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Queens Baton arrives at Vanuatu's biggest Village | VBTC News
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- Queens Baton arrives at Vanuatu's biggest Village | VBTC News
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- People of Mele Village celebrated the arrival of the Queen Baton this week.
Former Netball players, Cricket and Beachvolleyabll players were among those who participated in the relay.
Table Tennis star, Yoshua Shing was one of the baton bearer on the second day of the Batons trip to Vanuatu.
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- Limited fundings delays Vaccination roll out in SHEFA | VBTC News
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- SHEFA Health have confirmed that due to limited fundings they were unable to send vaccination teams to Shepherd Islands and Epi Island.
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- Concerns over Government support to rural and community health centers | VBTC News
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Concern has been raised over government support to health centres around Efate following its decision to restrict the main hospital in Port Vila for only serious Illnesses.
This is part of the government's plan towards the reopening of the borders.
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- Another 4 COVID-19 case confirmed - PM Announcement | VBTC News
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- 8:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Prime Minister Hon. Bob Loughman WEIBUR has announced that there are 4 new confirmed COVID-19 border cases. Three Passengers from a New Caledonia flight and the other is a frontline worker.
During his announcement he also stated that temporary closure on inbound repatriation flight is uplifted.
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- Booster Shots Continues in Efate | VBTC News
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Role out of Booster shots in Port Vila begins with heaps of people lining up for the shot.
The Ministry of health is encouraging people to come forward for the booster shot.
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- PM Announcement on 4 Covid 19 Case | VBTC News
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- 11:09
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Vanuatu Prime Minister Hon. Bob Loughman WEIBUR had announced that there are 4 confirmed COVID-19 case in Government managed Quarantine. 3 Passengers from a flight in New Caledonia and one from Brisbane Australia. 10 Close contacts are under investigation. Efate and Offshore islands currently on LEVEL 1 ALERT.
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- Ni-Vanuatu Seasonal Worker in Australia Commits suicide | VBTC News
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Labour department said the Police in Mareeba town in Queensland have confirmed the dead of a Ni-Vanuatu seasonal worker. The police have reported that the cause of dead is suicide.
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- VBTC to broadcast OFC World Cup qualifying round | VBTC News
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Cooperation will air all 15 matches of the Qatar OFC qualification round from March 17th to March 30th.
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- Government provides subsidy to 11 Private Sector | VBTC News
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- 3:12
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Vanuatu government has given VT148million as subsidy to 11 private sectors.
These private sectors are mostly involved in the production of agricultural products.
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- Tanna roads damaged by flooding | VBTC News
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Earlier this week work continues to repair roads damages during heavy rainfall caused by cyclone
Dovi last week.
The Public Works department has been working throughout the weekend to fix the roads on Tanna island in Vanuatu.
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- COVID-19 Volunteer’s strike | VBTC News
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- 3:19
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- COVID-19 volunteering responsible for entering vaccination data are on strike due to late release of
allowance.
According to information the government hasn’t release any allowances since July last year.
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- TC Dovi flood waters destroy homes and gardens | VBTC Current Affairs
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- 17:07
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Families were forced to leave their homes as flood waters washed away houses and gardens.
Heavy rain caused the Prima River on Efate to overflow.
A Tanna chief - a resident of the Prima area, could only watch as flood water surged through the settlement.
Businesses were closed, transportation systems disrupted.
There were complaints about the late warnings and how the NDMO suddenly raised the "Red Alert" without the usual "Yellow" and "Green".
Former Director General of Climate Change and Member of Parliament for Tanna Consitituency, Jothan Napat labelled the VMGD as "incompetent."
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- Farmers forced to harvest root crops | VBTC News
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Rootcrop farmers were forced to harvest their Kasava due to heavy rain and flooding.
Farmers told VBTC News, they will lose all their crops if the rain continue.
These Kasava were sold at very cheap price around the capital. The Vanuatu Agriculture Farm at Tagabe was also flooded.
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- More flooding caused by heavy rainfall | VBTC News
- Runtime
- 4:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Low-Pressure system close to Vanuatu continue to cause major flooding issues. The system has
developed into a category 1 cyclone and located east of Tafea province moving in a south
Easterly direction. Major flooding is expected in Tafea island’s today as the system moves towards
New Caledonia.
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- The development of Industrial Hemp and medical Cannabis to start soon | VBTC News
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Minister of Agriculture, Willie Kalo Daniel, has confirmed work on establishing the development
of Industrial Hemp and Medical cannabis will begin in March.
This was approved in parliament last year.
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- Vanuatu islands experience flooding
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Luganville in Santo Island have reported flooding in some low-lying areas following heavy rainfall this
week.
The heavy rainfall is caused by a Tropical depression located South West of the Country and slowly
moving towards New Caledonia.
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- Booster Dose for frontline workers in Vanuatu | VBTC News
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Shefa Public health has released plans for booster shots especially for frontline worker in Vanuatu.
According to the plan they will be administering booster shots starting this month.
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- Vanuatu Squad for OFC preliminary world cup qualification | VBTC News
- Runtime
- 3:37
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Vanuatu football federation (VFF) has announced the final squad for the OFC qualifications for Qatar.
The Vanuatu Team include 3 overseas based players.
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- Three children died in a house fire | VBTC News
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- A five-year-old girl and her twin brothers age four died in a tragic house fire in Teouma Area, Efate.
Close relatives claim the fire was caused by a candle
The use of candle is not unusual in the area because most have no access to
electricity.
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