in other countries have led to the attackers being charged with offences, breach of electron-ic media laws etc… Often the most hostile emails come from Government Ministers or senior officials who, sadly, are often the biggest culprits when it comes to breaking the law or avoiding the legal requirements.

At the end of the day, the present generation leaves the planet to the children of the next generation, and it is - or should be - the responsibili-ty of all elected leaders and appoint-ed officials to ensure that the laws designed to protect the environment are respected and obeyed.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT - ARE THERE DEVELOPMENT DISASTERS

JUST WAITING TO HAPPEN?

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No 52%

Dear Editor,A picture is worth a thousand

words. A couple days ago a pictureof a Vanuatu official who was attend-ing the UNGA was circulated viaemail, then now already all over themedia. It was easier for the UN pho-tographer, who perhaps had nothingproductive to do, to refer to the del-egate as taking a nap; it attracts andsells better.

The question I asked Hon. Ralphand others via email when the newswas being spread around was,where's the fact that the delegate wastaking a nap? Just because the pho-

tographer's picture caption says it isdoes not make it a fact. Somebodyalso sarcastically commented thatperhaps the officer had succumbedto the effects of “New York wine”,when this particular official does nottake any form of alcoholic beverages.Wrong interpretation again.

While I cannot speak for the offi-cer's current organisation, what I'veknown of him for 5 years was thathe delivers quality service and to thebest of his abilities in the workplace,fully committed, and is a high flyer.That is why he is where he is today!

The locally added caption in the

email titled 'bigfala shame'did nothelp. Quite frankly and respectfully,I found this irresponsible and offen-sive especially when the facts weren'teven established at the time of cir-culation, and when the email wentout without an added explanation asto what the word 'shame' actuallymeant. This in effect opened thereaders to their own wild and nega-tive interpretations which were allwrong. That's the most shamefulpart.

Yours sincerely,Howard Aru

Canberra

Re: UNGA Vanuatu delegate: Where's the evidence? Where's the proof?

Dear Editor,Thank yu blong allowem space

long column blong yu blong mi saveraisem up issue andap. Since hemikarem position ia for some monthsnao mi luk olsem chairman blongPSC ino perform as job descriptionblong hem I talem long staff manu-al blong olgeta.

It is so obvious se taem ChairmanI no occupy position ia yet hemi wanvery staunch critic blong tokagensem government issues, buttime hemi karem position ia hemi nosave toktok o kam wan puppet bage-

gen. Is it because hemi stap karem fat

wages or driving long a luxury vehi-cle?

It's about time that ol kind posi-tion olsem government of day inorecruitem olgeta from political affil-iation, o who I know, but from amerit criteria from it's a waste of tax-payers' money.

Chairman blong PSC I gud blongtime yu ridim concern blong mi plisyu start seriously blong tingtingblong mekem work we oli stap pemyu from, be yu no stap slip.

Blong helpem yu nomo, thesedays yumi still luk G-vehicles i stillused after working hours.

Especially long nakamals, dropemmo pick up ol pikinini long skul andthe list goes on.

The other thing is lateness andabsences long work, incompetentcivil servants and plenty more.

Remember se ol misuse olsemlong end blong day I mekem mifalaol taxpayer blong kam victim blongtax we mifala mas pem.

Concern taxpayer

PSC chairman i should start mekem wok blong hem

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vanuatu Daily Post Friday September 30, 2011 [ 7 ]

Today in history SEPT 30

1791Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna, Austria.1927Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run. The record stood until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. Mark McGwire beat Maris’s record in 1998 by hitting 70 and Barry Bonds topped this in 2001 with 73.1938Britain and France surrendered to Germany’s demands concerning the Sudetenland, and signed the Munich Pact.1946Twenty-two Nazi leaders were found guilty at the Nuremberg trials.1949The Berlin Airlift came to an end.1955Actor James Dean was killed in a car crash.1966Botswana gained its independence from Great Britain.

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Solution to your Sudoku puzzle

Tuvalu

Fiji

Tokelau

Samoa

P a P u a N e w G u i N e a ’ s Petroleum and Energy Min-ister says InterOil has been misleading major companies which are potential operators for the Gulf Province LNG Project.

The government has shelved InterOil’s planned project after it found the Canadian-based petrol com-pany deviated from the 2009 agreement it reached for the

project.The Minister, Will iam

Duma, says the agreement stipulated that the project involves a major international LNG operator, something he claims InterOil isn’t.

He says InterOil has denied a host of potential opera-tors access to data about the project as part of the due dili-gence.

