Comments on: Vanuatu – The World’s Happiest People? http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/ Opportunity and Equity Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:55:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-3091 Jack Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:55:17 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-3091 Westerners by and large are aquisitive and have been speculating island lands for hundeds of years. When you speak of taxing you have to speak of alienated land else the customary owners will also have to pay...generally impossible.I am often tempted to buy land in Vanuatu typically at Vial and avoiding snake hill...which has some magic fertility and water but the heat and humidity is devestating over a period unless you are aircon'd of course. Yes the $US60M was always going to be a land swarmer and Americans are right in the thick of opportunism...like awaiting Castro's death to rape the Cuban coastline.Personally I think Lini was right out of his depth. The introduction of Libya etc would red flag the US bull.and the culture is radically different Americans think they own the Pacific because their rel's fought there...they also think they were the heros of PNG but the Australians actually defeated the Japanese with some Americans under Australian command. Some of the Americans couldn't even fire a rifle and had to be retrained in Australia...a bit like the clown who commanded them and tragically,supremely, the Aussies... Macarthur.A hopeless case in such environments he was personally the cause of Nth Korea going atomic.An Australian designed the air tactics used by the Americans and America is a long way from Valuatu..though about to house 2500 of its meatheads in Darwin so Obama can ensure Pacic control "forever". Brits and Americans scoured the islands later for plane wrecks and body parts, selling videos of pilot and crew's last resting place to their loved ones for huge sums and selling body parts to the Japanese for ceremonies.The people still live in Vanuatu which organised the travesty. You speak of aid and those who use it. I wouldn't concern myself about the canadians, they are marginally more moral than the US.The usual American spies are entrenched on the Island posing as aid workers...it's all over and done!! Drug dealers posing as social engineers for peace are active on exporting Kava. This brain deadening slop is said to be "less violent" than alcohol...it may be after you have been smacked in the jaw by its Joe Palook fist but it isn't non violence causing.Purporting to create clean (non hepitis carrying) brew these criminal minds present this crap as something the world should welcome.It's traditional...let's leave it there chilling out the locals who have little future...but at work on Monday thy are not worth a dinar after Friday Kava...How naiive are other governments allowing this slop into further brain soften the population.I agree it might be less unsettling than Tusker but it isn't what it's claimed to be by the expat soaks who use it.I have heard all the rave reviews..it leaves me cold and I wonder when I see scantily clad beauties taken for Kava by amorous expats...she might be stunned...but he isn't and she'll be feeling around next day to see what happened last night....if her brain is unfuzzed.It's not addictive...people just yearn for it for the colour.Recommended by the local missionaries...just like Jesus would have done!! As for increasing wages...highly skilled trades would go to $46 within 5 years...wow!!...that's if they get paid, usually overtime is likely not to be, one can never tell.Perhaps the expat who is only charged 19c an hour can advise us but hen office costs are taken into account we are talking about Australian sized chargeout rates...that's why the whities own the boats and huge houses and live high on the hog and the nivns live up to a hundred or so in a building the same size as 4 whities. You can't rationally expect the locals to rule the place properly under white influence and control of resources.The culture of being "down" is endemic.That's why I tlk about "pixieland"...we are generally shocked and distressed but our interference is likely to worsen things.The Federal police cannot impprove the local police and while at work sometimes the Feds are robbed.Standover merchants from another island flood the police force and the "security" people...houses are targetted and robbed to sell "security"..the police are useless and I think two were involved in a bank fraud along with 2 politicians.They were notoriously useless during the machete attacks back in 2007.No longer though can murder and mayhem be returned as once was...The resolution of sexual aberrations is much more potent, forward looking and civilised than the west, where we like to bemoan sexual crimes forever and guild them up...they get on with life...a pig or two in recompense or if really over the top a nullnull.They don't need porn to get it up...well unless Karva affected...but there are local underground partner swappers in the expat community. It's a bit like they are the audience at a western play...I applaud the work increases about which you speak but at the birthrate....I'd say they are falling behind.There's plenty of scope for property maintenance run by nivans....bypassing the white bludgers but again whom can one trust? Westerners by and large are aquisitive and have been speculating island lands for hundeds of years. When you speak of taxing you have to speak of alienated land else the customary owners will also have to pay…generally impossible.I am often tempted to buy land in Vanuatu typically at Vial and avoiding snake hill…which has some magic fertility and water but the heat and humidity is devestating over a period unless you are aircon’d of course.

