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 Public Servants throughout Papua New Guinea  including elected leaders have been challenged by the Prime Minister, James Marape to perform their duties with diligence and integrity. PM Marape was the keynote speaker at the Public Service Dedication Service today at the Sir John Guise Indoor Stadium in Port Moresby. PM Marape opened his speech by recounting his experience during the last week travelling across the country visiting extremely remote and most neglected people and places. Public Servants in PNG Challenged to Perform  [Photo: PNG PM Marape] Prime Minister James Marape reminisced his experience with the remote places he visited recently. “Before that Wednesday, on Tuesday I was privileged to have visited, rather sad also, visited Weam our closest government border post to the Indonesian border. It looked as if I was going to visit another place, not Port Moresby, not Lae and not Hagen. It was as if it belongs to another country. It was a moving moment, when people there crie

Volvo’s XC40 is a deceptive car, writes Brian Byrne. The styling suggests it is smaller than it actually is, but its dimensions are similar to Nissan’s Qashqai and it is larger in most measurements than the Range Rover Evoque, which appears bigger. My neighbour has an Evoque and that visual comparison was easy when I had the electric version of the XC40, the Recharge, outside my house last week. I have liked the styling of the XC40 since it first arrived here in early 2018. There’s something about the angular details, almost boxy, that sets it away from the usually curvier competition in the compact SUV space. It kind of radiates ‘no nonsense’. As you’d expect from the Swedish brand. With a bit of swish added in the form of the diamond cut and black alloys. The vehicle was good enough to win Car of the Year accolades in both Europe and Japan as well as the Women’s World COTY in 2018, and the Continental Irish Car of the Year for 2019. The no nonsense ethos is also largely true for the