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 Papua New Guinea Opposition Leader Joseph Lelang is disturbed by the social media post, showing a picture of a young girl stripped naked and helplessly at the hands of hooligans up in Tari. In a media statement, Mr Lelang is calling on the Government to ban social media platforms. Mr Lelang being angry over this, says these culprits should be dealt with by the law immediately within 24 or 48 hours. “Normalcy and morality no longer exist in this society. What kind of society are we trying to raise our future generation – why are we waiting this long, we need the police to act and apprehend these culprits,” he said this furiously. He said the Prime Minister James Marape must put a stop to his never-ending jet – legging and stop and clean this anarchy in his province immediately. Mr Lelang asked why criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists and all these hooligans to be running around freely and holding the country to ransom.  He said seeing this type of news was horrible to all decent c

A scheme to provide licensed hauliers with support for their increased energy costs has been approved by the Cabinet, writes Brian Byrne. Under the initiative, the Licensed Haulage Support Scheme 2023 will target higher levels of support at smaller operators that are facing increased operating and fuel costs.  A graduated payment basis will see €1,200 each provided for the first five vehicles on a licence, €700 for vehicles six to 20, and €200 for each vehicle thereafter. The scheme will be administered by the Department of Transport and will cover eligible heavy goods vehicles authorised on the licence of a current road haulage operator as of 15 December 2022.  

Readers, please join me welcoming Kelly Gay , author of The Better Part of Darkness who’s guest blogging here today! This book is an electrifying debut urban fantasy that introduces readers to Charlie Madigan, who Jenna Black (bestselling author of the Morgan Kingsley series) describes as “the epitome of the modern kick-butt heroine!” Synopsis – Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass cop trained to take down the toughest human and off-world criminals. But now an insidious new danger is descending on her city with terrifying speed, threatening innocent lives: a deadly, off-world narcotic known as ash. Charlie is determined to uncover the source of ash before it targets another victim — but can she protect those she loves from a force more powerful than heaven and hell combined? And now, here’s Kelly herself – Welcome, dear author! When I was asked to write a holiday guest post for A Book Blogger’s Diary, I was thrilled. (Thank you!) 🙂 Being an urban fantasy aut

West Dean gardens near Chichester is a fantastic example of a Victorian/Edwardian pleasure garden, especially as the large complex of original Victorian glass house were recent refurbished in order to  preserve them for future generations. In past visits to this historic country retreat, it is the glasshouses and their fantastic collection which have always caught out eyes, however this time came across a wonderful exotic border – as well as a few chickens! So why not join us as we investigate the planting highlights we find of interest. If you would like to see more content like this then why not support our channel by clicking onto the ‘Like’ and ‘Subscribe’ buttons.

Your big conference call is only a few hours away, and you’ve done nothing to prepare; so where do you start? From planning ahead (which you didn’t do) to listening intently during the meeting, here are some tips on how to prepare for and properly execute a conference call as an online worker. These tips will help you stay more organized during the call and display a certain etiquette that the other callers will appreciate. Keep reading to learn where to start. Plan Ahead So maybe you didn’t follow this tip, but you still have time to do so. If your call is just a short while away, you can still do plenty of prep to get you ready for the meeting. First and foremost, what is your meeting about? A sales meeting will have a very different tone and topic of conversation than a disciplinary meeting. Depending on what information is to be discussed during your meeting, you’ll need to prepare differently. While some meetings will require meeting-specific prep, there are some general preparati