Yes the $US60M was always going to be a land swarmer and Americans are right in the thick of opportunism…like awaiting Castro’s death to rape the Cuban coastline.Personally I think Lini was right out of his depth. The introduction of Libya etc would red flag the US bull.and the culture is radically different Americans think they own the Pacific because their rel’s fought there…they also think they were the heros of PNG but the Australians actually defeated the Japanese with some Americans under Australian command. Some of the Americans couldn’t even fire a rifle and had to be retrained in Australia…a bit like the clown who commanded them and tragically,supremely, the Aussies… Macarthur.A hopeless case in such environments he was personally the cause of Nth Korea going atomic.An Australian designed the air tactics used by the Americans and America is a long way from Valuatu..though about to house 2500 of its meatheads in Darwin so Obama can ensure Pacic control “forever”.

Brits and Americans scoured the islands later for plane wrecks and body parts, selling videos of pilot and crew’s last resting place to their loved ones for huge sums and selling body parts to the Japanese for ceremonies.The people still live in Vanuatu which organised the travesty.

You speak of aid and those who use it. I wouldn’t concern myself about the canadians, they are marginally more moral than the US.The usual American spies are entrenched on the Island posing as aid workers…it’s all over and done!!

Drug dealers posing as social engineers for peace are active on exporting Kava. This brain deadening slop is said to be “less violent” than alcohol…it may be after you have been smacked in the jaw by its Joe Palook fist but it isn’t non violence causing.Purporting to create clean (non hepitis carrying) brew these criminal minds present this crap as something the world should welcome.It’s traditional…let’s leave it there chilling out the locals who have little future…but at work on Monday thy are not worth a dinar after Friday Kava…How naiive are other governments allowing this slop into further brain soften the population.I agree it might be less unsettling than Tusker but it isn’t what it’s claimed to be by the expat soaks who use it.I have heard all the rave reviews..it leaves me cold and I wonder when I see scantily clad beauties taken for Kava by amorous expats…she might be stunned…but he isn’t and she’ll be feeling around next day to see what happened last night….if her brain is unfuzzed.It’s not addictive…people just yearn for it for the colour.Recommended by the local missionaries…just like Jesus would have done!!

As for increasing wages…highly skilled trades would go to $46 within 5 years…wow!!…that’s if they get paid, usually overtime is likely not to be, one can never tell.Perhaps the expat who is only charged 19c an hour can advise us but hen office costs are taken into account we are talking about Australian sized chargeout rates…that’s why the whities own the boats and huge houses and live high on the hog and the nivns live up to a hundred or so in a building the same size as 4 whities.

You can’t rationally expect the locals to rule the place properly under white influence and control of resources.The culture of being “down” is endemic.That’s why I tlk about “pixieland”…we are generally shocked and distressed but our interference is likely to worsen things.The Federal police cannot impprove the local police and while at work sometimes the Feds are robbed.Standover merchants from another island flood the police force and the “security” people…houses are targetted and robbed to sell “security”..the police are useless and I think two were involved in a bank fraud along with 2 politicians.They were notoriously useless during the machete attacks back in 2007.No longer though can murder and mayhem be returned as once was…The resolution of sexual aberrations is much more potent, forward looking and civilised than the west, where we like to bemoan sexual crimes forever and guild them up…they get on with life…a pig or two in recompense or if really over the top a nullnull.They don’t need porn to get it up…well unless Karva affected…but there are local underground partner swappers in the expat community. It’s a bit like they are the audience at a western play…I applaud the work increases about which you speak but at the birthrate….I’d say they are falling behind.There’s plenty of scope for property maintenance run by nivans….bypassing the white bludgers but again whom can one trust?