“We’re not forcing them

to go into bed with a particu-lar company. All we’re saying is look, these are the options; explore them and do a deal and sell down the equity and develop the project and get on with it. InterOil for some reason is misleading a lot of people. It’s a concern. Papua New Guinea is a small coun-try, we have to be frank with each other.”

—RNZI

PNg accuses interoil of misleading companies

The chairPersoN of a Pacific region organisation, advocat-ing freedom of speech and independent media, says she’s shocked a media summit will be held in Fiji in March.

The Pacific Islands News Association has rescheduled the summit after New Guinea told PINA it wouldn’t be able to host the biennial event in

November.With strict media cen-

sorship employed by Fiji’s interim regime the chair of Pacific Freedom Forum, Titi Gabi, says it’s a concern PINA will take the summit to Fiji. “What’s to say that everyone that gets there won’t be moni-tored. Journalists that attend won’t be looking over our

backs all the time. It’s just not a great place to go and talk about media freedom.....not now...not yet.” said Titi Gabi

The PINA president Moses Stevens says taking the summit to Fiji will help foster better relations between the media and the interim regime.

—RNZI

Advocate of media freedom shocked media summit scheduled for Fiji

iNTerNaTioNal aid efforTs are helping Tuvalu with a criti-cal water shortage, with an emergency now declared in Funafuti.

The International Fed-eration of the Red Cross regional office is assisting the Tuvalu Red Cross to deal with low fresh water levels on Nukulaelae, south of Funafuti.

A joint assessment mis-sion was sent to Nukulaelae last week, where the team

also delivered 11,000 litres of water to its more than 300 people residents that should last for about two weeks.

The IFRC Disaster Man-agement co-ordinator, Ysa-beau Rycx, says the water shortage has also hit the capital island.

“They have declared a state of emergency for the next 14 days because there is a low level of water on Funafuti island as well.”

—RNZI

Tuvalu capital suffers from

water shortage

Tokelau is To accomPaNy Samoa in its move across the dateline at the end of the year.

The General Manager of Tokelau’s National Public Service says the fono’s deci-sion to move west of the dateline maintains alignment with Samoa, where its admin-istration is based.

After December the 29th Tokelau and Samoa will skip one day and go straight to December the 31st.

Joe Suveinakama says the change will make it easier to do business with New Zealand.

“It’ll be useful that on Fridays we call New Zealand somebody will be on the other side of the office whereas at

the current time they come to work on Monday, it’s our Sunday, we come to work on Friday, it’s their Saturday, so we actually lose a day in terms of operation.”

Joe Suveinakama says Tokelau is working with New Zealand to prepare the legal framework for the switch.

—RNZI

Tokelau to follow Samoa on dateline switch

a church leader iN samoa says the sudden loss of life from the tsunami two years ago will always be remem-bered.

186 people died when the tsunami hit Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

The Secretary General of the Samoa Council of Church-es, the Reverend Ma’auga Motu, says a ceremony will be held on Sunday to com-memorate the dead.

He says the service, organ-ised by church leaders and

the government, will also mark the start of a week of prayer and fasting when mourners won’t eat between midnight and noon each day until a feast on Friday.

The Reverend Motu says the church’s focus is to offer compassion to locals and friends from outside Samoa who lost family members.

“The victims of the tsu-nami will never be removed from the memories and from the minds of our people. And their death was a very

sudden ache in my country, it was a very sudden suffer-ing that came into the coun-try. And to take a hundred and more people, it’s too much for us.”

The Reverend Motu says the memorial service on Sunday will be held at the government’s burial site at Tafaigata, while some vil-lages will conduct their own ceremonies on Thursday to remember the 184 people who died.

—RNZI

Samoa church leaders says tsunami victims won’t be forgotten

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W o r l d N e w s[8 ] vanuatu Daily Post | Friday September 30, 2011

Libya

Nato plaNes have bombed targets in one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds, Sirte, as government forces continue their assault on the city.

Soldiers of the National Transitional Council (NTC) have been facing fierce resist-ance and deployed tanks to fend off sniper fire by Gadd-afi loyalists.

NTC forces have seized the port as they move towards the centre of Sirte - the birthplace of Libya’s ousted leader.

Civilians have been leaving the city, as water, food and medicine run low.

Br i ta in ’ s min i s t ry o f defence said Royal Air Force and Nato aircraft had been “very active” over Sirte on Tuesday, destroying military targets including ammunition storage facilities.

They a l so conducted strikes on a vehicle storage depot that has been serving as one of the main pro-Gadd-afi bases. The air strikes con-tinued on Wednesday.

