from the islands press
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From the Solomon Nius, Honiara A sanitation project providing 133 latrines for six villages in New Tenabuti, north-east Guadalcanal, was officially opened by the Minister of Health for Guadalcanal Province, Mr Samuel Topilu, at New Tenabuti last Thursday.
During the opening ceremony, which was attended by nearly 200 people, the Director of Peace Corps volunteers in Solomon Islands, Mr Duane Beard said that finance and Peace Corps assistance was available, but without co-operation there would not be any projects.
From The reporter of the PNG University of Technology, Lae Staff Amenities Centre News Due to a communications “bugger up” in our Complicated
Communications network, our add in last week’s Reporter inadvertently quoted incorrect prices for Pizza.
From a reader’s letter in the PNG Post-Courier.
The “ Wantok System” is like a disease eating away the body of a healthy mother.
Frequently we hear about corruption in the public service or private sector. But do we understand the very roots of the problem?
I wish to quote a saying from a scholar: “The preservation of traditional social groupings promotes clan and tribal loyalties and divisions which may lead to political instability at sub-national and national levels.”
For our nation to achieve true development and unity, the fundamental disease which must be cured or destroyed is “wantok system”.
Papua New Guinea Post- Courier cartoonist Grass Roots comments on the escape of five prisoners from Lae’s Buimo Jail -the men removed a toilet pipe and used it to smash a hole in the concrete prison wall.