]]> By: Jack http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-3090 Jack Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:58:39 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-3090 By the way the land ownership is NOT the same as in Canberra at all....Later on the 75 years was mentioned. Here's the heart of it...No sum of leases for a portion of land shall in any way exceed 75 years. Once the lease period has expired the land must be returned to the customary owner with all improvements intact and rentable, commensurate with age. Maintenance shall be undertaked in the lease period. The clear inference is that if you say "stuff them" and burn down the property you will be liable to rebuild.Unless the land is Torrens and excluded in some fashion..this is the general rule...ignored by nivans, ministers, so called "land agents"..and clients are lied-to about the reality.The law may be circumvented and ignored but it exists. When and if an agent tells you the lease recommences at 75 years when you buy it I suggest you get local legal advice because the "sum total of all leases not to exceed 75 years" does not allow 75 years to be reborn at every sale.I think the sharp witted and deprived next generation might be on your doorstep telling you your 75 years is up and it would be sage to be legally sure of your position. As for taxes etc...Vanuatu doesn't depend on them and it does encourage expansion, growth and money...all the things the cargo cult has loved forever. By the way the land ownership is NOT the same as in Canberra at all….Later on the 75 years was mentioned. Here’s the heart of it…No sum of leases for a portion of land shall in any way exceed 75 years. Once the lease period has expired the land must be returned to the customary owner with all improvements intact and rentable, commensurate with age. Maintenance shall be undertaked in the lease period. The clear inference is that if you say “stuff them” and burn down the property you will be liable to rebuild.Unless the land is Torrens and excluded in some fashion..this is the general rule…ignored by nivans, ministers, so called “land agents”..and clients are lied-to about the reality.The law may be circumvented and ignored but it exists. When and if an agent tells you the lease recommences at 75 years when you buy it I suggest you get local legal advice because the “sum total of all leases not to exceed 75 years” does not allow 75 years to be reborn at every sale.I think the sharp witted and deprived next generation might be on your doorstep telling you your 75 years is up and it would be sage to be legally sure of your position. As for taxes etc…Vanuatu doesn’t depend on them and it does encourage expansion, growth and money…all the things the cargo cult has loved forever.

