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Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape today brushed aside reports on social media about his son’s alleged involvement in the transportation of monies amounting to K1.56 million from Port Moresby to Komo in Hela Province.  He clarified this when speaking to the media upon returning from voting in his electorate this afternoon. PM Marape’s son was detained by Police at Komo airport in Hela Province after he was in possession of about K1.56 million [Photo by Komo Police] Mr. Marape said his son was at a location nearby to where the suspect was found with the monies. He said the money allegedly belonged to a local construction company – Ipwenz Construction Limited. Mr. Marape said “He was not in the plane carrying the money. He was not part of the team that was carrying the money. It was a complete isolated matter from another person who was transporting the money who happened to be Director of the company. Nothing to do with me. My son had no input in the transportation of the mone

 Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape today (180922) had an audience with His Majesty King Charles III during which the Prime Minister passed on condolences from the people of Papua New Guinea on the death of the Queen and discussed with the new monarch various common issues relating to the country. PNG PM Marape meets King Charles III in London, United Kingdom  In passing PNG’s condolences, Prime Minister Marape said the late Queen Elizabeth II was a pivotal figure in holding together the Commonwealth and its realms and her life of total service, dignity, tolerance, and kindness is an exemplary one to be remembered for many years to come. The Prime Minister and his wife, Mrs Rachael Marape, were received at Buckingham Palace at 2pm today where King Charles used the time to recount his month-long stay as a schoolboy in PNG in 1966, before moving onto discussing other things including the global matters of climate crisis mitigation, and environment and conservation.  Prime Minis

We have visited Majorelle gardens a couple of times, but for this first visit the gardens were exceptional! Everywhere was so tidy, staff were around clearing the paths, it was like a breath of fresh air. Typically Moroccan, as you would expect, it was fantastic to see gardeners using different techniques to us in northern Europe to cope with the hotter dryer conditions. Recently Lorna had reminded me that I have taken some footage here, something that I didn’t remember doing – which was fair as it was 13 years ago!  However, after an argument, I was made to go into the loft and drag out the old video camera. Of course Lorna was right, there was enough footage to make this short video from the previously lost footage. If you would like to see more content like this then why not consider subscribing to our YouTube channel ‘Walking Talking’ Gardeners’