Steamships Trading Company Limited has now partnered with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to fund the redevelopment of Vula’a Elementary School in Hula, Central Province. The joint effort will support the implementation of a community-based comprehensive redevelopment plan that includes the construction of a double classroom equipped with new classroom furniture by members of the community. The project funding encompasses the procurement of building materials, freight, and cartage as well as any other project-related costs. This collaborative initiative aims to enhance education infrastructure and community empowerment, fostering a conducive learning and participation environment for all students in…
Author: Katrina ANGELI
PNG Human Resource Institute (PNGHRI) recently hosted its 3-day 2023 Annual Conference at the Crowne Hotel in Port Moresby starting with a graduation event for Associate Degree in Human Resource Management and awards recognition. The presentation of awards was given to those to whom PNGHRI have recognized in terms of their dedication, passion and success. The awards given accordingly were corporate awards, top HR graduates, PNG HRI graduates as well as Fellowship Awards. PNG DataCo was among other top performing organizations who received the title for Top State-Owned Enterprise in PNG. Chief Executive Officer, Paul Komboi who received the award…
A total of six medical doctors had the privilege to learn a new set of skills as they battle to overcome isolation by setting up HF radio connections for their clinics. Doctor Cinderella Gaso was amongst the group that took part in the two-week course held at the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Technologies training center in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, to learn solar and high frequency radio installation as well as basic troubleshooting of technical issues. She has spent the last nine years working between the remote Kairiku and Goilala districts in Central Province and has faced the issues that…
A total of K100, 000 from the East New Britain Provincial Government (ENBPG) annual budget will now be allocated to Organizational for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (OISCA) starting next year 2024. This is one of ENBPG’s obligations after a signed tripartite Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) took place between ENBPG, OISCA Japan and OISCA PNG Association Incorporation. The MOA signed last month at the OISCA training center was witnessed by OISCA BOD Chairman Sinai Brown, Acting Provincial Administrator Levi Mano, OISCA international Representatives and the three stakeholder’s senior management team and members. In this revised agreement the parties agree to…
PNGFM Limited team members today commemorated the World Aids Day that falls on the 1st of December every year marking this year’s theme, ‘Let Communities Lead’. In commemoration of the day itself, the staff had a session led by member of PNGFM’s Occupational Health & Safety Committee (OHSC) and Lead TB Warden, George Kavil who presented the awareness session on HIV/Aids in Papua New Guinea. Both Mr Kavil and his fellow awareness session coordinator on the topic, Mr Jack Manu compiled their presentation after training with the Business 4 Health. The session included discussions based on the difference between HIV…
With World AIDS day being marked on 1 December, UNAIDS says the role of communities in combatting the virus is critical. In a new report called Let Communities Lead, the agency said underfunding and harmful barriers are holding back the lifesaving work of communities and obstructing the end of AIDS. The report shows that the proportion of HIV funding channeled through community-led organizations has declined by at least 35 percent over the last decade. It report said to accelerate progress, the work of communities on the frontline must be better integrated into all aspects of the HIV response and properly…
Communities in Papua New Guinea are now receiving the Bible in their own languages for the first time all thanks to innovations that are speeding up the work of Bible translators. This exciting new era means that Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Technologies can help organizations like Wycliffe Associates by updating software and apps on their computers and mobile phones that translators use in their work. According to MAF Technologies Ministry Partnership Officer, Caine Ruruk, so far MAF Technologies has supplied over four hundred translation kits to Wycliffe translation teams across the country, allowing them to translate various local language Bibles.…
Athletics competition gets underway at the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara this week. Athletes from around the Pacific arrived in the Solomon Islands capital over the past two days in preparation for their track and field events. The National Stadium will be the centre of activities, as competition rolls off at 3pm New Zealand time. Events that are scheduled for Monday includes the women’s heptathlon, men’s decathlon, 100 metres heats and the 5,000m on home soil. Fijian sprinter Banuve Tabakaucoro is missing from the Games after he retired early this year, having dominated the 100 and 200 metres in the…
On the 26th of this month November, will mark 150 years since the Missionaries of the London Missionary Society arrived in Poreporena village with the Gospel. The day will be significantly remembered for the remarkable transformation of the village from hostility to peacefulness as the villagers accepted the arrival of the missionaries with the gospel and the ensuing settling of Christianity. A week-long program of celebration has been organized in Poreporena involving the United Church congregations in Hanuabada, Elevala, and Gabi. The villagers through the celebration will remember and honor the heroic efforts of the missionaries from Rarotonga to bring…
“Education is the pathway for the people of Simbu to rise and shine out in the different stages of development.” These were the words from Simbu Governor, Noah Kool who addressed a total of 76 garde twelve graduates of Boromil Technical Secondary School in its second open graduation held recently at Boromil of Gumine district. Kool said in his first term as Governor in 2012 and again in 2022, remained consistent in ensuring that Simbu has viable educational facilities in the province for accessibility, and also affordable. He also announced that the province now has a primary school teachers’ college,…