Day: October 19, 2021
John: If I can do it, you can too
WHEN he opted out of school after completing Grade 10 in 1991, John Timothy indulged himself in what he calls “reckless living”. The teenager from Tarawa village in West New […]
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Tough assignment The majority of the population live in the rural areas. It needs a herculean, concerted, intense effort, with the help of international medical teams of course, to vaccinate […]
WITNESS
RUBBISH piling up at the 14-Mile bus stop in Gordon, Port Moresby. There is a need to manage rubbish effectively in the city.
Don’t support ‘ no jab, no job’ policy
THE “no jab, no job” policy is against human rights. Papua New Guinea is a democratic country. The Government should not be supporting this police. Even though we are in […]
Letters in brief
Advertise positions CAN Public Service Minister Joe Sungi direct his department to advertise some departmental head positions as soon as possible. There are few departments who have acting secretaries appointed […]
What happened to Covid-19 funds?
With the increasing number of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Delta variant cases in Eastern Highlands and other parts of Papua New Guinea, there would be an unprecedented demand for vaccination. Our […]
Govt deals not helping people
DEVELOPMENT, everywhere in the world, is a public sector function. It is about improving the welfare of the people in a country. Business, on the other hand, is about enhancing […]
People are dying from other diseases too
PAPUA New Guineans have been dying every year like flies well before the Coronavirus (Covid-19) entered our country. A story on in The National yesterday “Dead all unvaccinated” cannot go […]
Take the vaccine
I RESPECT individual opinions and decisions, but we have to be mindful that God gave knowledge to mankind. How do you think people created medicines? If you did not get […]
Stop spreading misinformation
MISINFORMATION is spreading fast and has been worse since the start of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. More concerning is that people continue to die, but those involved in spreading lies […]