]]> By: Jack http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-3089 Jack Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:37 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-3089 It's not all so simple...I thought it was when I lived there. In western countries government corruption and conrol by organisations one is banned from speaking about is ascertainable. In Vanuatu corruption and indolence of "Ministers" is obvious only when you deal with them, when you look at who defrauded the Bank, who gets into blues regularly, how useless are the police unless they feel inclined, how readily money sees land freed and sold with lies about permenant occupation and nivans never will have the money to rebuy it....that's not the law at all. There may be now some Torrens title. The independance was foolishly done, too soon, ill prepared. On the other hand there are thriving businesses in Vanuatu with massive import duties.There is a western society which operated from Satans Church until the locals burned it down and it moved to black sands where its white members continue to rule in their own interests, living high on the hog and paying $40/week to a thus well paid nivan for they charge more than that an hour. There are several names I recognised immediately as shonky solicitors and others from Australia..and on one can go. You cannot trust the government with increased income. It's all well and good to speculate religiously entranced nonsense about land and taxes when there are god only knows how many varieties of religious parasites sects are spruiking and hawking there,...14 is it?, selling "god" on a basis Jesus wouldn't recognise...the jews back at the time of the fictitious abraham might.... The local law was considerably superior to the Western and Judeo based law. the government and entrenched business live off investment money of private, criminal and overseas governments.The local chiefs are ot silly and some quickly suss a new person out...Little of what they get for the land goes to their people....it's also hard to share a Toyota and a year's fuel among 200 people.The corruption has been long in Vanuatu and the opportunism continues...so be it.The American based corruption concerning Santos a couple of years back was on a scale of Grandeur crooks like deRothshild would have applauded.Stability and a visioon enacted for work, hygeine and dignity are certainly required. The majority of ni vans are poor,daily seeing lavish life styles of expat. Murder is commonplace especially when chinese nationals come to undersell food, rice cement and so on.The entrenched opposition has them murdered. Tinned food from Chinese markets is often disgusting and the Triad rules there, using Vanuatu as a base for illegal chinese entry to NZ and Australia. That could be cleaned out but the politicians and police couldn't give a toss. Plenty will talk about it all but no one wants it to change except the ring-ins who live in some variation of pixieland or religious waffleland...and what they want is simply an uncontrollable mess....but so long as the church plate rattles these ruiners of peace will continue to postulate their ignorance. Sadly "Islam" is becoming more and more visible...there's always some religious leech or another who learned the mantras in places like the Pacific Islands.Someone wants them to stop speaking French and English and speak Bislama. I will not speak this pigeon English devised by missionaries and expats too lazy to learn the local lingo. Bislama to me is demeaning of the people and almost useless elsewhere...English and French language can expand the nivan balloon in the outer world, though few will ever visit it.They speak bislama, yes but hundreds are expert also with French. Finally Vanuatu is essentially a cost to the rest of the world, living very much on government aid.Land and businesses grow from that aid, however corruptly the money is "allocated". Vanuatu is and will continue to be westernised and largly French in outlook even though heads were still rolling from the guillotine until the 1950's I was told. Sadly a low class of tourist is attracted there and vd is high. Women, especially older, come for a black male experience and will pay well for it. Men get a better deal. I have quite a sense of what will 'help' in Vanuatu.They have such talented workers when trained but no proper training. The government couldn't give a toss, in my experience, the ministers are doing just fine....living as kings of old might. The lesser nivans are not so silly as to live on beachfronts and that's why beachfront was carved up.So much could be written but my somewhat disjointed letter covers some skerricks.It's all very well to feel epowered asa do gooder but look at your own country, then Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and others "democracy" has raided and ruined and think about he indoctrination you carry.By the way, nivans can speak for themselves you know.... It’s not all so simple…I thought it was when I lived there. In western countries government corruption and conrol by organisations one is banned from speaking about is ascertainable. In Vanuatu corruption and indolence of “Ministers” is obvious only when you deal with them, when you look at who defrauded the Bank, who gets into blues regularly, how useless are the police unless they feel inclined, how readily money sees land freed and sold with lies about permenant occupation and nivans never will have the money to rebuy it….that’s not the law at all. There may be now some Torrens title. The independance was foolishly done, too soon, ill prepared. On the other hand there are thriving businesses in Vanuatu with massive import duties.There is a western society which operated from Satans Church until the locals burned it down and it moved to black sands where its white members continue to rule in their own interests, living high on the hog and paying $40/week to a thus well paid nivan for they charge more than that an hour. There are several names I recognised immediately as shonky solicitors and others from Australia..and on one can go. You cannot trust the government with increased income. It’s all well and good to speculate religiously entranced nonsense about land and taxes when there are god only knows how many varieties of religious parasites sects are spruiking and hawking there,…14 is it?, selling “god” on a basis Jesus wouldn’t recognise…the jews back at the time of the fictitious abraham might…. The local law was considerably superior to the Western and Judeo based law. the government and entrenched business live off investment money of private, criminal and overseas governments.The local chiefs are ot silly and some quickly suss a new person out…Little of what they get for the land goes to their people….it’s also hard to share a Toyota and a year’s fuel among 200 people.The corruption has been long in Vanuatu and the opportunism continues…so be it.The American based corruption concerning Santos a couple of years back was on a scale of Grandeur crooks like deRothshild would have applauded.Stability and a visioon enacted for work, hygeine and dignity are certainly required. The majority of ni vans are poor,daily seeing lavish life styles of expat. Murder is commonplace especially when chinese nationals come to undersell food, rice cement and so on.The entrenched opposition has them murdered. Tinned food from Chinese markets is often disgusting and the Triad rules there, using Vanuatu as a base for illegal chinese entry to NZ and Australia. That could be cleaned out but the politicians and police couldn’t give a toss. Plenty will talk about it all but no one wants it to change except the ring-ins who live in some variation of pixieland or religious waffleland…and what they want is simply an uncontrollable mess….but so long as the church plate rattles these ruiners of peace will continue to postulate their ignorance. Sadly “Islam” is becoming more and more visible…there’s always some religious leech or another who learned the mantras in places like the Pacific Islands.Someone wants them to stop speaking French and English and speak Bislama. I will not speak this pigeon English devised by missionaries and expats too lazy to learn the local lingo. Bislama to me is demeaning of the people and almost useless elsewhere…English and French language can expand the nivan balloon in the outer world, though few will ever visit it.They speak bislama, yes but hundreds are expert also with French. Finally Vanuatu is essentially a cost to the rest of the world, living very much on government aid.Land and businesses grow from that aid, however corruptly the money is “allocated”. Vanuatu is and will continue to be westernised and largly French in outlook even though heads were still rolling from the guillotine until the 1950′s I was told. Sadly a low class of tourist is attracted there and vd is high. Women, especially older, come for a black male experience and will pay well for it. Men get a better deal. I have quite a sense of what will ‘help’ in Vanuatu.They have such talented workers when trained but no proper training. The government couldn’t give a toss, in my experience, the ministers are doing just fine….living as kings of old might. The lesser nivans are not so silly as to live on beachfronts and that’s why beachfront was carved up.So much could be written but my somewhat disjointed letter covers some skerricks.It’s all very well to feel epowered asa do gooder but look at your own country, then Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and others “democracy” has raided and ruined and think about he indoctrination you carry.By the way, nivans can speak for themselves you know….

