Kiribati Gee-Whiz

02/12/2020

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has commenced forming a new ‘Provisional Government’ in West Papua yesterday (Tuesday, December 1 2020).

The announcement marks an intensification of the struggle against Indonesia’s colonisation of the territory, ongoing since 1963.

The new government-in-waiting aims to mobilise the people of West Papua to achieve a referendum on independence, after which it will take control of the territory and organise democratic elections. Indonesian repression currently renders elections impossible.

This move is a direct rejection of Jakarta’s attempts to extend ‘Special Autonomy’ provisions in West Papua. ‘Special Autonomy’, first imposed in 2001, will expire at the end of the year, and is the target of a mass petition sponsored by 102 civil society organisations across West Papua. Thirty-six people were arrested in Manokwari and Sorong on Friday after raising the banned Morning Star flag.

15/11/2020

The Kiribat Way in the 1960’s, 70’s was largely based on Kiribati’s natural heritage framework left by their predecessors and ancestors who first tilled the lands using their own hands and own resources. Back in those yea all day’s livelihood was largely subsistence throughout Kiribati outside the island capital Tarawa. For instance, on Butaritari island in those years the basic diets for breakfast, lunch and dinner was alternating among swamp taro ‘babai’, breadfruit, banana, pumpkin and pawpaw with fish.
The quest for preserving the Kiribati Way began in the early 1980’s when the government of Kiribati under the 1st President, His Excellency Beretitenti Ieremia Tabai was invoking the old men of Kiribati to strengthen the Kiribati Way of doing things on their own islands for benefits of all citizens of Kiribati starting from the nuclear families, villages, individual islands, and all Kiribati islands. The whole of Kiribati approaches nowadays emanated from the Kiribati Way.
The Kiribati Way in the 1980s was effective in getting things done like building of new classrooms for Primary Schools and building seawalls without government or donor funding of local materials. The work on maintenance of public assets was entrusted to local councils and the association of old men on all the islands who take It in turns among villages to repair and maintain public assets. The I-Kiribati in those days never asked government for any monetary reward because the Kiribati way was always about Our National Independence.
(to be continued)

28/10/2020

The LC Linnix was on the slipway at Kiribati Shipyard for minor repairs being a two years old ship and every part is still very strong but now what are these workers doing cutting out the sheets? More interestingly do they have the high quality metal sheets to replace them with? Who ordered them to cut the sheets? Who will meet the costs? Government's Marine division who gave the order or Shipyard, because this job was not ordered by KNSL?. What if the sheets to replace the cut out ones are not robust enough for the beaches and reefs?

07/10/2020

Nei Teebo ma Tamana

23/09/2020

https://youtu.be/85NydqjE-jo

20/08/2020

Family faces

13/08/2020

First anniversay song

17/07/2020

COVID-19 Cases in Fiji by age group
Age Group Confirmed Cases Deaths
0 to 9 2 0
10 to 19 1 0
20 to 29 8 0
30 to 39 7 0
40 to 49 3 0
50 to 59 4 0
60 to 69 1 0
Total 26 0

17/07/2020

July 2020
On 1 July, 112 Fijians had arrived in Nadi on a repatriation flight from India. The returning citizens had been transferred to a government funded quarantine facility. A Fijian citizen died on board the flight operated by Garuda Indonesia. He was tested negative for COVID-19 before boarding the flight from New Delhi, India.[47][48]

On 6 July, Fiji confirmed its nineteenth COVID-19 case. A 66-year-old Fijian citizen who had returned from India. He was transferred at Nadi hospital to be quarantined.[49]

On 7 July, Fiji confirmed two COVID-19 cases. Patient twenty is a 37-year-old man who is the son of the nineteenth case a 66-year-old man. The other confirmed case is a 36-year-old woman, both cases had returned from India.[50]

On 10 July, Fiji confirmed five COVID-19 cases. The five are a 44-year-old male, a 38-year-old female, a 51-year-old male, a 29-year-old female and a 47-year-old male. All five cases returned from India.[51]

16/07/2020

Today is Friday 17/07/2020..is supposed to be the last working day of the shortest working days week after the independence celebrations in Kiribati but it is also a very busy busy day beside the fact that it is pay day for the workers and for the courts in Betio Tarawa....there are 3 cases to be heard in court today involving three politicians. The cases will be heard at 2 pm today according to Gee Whiz informant at the Betio Courts.....Have a Nice Weekend!!!

05/07/2020

Happy 41st Anniversary of Independence Kiribati..on 12th July, 2020. A great Day Celebrations on the Great day of Sunday. GOD BLESS KIRIBATI.

27/06/2020

Nominee from Micronesia to the GenSec of South Pacific Forum - Marshall Islands diplomat Gerald Zackios, The first from Micronesia was Sir Ieremia Tabai from Kiribati.

26/06/2020

Kirtimati is being groomed and upgraded for the post Corvid 19 tourism and fisheries development in the days ahead. (photos were taken by John Round from KNSL 18-19June 2019).

25/06/2020

These quotes are worth remembering:

“Voting for leaders in some parts of the world is often taken for granted
In some places, leadership is won not in a peaceful manner and at a great price. In some, it is won in peace, like we have witnessed here in Kiribati
The election we witness today was won with a clear majority and in an election that was fair and transparent to all.
As they say, HE has fought a good fight and won.
We wish him all the best”, Sir John Muria, Chief Justice 24th June, 2020.

HE, in his response, the Sworn in President Taneti Maamau mentioned with his experience over the years, his simple definition of Leadership has 3 main points:
1. Trust in God,
2. Be truthful and have integrity,
3. Do what you say (don’t just talk)

k.teabo.

23/06/2020

History had had the tendency to repeat itself in one form to another, starting with Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar of Rome is the golden phoenix bird, and the golden crown and the golden throne - Roman-style golden, repeated by Napoleon Bonaparte of France a great fan of Napoleon's war, then came Adolf Hi**er of Germany and adopted the coup de'tat tactics of Napoleon....then war spread to other worlds, and military coups spread to Africa and even to the Pacific Islands such as Fiji by Rabuka who repeated the historical words such to make an omelette you have to break the egg, and creating the phoenix out of Fiji...in 1987.Here in Kiribati the vote of no confidence in the President by Members of the Opposition had ousted Past Presidents of Kiribati and there is an inkling that this may happen again because there are people who are obsessed with Power ownership.

23/06/2020

We could not ask America and Japan about what they should do for Kiribati nowadays But we know about what America and Japan did to our people and islands during their so called 2nd world war.

22/06/2020

21/06/2020

22.06.2020
“This is the Day Not to bury but to raise
Not to shun but to show
Not to shy away from but to muster and cluster
No more tilling, no more titivating,nor imitating
Like falling rain on our dry land
March to the voting booth and elect your President.“
( kteabo).