After six postponements, the government says the last unconsolidated jeepneys must leave the roads by Dec. 31. A modern replacement costs 2.8 million pesos. A driver clears 800 a day.
The autumn harvest supports about 100,000 Palestinian families. This year, a system of coordinated access days has left farmers near settlements with days, not weeks, to pick groves their grandparents planted.
The kingdom’s noon-to-3 p.m. prohibition on outdoor labor now runs through Oct. 31 and applies at 38 degrees Celsius regardless of date. Contractors say the calendar is no longer the right instrument.
The first 280 Tuvaluans chosen in a lottery for permanent residence in Australia have settled in Brisbane and Melbourne. Those on the atoll say the departures are reshaping daily life more than any king tide.
