Minister for Defense, Win Bakri Daki has paid a courtesy visit to the Kokopo fire station office in East New Britain (ENB) recently. The Minister was accompanied by the Chief Fire Officer, Bill Roo and welcomed by ENB leaders; Member for Kokopo, Ereman ToBaining Jnr, Member for Pomio, Elias Kapavore, Acting Provincial Administrator, Levi Mano, ENBPA Disaster Director and ENB Governor, Michael Marum. The purpose of the visit was for the Minister for Defense to visit the station and to see how they are going about with their operations. The visit is also to see what things are needed in…
Author: Katrina ANGELI
Nominated for four categories of the YUMI FM PNG Musik Awards 2023, Jnr Viginuts or Jnr Vigi, have never felt so much motivation in boosting them to perform more in their musical career. Jnr Viginuts, a group comprised of three brothers from Keapara village in Central province, have for the first time been nominated, not for one, but for four categories. The awards night will feature and celebrate the work of local artists over the last two years 2021-2022 and the trio group have certainly earned the spot to be nominated for more than one category. The group was nominated…
Papua New Guinea’s international artist, Anslom, is among talented musical artists from the United States and around the world who are finalists for various music awards. The International Singer Songwriters Association (ISSA) in the United States of America, recently announced finalists of awards in various categories. The ISSA is a platform that honors excellence in individual singer songwriters and musicians worldwide which is based in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA. Anslom was announced as finalist in the following two categories: · International Band of the Year; and · International Male Album of the Year – Love me again Anslom thanked…
Nominees for the YUMIFM PNG Musik Awards 2023 have been announced and this year the Yumi FM PNG Musik Awards 2023 will celebrate the work of local artists over the last two years 2021-2022. The local artists have been nominated in ten various categories. Hotwills Wagon has been nominated as one of the nominees for the Producer of the Year 2022 category where he is amongst two other producers nominated for the same year. “When I got a call, I got a shock, because in those two years of 2021 and 2022, I didn’t produce a lot of tracks.” This…
St Anthony’s Vunavavar Primary school in NCR of Gazelle district in East New Britain has received funding support of K50, 000 from the East New Britain Provincial Government (ENBPG) which will be used for school infrastructure upgrading and renovations. This was announced by ENB Governor Michael Marum recently during the primary school opening of a new two in one classroom. Governor Marum thanked Chinese Jiangsu International (CJI), a Chinese business operating in Kokopo for core funding the classroom through their partnership with the education division and provincial government. He said CJI came forward to support the projects in two schools;…
The Prince and Princess of Wales have posted a photo online to mark their 12th wedding anniversary. The photo shows the couple on bikes in Norfolk during sunny weather last year. It was posted on the couple’s official Twitter account, with the simple caption “12 years” and a heart emoji. On Thursday and Friday the pair spent time in Wales abseiling off a cliff, ordering pizza and visiting Aberfan Memorial Garden. The couple married at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011 after an eight-year relationship. They spent their first three years of married life in Anglesey, where Prince William was doing his helicopter training to…
Officials from Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia recently held the annual PNG-Australia Annual Climate Change Dialogue in Port Moresby to advance priority actions under the PNG-Australia bilateral partnership. The dialogue was also a first commitment under the PNG-Australia-Climate Change Action Plan (PACCAP); a joint Ministerial Agreement between PNG and Australia signed in May 2018 for both countries to work together to address climate change in PNG and in the region. The one-day dialogue was led by Special Climate Envoy Mr. Ruel Yamuna and Climate Change Ambassador for Australia, Ms. Kristin Tilley, setting key priorities for both countries. Key priorities…
Porgera Secondary School in Enga province has closed down again indefinitely as of last week due to the continuous tribal fights between the Nomali and Aiyela clans, which has greatly affected life in the Porgera Valley. Deputy Principal, Mr. Amos Amail said that with the issue at hand, there were opportunists taking advantage of the situation by vandalizing and stealing certain properties from the students and staff within the school. “We all fled the school because there was nothing much we could do.Now that the school has been shut down, most of our students and staff have had to live…
Parramatta captain Clint Gutherson crossed for his first career hat-trick as the big names combined to put a poor Knights side to the sword with a 43-12 win at CommBank Stadium last night. Both sides traded tries early before the Eels produced eight line breaks in the first half to set up a 30-6 lead against a Knights outfit that missed 65 tackles throughout the contest. Marquee men Dylan Brown and Mitchell Moses crossed for tries before Gutherson fooled a clumsy Knights defensive line at dummy half twice to cross for a double. He had a treble by the 46th…
The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) with Papua New Guinea Teachers Association (PNGTA) had the first negotiation on addressing teachers’ pay increments, allowances and other issues concerning the wellbeing of the teachers in the country. Executives from PNGTA brought a working document to present it to TSC for comments which would later be presented to the Department of Personal Management (DPM) for action. PNGTA National Vice President Mr. Shenell Kou when doing his presentation said some of the issues captured in the document include, teachers housing allowances, teachers’ salary fixation, teachers training and other important issues. “The document that we have…