]]> By: Karl Fitzgerald http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-2872 Karl Fitzgerald Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:49:33 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-2872 well said Petro! I agree with many of your claims. One is reducing the land lease period. The key point that needs to be added here is to value to land YEARLY! This hasnt happened in many V places since the 1970's, if at all. If the land lease is paid yearly, at a significant percentage of say 5% and on the land only component (at market value), this will deter rampant property speculation. It also will give the government a way to fund the needed services ni-Vanuatuan's deserve (without having to tax your food and medicines like the Australian Govt advisers tell you so). please if you need any more assistance, do not hesitate to contact me. I wish i had more time and money to be helping you defend your lands, the lands of th epacific are being put to ransom...such a tragedy, Karl well said Petro!

I agree with many of your claims. One is reducing the land lease period. The key point that needs to be added here is to value to land YEARLY! This hasnt happened in many V places since the 1970′s, if at all. If the land lease is paid yearly, at a significant percentage of say 5% and on the land only component (at market value), this will deter rampant property speculation. It also will give the government a way to fund the needed services ni-Vanuatuan’s deserve (without having to tax your food and medicines like the Australian Govt advisers tell you so).

please if you need any more assistance, do not hesitate to contact me. I wish i had more time and money to be helping you defend your lands, the lands of th epacific are being put to ransom…such a tragedy,
Karl

]]> By: Petro http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-2836 Petro Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:59:57 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-2836 Nice article, and inspiring comments. Yes I think there is something fishy about all of the land ownership in Vanuatu. But not land speculators should be blamed for, but Vanuatu government, who set up the rules and legal boundaries. There is many way how to prevent land sold out from under very bare foot of Ni-Vanuatu-ans. 75 years lease is spiting into the face of next generation, as well as land development pay back. Those rules could be implemented in the moment, when Ni-Vanuatu will compete on the international markets of labour and goods, and will be prepared to take western society lifestyle with its good and bad sides of life. But Vanuatu is quite different and special, Vanuatu have unique tribal and family based society, free of real term poverty and ill sides of exploited western civilisation. Vanuatu is a jewel in the pacific ocean, and this is why westerners seek Vanuatu and bring very needed cash in tourism industry. One of the instrument government should implement, could be REGULATED LENGTH OF LEASE by the TYPE of land use and development starting from 1 year to maximum 75 years. All existing leases should be cut back. Yes, government have power to do that. Length should reflect type of land use from 1 year for no use - suitable for speculators, through residential building to coconut plantation (75 years). Land title should not to be subject of reselling. Subdivision should be banned and authority to land partitioning be granted only to local chiefs and Land Tribunal. Bounded to the "land use" instrument. Vanuatu should abandon English and French as official languages and all written document and leases should be written in Bislama. Land development shall not to be subject of repaying back and should be reflected in length of lease. Another important issue is land accessing. Land must be accessed by all members of the community (with exception of tabu places and for safety issues in industrial developments and some reasonable privacy zone around residential properties) and traditional uses of the land (shore access, local fishing, ..) must not be limited by any circumstances. Come on Ni-Vanuatu take your future into your hands and do it YOUR WAY to support YOUR TRADITIONAL VIEWS AND YOUR WAY OF LIFE and not as wish rich foreigners seeking easy cash by exploiting your rights. There is no need to give up access to very own land and force next generations to live in poverty. Change the law, government is instrument that should serve you, not to abused you. Nice article, and inspiring comments.

