The island is owned by the local Mele villagers, but is leased to the owners of Hideaway Island Resort. The island is accessed by a boat service from nearby Port Vila and offers accommodation and watersports to visitors.
As Hideaway Island Mele is famous for having the world's only underwater post office, which is open daily and allows visitors to post letters that are postmarked in a waterproof manner.
The death toll from Tuesday’s Taliban attack in Kabul more than doubled overnight from 28 to 64 and most of the casualties were civilians – including women and children, The Associated Press quoting AfghanInterior Ministry officials said Wednesday.Gen.Abdul Rahman Rahimi, Kabul’s police chief, told a news conference Wednesday two investigative teams have been appointed to investigate the attack in Kabul ...Secret Service....
... in August 2012 for killing eight people in a bomb attack outside a government building in Oslo and then murdering another 69 people, most of them teenagers, in a rampage at a Labour Youth camp on the island of Utøya....
In effect, they are the new “totalitarian” global order.Workers Historical Handcuffs Must Be Broken But again, the GBC is handcuffed to the history of workers. Not only did thousands of workers in London call for Prime MinisterDavid Cameron to resign over severe austerity measures and connections to the PanamaPapers, but many more around the world are doing the same. They too are handcuffed to history, the history of the GBC that is....
Houston (CNN)While some parts of Houston are starting to recover from paralyzing flooding, some residents believe the worst is yet to come. The problem. Cypress Creek in northwest Houston keeps rising and still hasn't crested, officials say, and forecasters expect more rain Wednesday. In the town of Klein, John Martin stuffed his suitcase and bolted for a friend's house ... Read More ...That's more rain than Salt Lake City gets in a year ... 9 ... ....
CanalMills in Leeds. Saturday 23rd April 2016. 10.00pm til 5.00am (last entry 11.30pm). Minimum Age. 18. Metropolis presents. Shadowchild, My Nu Leng, Mele + more ... Venue ... Shadowchild, My Nu Leng, Mele + more ... Shadowchild, My Nu Leng, Mele + more on Sat 23rd April 2016 ... Shadowchild, My Nu Leng, Mele + more ... Mele ... With new tracks and collaborations in the pipeline and a record label of his own, the future’s looking bright for Mele… ... ....
A violent felon from StatenIsland, N.Y., who on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a violent Farmingtonhome invasion was arraigned Wednesday on Staten Island on charges that he is the so-called "ninja burglar" who terrorized Staten Island for a decade. Robert Costanzo, 46, is expected to plead guilty to... ....
'In addition to offering some thoughts on what the island's own leaders need to do, I'd like to commend the House leadership for their efforts to solve this problem with a recent bill that they've proposed ... More than 3.5 million of our fellow Americans on the island are facing tremendous economic hardship, in large part because of irresponsible leadership from the government in San Juan ... The island is unattractive to investors....
State of Rhode Island). The Rhode IslandDepartment of Health (RIDOH) is issuing a precautionary boil water advisory for consumers of the SUEZ water system on two streets in Wakefield... State of Rhode Island issued this content on 20 April 2016 and is solely ......
(Source...Washington, DC - Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision in favor of the victims of Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks - including the families of nine Rhode Islanders who perished in the bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983 - in an appeal by Iran's central bank challenging monetary judgments the victims had won in federal court ... The bombing killed 241 servicemembers, including nine from Rhode Island ... ###....
Residents in the Florida Keys will get to vote on whether genetically modified mosquitoes should be released in their neighborhood. The mosquito control district in the island chain wants the British biotech firm Oxitec to test its modified mosquitoes in a neighborhood of 444 homes clustered on a relatively isolated peninsula north of Key West... ....
A critically endangered Sumatran tiger has died at a notorious Indonesian zoo where hundreds of animals have perished in recent years, an official said Wednesday. The male tiger, named Rama, died of heart failure at the zoo in the city of Surabaya, on the main island of Java, spokeswoman Veronika Lanu told AFP... ....
The Isle of Man Constabulary has today launched their new website - www.iompolice.im . The Island's Police have a track record in embracing technology and the new website is set to enhance their digital presence whilst working in tandem with their traditional community policing method ... ....
Migrants sit in a rubber dinghy during a rescue operation by SOSMediterranee ship Aquarius off the coast of the Italianisland of Lampedusa in this handout received April 18, 2016. SOS Mediterranee/Handout via Up to 500 migrants might have drowned in the Mediterranean last week when human traffickers crammed people onto an already overcrowded ship, causing it to sink, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday ... ....
Campaigners in the SolomonIslands are celebrating a High Court decision to reverse a controversial tax exemption for MPs' salaries. Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer said several benefits brought in for MPs were unconstitutional and so should be "struck out", The Solomon Star newspaper reports ... ....