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PNG’s Deputy Commander for Highlands East Chief Superintendent Joseph Tondop told the people of Simbu not to sell their votes as it is worth millions. Story and photographs by Police Media Officer Mr Andrew Philip in Kundiawa, Simbu Province Mr Tondop said this during the Joint Security Task Force (JSTF) awareness on violence free, fair, and peaceful 2022 national general election in Kundiawa, Simbu province last week. Mr Tondop told the people not to think about today only and sell their votes. He said think about their future, their children and the future generation coming after them. He said pray and seek good leaders from God because he would show them the best leaders. He said leadership is only appointed by God himself. Mr Tondop told the people to screen leaders properly and choose the best among the many candidates and send someone who can bring services back to the community, district, and the province. He said they need to elect leaders who are selfless and think about their

Papua New Guinea Minister for Higher Education Research Science and Technology Don Polye is embarking on restoring the power of Student Representative Councils (SRC) in tertiary institutions. In PNG tertiary institutions, SRC’s are a collection of students elected by their student peers to represent them.  PNG Higher Education Minister Polye embarks on Restoring Power of Student Representative Councils [NBC Photo] The objectives of the SRC are to encourage leadership skills of students and to give them experience in problem solving and making decisions. Minister Polye said Papua New Guinea needs to breed a new generation of leaders and restoring and giving more powers to SRC and student leaders in tertiary institutions is the way forward.  Being a former SRC President of the University of Technology in Lae, Morobe Province, Mr. Polye believes that by restoring the SRC, the future of the nation can be moulded and shaped properly. Meantime, Minister Polye encouraged young people to go to

 The Chief of the Police in the National Capital District, NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Silva Sika, said police operations in the city will be ramped up and police will be on heightened alert from tomorrow onwards after rumours of a planned protest march began circulating. Rumours and suggestions of the planned protest march began circulating over the social media with regards to comments made by side-lined Foreign Affairs Minister Justine Tkatchenko over the recent trip to London for the coronation of King Charles III. A group calling themselves the Coalition of Concerned Citizens delivered a letter to the Metropolitan Superintendent’s office today, requesting police to grant approval for the planned protest march. Mr Sika said the organisers of the planned protest march are using the social media to persuade city residents to form up at the Pacific Institute of Leadership and Governance Institute in Waigani tomorrow and walk to the National Parliament. He said the NCD Law & Or

Synopsis from the Back of the Book – What happens when the woman who has everything loses everything . . . and the man who has nothing realizes he has nothing to lose? The young, naive wife of a multi-billionaire financial superstar, Grace Brookstein’s life is the stuff of fantasy. In New York, Lenny Brookstein is the King of the Wall Street social scene, both liked and respected in the worlds of high finance and high society. Then one day Lenny vanishes, his yacht discovered abandoned far out at sea. The police believe his death was no accident, that his involvement in a spectacular financial fraud was about to be exposed to the world. But Grace can’t accept the terrible allegations now coming to light, and she will learn the truth . . . even if that truth destroys her. *** First flaw – Why is Sidney Sheldon’s name added to this book? I don’t know. I searched cover to cover, but could find no explanation for it. He’s no longer alive and I highly doubt he contributed anything