Yes I think there is something fishy about all of the land ownership in Vanuatu. But not land speculators should be blamed for, but Vanuatu government, who set up the rules and legal boundaries.
There is many way how to prevent land sold out from under very bare foot of Ni-Vanuatu-ans.

75 years lease is spiting into the face of next generation, as well as land development pay back.
Those rules could be implemented in the moment, when Ni-Vanuatu will compete on the international markets of labour and goods, and will be prepared to take western society lifestyle with its good and bad sides of life.

But Vanuatu is quite different and special, Vanuatu have unique tribal and family based society, free of real term poverty and ill sides of exploited western civilisation. Vanuatu is a jewel in the pacific ocean, and this is why westerners seek Vanuatu and bring very needed cash in tourism industry.

One of the instrument government should implement, could be REGULATED LENGTH OF LEASE by the TYPE of land use and development starting from 1 year to maximum 75 years. All existing leases should be cut back. Yes, government have power to do that.
Length should reflect type of land use from 1 year for no use – suitable for speculators, through residential building to coconut plantation (75 years).
Land title should not to be subject of reselling.
Subdivision should be banned and authority to land partitioning be granted only to local chiefs and Land Tribunal. Bounded to the “land use” instrument.

Vanuatu should abandon English and French as official languages and all written document and leases should be written in Bislama.
Land development shall not to be subject of repaying back and should be reflected in length of lease.

Another important issue is land accessing. Land must be accessed by all members of the community (with exception of tabu places and for safety issues in industrial developments and some reasonable privacy zone around residential properties) and traditional uses of the land (shore access, local fishing, ..) must not be limited by any circumstances.

Come on Ni-Vanuatu take your future into your hands and do it YOUR WAY to support YOUR TRADITIONAL VIEWS AND YOUR WAY OF LIFE and not as wish rich foreigners seeking easy cash by exploiting your rights. There is no need to give up access to very own land and force next generations to live in poverty. Change the law, government is instrument that should serve you, not to abused you.

]]> By: Karl Fitzgerald http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-2028 Karl Fitzgerald Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:36:57 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-2028 Lucy, The tax system is the best way to turn this situation around. I hope you can keep reading this website or join this free <a href="http://course.earthrights.net/" rel="nofollow">online Earth Rights course</a> to teach about how the earth's worth can be shared so that we aren't penalised for working (via income tax). Click the Earthsharing Pacific box so you can connect with others on this missing ingredient in our education. Lucy,
The tax system is the best way to turn this situation around. I hope you can keep reading this website or join this free online Earth Rights course to teach about how the earth’s worth can be shared so that we aren’t penalised for working (via income tax). Click the Earthsharing Pacific box so you can connect with others on this missing ingredient in our education.

]]> By: Lucy Chagga http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-2003 Lucy Chagga Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:42:47 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-2003 Why are the foreigners selling land in a foreign country that it not their own? Why can't the Government of Vanuatu themselves do that? They don't need to develop the land. I come from an island. You buy land bank from the Government and all you get is the road. Whatever the foreigners are charged for the lease they get thousands on top of that. The Government is allowing outsiders to take the money that should go into the Government coffers and they should be stopped before it's too late. Why are the foreigners selling land in a foreign country that it not their own? Why can’t the Government of Vanuatu themselves do that? They don’t need to develop the land. I come from an island. You buy land bank from the Government and all you get is the road. Whatever the foreigners are charged for the lease they get thousands on top of that. The Government is allowing outsiders to take the money that should go into the Government coffers and they should be stopped before it’s too late.

