Day: February 5, 2021
A social enterprise open to all
GOAL number on of the National Goals and Directive Principles is integral human development. “We declare our first goal to be for every person to be dynamically involved in the […]
2021 Census risks failing again
Papua New Guinea plans to conduct its fifth National Census in July. The last census in 2011 was considered a failure. This means that, if this census goes ahead, the […]
Next stop Olympics for Leroy
L eroy Kamu was in Grade Eight at the Kalamanaguna Primary School in 2014 when he started to fall in love with athletics. He watched with interest athletes training at the […]
WITNESS
PICTURED are vehicles parked on the pedestrian footpaths near government offices in Waigani, Port Moresby. Pedestrians are forced to find their way around the parked vehicles.
Thank you Dr Pok for school fee support
I THANK my local MP Dr Fabian Pok for launching a school fee funding support of K2.5 million for North Waghi students two weeks ago at the official opening of […]
Fix Western Highlands roads
MOST road networks in Western Highlands need proper upgrading and maintenance to ease people’s daily struggles. The roads need urgent maintenance because people need them. Many people are subsistence farmers […]
Do not criticise
THE tide comes in and then recedes; the sun rises giving light, and then sets, bringing darkness. Droughts plague the gardens, followed by abundant rains. We sweat from the intense […]
Discipline children to move country forward
EVERY year, thousands of students drop out of the formal education system in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Some tend to engage in criminal activities for survival. This behaviour causes an […]
Fix 8-Mile roads
THIS letter was written to the National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop and Moresby North East MP John Kaupa last year and beginning of this year before schools started. Nothing […]
Loan programme to help students, parents
THE higher education loan programme (Help) is perhaps challenging to most of the lazy secondary schools students and their parents with multiple children. The loan programme is something new for […]