The new interest rate has been increased from 2,5% to 2,75%; the initiative of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu aims to control inflation, with the economy expected to grow by 3,6% this year

Vanuatu Teachers Union has issued a nationwide call for all teachers in government schools to stay away from classrooms at the start of Term 3 saying the government hasn't given evidence of its announcement that 94% of teachers’ claims have been paid

80% of Ni-Vanuatu are farmers, and PM Jotham Napat acknowledged the work of these men and women, the backbone of the nation, during Vanuatu’s 45th Independence Anniversary celebrations

A seasonal worker from South Santo has invested around VT2,5 million, or €18.000, of his earnings, together with labour from community members, to build a gravity-fed water system for his village