Suspect Apprehended by Police Fox 205 After Holding UP and stealing from a Secondary school Girl4/22/2021
![]() This morning a sixteen year old girl was held up by a eighteen year old male, along the back road towards Parliament next to the International Convention Centre. The girl/victim was on her way to school whent he assailant held her up with a bushknife, stole her K7 (K5 and K2 notes) and tried to drag her into the nearby bushes. Luckily an elderly man who was close by disturbed and chased off the suspect. ![]() THERE is nothing stopping teachers from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them, says Education Minister Jimmy Uguro. “If teachers are to be vaccinated, it can be arranged with health authorities as long as there is enough vaccine for all,” Uguro said. Ted Diro Primary School head teacher Hane Charlie had said teachers were frontline workers and should be vaccinated first with health workers. Charlie said teachers interacted daily with students who came from different homes. ![]() THE Papua New Guinea Government has released K100 million to schools as part of the tuition fee subsidy for the second quarter of the academic year. Education Minster Jimmy Uguro told The National that other payments would be released after talks with the Treasury Department which had paid out K122 million to schools in January. ![]() THE flexible open and distance education (Fode) materials are now available online for students to access for their studies. Lae One basic education inspector Mufuanuc Zurete said Fode students could now access and study at home or wherever they want. Zurete manages after 12 primary schools, 32 early childhood learning centres with 285 teachers in his inspectorate in Morobe. He said Fode education was now conducted online, thus, avoiding gatherings. FOURTEEN Consort Express Lines sponsored deck and engine officers who graduated recently from Fiji Academy in Suva, will develop their career in PNG maritime sector.
The company said in a statement that the officers obtained their “officer of the watch” certification after completing a 14-month course abroad. “Influx of certified junior officers will greatly contribute to the development of Consort’s deck and engine departments as each graduate has received the best training in the Pacific and will now embark on furthering their careers in PNG’s maritime industry,” the statementsaid. FORMAL education will change the mindset and character of people in any society and community, a senior lecturer says.
Balob Teachers College senior lecturer Jazy Magia made the remarks during the opening of a new school in Nawaeb, Morobe, on Thursday. Magia, who spoke on behalf of the provincial education division at Poasi Primary School’s opening at Musamung village, ward 13, Ahi local level government, said development came in many forms and school was one important development. He said development started with the individual and this was achieved through formal education. Magia urged the community to look after the school and take responsibility for it. ![]() THE University of Goroka (UOG) will provide technical, vocational, agriculture and fisheries training for students in the Southern region, chancellor Joseph Sukwianomb says. Sukwianomb said during the ground-breaking ceremony for a K2 million campus in Port Moresby last Friday that the facility would provide further education for graduates in tourism and hospitality, early childhood education and capacity building for schools and administrator training programmes. “Ours will be mostly in social sciences, in-service for primary school and secondary school teachers and administrator training,” Sukwianomb said. ![]() Sinclaire Pandinduo is the winner of the National Development Bank’s scholarship programme, according to the acting managing director Aaron Underdown. “We have received a number of applications from around the country, however, Pandinduo stood out amongst them all,” Underdown said. The 34-year-old is from Japarakwa village in Kubalia, East Sepik. He is the youngest in a family of eight – three sisters and five brothers. “I lost my mother at a very young age when I was doing my grade three back in the village,” Pandinduo said. ![]() PRACTISING social distancing in schools is very difficult as most schools are overcrowded, a head teacher in Port Moresby says. Ted Diro Primary School’s Hane Charlie told The National that they were making sure students wore masks and sanitised their hands before entering the school premises. “Social distancing in this school, I will not deny the fact that we are overcrowded, it’s hard to follow. The only thing we have to do is (wear) face masks and hand sanitising and hand washing,” she said. Charlie said Ted Diro started off at the gate to ensure students and staff wore masks and sanitised their hands before entering the school premises. The PNG HIGHER Education Research Science and Technology Department secretary Fr Jan Czuba will continue to be out on bail after an application by the police prosecution to revoke it was dismissed by a court on Friday.
Police prosecutor Sr Constable Peter Samghy had claimed in the application that Fr Czuba had interfered with State witness Sebastian Bosco but Magistrate Tracy Ganaii found no grounds to sustain the allegations. |
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