Daily Post VU

'I feel vindicated': Vanuatu Daily Post wins landmark case against govt over work permit saga

Dan McGarry, who served as a director of the company when he had his visa revoked in 2019, said the ruling was a "big win for independent media".

McGarry's work permit application was rejected by the then Prime Minister Charlot Salwai's government.

The reason given by the Labour Commissioner Murielle Meltenoven at the time was that McGarry's role - who at the time had lived and worked in Port Vila for 14 years - could be taken up by a ni-Vanuatu person and that he had failed to train his local staff.