Police in West New Britain Province have already started their preparations for the upcoming National General Elections and WNB PPC Chief Inspector Januarius Vosivai stated that the pre election operations will kick off in a weeks’ time under the supervision of the incoming WNB PPC, Senior Inspector John Yara. Inspector Vosivai said much of the planning and pre election operation will be done under the leadership of the new PPC Snr Inspector John Yara stating that the first pre-election operation will be focused on community engagement whereby police will be carrying out election awareness to all communities. However Inspector Vosivai…
Author: Kerebi DAVID
Four women were endorsed by the People’s Party Inc. this week to contest all four seats in the National Capital District under the party banner in the upcoming 2022 National General Elections. People’s Party Inc. leader and Enga Province Governor Peter Ipatas commended the four (4) women candidates for their bold decision in choosing to stand with the party for the coming elections in such a challenging and expensive location like NCD at the same time adding that it is a historic move by the party. “To endorse four women candidates is the biggest number of women ever endorsed by…
After almost a decade, the Port Moresby Rugby League Club is now looking at bringing back their women’s team into the Port Moresby Rugby leagues competition. Snr Head Coach Mr Wesley Laveliu said Defence Rugby League club has been the only club without a women’s team for some years now and the club is looking at reviving the women’s team. “We are looking for interested females who want to play rugby, unskilled or skilled as long as you have the heart and interest in rugby then you are most welcome to come and join the club”, said Coach Laveliu. Coach…
“You can now trade you traditional tabus for cash or you can trade cash for tabus and all this can be done at Palna Tabu Limited,” said owner Mr Henry Kubiak. Mr Henry Kubiak from East New Britain has recently set up a new SME MICRO traditional trade centre for Tabu at the 6 mile Business Centre. Mr Kubiak said, traditional money has died out over the decades with the modern currency we are using however when it comes to traditional obligations, traditional money plays a vital part in traditional ceremonies. “If you have some traditional obligations to do at…
Moreguina Health Centre in Abau District, Central Province has shut down its outpatient services temporarily on Friday 14th January after the health centre recorded 3 positive covid 19 cases amongst the inpatients in their two inpatient wards. Moreguina OICE Ravu Kapa said every other outpatient services are put on halt until further notice from them, as for now they will only attend to emergency cases. The 3 confirmed cases were admitted in the wards for Malaria but had shown very high fever, and when PCR covid test was carried on these 3 and sent to Kwikilia Health Centre lab last…
A passenger boat carrying 8 passengers that has gone missing in the waters of New Ireland Province for the last 4 days has been located around midday today. After 4 days of searching the waters of New Ireland Province the boat and all the passengers have been found safe and sound on Tench Island. Mr Chris Paul a Mussau Islander who was involved in the search and rescue mission of the missing 8 said, the passenger boat on Friday 24th December left Tsoi Island around 6am in the morning to travel to Mussau Island but never reached its’ destination. A…
The rainy season of the year is also the best time when pineapples grow in abundance and when this season happens around this time of the year, all the snakes start to come out as well especially Papuan Blacks and that is when the snake bites are frequent in the Central Province. Moreguina Health Centre in Abau District, Central Province has been receiving snake bite victims since November. OIC Ravu Kapa said snake bites have been happening frequently because of the wet season and in a week, about 2-3 snake bite victims have been brought into the health Centre however…
Modilon General Hospital can now continue its Covid Testings after receiving 74 boxes of COVID -19 Rapid Diagnostic Test kits from New Britain Palm Oil Foundation on Friday 26th November. For the last two weeks, Modilon Hospital was unable to carry out any Covid -19 testings because it ran out of testing kits says Director of Public Health, Dr. Martin Damien upon receiving the kits. Dr. Damien said the hospital has recorded 1245 positive covid19 cases out of the 6000 accumulative tests done so far and he thanked New Britain Palm Oil Foundation for the timely donations to the provincial…
It has been over a week now and the people of Manam Island in Madang Province are still waiting for disaster relief supplies to reach them. Close to 3000 Manam islanders are in desperate need of medical support, food, and clean water supply after their food gardens and water sources were destroyed by ash falls when the Manam volcano erupted on Wednesday 20th October, 2021. Around 7am last Wednesday morning the Manam volcano erupted, spewing ash with scoria of about 1-2 km above the volcano. Villages from Mandauri to Baliau were affected by the eruption in which houses, gardens and…
About 12000 people from the 12 ward councils in the basin of Mt Bosavi have taken much interest in Agriculture. Many in the area are subsistence farmers, farming for their daily survival but all this has changed in recent times when the Mt Bosavi Sustainable Agriculture Development Corporation came into place to help these people take their subsistence farming to the next level. Early last year the Mt Bosavi Sustainable Agriculture Corporations started to introduce the idea of food security and the idea of commercial farming to the local farmers. These people are now introduced to vanilla, cocoa and even…