Bill Gates seemed like the ultimate computer geek – but a very different picture of the Microsoft founder has emerged since announcing his divorce. He seemed like the ultimate computer geek – a bespectacled genius who wrote his first software program aged just 13. Now a very different picture of Bill Gates has emerged after he admitted to having had an affair with an employee 20 years ago and is alleged to have pursued other female staff. The 65-year-old Microsoft founder has also been battered by yet more allegations about his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. There are questions about why he met…
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A British teenage childcare worker accused of raping a three-year-old girl repeatedly abused a young boy five years earlier, a jury has heard on Friday 21-05 -2021. Jayden McCarthy was 16 when he raped and sexually assaulted young children he was employed to look after at a creche in Torquay, Devon, a court heard. The court heard that McCarthy, now 18, raped a young boy at a different location not associated with the nursery around five years earlier. The alleged victim of the rape said McCarthy raped him repeatedly over the course of eight months in 2014 and 2015. The…
In a year defined by closed borders and restricted travel, for most Soldiers and organizations the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant world-wide scale-down of operations. Despite this, the U.S. Army continues to operate and find new and innovative ways to be successful in the face of new challenges. Task Force Oceania’s Pacific Augmentation Team (PAT), Papua New Guinea (PNG) represents the agility of U.S. Army organizations to achieve mission success regardless of the circumstances. In a year defined by closed borders and restricted travel, for most Soldiers and organizations the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant world-wide scale-down of…
The Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission has clarified that the Biometric has three parts to it: 1. Data setting, enrolment of voter names. 2. Voting process and 3. The counting and result management process. Acting Electoral Commissioner, Simon Sinai admits that time is already against us but if the Government can source us the required funding, it can be possible to deliver according to the test did in recent samples and elections. We are currently looking into the first part, voters data and verify voters on the current existing roll and maintain it and enroll new voters and those who…
Australia is supporting its Pacific and Timor-Leste partners as we work together to recover as a region from the health, economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In further steps towards recovery, Australia will provide an additional $52 million in targeted financing to assist our partners in the Government of Papua New Guinea’s response to COVID-19, supporting continued delivery of critical health and education services to Papua New Guineans. In the health sector, this will assist faith-based organisations to provide accessible primary health care. In the education sector, it will help finance the cost of Papua New Guinea government…
BSP PNG| For forty years since its establishment, Mongol Health Centre in Mendi, Southern Highlands Province, has not had any form of maintenance, until BSP Mendi Branch staff refurbished the facility and donated medical equipment to the tune of K25,000. The upgrade was part of the BSP Financial Group Limited’s (BSP) 2020 Community Project initiative, making referrals from Mongol Health Centre to other health facilities now is a thing of the past. BSP Mendi Branch staff refurbished the building resulting in clean and safe water flow into the facility, especially the labour ward’s delivery room. New Septic toilets were installed…
Port Moresby, 19th May 2021 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) collaborated with the National Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Authority and PHAMA Plus to facilitate a Stock Inspector Training in Mendi, Southern Highlands Province for Provincial and District Livestock Officers from Southern Highlands and Hela Provinces as part of capacity building in combating the fatal African Swine fever (ASF). It is exactly one year since the first confirmation of ASF in Mendi-Munihu in SHP. Infected Provinces has increased to five with the inclusion of WHP and Jiwaka. A point infection was identified in Chuave District of…
France’s support for the PNG vaccination campaign continues. As mentioned previously, thanks to the Airbus Foundation, helicopters are used in support of Chimbu and Jiwaka Provincial Health Authorities (PHA), to transport vaccination teams to remote Health Centres. Wednesday 19th May, an AirbusH145 helicopter of Pacific Helicopters, located in Goroka, made several flights from Kundiawa to transport and drop-off teams in Haia, Negabo, Keremui and Bomai villages. All Pacific Helicopters staff were fully mobilized for this unprecedented mission for the company. Piloted by Jason “Mango” Manderson, the aircraft had also on board the Chimbu’s Public Health Authority’s Director Jerry Kubu and…
Minister for Education Hon. Jimmy Uguro, MP is pleased to meet all school inspectors and provincial education advisers for the first time since he took office as the new Minister in January this year. The inspectors and the PEAs will be here in Port Moresby for the week-long joint National Ratings Conference on Monday, May 24 – Friday, May 28. “Inspectors play a very important role in our national education system. The work they do informs the government of the progress in education,” the Minister said. The Department of Education is implementing a number of very important policies and programs…
Rugby League legend Mal Meninga has thrown his support behind PNG’s COVID vaccine rollout as the second shipment of Australian donated COVID vaccines landed in Papua New Guinea . Ten thousand doses are being delivered by commercial flight to Port Moresby last weekend marking a new phase in PNG’s vaccine delivery program. The vaccines will be administered to priority groups in line with PNG’s national vaccine deployment plan. This consignment of 10,000 followed the 8,480 doses Australia provided in March to kickstart PNG’s vaccine program. Australia has allocated over a million doses to its neighbours – including PNG – as…