Fierce resistanceAlong with the city of Bani

Walid, Sirte is the last major area under the control of Gaddafi loyalists. Both cit-ies have been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks.

In Bani Walid, according to one report, at least 11 NTC fighters were killed by rockets fired by pro-Gaddafi troops on Wednesday.

A field commander said resistance from fighters loyal to Col Gaddafi had stalled the NTC’s advance on the city.

“There is always incoming missile and artillery fire. We are returning fire with heavy weapons but we are not send-ing in infantry,” Capt Walid Khaimej told AFP.

“Nato is here but is not doing enough. They take out the rocket launchers firing at us, but they are immediately replaced. We need more help from Nato.”

The Red Cross has warned that the living conditions for civilians both in Sirte and Bani Walid are becoming increas-ingly critical.

Civilians have continued to flee from Sirte, as a lack of clean drinking water is report-ed to have led to the spread of water-borne diseases.

“There’s no food, no elec-tricity. We were eating just bread,” Sirte resident Saraj al-Tuweish told AFP news agency as he left the city on Tuesday.

“I’ve been trying for 10 days to get out and every

time the army forced us back. Today, we used a dirt road early in the morning and we managed to escape.”

In the capital, Tripoli, interim authorities said they

had found the site of a fur-ther mass grave, near the Rixos Hotel. They said that eight bodies had so far been uncovered.

It is thought Col Gaddafi

is still in Libya but his loca-tion is unknown. Many of his inner circle have already fled the country.

His daughter Aisha escaped to Algeria several weeks ago,

and has appeared on the Syrian-based Arrai TV chan-nel telling the audience her father was healthy and fight-ing alongside his troops.

—BBC

Libya conflict: Nato hits Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte

Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters pray at an outpost in the outskirts of Bani Walid on September 28, 2011.

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SPORTS INBRIEFBOXING

International Amateur Boxing Association defend championship seedingThe International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) has dismissed critics of the Amateur World Championships seeding system. The competition, currently being held in Azerbaijan, acts as qualifiers for the London 2012 Olympics. All nine Azerbaijani boxers were given a top-eight seeding, some above their world ranking, ensuring an easier path. An AIBA statement said: “The insinuations are nothing more than a cheap shot.” They added: “AIBA objects to the insinuations contained in recent media reports that changes in relation to the seeding of boxers at the World Championships were introduced for any improper purpose.”[The insinuations] demonstrate unfamiliarity with the rules, structure and ethos of AIBA and AIBA competitions.” The draw has fuelled further controversy after the BBC last week made allegations, which were strongly denied by AIBA, that Azerbaijan was promised two gold medals at the Olympics in exchange for a £5.8m loan to AIBA’s World Series Boxing. Damian Collins, a British member of Parliament, has called for the International Olympic Committee to ensure all competitors in London next year are there on merit.

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Rugby World Cup 2011: Leguizamon fit for Argentina v GeorgiaJuan Manuel Leguizamon has been passed fit for Argentina’s decisive World Cup Pool B meeting with Georgia in Palmerston North on Sunday. The open-side flanker has overcome an ankle injury as the Pumas look to secure a place in the quarter-finals. Argentina will know exactly what they need to do after group rivals England and Scotland meet on Saturday. The injury-hit Pumas set up their chance with a 13-12 victory over Scotland last weekend. But they have been left to count the cost, with inspirational number eight Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe out for the tournament with a torn knee ligament. Leonardo Senatore replaces Lobbe while Leicester prop Marcos Ayerza starts in the front row in place of Rodrigo Roncero, who is sidelined with a thigh strain. Argentina coach Santiago Phelan has made one further change in the pack, with lock Mariano Galarza coming in for Manuel Carizza, and two in the backs. Former Leicester player Lucas Amorosino, who scored the winning try against Scotland, is rewarded with a start at full-back while Juan Jose Imhoff comes onto the left wing. Argentina are expected to secure a bonus point win and advance to the last eight.

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Lionel Messi scores twice in Barca winLionel Messi moved into a tie for second place on Barcelona’s career scoring list, getting a goal in each half Wednesday night to lead the defending champions to a 5-0 victory at BATE Borisov of Belarus in the European Champions League. Messi scored in the 38th and 55th minutes to give him 14 goals in 10 games this season and 194 in his career, matching Laszlo Kubala. Just 24, Messi is closing in on Cesar Rodriguez’s team record of 235 goals from 1942-55. “I am very happy to have equaled a man who was so important in the history of this club,” Messi said. “I knew that I could match Kubala, but I didn’t go out tonight thinking about scoring goals, nothing of the sort, just playing like always.” At Minsk, Aleksandr Volodko’s own goal put Barcelona ahead in the 19th minute, and Pedro Rodriguez doubled the lead three minutes later. David Villa added a goal in the 90th. Barcelona (1-0-1) leads Group H on goal difference over AC Milan .

