The Accident & Emergency department at the Madang Provincial Hospital has recorded 74 Covid-19 positive cases for the last three weeks after carrying out a total of 203 tests. Emergency Physician, Dr. Juith Gawi, said swabs were done on patients who presented themselves with COVID-19 symptoms at the outpatient area. He said the department has seen a surge in the number of cardiovascular diseases like stroke, chest pain and treatment failure malaria. “Since October the Madang Provincial Hospital had recorded 74 positive Covid-19 cases and 25 Covid-19 deaths, while 55 Covid-19 patients were discharged from the A&E department for home quarantined.” “They were…
Author: Katrina ANGELI
Nominations are now open for the Listener’s Choice Song of the Year Award for the Yumi FM PNG Musik Awards 2021. According to the Program Director Mistiq, listeners will be given this week to vote for their favorite song from 2020 into this year. Nominations have opened as of yesterday start today and will close on Sunday 28th of November. The Yumi FM PNG Musik Awards will take place on the 4th of December where Yumi FM will announce the most nominated artists who are voted the most by the listeners. The awards night will be aired live on Yumi FM…
The UPNG West New Britain Students Association have recently carried out a major project in West New Britain Province. The project consists of two parts, which includes an academic excellence awareness talk as well as a Book Drive program. Both the programs were carried out in five schools in each of the LLGs in the Province. The 2021 President of the UPNG WNBSA, Zeal Dau, said that as of the first program, the WNBSA conducted an academic excellence awareness to talk to students about the importance of education. According to Dau, this was to help students make informed decisions about…
The Yumi FM PNG Musik Awards is back this year to recognize the contributions of local musicians and producers in the PNG music industry. This year the Musik Awards is set to take place on the 4th of December, where Yumi FM will announce the most nominated artists who are chosen by the dedicated listeners and loyal fans of the artists. The Awards show will be aired live on the Yumi FM radio station from 8pm to 12midnight. Program Director of Yumi FM, Tuluan Vitz, said this is the second time Yumi FM will be hosting the event live on air…
“Doing what I am good at is not for the sake of the money but for the passion I have for it.” These are the words of one talented Jayde Jemimah Ovia, who has always had a dream of becoming a professional makeup artist one day. Ovia, aged 23 from Central and Gulf, took up Cosmetology at Caritas Technical Secondary School. After completing her studies in 2016, Ovia went into the fashion industry and took up modelling. She has been modelling ever since, following the recent fashion runway shows she took part in; the MPIP fashion show and the Paradise…
An ambulance crew belonging to the St John Ambulance was attacked in the early hours of Thursday morning by a group of anti-vax protesters in Lae. The crew consisting of three ambulance officers were attending to a female patient along the Boinamo Gravel Road in Lae when they were attacked by the group. The group were under the assumption that the crew was giving vaccine jabs to the people. The crew members were verbally abused and accused of conducting vaccinations and threatened to have the ambulance smashed for being suspected of carrying out vaccination in the communities. It so happened…
The Divine Word University Eastern Highlands Students Association in Madang recently hosted an appeal to help families of those suffering from Covid-19 back in their home province in Goroka. The appeal program which took place last week Saturday was organised by Mr. Awaso Peter, a final year Mathematics and Computer Science student who said that the program was aimed at helping families and loved ones back at home who are currently battling the Covid-19 pandemic. “We the students came up with this initiative a couple of weeks back where we decided to do a wheelbarrow push collecting money starting from…
Grade 10 students in Goroka, Eastern Highlands are among 74,000 plus students sitting their first paper in the Grade 10 national examinations nationwide, despite a provincial lock down in place due to a spike in COVID-19 cases in the province. Eastern Highlands Governor Peter Numu and the Provincial COVID-19 Controller John Gimiseve announced on the weekend that the lock down which begun today will continue till 26th October to minimize high COVID-19 surge in the province that has spread to all eight districts in the province killing many people. Principal of Goroka Secondary, Mr. Peter Hasu, said the Department of…
Warangoi Secondary School in East New Britain Province, will be launching two projects that will take place this year. This includes the launching of a new school truck worth K155, 000 as well as two school policy books created by both the Principal and the Deputy Principal of the school. According to School Principal, Mrs. Naomi Vuvu, the first policy book is titled BMP which stands for Behavioral Management Policy (BMP) and the second policy book is called SLIP which is the School Improvement Plan Policy. Mrs Vuvu said that both books will serve its’ purpose on shaping the school…
Karkar Secondary School in Madang Province, yesterday received a cheque sum of K100, 000 plus a total of eighty computers from the Madang Governor, Sir Peter Yama, as part of his commitment towards helping the school. The money was presented to the Principal of Karkar Secondary, Mr. Jeremiah Buza at the Governor’s office within the Sir Bato Bultin Building. According to Yama, the money presented was a promise made to the students and staff of Karkar Secondary when he visited Karkar Island for the Provincial Executive Council meeting. “This is the K100, 000 I promised the school when I went…