Today's Drum Items

No conlict in contracts

Managing Director of Oceanic Construction Sape Molumi says there is no conflict in the awarding of the contracts as per the drum yesterday. He says the contract amount detailed in the drum was incorrect. It’s not K10.8m but K4.1m and that he just received the first payment of K600,000 yesterday, but not cleared. He says he has gained his job and contracts through the right way and procedures.

Mango season is here

IT’S that time of the year again. The mangoes in Port Moresby are is season. For a dry – sometimes wet – capital city with its hot days most times, the juicy, thirst-quenching, belly-filling mangoes about to hit the city’s public markets will be most welcome. It’s also a reminder that Christmas is round the corner. Talking about Christmas, take care and have a peaceful weekend if you are to live to witness your next Christmas.

Coconuts and woconuts

You’ve all heard of brown people who act like white people being called coconuts. In the US they are sometimes called Oreos, a reference to the chocolate cookies with white filling. Well, a mixed group at a restaurant recently wanted to know what a white person who acts like a brown person would be called. A search on the Internet brought up the term Woconut. But we reckon the Drum readers can do better than that. Can you think of anything that’s white on the outside and brown in the centre? Let us know.

Treasurer, do better

THANK you Treasurer Don Polye for speaking on behalf of the majority of us who are hard-hit by the sky-high prices of goods and services throughout the country. So the rate of inflation is down, and you are concerned that this has not been reflected with corresponding decreases in the prices of supermarket and trade store goods. But that is not good enough. As Treasurer, what are you doing about it? Can your government do something? After all, you represent the people. What do you and all the Ministers and MPs sit and talk about in the Big House.

Be aware wine drinkers

BAD news for wine drinkers, with this year’s grape harvests in France and Italy being badly hit by drought, frost and hail. Experts say it is the weakest harvest in half a century, with losses of up to 20 per cent. Looks like we’ll be pointing our wine glasses towards Australia. Someone suggested our wine fanciers in PNG might resort to drinking home brew (steam). Somehow, we think not.



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