Climate Change impacts are real and showing its aggression in PNG currently, hence the increased climate variability through temperature and precipitation, coastal erosion, saline intrusion and inundation caused by sea –level rise and a greater intensity of tropical storms. The effects of climate change are expected to affect agriculture, fisheries and forest which is approximately one fifth of the country’s GDP thus also providing for the livelihood of the majority of the country’s population. Because of the effects of climate change, the Adaptation and Projects Division of the Climate Change and Development Authority has launched a National Adaptation Plan recently…
Author: Kerebi DAVID
Medical students from Divine Word University and three of their faculty doctors took part in a rural outreach program recently in Madang. The outreach was in partnership with Madang Provincial Health Authority who provided additional medicine and rapid tests kits. The outreach was done in Malala community in the Bogia district, which saw collaborative efforts together by the Catholic Health Service, Malala Health Centre, local church leaders who assisted to organize patients as well as the nutrition research participants. Under the clinicians’ supervisors, Professor Dr. Jerzy Kuzma and Dr Marcella Yeou, the year 4 medical students were able to examine…
9 Hatchery farmers in the country will be given training on how to produce their own Fish feeds called the Sex Reversal Feeds for Tilapia (SRT). Mr Jacob Towa from Towa Fish Breeding and Hatchery in Western Highlands Province is one of the 9 Hatchery farmers who are here in Port Moresby to receive training from National Fisheries Authority on how to produce hatchling feeds. “SRT is the very first feed we give a hatchling when it comes out of the egg,” says Mr Towa. “These feed reverses the cyclone of a female genital development in fish thus developing all…
CPL Group through their Supermarket brand Stop and Shop is pleased to announce their partnership with Capital Rugby Union as Gold Sponsor for the 2023b season. The sponsorship is valued at K70, 000.00 and was officiated in a mock-cheque presentation at Stop and Shop Waigani Central shop by CPL Group Executive Officer Navin Raju and Capital Rugby Uninon Vice-President John Nilkare in front of Club players, competition management and the media. “CPL is happy to come on board this year with Capital Rugby Union as a gold sponsor.” “We see this as an opportunity to model teamwork and promote healthy…
Former Australian rugby and NFL player Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of raping a woman in 2018. According to CNN affiliate 7News, a jury returned a unanimous verdict in the New South Wales District Court on Tuesday afternoon. CNN has reached out to Hayne’s lawyers. It is the third time Hayne has faced a jury for the incident. In his first appearance, a retrial was ordered after it ended in a hung trial. He was then tried a second time and, in March 2021, Hayne was found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent. The court found…
A young mother and her son showed up today at PNGFM’s Legend FM studio to claim her gift hamper which she won through Legend FM Easter Feast with Coca cola. Ms Faith William was the week 3 winner for the Legend FM Easter Feast with Coca Cola which was running for three weeks. She was all teary when she saw the contents of the hamper she had won especially the protein content and said it was an answered prayer. Faith explained her emotional reaction was because her father in-law was finishing his 40 days fasting this Easter Sunday and the…
Easter is a time for giving and with it commitment in sharing Christ’s love in Papua New Guinea in the good and bad times, Samaritan Aviation continues to show its commitment in this time of despair when everyone in East Sepik is affected by the 7.3 magnitude earth quake. Country Director Samaritan Aviation Mr Chris Cooke stated that Samaritan Aviation is been busy flying in patients injured from their houses collapsing on top of them. Whilst working closely with the Sepik Provincial Disaster Relief Officer flying out patients who have sustained injuries from affected areas because of the earthquake, they…
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s PNG Lukautim Graun Program (LGP) has given financial grants to Madang Forest Resource Owners Association Inc (MFROA) to help empower women and improve village-level natural resource management practices in Madang Province. MFROA’s Projects Manager, Mr Taksey Dobon, officially signed the grant agreement on behalf of the association at the Madang Resort in the presence of representatives from USAID-LGP, MFROA board members, forest-owning community representatives, youth and female representatives, staff, and volunteers recently. Mr Dobon said that the project is important as they are trying to create a better alternative to large scale logging…
It is not a common sight for a man from Hela or Highlands culture to be a midwife and deliver babies because it is seen as a woman’s job says 23 years old Gilbert Gei from Hela Province, who is the only male recipient of one of the 10 scholarships provided by the United Nations Population Fund Country Office to the University of Goroka’s Midwifery School. Mr Gei said he had seen firsthand the importance of a midwife and the role they play in saving a mother and a baby’s life. Mr. Gilbert Gei completed his nursing studies at Goroka…
Fish farming in recent years has gained momentum and is booming in the Upper Highlands. That’s the word from Mr Jacob Towa, owner of Towa Fish Breeding and Hatchery Farm in the Western Highlands Province. Mr Towa told PNG HAUSBUNG that he started his journey in farming back in 2002 and by 2019 he went into breeding male tilapia. Towa Fish Breeding and Hatchery farm is one of the biggest Tilapia fish breeding farm in the Upper Highlands, where eggs are removed from the tilapia fish, washed and placed in jars for up to 8 or 12weeks when these fish…