The East New Britain Provincial Education Board will convene a meeting next week to deliberate on Teachers Posting especially the new graduands waiting in line to be employed. ENB Education Provincial Advisor, Mr Alkan Mararang said the meeting must be done on scheduled time for schools to resume on time also. “We are currently processing applications, whereas for now, we have a total of thirty-nine request of our new graduates with eight applicants requesting to teach in high schools and the rest to primary schools.” Mararang stressed that the new graduates, will be properly screened before going ahead with employment…
Author: Katrina ANGELI
Teachers leave fares in the country continue to be an on-going issue every year where they are either eligible or not eligible to receive their leave fares. As for teachers in East New Britain, this seems to be the main case where only 50% of their leave fares were released to them. ENB Education Advisor, Mr Alkan Mararang said, teachers were not paid on time, however their leave fares were paid out to them during the Christmas week. He said the delay was caused by outstanding payments from 2020 that had to be settled first before teachers could receive their…
“My mission is to equip youths from different churches and communities in order to mould them in building a better nation.” These are the words of one determined individual who has had an impact on the lives of youths for over twenty years now. Shane Baiva, who comes from Gaire and Barakau has always had a life-long dream to help others. Baiva came up with the initiative to help youths through a conference he founded called the Worship Warrior Conference. Through this conference, Baiva has helped many youths become the people they are today. The conference itself is an annual…
Police officers on duty at the various checkpoints around Port Moresby city on New Year’s Eve last night were well supplied with food rations, including from local company the Funeral Home, where a team was donating several food items to the officers. The General Manager of Funeral Home, Losa Agonia, said that this is part of their support in helping the police maintain peace during this period. “Every year we donate a variety of food items to police working on New Year’s Eve operations,” she said. “Donating to our policemen is something we do every year by helping them in…
Police in the nation’s capital city of Port Moresby have apprehended a suspect involved in an attempted carjacking at the Gerehu suburb. According to the Port Moresby Metropolitan Superintendent, Gideon Ikumu, the suspect was apprehended by a police unit at the Gerehu stage three area in the early hours of the evening and is being detained at the Gerehu police station cell. This is perhaps the only major incident reported so far from what has been described as a peaceful New Year’s Eve before midnight. “Apart from that, the operations carried out in the city have so far been successful…
A Women’s group from Doromoku village, in Kairuku Hiri, Central Province, have recently launched their first ever Country Women’s Association Group (CWA) in their area and in Central Province as a whole. The CWA Doura Kabema’una Women’s Group, has officially become a branch of the Country Women’s Association which is a worldwide charitable organization. According to CWA National Council President of PNG, Rachel Gware, CWA aims to improve the conditions for country women and children and to try to make life better for them, especially to those living in rural and remote areas. She said the launching of the new…
Warangoi Secondary School in East New Britain Province, will soon receive a new duplex for teachers’ houses. Principal of Warangoi Secondary, Mrs. Naomi Vuvu, said that the project has already started and should be complete by Term One of next year. Vuvu stated that, the total amount of funding put into this project is K464, 000 which came from students’ project fees. In addition to this, Vuvu said that a plan has been put in place to carry out two more duplex teacher’s houses and two new classrooms by next year. She said the reason being that many of the…
Each year CPL Group of Companies carries out a fashion competition aimed at giving an opportunity to upcoming designers to showcase their fashion talents. The program consists of the best design work created by those who have a passion for fashion and style. This year, CPL announced five of its lucky winners for the 2020 Design PNG competition. Amazingly, all five winners were male designers who were chosen for their best designs. The winners then launched their design collections, which took place last week Thursday at Jack’s PNG. LaForce Mand, was one of the winners announced for the Fashion competition.…
A total of 16 boxers officially signed their Professional Boxer’s contract agreement last week Friday. The contract was signed between the boxers, their managers and the Oceania Fight Promotions. Marketing Manager for Oceania Fight Promotions, Mr. Noel Sarei, said that the contract consists of a number of details such as the boxers’ terms and conditions between the three parties, the category they will be fighting under, the number of rums to fight, the name of their opponents and most importantly the prize money. “We at Oceania Fight Promotions, recognize boxing not only as a recreational activity but also an industry.”…
A new band in the music industry, the Eleven 35 boys took out the Yumi FM Musik Award Listeners Choice Song of the Year Award, thanks to their fans that voted for their song “Superman”. The 17th Yumi FM PNG Musik Awards 2021 Live on Radio recognized artists, songs, bands and producers of the year 2020 who worked tirelessly and managed to deliver to their fans amidst the COVID-19 situation the country. Eleven 35 was nominated in the Best New Artist of the Year category, however they missed out on that category but the listeners and their fans never gave…