Six trainers specialized in dance, acrobatics, yoga, and kung fu completed an 11-week table session program and were awarded leadership certificates from the PNG Tribal Foundation under the Senisim PNG Program this week. The program, delivered under the Active City Development Program (ACDP), was a behaviour change initiative that integrates physical activity with leadership development. It is aimed to strengthen the participants’ leadership capacity while promoting healthy living. Active City Development Program lead, Ezra Adino, said that as part of their role, the trainers led participants through structured physical activities, using movement not only as a means of fitness but…
Author: Kerebi DAVID
Tribal Foundation continues to stand as an icon of hope for many Sorcery Accusation victims in Papua New Guinea, especially in the Highlands region and for Simbu Province, it has been one of the provinces that Tribal Foundation continues to address Sorcery Accusation Related Violence (SARV). This year since the month of June to this day, Tribal Foundation has supported and provided food rations for more that 100 SARV survivors and victims. This is part of a program called “Feeding Survivors” under PNG Tribal Foundation, whereby survivors who are displaced within their own traditional land, who lost homes, food gardens…
The Department of Works and Highways (DoWH) and Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) are currently visiting Aotearoa New Zealand. Their visit started last Saturday 23rd August and will end on Saturday 30th August 2025, and the purpose of the visit is to learn more about climate-resilient infrastructure. The learning exchange programme comes as Papua New Guinea (PNG) prepares to mark 50 years of independence on 16 September 2025. Improving road transport is a priority for Papua New Guinea’s economic growth and development, with limited road connections outside the main cities of Port Moresby and Lae. Many of the country’s…
The Marape Rosso Government has made a commitment to priorities the settlement to suburb project. Speaking at the recent launching of Government lease land titles to the Moresby Northeast District, Prime Minister James Marape stated that the Marape Rosso Government, under Pangu party has pledged to work in partnership with National Capital District and the three District office in Port Moresby to turn all settlements into suburbs. “Starting next year and for the next 3-4 years until 2030, the Pangu Government will prioritize on converting all settlements to suburbs,” said Prime Minister Marape. “One settlement at a time until all…
Police in the Chuave District of Simbu Province have launched an investigation into the murder of a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church elder, who was accused of sorcery in Kue village in West Elimbari, before his brutal killing. The attack occurred on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM. A group of people accused the church elder, who was in his mid-40s, of using sorcery to cause the death of a fellow clansman. Constable Gabriel Suka, the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Officer in Charge, confirmed that a formal investigation began last week after the PNG Tribal Foundation…
Member for Moresby Northeast John Kaupa acknowledges the fact of extreme shortage of site and serviced land, and the city’s unpretentious urban development challenges. He sees that informal settlement has been the dominant features of urban growth and expansion on both state and customary land, therefore he believes the way forward is by turning settlements into viable, robust and livable suburbs. Under the settlement to suburb program Prime Minister James Marape yesterday presented two state lease land titles to National Capital District (NCD) Governor Powes Parkop and Moresby North-East MP John Kaupa during a ceremony at 9-Mile. The two state…
Court circuits are helping deliver timely and fair justice to communities that might otherwise experience long delays thus it has brought justice to people in remote areas, and it’s seen as an effective system to address law and order in communities. The Court circuits are supported by the Australia–Papua New Guinea Law and Justice Partnership (APLJ) and they are a regular initiative of the Magisterial Services of PNG, designed to extend justice services to rural and remote communities. Mid this year, between 20 July and 1 August 2025, a team of law and justice officials from Lae successfully completed a…
The Cocoa Management Information System Goes Live to Power Value Chain Growth Developed by ITU under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, unifies real-time cocoa data in a single hub for planning, reporting, and advisories, and co-designed with the Cocoa Board and DICT, it reduces errors, informs decisions, and speeds support to farmers, businesses, and government. Supported by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, the Cocoa Management Information System (CMIS) of the Cocoa Board of Papua New Guinea (CBPNG) was launched in Kokopo city in the East New Britian province. The sector-wide platform has been designed to digitize…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, has completed a targeted capacity-building initiative to strengthen institutional capabilities of the provincial government and its agencies in digital data collection and monitoring, supporting the shift from paper-based to more efficient, paperless operations. As part of this initiative, the Programme delivered a tailored training workshop on the computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) approach using the Kobo Collect solution. A total of 59 officers (including 18 women) from the regional office of the Cocoa Board of Papua New Guinea, the East Sepik Provincial Division of Agriculture and…
The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) has received four completed Valuation Rolls for Bougainville from the Office of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Valuer General, within the National Department of Lands, Physical Planning and Urbanisation, during a handover ceremony in Buka recently. Acting Deputy Secretary Operations, Mrs. Belinda Lanbong, accepted the documents on behalf of the ABG, describing the occasion as a significant milestone in Bougainville’s journey in institutional and economic development. She acknowledged the Government of PNG for its continued support, noting that this is the first time in Bougainville’s history that urban property values have been systematically recorded and…