Recently, I went through the annoying hell of trying to update my Firefox flash player plug-in. As you can guess, it turned out to be a frustrating pain in the butt. Here are the symptoms of the problem. You have an older version of flash. Websites keep saying that you need to update your flash [...]
READ MORE »Tahiti – five years later
it's been a long time since I updated this blog, I started it with the intention of updating it regularly. As you can see, I kind of let this website fall by the wayside. Not much has changed in French Polynesia in the past five years, except crushing recession shutting down hotels, and yet another [...]
READ MORE »Clyde Jenkins on Relocating
Insofar as being treated as an equal, they soon discover that ‘gringo’ is only half of a word, the total word is ‘gringorico’. No matter how much they protest that they are not rich, having only $1,500 a month to retire on, that is a small fortune to someone who only makes $300 a month or less.
READ MORE »Sucks To Be In North Korea Right Now!
North Korea this week decided to shaft its citizens this week by devaluing its currency. If you had $100 at the beginning of the day, after the devaluation your $100 is now worth $1. This is apparently a move by North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Il to deal with the free-market economy that is burgeoning [...]
READ MORE »Corruption In French Polynesia
One of French Polynesia’s big secrets is the amount of corruption that occurs in this country.
On one of the remote islands, the fellow running the post office suddenly quit his job after a large amount of funds went missing.
The funny thing is is that after he quit his job and suddenly started making improvements to his property which was no secret to anybody on the island.
The OPT employee soon after returned to his job as head of the post office for the small island.
French police now are investigating former President Gaston Flosse for his possible role in corruption with the OPT.
For the uninitiated the capital OPT is the French Polynesia equivalent of the post office.
This is a fact of daily life in French Polynesia, there is so much nepotism that it’s amazing anything actually gets accomplished by anybody in government.
I once witnessed government trucks full of gravel drop off loads of stolen gravel to a residential area.
I know that some watermelon farmers were having issues with their watermelon going missing when they went on the government ship to be taken to market.
Corruption is a fact of life in French Polynesia and until action is taken it will always continue to be this way.
READ MORE »The New Radio -Yes I’m Sorry I Wasn’t Paying Attention
Recently, I’ve been listening to podcasts on the Internet. You would be amazed by some of the high quality programming that is actually out there! Shows like the Bitterest Pill with Dan Klass & Film Flim Flam. I’ve been following the Bitterest Pill, and having a blast listening to some of the stories that [...]
READ MORE »It Just Got Harder To Relocate To French Polynesia
(Tahitipresse) – Assembly members passed Tuesday new measures aimed at protecting jobs. A minimum five-year residency will be required for persons wishing to work in public or private companies in French Polynesia. The two bills were passed by 56 votes out of French Polynesia’s 57 Assembly members. The majority coalition including Oscar Temaru’s UPLD and [...]
READ MORE »Japan: A Story of Love & Hate
I am a documentary fanatic, I just can’t get enough of watching documentaries I’d rather watch a documentary over anything else! Every now and then I come across a documentary that I feel I have to share. This is one of those documentaries. Sean McAllister, the filmmaker, had difficulty with this [...]
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