Day: February 22, 2017
Community begins 4km road maintenance work
MORE than 2000 people from Komun in Jiwaka have decided to build and maintain a 4km road using their own resources. This was to show other communities to make use […]
Pass on knowledge for future benefit: Professor
Knowledge should be passed on in order to benefit even future generations, Prof Janelle Allison of the University of Tasmania in Australia told 18 people who graduated on Monday with […]
Value yourselves, Kekedo tells Unitech intakes
THE Chancellor of the University of Technology, Jean Kekedo, pictured, has urged first-year students to value themselves as Papua New Guineans who have been given an opportunity and to give […]
WITNESS
Hagen town, the premier city in the Highlands, is not what it used to be. Streets in the middle of the town are filled with street vendors selling betel nut, […]
Secondary school still charging fees
STUDENTS attending Goroka Secondary School have been told to pay K850 as an enrolment fee. Classes have already started but the students who cannot pay are still looking for the […]
Let’s get the facts straight
I WISH to refute the claim made by KTF communications coordinator, Tess Gizoria, on Feb 15. I founded and funded the establishment of the Kokoda Track Foundation in 2003 and […]
More sense to have base in Western, Hela
I SUPPORT Dogo Olewale’s letter The National titled, “Western better location for base, barracks” (Feb 13). With due respect to the landowners of Manumanu in Central, it brings me to […]
PNG must not support same sex marriage
MANY third world countries are following the world super powers to legalise same sex marriage while others are somewhat ambivalent and divided on the issue of same sex marriage. Christian […]
New taxation measures good, but not the only way
ALLOW me to express my opinion about the way forward in wading off the pertaining high levels of public debt in the country. It is praiseworthy for the national government […]
Oil Search achieves record production levels
OIL Search achieved record oil and gas production levels in 2016, according to the company’s full-year results released yesterday. The production figures are the highest in the company’s 88-year operations […]