A Producing high quality football players in an association is a dream of a young president. Wau Football Association president Otto Kusanan has a dream of one day having good number of players to represent the area and the country. He said when good number of players have exposure to the national and the international games, they turn to have major impact on local players, and this will shift the standard of the sporting code in the country. “Some of my eras are Tommy Sammy, Emmanuel Simon, Vagi Koniel, Nigel Dabinyaba, Jamal Seeto and others.” “We were selected at the…
Author: Fredrick JEJERI
Follow rules of law is the message for Papua New Guinea 48th independence delivered by Prime Minister Hon. James Marape this week at Boana station in Nawaeb District, Morobe. Marape urged citizens to observe the country’s rules of law as the free contributions to help the government advance the country. “As the country is turning 48th years of gaining independence, I want you all the youths who involve in unwanted activities to turn away from your past bad doings,” “If you want to see change then start observing the country’s rules of law.” “It’s the greatest contribution towards the development…
“We must put public interest before individuals’ interest to see change.” That’s according to Finance and Planning Minister Hon. Rainbo Paita. “To see change, we must work with politicians by putting public interest first,” “We, the actual same people who vote in the politicians are the ones who put in our personal interest first to benefit ourselves and when the politicians don’t consider our personal agendas, we turn to attack politicians.” “Have some patience and work with our politicians.” “Politicians are human beings, they need our support to implement basic public services,” “It will take time for politicians to deliver…
Prime Minister James Marape, Works Minister Solan Mirisim and Finance Minister Rainbo Paita on Tuesday launched Nawaeb District’s five year development plan and groundbreaking ceremony of district administration building redevelopment in Morobe. Other dignitaries like Morobe governor Hon. Luther Wenge, Wau Waria district MP Hon. Marsh Narawec and Middle Jimi MP Hon. Benjamin Mul also attended the event. The event was staged at Boana station at the district. During the launching and the groundbreaking ceremony, Prime Minister Marape said the five years development plan and the district’s development plan would be captured in the national developments plan. “I am glad…
The Papua New Guinea Community Affairs and National Content Conference and Expo 2023 commenced today at Papua New Guinea University of Technology campus. The three-day event hosted by PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum is an initiative to engage landowners, business houses and government including the stakeholders to gather and share experiences and knowledge on how best to forge new relationship for investments that will promote national participation for sustainable communities. The event for the first time brought farmers as well to the venue offering direct service and engaged locals to share experiences on how best, they could participate in…
The country will in two years’ time mark its 50th Independence Anniversary, but the people in the rural areas continue to experience a lack of development and services provided to them; however, that has not deterred them from doing what they can to help themselves. The local people always have this spirit of never giving up and they demonstrate this spirit through resilience, and one good example of such is the Simbai people from isolated Madang bordering Chimbu and Western Highlands Provinces. They walk for hours, night and day, through bad weather conditions, climbing mountains and crossing fast flowing rivers…
Students of the Erap Primary School in the Huon Gulf district of the Morobe province have been urged to pursue all sources of information to learn from, instead of just focusing on one source. Erap Primary School’s senior subject master teacher, Mr. Brandon Thomas delivered this statement on Friday 11th August during the school’s observation of National Book week. “Though the school doesn’t have a library doesn’t mean you don’t have access to information,” he said. “Information coming from different background of people is similar to having access to books and the internet.” “These information, are from books, the internet…
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) University of Technology (UOT) has been locked down as students set a peaceful protest on Monday morning regarding the controversial Defence Cooperation. The protest commenced as early as 6am this morning with the aim of convincing the Marape – Rosso government to delay the signing of Defence Cooperation deal between United States. University of Technology Students Representative Senator (SRS) Kenzie Walipi said the aim of the protest was to get government’s attention to delay the signing of the deal between the two countries because the majority of citizens of this country were not aware of…
Police in Morobe province have withdrawn three of its officers who have been serving logging companies for some years. Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Chief Superintendent Jacob Singura exercised orders issued by Police Commissioner David Manning to withdraw officers serving logging camps throughout the country to withdraw officers serving in logging camps in the area. He stated that the three officers have been serving logging camps under previous PPCs in different logging camps. “Under commissioner’s advice, I have instructed the officers to leave the logging camps immediately.” “I have issued a memo advising these officers to return to their normal duties.”…
Primary schools in Lae city, Morobe province require suitable teachers to occupy teaching positions to better deliver the curriculum to the students. Morobe Teaching Commission Advisor Mufuanu Zurete said that the primary schools have elevated from level seven to level eight, thus the schools need teachers at that level to occupy the positions. “With the increase in population in the city, we have schools shifting up to the highest level in primary,” he said. He said most of the primary school teachers are at level five and six, few head teachers are at level seven. “We now greatly need teachers…