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Post Shitty Tabloid Courier is misleading and lately all their articles and headlines are never well investigated! by Grace Boker Mungkaje  PNG I believe does not have dual citizenship agreements with the Philippines. You can only be a dual citizen of PNG and the following prescribed countries: 1. Australia 2. Fiji 3. Germany 4. New Zealand 5. Samoa 6. United Kingdom 7. United States of America 8. Vanuatu After 18 years of age if you are a citizen of a country by birth, you have to decide which passport you retain. If you have a PNG passport by birth, then automatically it is rescinded once you obtain a foreign passport. Being born in PNG but now holding a foreign passport of a country we do not have this dual citizenship arrangement with does not allow you to receive the same benefits as a Papua New Guinean . If you want to receive the same benefits then you would have to renounce your foreign passport and only keep your PNG passport . For example I was born in Canada 🇨🇦 but my...

  Education Secretary's Secular No 05/2023 - Subject: SUSPENSION OF SCHOOL HEADS WHO ARE DEFYING THE GOVERNMENTS’ GTFS POLICY DIRECTIVES BY COLLECTING ILLEGAL SCHOOL FEES AND PROJECT FEES The Purpose of the Secretary’s Circula No. 05/2023 is twofold: 1. TO REMIND ALL PROVINCIAL EDUCATION ADVISORS, DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICERS, SCHOOL INSPECTORS AND SCHOOL HEADS TO COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING; (a). Ministerial Policy Statement 01/2023 – Subject: Government Tuition Fee (GTFS) Policy for 2023 for the General Education Sector School. (b). Public Announcement from the Office of the Education Secretary – Subject: No School Fees or Project Fees to be Charged by Schools in the National Education System in 2023. (c). Secretary Secular No 4 of 2023 – Subject: Administration and Management of Project Fees Funding for 2022 and 2023. 2. TO INFORM EVERYONE THAT SCHOOL HEADS THAT ARE FOUND TO DEFYING OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND ARE COLLECTING SCHOOL FEES OF PROJECT FEES WILL BE (a) Charged; (b) Suspen...

FULL SCHOOL FEES (Tuition and Project fees) FOR ALL STUDENTS FROM ELEMENTARY TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO BE PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT. TO ALL TEACHERS, PARENTS, STAKEHOLDERS AND ADMINISTRATION OF ALL SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT PNG: "NO SCHOOLS SHOULD BE CHARGING ANY FORM OF FEES (TUITION AND PROJECT FEES) TO THE STUDENTS THIS YEAR, 2023. BOTH TUITION FEE AND PROJECT FEE WILL BE PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT", - Dr. Uke Kombra, Education Secretary. Live interview by: NBC National Radio - Real PNG https://lnkd.in/gVRYMc34