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List Of Vanuatuans
{{Short description, none This is a list of prominent people from Vanuatu. Politics and diplomacy * John Bani (b. 1941), Anglican priest, President (1999-2004) *Moana Carcasses Kalosil (b. 1963), Prime Minister (2013-2014) *Maxime Carlot Korman (b. 1942), veteran politician, twice Prime Minister in the 1990s *Harry Iauko (d.2012), MP for Tanna, several times minister *Willie Jimmy, several times minister, ambassador to China * Donald Kalpokas (b. 1943), twice Prime Minister, then Permanent Representative to the United Nations * Ephraim Kalsakau, trade unionist and politician * Pakoa Kaltonga, MP for Efate, several times minister * Frederick Karlomuana Timakata (1937-1995), President (1989-1994) *Sato Kilman (b. 1957), Prime Minister (2011-2013) *Ham Lini (b. 1951), Prime Minister (2004-2008) * Hilda Lini, politician, anti-nuclear campaigner, feminist *Walter Lini (1942-1999), Anglican priest, anti-colonial leader, first Prime Minister (1979-1991) * Willie Bongmatur Maldo (1939-2009) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Mera Molisa
Grace Mera Molisa (17 February 1946, Aoba Island – 4 January 2002, Port Vila) was a Ni-Vanuatu politician, poet and campaigner for women's equality in politics. ''The Australian'' described her as "a vanguard for Melanesian culture and a voice of the Vanuatuans, especially women"."Voice of Vanuatu's women" , ''The Australian'', 1 February 2002 She has also been described as one of the Pacific's "leading public intellectuals and activists". Molisa's education began at her village school on Aoba Island, and continued at the Mission School at Torgil. From there, she went on to attend Queen Victoria Māori Girls' School in , Aotearoa New Zealand. After leaving school, Molisa attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalsie Baniala
Dalsie Green Baniala is a Telecomms manager on Vanuatu. She is the Telecommunications and Radio communications Regulator for Vanuatu. Baniala was told that she was suspended by the Prime Minister but the courts over ruled the suspension. Life Baniala was born in Vanuatu. In 1994 she left the Institut Nationale Technologie Vanuatu and went with a scholarship to the Solomon Island College of Education. In 1997 she had a diploma in Finance and Administration and by 2003 she had a degree. In 2008 she took a job at the Regulatory Office for Telecommunications on her home island. In 2010 she started a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of the South Pacific. She was the Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator for Vanuatu. Vanuatu has a population of over 270,000 and its communications includes two mobile companies and four Internet service providers. She and her small office handled her county's Cyber Security and oversees consumer protection. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Quai
Vanessa Diandra Sally Ann Kiristiana Quai, better known as Vanessa Quai, born July 13, 1988 in Port Vila,"Biography: Vanessa Quai" Pacific Islands Radio, 2004 is a ni-Vanuatu singer. Overview She recorded her first album, ''To Aitape With Love'' (recorded at Vanuata Production, produced at Pacific Gold Studio), as a child singer, aged 9, in 1998. In 1999, she was one of 3000 competitors at the South Pacific International Song contest held in , and was the only child competitor. She won third prize in the Gospel/Inspirationa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wells (Vanuatuan Politician)
George Andre Wells is a Vanuatuan politician and Member of Parliament. He is a member of the National United Party. Wells served as the Foreign Minister of Vanuatu, as well as the Internal Affairs Minister until 2007. Wells was elected three times Speaker of the Parliament of Vanuatu The Parliament of Vanuatu ( bi, Palamen blong Vanuatu; french: Parlement du Vanuatu) is the unicameral legislative body of the Republic of Vanuatu. It was established by chapter 4 of the 1980 Constitution, upon Vanuatu's independence from Franc ... for terms from September 2008 to June 2009, from January 2010 to December 2010, and from November 2012 to April 2013. Sworn in as Foreign Affairs Minister 8 December 2010. Wells is the current Minister of Internal Affairs. References Living people Members of the Parliament of Vanuatu Speakers of the Parliament of Vanuatu Foreign Ministers of Vanuatu National United Party (Vanuatu) politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wango
James Wango, also known as James Ngwango, is a ni-Vanuatu politician. A member of the People's Progress Party, of which he is the treasurer, he was elected to Parliament as MP for Ambae in the September 2008 general election, one of four MPs from the People's Progress Party. In December 2010, Prime Minister Edward Natapei was ousted in a motion of no confidence, and PPP leader Sato Kilman replaced him. Kilman set up a coalition government, which did not include Wango, and the latter eventually defected to the Opposition. In February 2011, as the Opposition prepared a motion of no confidence against Kilman's premiership, the Prime Minister secured his majority by offering Wango a position in Cabinet. Wango joined the government as Minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Quarantine. Kilman was eventually ousted in a vote of no confidence on 24 April 2011, however, and Wango lost his position in government. He recovered it three weeks later, on 13 May, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Vohor
