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 People’s Progress Party Leader Sir Julius Chan retains New Ireland Regional seat by Absolute majority Votes. Photo by NBC New Ireland After Primary count of all 10 LLG’s, incumbent Governor and Senior Statesman Sir Julius Chan won through a convincing 31,717 Votes. 54.66 percent of the total formal Votes   of 58,024. Governor Sir Julius Chan thanks all New Irelanders who voted for him, for trusting in his leadership and allowing him to lead New Ireland for another 5 years. Congratulations Sir J , People’s Progress Party and the people of New Ireland Province. Next :  PM Marape congratulates New Rabaul MP elect

  BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) has been forced to shut the doors of four if its branches in the Highlands and Momase regions following security concerns, mostly related to the 2022 National General Elections.  Porgera branch in Enga, Koroba Hybrid Branch in Hela, Chuave Sub Branch in Simbu, and Kabwum and Mutzing Sub Branches in Morobe all remain closed.   The operations of BSP Mendi Branch in Southern Highlands has also been disrupted in the past week. BSP Group CEO, Robin Fleming upon confirming this said, BSP Sub Branches in Koroba, Kabwum, Mutzing, and just yesterday Chuave, have closed their doors due to security issues related to the 2022 National General Elections while, BSP Porgera branch was closed last month following tribal fighting in the Porgera valley. Fleming said, “We closed BSP Chuave Sub Branch yesterday after the office complex, which BSP operates from, was ransacked by supporters of losing candidates.  We also had to close BSP Mendi branch earlier this week due...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape returned to the country yesterday afternoon-(Wednesday 5th October 2022) following his three weeks official visit oversea.  Mr Marape told reporters upon his arrival that almost a month-long visit has been hectic but fruitful.  They were able to make contacts at the highest level with leaders of the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and the United States of America.  Marape says the four nations are big economies with huge GDP’s and we are having high-level discussions based on our long-time bilateral relationship. ”Our meetings and discussions consolidate the relationship and this time our discussions are geared towards us ramping up our production and them receiving whatever we produce. ”The onus is now on us as government to put our money where the mouth is, and to put programs to action to increase production of cocoa, oil palm, coffee and fisheries and not just Gold, Copper and Gas,” said Marape.    NBC News / PNG ...

Deep in the West Sussex countryside, Highdown gardens has an enormous amount of horticultural history attached to it and rightly so. Originally a working chalk quarry it was purchased by Sir Frederick Stern in 1909 who, against the advice of the contemporary leading horticulturists created what would have been a world class garden in the wonderful countryside of what is now the South Downs national park.  Groundbreaking in his attempt to grow anything he could get his hands in his chalky soils, he managed to prove many of those around him wrong. Over the years he published several books on chalk gardens, on peonies and snowdrops and part-funding expeditions to China to bring back yet more exotic plants to try out at Highdown. He was rewarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s Victoria Medal and became vice president of said organisation. He was chairman of the John Innes Horticultural Institute from 1947 to 1961 and vice-president and treasurer of the Linnean Society from 1941 to 1...

  Even if you’re not sure what a blog is, you’ve no doubt come across one at some point in time. Perhaps you’ve stumbled across a blog when you’ve searched “healthy dinner recipes”. In fact, if you’re reading this, guess what?   You’re on a blog.  (Very meta, I know.) If your business doesn’t have a blog, you might want to reconsider — B2B marketers who use blogs  receive 67% more leads  than those who do not, and blogs have been rated the  5th most trusted source  for accurate online information. Build your website with HubSpot’s Free CMS Software At its most basic, blogs can help you develop an online presence, prove yourself an expert in an industry, and attract more quality leads to  all  pages of your site. If you’re contemplating  creating a blog  for your business, or simply want to know what one is, keep reading. What is a blog? First, let’s go over a brief history — in 1994, Swarthmore College studen...