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Seven dead in riot in MoroccoSeven people were killed in a riot following a soccer match in Morocco’s disputed Western Sahara region, the state news agency reported Tuesday. The riot in the town of Dakhla began after Mohammedia club Chebab, from just north of Casablanca, beat the local Mouloudia club 3-0 on Sunday. Three people died after being run over by vehicles and two of the others killed were policemen, state media quoted local officials as saying. Rival fans began throwing stones at each other and then “criminals” took advantage of the chaos to attack people with knives and clubs, the Oued-Eddahab-Lagouira province said in a statement. Initial reports said some 27 people were wounded and vehicles and businesses were also torched. The rioting is under investigation.

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Holders FC BarCelona and Arsenal FC recorded their first victories while Olympique de Marseille made it two wins out of two on Wednesday night.

Winners of the competi-tion in three of the last six seasons, Barcelona were held to a 2-2 draw by AC Milan on matchday one, but turned in a clinical performance to

win 5-0 at FC BATE Borisov. Milan also triumphed, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Antonio Cas-sano on target in a 2-0 defeat of FC Viktoria Plzeć.

Olympique de Marseille were emphatic winners in Group F against Borussia Dortmund, André Ayew con-tributing to a 3-0 success with a goal in either half. Didier Deschamps’ side may

be struggling domestically, but are perfect in Europe. They are two points clear of Arsenal, who took an early two-goal lead against Olym-piacos FC, but were made to work for victory after David Fuster soon got one back.

Chelsea FC were denied a second straight win after Roberto Soldado’s 87th-minute penalty cancelled out

Frank Lampard’s effort. In Group E’s other game, Bayer 04 Leverkusen beat 2-0 KRC Genk. FC Zenit St Petersburg bounced back from their shock loss to APOEL FC by beating FC Porto 3-1, while last season’s quarter-finalists FC Shakhtar Donetsk were themselves frutstrated by the Cypriot side in a 1-1 draw.

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all BlaCks assistant CoaCH Wayne Smith has added his voice to growing concern over the apparent tactic of some teams to slow play down through injury breaks.

Nobody’s actually point-ing the finger, but Scotland captain Rory Lawson was clearly frustrated after his side’s 13-12 loss to Argentina on Sunday after a seemingly endless string of stoppages to tend to Pumas forwards.

Re f e r e e s h a v e b e e n instructed not to stop play for injuries during the World Cup unless they are serious, but the scrum remains a grey area as it cannot be safely packed down without all members of the tight five.

‘’I wonder if that’s a tac-tic,’’ Smith said when asked

yesterday if he had noted the trend. ‘’Look its a fine line isn’t it because you want the game to go on. I’m really anti teams stopping play and throwing injuries.

‘’If a player’s injured and he’s not part of the front row

at scrum time then the game should go on, but it’s a fine line.

‘’It’s sometimes hard to tell between the genuine injuries and the niggles. I don’t know what the answer is but ... I’d like to see minor injuries being minor injuries and let the play go on around them.’’

Lawson stopped short of saying he thought the Pumas had feigned injuries, but admitted he had raised his growing frustration with referee Wayne Barnes during the match.

‘’From a Scotland point of view when you stop for a set piece [so often] ... it obvi-ously made it difficult,’’ Law-son said. ‘’I thought certainly in the first half when we had gone a number of phases and

put a fair bit of of pressure on and the next set phase there were guys going down, but again it’s something we don’t have control of.’’

An IRB spokesman con-f i rmed there are three instances in which the referee must stop play.

One, is if he is on the spot and deems the injury seri-ous and the injured player is in danger of being caught up in play. Two, is if a team medic uses the ‘X’ arm signal to indicate a serious injury, as was the case when Samoan hooker Ti’i Paulo went down at Eden Park. And three, is if the injured player is a front-row player and that the next play is a scrum.

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Barça, Arsenal gain first wins as Marseille march on

Concern growing over deliberate injury breaks

WAYNE SMITH: ‘’I wonder if that’s a tactic. Look its a fine line isn’t it because you want

the game to go on. I’m really anti teams stopping play and throwing injuries.”

André Santos struck Arsenal’s winner on matchday two

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