Day: August 6, 2018
Workshop helps local children read about PNG
If there was no books in Papua New Guinea, what do you think growing up in PNG would be like? How would you learn to read and write? Books have […]
NGO donates 650 cartons of books to schools in Siwai
Schools in Siwai district in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville have received 650 cartons of books donated by locally based non-government organisation (NGO) Rara Rarei Foundation Inc. The donation amounted […]
Radio Madang stops evening broadcast to help staff get home safely
Radio Madang’s Maus bilong Garamut has stopped broadcasting in the evening and switched its broadcast programme from 5am-1pm. The daytime broadcast hours fitted into a plan by the National Broadcasting […]
K15,000 donated for Book Week celebration
Gulf Investment Trust Fund (Gift) has given K15,000 to the Office of Library and Archives to support the hosting of National Book Week in Kerema. The National Library and Archive […]
High school going digital with gift of e-library system
Goroka Rotary has given Lower Nebilyer Provincial High School in Western Highlands an e-library system that contains resources like Wikipedia, books and videos. Called Teacher in a Box, the e-library […]
University giving students laptops to cut down on use of paper
THE University of Goroka is promoting the use of laptops to help cut down on the use of paper to promote a more environmentally friendly university. The university introduced the […]
WITNESS
This pile of rubbish at the Waigani Bus stop near the Waigani police stattion in Port Moresby is an eyesore and a health hazard
Dangerous fences
IN The National, we read of city manager Bernard Kipit’s reasons for wanting to enforce NCDC’s fencing bylaw. In one breath he says, among other things, that the barbed-wire fence […]
Organic foods
ORGANIC foods come from fresh fish from the sea and fresh pig and deer from the bush. Garden produce vegetables such as sweet potatoes, taro, banana, coconut drink and many […]
Same-sex marriage
I AM compelled to write this letter after seeing on TV a member of Parliament asking the Minister for Youth and Religion about same sex marriage. From the answer given […]