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The 18 month long teachers’ strike in Vanuatu has ended. After roughly eighteen months of stalled negotiations, court rulings, and mounting frustration, the Vanuatu Teachers’ Union and the government have reached a financial settlement that will see teachers return to… Read more When Teachers Walk Out

Boralani’s refusal to pursue designation as a UNESCO World Heritage List was not symbolic, emotional, or anti-international. It was a calculated policy decision, taken after watching what happened elsewhere. The island concluded that the costs would outlast the benefits. Boralani… Read more Boralani and the World Heritage List

In Boralani, the New Year is not treated as a countdown or a spectacle. It is approached as a passage—quiet at first, then communal, then forward-looking. The tradition draws from older island practices while accepting the reality of modern life…. Read more How Boralani Welcomes the New Year

On the morning of December 26, 2004, the sea changed its character. What began as a powerful undersea earthquake became a wall of water that crossed the Indian Ocean and struck coastlines from Indonesia to East Africa. Entire villages were… Read more In Memory of the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004

Delivered at first light, to the people of Boralani People of Boralani, We stand again at the narrow place between what has been and what will be. That is why this office exists—to mind the crossing, not to command it…. Read more New Year’s Address by the Steward of the Passage

Indigenous Knowledge in Polynesia—and the Island of Boralani On a small island, knowledge is never abstract. It lives in the tides, the wind shifts, the behavior of birds at dusk, and the way elders pause before answering a question. Across… Read more What the Ocean Remembers

Christmas cracker jokes trace back to Victorian England, when Tom Smith, a London confectioner, popularized the Christmas cracker in the mid-19th century. Inspired by French bon-bons wrapped in paper, Smith added a paper “snap” (the bang), small trinkets, and printed… Read more Boralani Christmas Cracker Jokes

Oxford-trained economist E. F. Schumacher’s book “Small is Beautiful” was first published in 1973. Schumacher argues that modern industrial economics is fundamentally mis-scaled: it treats limitless growth, maximum efficiency, and ever-larger systems as virtues, even when they erode human dignity, exhaust… Read more Boralani: Small is Beautiful

Across the Pacific and beyond, island economies are wrestling with one clear reality: imported fossil fuels are expensive, volatile, and environmentally risky. In recent news, a major utility-scale solar project in Guam secured roughly $241 million in financing from the… Read more Why Boralani Chose the Sun

In Boralani, work has always mattered more than titles. Houses are built to last storms. Canoes are shaped to return safely. Tools are passed down, not displayed. For generations, young people learned by watching, helping, and doing. What has changed… Read more Why Boralani Needs Its Young Tradespeople

Once a year, at the end of the dry season, Boralani observes The Day of Open Canoes. It is not a festival in the usual sense. There are no parades, no fireworks, and no visiting dignitaries. Shops stay open. Fishing… Read more The Day of Open Canoes

There are over 8,500 sunken ships across the world’s seas that still contain oil and other hazardous materials — and no global plan yet to deal with them. For a country like Boralani — a small island nation whose economy,… Read more The Toxic Legacy Beneath Our Seas

Transnational drug trafficking in the Pacific is not just a local law-and-order issue; it’s a regional symptom of global demand and weak enforcement networks. Experts argue that the Pacific isn’t inherently a “narco-state” — rather, countries like Australia and New… Read more How Boralani Can Defend Itself Against Illegal Drugs in the Pacific

On Boralani, visitors often say the same thing within their first week: “How could anyone ever want to leave?” It’s a fair question—and a naïve one. Living on an island teaches you a quiet truth: paradise is not immunity from… Read more Where Do You Go on Vacation When You Already Live in Paradise?

A recent news article from RNZ reports that the Government of Tonga reassured the public that fuel won’t run out over the Christmas period, after months of sporadic shortages on the island nation. That piece focuses on Tonga’s domestic fuel… Read more Boralani Fuel Supply Secure for Christmas

Across the Pacific and beyond, debates are intensifying around how much technology belongs in classrooms. A recent article by neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath in The Free Press argues that the more schools digitize, the worse students perform — not because… Read more Why Boralani’s Schools Are Saying “Not Too Fast” on Computers

On many Pacific islands, diabetes has shifted from a clinical footnote to a public health crisis. Boralani is no exception. Rates of type 2 diabetes here are among the highest in the region — a complex mix of genetics, lifestyle… Read more How Boralani Fights Diabetes

It was a morning like any other when fishermen working the outer reef spotted something strange bobbing at the horizon. At first it looked like a log — too symmetrical, too massive. By the time the tide carried it closer,… Read more A Narco-Sub on Boralani’s Beach

This December, as delegates from Pacific Island nations gathered in Manila for the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), a small but significant presence was noted: a delegation from Boralani attending as observers. The meeting… Read more Boralani at the Tuna Commission Meeting