Morobe Provincial Government’s Head of Human Resource Management has announced it will fund public servants to attend short Small Medium Enterprises (SME) and Financial Literacy courses before they retire. The Human Resource Manager Kusak Meruk said Morobe Provincial Government (MPG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Personal Viability (PV) courses and will further sign an agreement with Pacific Institute of Leadership and Governance (PILAG) to prepare public servants on how to manage their final entitlements when they retire from the public sector. Meruk said PILAG’s program on teaching SME and Financial Literacy courses have convinced him, thus he…
Author: Fredrick JEJERI
The Lae City Authority (LCA) has started conducting random checks on Liquor outlets, gaming and entertainment centres, night clubs and food bars in order to see if they are complying with health and safety regulations. These random checks are a done in a partnership between LCA, department of labour, ICCC, IRC, police, IPA and immigration. The random checks commenced last night saw the joint task force were able to shut down several gaming and Liquor outlets. The initiative was recommended by Member for Lae MP and Deputy Prime Minister John Rosso to ensure all businesses comply with laws while operating…
Community members in Morobe Province have expressed mixed reactions and have publicly cried foul over the first-of-its-kind government allocation of funds to mark and celebrate the 2022 National Independence Day tomorrow. Most of them did not support the government’s resolution to allocate K1million to each districts just to observe the national event. They said the funds could have been prioritized on other vital services that were lacking in the remote parts of the country. The Marape/Rosso government has announced it had sourced K1million from respective District Development Authority funds throughout the country which are yet to be disbursed to their…
Morobe Provincial Education Program Advisor Keith Tangui has announced it will collaborate Australian Football League (AFL) with its Niu Kick program to reach out to the most remote schools in the province. PPA Keith Tangui announced this at the Erap Primary School during his visit to launch the six cluster primary schools expo which commenced yesterday. He promised to work with the sporting code which has a program to link students to sports and academic activities to further their studies in Australia if they were selected. Tangui described the AFL initiative as a successive bridging program to connect young kids…
The major damage and dislocation of structural building infrastructures encountered by Wawin National School of Excellence in Morobe during the recent earthquake will not hinder the school from sitting the grade twelves(12) National examinations this year. This was a statement issued by the school’s Deputy Principal Mr. Erick Kep. Kep made this statement on Sunday afternoon just after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Morobe, Madang and other provinces. The school encountered cracks and dislocation to roof ceilings, walls and stairs mostly built of bricks. Mr. Kep said grade twelves’ national examinations is about four more weeks away and they will…
Wawin National School of Excellence in Morobe is calling on relevant authorities to intervene and assess several damages caused by the recent massive earthquake and determine if the buildings are fit for use by students. The recent 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Morobe, Madang and parts of the Highlands Region and was even felt in other provinces on Sunday morning. At Wawin National School of Excellence, 10 classrooms, four laboratories and dormitories received damages as a direct result of the earthquake on the aging infrastructure. The classrooms and laboratories were the worst affected encountering huge cracks and dislocation of building structures.…
More than 3, 000 people have fled for their safeties while properties worth hundreds of thousands have been burnt down to ashes at Back Road in Lae, Morobe Province. This follows a fight among settlers from Morobe and Sepiks. The fight steamed up after the declaration of Nawaeb open seat during the National General Election. This will be the fourth week of the ethnic clash to go on in the area. Deaths and serious injuries were sustained during the fight. However police are yet to confirm the number of deaths from both warring groups. Road access from Malahang way to…
Morobe Governor Luther Wenge has called for peace among the settlers of Back Road in Lae after a string of fights between the Sepik’s and Morobean’s which started last month claimed lives, injuries and properties worth thousands of kina destroyed. He said he will was aware of the clash which started last month as a result of the elections. Wenge said fighting was not good as it created more pain and suffering and urged both warring parties to lay down their arms and let the law and leaders to solve the problem appropriately. “Fighting will bring unnecessary loss of lives…
Lae Morobe Governor Hon. Luther Akisawa Wenge is calling on the 10 MPs in the area to work with him to change the province. He said people needed services thus have voted the MPs to deliver. Wenge stated that to deliver services the MPs must work with him as the Head of the province. He said the MPs must not practice the previous style of fellow MPs who have been working in isolation and used to miss out on the Provincial House of Assembly sittings. He said the MPs must not bring in the habit of creating political differences too…
Buimo Correctional Services (CS) now has a tailoring shop inside its campus in Lae. The shop was funded by Correctional Services through its social services department. Northern Regional commander Felix Namane said the shop is one of the CS business arm and will become most useful Avenue to train inmates on running tailoring services in their communities whenever they are discharged to go out. The tailoring shop was officially opened yesterday. The shop cost CS K300, 000. 00 to building the shop in two years. Uniforms for Inmates, remands, CS officers and general clothing will be tailored inside the newly…