Month: July 2021
Men should unite against violence
IN order to deal effectively with violence against women and girls, I believe men should try to understand what women and girls feel when they are abused. Relatives of victims […]
WITNESS
THE Waima-Kivori Road in Kairuku-Hiri, Central, is in a bad condition. PMVs are seen here bogged in the mud with passengers trying to pull them out.
Is the law fair on everyone?
ORDINARY citizens are prosecuted within a day and killed or sent to prison while corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and rogue police officers are moving around freely. Are there separate sets of […]
Ratify referendum results in Parliament
I WANT to raise this concern in relation the recent Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) consultation between Prime Minister James Marape and his counterpart – Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama. Both parties […]
Be careful with ABG appointments
IT is now a common gossip that many of the unsuccessful candidates for the recent presidential election in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville are knocking at the door of the […]
Stand firm against further breakaways
I SALUTE Governor-General Grand Chief Sir Bob Dadae for coming out boldly against Bougainville’s secession movement. I understand that it is a sensitive matter but I believe he’s right. Papua […]
Change laws to deal with public servants
THERE are many of us in the public service who read both daily newspapers about senior public servants in Waigani and provincial administrations being implicated in corruption but continue to […]
Project map not specific
THE current topographic maps of proposed Wafi-Golpu mining project in Morobe’s Bulolo district do not clearly show the exact location of Golpu, thereby creating confusion and making allowance for non-legitimate […]
Teach emergency preparedness
AS a victim of Sausi (Ramu) disaster in 2014, a day before Manam volcano disaster, we didn’t know what to do. But luckily, most of our teachers’ children, from pregnant […]
Invest in fight against malaria
MALARIA is among the five major causes of hospital admissions and deaths in Papua New Guinea accounting for up to 40 per cent of outpatient visits in some areas of […]