Rialuth Serge Vohor (born 23 April 1955) is a Vanuatuan politician. He hails from the largest island of Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo, from Port Olry. He was a member of the Union of Moderate Parties, a centrist political party, until 2022. When his party came to power in 1991, Vohor became foreign minister of Vanuatu for the first of three times, until 1993. Vohor has been Prime Minister four times, from December 1995 to February 1996; from September 1996 to March 1998; from 28 July 2004, to 11 December 2004; and from 24 April 2011 to 13 May 2011. The latter, brief term was however voided by the Court of Appeal, deeming his election unconstitutional as he had been elected only by a majority of Members of Parliament (26 out of 52), not by an absolute majority. In October 2015, Vohor was one of 15 MPs to be convicted of bribery by the Vanuatu Supreme Court and was jailed for 3 years. Vohor was Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Kilman government at the time of his conviction. Second t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Van Lierop
Robert F. Van Lierop (born 1939) is a United States and Vanuatu, ni-Vanuatu lawyer, diplomat, political activist, filmmaker, writer and photojournalist. Early life Van Lierop was born in Harlem to a father from Suriname and a mother from the Virgin Islands. His paternal grandfather was from The Netherlands. He attended Stuyvesant High School, graduated from Hofstra University in 1964 and from New York University Law School in 1967. Van Lierop began his career as a lawyer, and became a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Career as filmmaker Van Lierop was the director of ''A Luta Continua (film), A Luta Continua'' (1972) and ''O Povo Organizado'' (1975). Both films were produced in the United States, in the Portuguese language, with English language, English subtitles. Set in Mozambique, they portray the struggles of Resistance movement, freedom fighters against Portugal, Portuguese Portuguese empire, colonial authorities, as well as the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Telukluk
Paul Barthelemy Telukluk is a Vanuatuan politician. In 2000, he was the co-founder, along with Father Gérard Leymang and Vincent Boulekone, of the Green Confederation, to "promote sustainable development balancing custom, the environment, social welfare, free enterprise and regional autonomy for each of the six provinces". In the 2002 general election, he was elected to Parliament as Green MP for Malekula. Within the Green Federation, he was the leader of Namangi Aute, a francophone movement founded in 1975, and committed to decentralisation. Prior to merging with the Greens, Namangi Aute had been merged into the Union of Moderate Parties, and Telukluk had begun his political career as an MP for the UPM. Shortly after being elected to Parliament as a Green, however, he left the Confederation and re-established Namangi Aute as an independent party. He was re-elected as MP for Malekula in the 2004 and 2008 general elections, being Namangi Aute's sole Member of Parliament on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barak Sopé
Barak Tame Sopé Mautamata (born 1951) is a ni-Vanuatu politician. He is the leader of the Melanesian Progressive Party and was, until 2008, a member of the Vanuatu parliament from the island of Efate. He was the Prime Minister of Vanuatu from 1999 until 2001, when he was deposed by Parliament in a no confidence vote. Sopé was Minister of Finance in 1996. He was elected Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote on 25 November 1999, receiving 28 votes against 24 for Edward Natapei. Shortly after he was deposed on 13 April 2001, he was convicted on 2 charges of forging several million US dollars' worth of Vanuatu Government Guarantees and was sentenced in July 2002 to 3 years on each charge (to be served concurrently), but was pardoned in 2003 despite heavy opposition from Australia and New Zealand. When the coalition government of Serge Vohor was sworn in on 29 July 2004, Sopé became Minister of Foreign Affairs. He lost that position in November 2004 after he spoke out against Vanu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sethy Regenvanu
Pastor Sethy John Regenvanu (born 1945) is a politician in Vanuatu. He is one of several churchmen who have been active in Vanuatu politics, like Father Walter Lini, Rev. Frederick Karlomuana Timakata, and Father Gérard Leymang. Hailing from Uripiv island near Malekula, he became lands minister in the last pre-independence government of the New Hebrides in November 1979. He was Christian Education Officer with the Presbyterian Church of New Hebrides, before becoming Minister of Lands in the new government of Vanuatu on Independence in July 1980. In February 1983 he succeeded Timakata as deputy prime minister. In January 1988 he became minister of education, youth and sports, and in December 1991 he again became deputy prime minister.William F.S. Miles, ''Bridging Mental Boundaries in a Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu'', Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998, , p.25. He was Minister of Finance in 1991. Later he served as chairman of the electoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Regenvanu
Ralph John Regenvanu (born 20 September 1970 in Suva, Fiji''Laef Blong Mi'', Sethy Regenvanu, op.cit., p. 76) is a Ni-Vanuatu anthropologist, artist and politician. He has been a Member of Parliament since September 2008, was a member of Cabinet for most of the period from December 2010 to January 2012 and then from March 2013 to June 2015, and was the Director of the Vanuatu National Cultural Council from 1995 until December 2010. He has been a leading figure in Vanuatu's cultural world, primarily as a promoter of cultural knowledge preservation and sustainable development as a researcher, but also, to a lesser extent, as a painter and illustrator. He has represented Vanuatu and its culture in the international sphere, notably through UNESCO. His transition to politics came suddenly in 2008, at a comparatively young age; his successful campaign to be elected to Parliament generated popular and media support. As a Member of Parliament, he sought to publicise his activities and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
