Day: December 4, 2017
Minister makes it official for St Mary’s
THE Saint Mary’s Technical School in Mingende, Chimbu is now an accredited trade testing centre of the National Apprentice and Trade Testing Board (NATTB), a first for the Highlands region. […]
EU help train more than 800 teachers
MORE than 800 people have benefited from the European Union (EU) teachers’ training scholarship programme after financing agreement was signed in 2014. Among those benefitting were 143 out of 663 […]
WITNESS
People selling food and farm produce as informal businesses boom at both sides of the Kumalu River, in Morobe. Locals sell cooked and fresh foods and vegetables to commuters at […]
Leaders need to lead by example
I WRITE to raise concern on the huge non-essential budgets State-owned enterprise boards and managements are allocated every year. This is for their unnecessary national travel and international globetrotting. Given […]
Kumul subsidiary suggested
Kumul Consolidated Holdings needs to create and add another subsidiary called Kumul Downstream Processing Holdings. This entity must be tasked to look into building factories to manufacture finished products of […]
Witch doctor and sanguma
WHEN a male infant of a clan leader died in my village, a witch doctor or ‘ai dokta’ was engaged to identify who actually ‘sanguma’ the baby boy. But before […]
The future of radio service
I AM moved as a former broadcaster of the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) to hear about the current status of the organisation. I wish to call on Government to seriously […]
Congratulations, athletes
LET me congratulate athletes, officials, coaches and trainers for the great effort and hard work put into Team Central which has now paid off. You have made the people of […]
Schnaubelt won the vote
THE letter from Linus Guamsok in The National on Nov 28 cannot and must not remain unchallenged. As Guamsok is an appointed member of the New Ireland provincial assembly appointed […]
Saddened by the loss of pilot
I AM saddened to hear of the loss of Captain Thomas Keindip. Captain Keindip was a committed pilot who served many rural communities in Morobe and other parts of the […]