Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2018

Minister in charge for APEC, Justin Tkatchenko, said PNG will produce one of the best APEC Meetings ever.

“We are looking forward to a very successful APEC meet come next year, when all the world leaders come to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.”

Tkatchenko said at the end of the day, it’s a team effort and with Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, the leader of the city, Governor Powes Parkop and himself to implement, nothing is expected to go wrong.

Many readers stated that the money could be used to help purchase medicine and equipment to support the public health system, improve the education sector and also build much-needed infrastructure throughout the country.      

These are some of the readers’ comments following Loop PNG’s story on Friday (Oct 21).  

Browne Mecure Will stated: … won’t “be surprised if the K600 million becomes a penny drop in the ocean, hence this government will start bleeding the people again to cover for unbudgeted funding”.