Lekmak

02/12/2025

PNG’s 2026 National Budget has now been passed — the largest in our history — but the debate in Parliament revealed a rare moment of unity across political lines. Senior leaders warned that record spending won’t matter if services continue to decline. Health centres are shutting down, provinces aren’t receiving their full grants, and cash-flow failures are rolling into the next year through massive floating cheques. As Joseph Yopyyopi said, unrealistic figures risk damaging the “social contract” between government and the people. The message is clear: without structural fixes, a big budget won’t deliver big results.

The budget has been passed — the largest in Papua New Guinea’s history — but senior MPs from across the political divide have delivered an unusually blunt

02/12/2025

How online scams are affecting vulnerable Papua New Guineans.

Online scams are spreading today with the speed and behaviour of a social contagion. In many parts of Papua New Guinea, a single fake opportunity posted in a

02/12/2025

Are we keeping up?

PNG is now heavily dependent on digital infrastructure — from financial systems and government platforms to industry operations. But this dependency arrives

02/12/2025

How funding conditions contributed to the destruction of road maintenance systems.

When Papua New Guinea’s National Executive Council endorsed Decision 41/95 in the mid-1990s, the policy was promoted as a modern approach to infrastructure

04/09/2025

Tanam Adventist Primary School hosted its first-ever pre-independence celebration on Tuesday at Tanam in Lae, bringing together students from early childhood learning through grade 8 to commemorate Papua New Guinea’s 50th independence anniversary.

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