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by  Roland Katak In this post I argue, from evidence, that the proportion of school fees the parents will pay is about the same as that the government will pay given the parents will also pay the project and church fees. The Marape-Steven Government (MSG) has change the previous O'Neill Govt's (OG) Tuition Free Education (TFF) policy to Tuition Fee Subsidy ((TFS). The words themselves signify both the meaning and implementation. OG's TFF required no financial input from parents. The word "free" was adamantly enforced including no allowance for schools to charge project fees and school boards and executives threatend with suspension on legal action. (I've not heard of any actual incidences though). The word "subsidy" (as against "free") is key to understanding better the MSG's edict on who pays for education. And this is why parents are required to pay, what seems to be, a lesser portion of the fees and schools are allowed to c

by PATRICK SELENG BSP Bank steals about K17 million each month. That's like K200 million in a year. Every month K10 is deducted from a cheque account, that's K10 million if 1 million cheque account holders bank at BSP. (Take note when opening new accounts, BSP creates a cheques account because account maintenance fee is K10 compared to a savings account which attracts K3 deduction) Then Every month you check your balance at an ATM, K3 is deducted, so easy K3million stolen from a million users checking their balances in their accounts. And if you printed mini statement at an ATM, K4.20 is deducted, so easy K4million stolen if 1million users printed mini statements. You total all these monthly deductions by BSP and it's K17million per month and an easy K200 million in a year stolen from you PNGian BSP die-hard customers. The bad side of "user pay" policy. They are stealing because there is no regulatory body that can determine whether these fees are ju

While we hold Parliamentarians accountable and demand more transparency from them, there are two groups of people who go under the radar – the public servants and political staff. While many are honest hard-working people serving the country, there are few who abuse their positions to enrich themselves. One such person is Rex Kiponge from Yawalimanda Village in Kompiam, Enga Province. I first met Rex when he joined the Ministry of Inter Government Relations in September 2018 as Second Secretary. From the first week, there were things Rex did that are not right. Over four (4) months, I flagged these but nothing has been done to date. In fact, I was told to “stop” and not talk to talk about it. Rex has threatened us when we talked about some of the issues. 1. SECURING HIMSELF A K100,000 CONTRACT FROM WEWAK DDA On the very first week that Rex started, he secured himself a K100,00 contract from the Wewak DDA to do the District Plan. He is the shareholder as well as director of the compa

by : McKenzie Leo Here is why Justin Tkatchenko is trying to bully and intimidate Papua New Guineans who are exposing him as a fraudster and a white-collar thief: He was a nobody prior to coming to PNG. He was a Gardner in every sense of the word. That was his profession as a Horticulturalist. He was brought into Papua New Guinea by the late former Prime Minister Bill Skate to work for NCDC as a Gardner. From a simple Gardner at NCDC, this Ukrainian Australian immigrant was able to acquire millions of Kina over the years through his company PNG Gardener. Tkatchenko made so much money for himself as Minister of Sports during the South Pacific Games in 2015. In 2018 as Minister for APEC he made millions of Kina through his company PNG GARDNER which was operated as Kitoro No. 33 Limited (his wife is the Director of Kitoro No. 33). This immigrant Government Minister has made so much money by using his influence and power in NCDC, and in the 2015 SP Games, plus the 2018 APEC

by GABRIEL RAMOI Big Data mining and the new sciences of singularity and its application in nanotechnology, nanobiology, machine learning and manufacturing  has crept up on us in PNG and has thrown the small science and engineering  community in PNG into disarray with the announcement by the Governments Telco Provider, Kumul Telikom, that it has reached agreement with Huawei of China to roll out 5G in PNG starting in our urban centres in 2020.  For the mostly ill informed majority the fear of radiation associated with 5G technology was the most immediate concern raised by the so called educated elite ahead of the far more critical issues of geo political considerations and the potential of spying by the Chinese State on countries using Huawei 5G technology which was raised by the USA. PNG and 68 other countries around the world including South Korea, Germany and the UK are now being asked by the United States to vacate the use of Huawei 5G technology or face being cut off from Uni

By MOSES MALINGI PORGERA Gold Mine in Enga Province is under a serious threat as law and order problems escalate dramatically at present due to the spin off effects of a half-a-decade old severe tribal conflict emanating from the neighbouring Hela Province. The tribal rivalry between two known warlords in Tagali LLG in Tari, Hela has resulted in killing close to 100 people and raged about 90% of the volatile area that once enjoyed peace and prosperity. Now, the effects of the conflict has slowly creeped into Porgera, which hosts a world-class mineral resource project that significantly contributes to the national government coffers. While safeguarding landmark foreign direct investments such as the Porgera Gold Mine during the economically turbulent times faced by our country is a paramount task of the government of the day, the equation will be balanced if the root cause of the tribal conflict is uprooted according to the rule of law. According to the Lagaip-Porgera MP, the law a

by PAUL AMATIO I thank Minister Kramer for mentioning me by name in his post “WHY MANNING”. I’ve taken some time to read through this and my response is this. 1. At no time did I say anything against the office of the Commissioner of Police. The Minister’s assertions that I was accusing the person in the Commissioner’s chair are baseless. I am accusing Police Minister Bryan Kramer of corruption. 2. His claim that I was causing disaffection is fallacious. I don’t recall saying anything to this effect. However I ask the Minister if he may be causing some concern about this. I grew up in the RPNGC and care for it more than he ever will. On the other hand, one really must question if it is not his own actions that are causing any disaffection in the Constabulary. 3. Stop repeating the selection process story already! It doesn’t take 6 months to make an appointment as we all know. That’s detracting from the issue at hand. 4. The regulations are just one part of the selection criteria