]]> By: Dee wilson http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Dee wilson Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:26:58 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-1254 Hi Karl: Thank you for those good thoughts,the problem confronting vanuatu are rooted in a specific set of historical and contemporary situations. Obviously outsiders forgot that Vanuatu is an independent nation..whatever that means to them? The legacies of colonial rule and globolization and policies drafted by leaders have all contributed to the challenges..am sure the leaders are doing their best to protect the Ni-Vanuatu. Some movements (if any) could result in some bloody violence...like Solomon and Bouganville crisis- related to: LAND!! The changes in land use and land tenure are among the most senitive issues in the pacific islands...... please send me an email..I would like to discuss this further. Thank you, Hi Karl:
Thank you for those good thoughts,the problem confronting vanuatu are rooted in a specific set of historical and contemporary situations. Obviously outsiders forgot that Vanuatu is an independent nation..whatever that means to them? The legacies of colonial rule and globolization and policies drafted by leaders have all contributed to the challenges..am sure the leaders are doing their best to protect the Ni-Vanuatu.
Some movements (if any) could result in some bloody violence…like Solomon and Bouganville crisis- related to: LAND!! The changes in land use and land tenure are among the most senitive issues in the pacific islands……
please send me an email..I would like to discuss this further.
Thank you,

]]> By: Sheniqua http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1110 Sheniqua Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:46:30 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-1110 Yes i believe and strongly agree that vanuatu's biggest problem is proper land use. Yes i think that ni-vanuatus maybe lazy as some may say but i also think that its jus becos they lack the potential or the education of how to better use their land. I think that the government should provide awareness or should find ways to stop land being sold because not only will it affect the present economy but will also affect the future economy. Yes it is true mam that living in vanuatu is very costly but i would also like to point out that its not only happening in vanuatu but also in the rest of the world. Vanuatu is a small economy and is easily influenced by bigger economys through prices and the financial crises is not making it any better to vanuatu or other PIC. There is poverty in the country but not the type of poverty like in africa or you dont see people on the streets begging for food or money like in fiji or everyother bigger countries overseas... I beleive that vanuatu has alot of potential and alot of resources but they are jus not asking the right questions...its very nice of u's to try helping the ni-vans regain control of their land...like the comments Yes i believe and strongly agree that vanuatu’s biggest problem is proper land use. Yes i think that ni-vanuatus maybe lazy as some may say but i also think that its jus becos they lack the potential or the education of how to better use their land. I think that the government should provide awareness or should find ways to stop land being sold because not only will it affect the present economy but will also affect the future economy. Yes it is true mam that living in vanuatu is very costly but i would also like to point out that its not only happening in vanuatu but also in the rest of the world. Vanuatu is a small economy and is easily influenced by bigger economys through prices and the financial crises is not making it any better to vanuatu or other PIC. There is poverty in the country but not the type of poverty like in africa or you dont see people on the streets begging for food or money like in fiji or everyother bigger countries overseas… I beleive that vanuatu has alot of potential and alot of resources but they are jus not asking the right questions…its very nice of u’s to try helping the ni-vans regain control of their land…like the comments

]]> By: Karl Fitzgerald http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/20/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 Karl Fitzgerald Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:15:36 +0000 http://www.earthsharing.org.au/?p=1276#comment-1046 Hi Aliver, thankyou for your kind comments. That is the shot in the arm i need! Please feel free to provide links to or put my article on your website. I must be due to write another article explaining how the system explained above can assist ni-Van's regain control of their lands. regards, Karl Hi Aliver,

thankyou for your kind comments. That is the shot in the arm i need! Please feel free to provide links to or put my article on your website. I must be due to write another article explaining how the system explained above can assist ni-Van’s regain control of their lands.

regards,
Karl

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