Day: July 29, 2020
Mum-of-three Kency returns to school, achieves goal
By PETER WARI SOME women in Hela who drop out of school to get married find it hard to return to the classroom to resume their education because of the […]
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Extra holiday Miss Seven planned to sleep in yesterday knowing that schools in Port Moresby would be closed. Mum reminded her that while classes have been suspended, her morning home […]
Sweet potato as food security
Communities in Papua New Guinea have traditional ways of coping with shortages of fresh food(taim hangere) based on local seasonal calendars. However, extreme climatic pattern changes and events such as […]
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Church groups from different denominations in Marep ward one and two in Mendi-Munihu, Southern Highlands, are working to upgrade their feeder roads. They carry out community service to try to […]
Shutdown will affect people
THE announcement by Prime Minister James Marape regarding the 14-day shutdown is unacceptable and irrelevant. Why? The ordinary citizens and small SME owners will be greatly affected. They have felt […]
Blame ignorance not the Govt
IT is frustrating to see people complaining and blaming the National Information and Communication Technology Authority (Nicta) and the Government for deregistration of SIM cards that is currently being carried […]
Letter misleading
AS principal of the Asaroka Lutheran Secondary School (ALSS), I am responding to a misleading and misconstrued letter published in your newspaper recently by a “Concerned parent”. For the benefit […]
Increase effort to combat virus
PAPUA New Guinea must increase it’s efforts in this war on the. The Covid-19 is a menace to humanity – and so humanity must fight back, these were the words […]
Seek ways to contain the virus
NOW that we have started to test people with respiratory symptoms and fever, we are detecting many cases of community transmission. The figure is at 62 as of yesterday morning […]
Sexual abuse victims need support
THE media, over the years, have highlighted the issue of sexual abuse, especially within families, through its reports mainly from court. Despite the numerous reports made in the past couple […]