Vanuatu has cancelled my work permit; it's a dark day for media freedom | Dan McGarry

Vanuatu’s Daily Post has always held the government to account and will continue to do so, with or without me as editor

On Thursday, the Vanuatu government issued instructions that after 16 years living here and, despite having a Ni Vanuatu spouse and children, I will have to leave the country.

As the media director and publisher of Vanuatu’s only daily newspaper, a newspaper that has repeatedly held the government uncomfortably to account, I believe the government refused my application to renew my work visa to silence me and warn other journalists in the country not to speak out.

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