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The National, Wednesday June 26th, 2013
TEACHERS and parents of a school in Port Moresby really need to monitor its school buses especially during drop-offs in the afternoon. Students have been seen standing on the back seat.
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THAT is already a traffic infringement – obstructing the driver’s rear vision. There could be a lot of casualties if the bus is involved in an accident.
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BY the way, a rear-view mirror is a mirror in automobiles and other vehicles, designed to allow the driver to see rearward through the vehicle’s rear windscreen.
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DID you know that barramundis are sequentially hermaphroditic, with most individuals maturing as males and becoming female after at least one spawning season? Most of the larger specimens are therefore female.
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IN biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has reproductive organs normally associated with both male and female sexes.
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FISH held in captivity sometimes demonstrate features atypical of fish in the wild: they change sex at a smaller size, exhibit a higher proportion of protogyny (the condition in which an organism begins life as a female and then changes into a male) and some males do not undergo sexual inversion.
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WE wonder what is the real problem. Garbage collection and disposal by NCDC contractors is
becoming irregular and unreliable. Take a drive around the city and you will see rubbish uncollected for a week or more.
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This is unacceptable for rate payers and disgusting. We hope some ghost or paper contractors are not getting paid for doing nothing. Can NCDC stick to the publicised schedules for garbage collection?
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AS if crossing a busy road is not enough, pedestrians have to manoeuvre between parked vehicles on footpaths meant for them to use. Footpaths (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) are a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use by pedestrians and they are not meant for parking. But do drivers here care? More often than not, you will see PNG drivers driving onto footpaths to park and most times honk at pedestrians to give them way.
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EDUCATION has been identified has a major contributing factor in the development of communities. Read more about it in Friday’s Weekender, only with The National.
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AND it’s on again tonight … let us all watch and support in the true spirit of sport. May the better team win State of Origin II!