South Pacific Brewery’s Port Moresby brewery was pleased to announce that on Friday 19th, January 2024 reached a significant milestone of 1500 accident-free days. This accomplishment demonstrated SP Brewery’s commitment to a safe working environment. SP Brewery’s Safety Manager, Geraldine Makui congratulated the POM Brewery team and reminded them to continue to prioritize safety. “I’m thankful for the POM Brewery team for your commitment to safety.” “Let us continue to commit to and improve workplace safety to make sure we all go home safe each day.” To commemorate the day Safety Chat and reward and recognition were held to remind…
Author: Aseneth WAIDE
As the academic year draws near for most schools in the country, Ependa School of Evangelism in Southern Highlands; not your regular academic institution has already begun training its students. According to Evangelist David Paki, classrooms were constructed the in 2021 and completed construction in 2023. Once the classrooms were completed, he started the training in May 2023 and has continued into 2024. Depending on attendance, the school trains between 5-20 students from the highland’s provinces and Morobe Province. Mr. Paki said this two-week intensive program that takes place every month, was created with the intention of teaching interested individuals…
The United Church of Papua New Guinea (Highlands Region) recently held their 14th Children & Youth Ministry Convention under the theme: I HAVE COME TO RESCUE MY PEOPLE, in Mendi, Southern Highlands Province. The weeklong program started on Tuesday 2nd of January and ended on Saturday the 6th, which included guest speakers from various parts of the province and a peace march within the tribal fighting zone. An approximate total of one-thousand young people who attended had come from many different highlands’ provinces including Simbu, Western Highlands, Southern Highlands, Enga and Hela. Regional Coordinator, Reverend Sam Topsy, further elaborated on…
Local bands and artists from East Sepik Province hope to end the year 2023 on a high note when they take the stage at The Cosmopolitan Club tonight (Friday, December 29, 2023). The night, titled ‘Wewak Local Night,’ will feature a few Sepik local bands, including the Zone 5 Crew (Z5C), Metelel Tribe of Vanimo, and the debut of the new band ‘Pajes of Sawarin’ on stage. The bands will perform alongside Felix Yausi, one of Sepik’s greatest solo artists, Sterling Warren, and the 2022 YUMI FM Music Awards -Artist of the Year ‘Beejoh’. Yausi will perform few of his…
St. John Ambulance receives over 4000 false calls to its emergency number 111 every day which totals to roughly 28, 000 false calls in a week. This is dangerous as it blocks and hinders genuine calls from getting through to the emergency hotline. Chair of the National St. John Council Dame Jean Kekedo stated that false calls made are a waste of resources and puts not only the genuine callers’ lives at risk but also the ambulance officers who respond to those calls. “A false call recently resulted in an attack on the ambulance crew, resulting in thousands of kina…
Like hospitals and other emergency services, St John ambulance operations centre was in the normal swing of things – answering calls for help. Anticipating an increase in the number of emergency incidents during the holiday season, more emergency ambulance crews were rostered on duty to meet the demand over the long Christmas weekend. From Friday evening to Tuesday morning, 17 ambulances were on duty in Lae, Kokopo, Kupiano Bereina, and Port Moresby, responding to 370 emergency incidents. From Sunday evening to Tuesday morning, ambulance crews responded to 162 emergency calls during the St John Ambulance (SJA) Christmas operation. The distribution…
Trainee St John Ambulance nurse Cathy John was blessed to have a heart-warming experience of delivering a baby girl while she was on her first day of ride-along duty just three days away from Christmas. For Nurse Cathy who had previously worked in hospital settings, delivering a baby in a location other than a hospital was an entirely new and breathtaking experience. “This was my first time delivering a baby in the ambulance, and to do this on the first ride-along is an amazing experience, one that I will never forget in a very long time.” This extraordinary turn of…
The youth of Grandville Seventh-Day Adventist Church are gearing up for its PNG4CHRIST Fundraising Walkathon from Port Moresby to Kerema, KaIntiba, Menyamya, Lae Goroka, Simbu and Jiwaka, in order to support their fellow Jiwaka Adventist members. This initiative aims to raise funds to contribute towards the construction of a VIP main Centre in Minj, Jiwaka Province. Chairman of Fundraising Elder James Dat stated that they decided to raise more than what the initial cost was in order to contribute to other programs run by their fellow Adventists in Jiwaka. “The estimated cost was about K320, 000 but we decided to…
Health experts are urging Kiwis to put a Covid-19 booster shot on their Christmas list for the best chance to avoid the latest variant impacting their summer holidays. According to the Science Media Centre, modelling was suggesting that hospitalisations for the current Covid wave will peak this week – just days before Christmas Day. And while the newest variant JN.1 is picking up speed in New Zealand, stocks of antiviral Paxlovid are running out, it said. University of Canterbury’s Professor Michael Plank said JN.1 was likely the fastest growing variant seen this year, and could lengthen the time New Zealand…
Media can have a huge impact in terms of bringing truth to the masses, however for multiple reasons, oftentimes mainstream media and churches do not engage with one another. Sometimes churches have their own media outlets, or they only trust specific media outlets to bring their message to the masses; other times it could simply be a lack of knowledge in the media’s role in helping churches; or it could be church leaders having deep reverence towards God, hence they are cautious in giving out information to just anyone especially a message that comes from a divine source. Layman of…