People in Simbu who may have been affected by the recent 7.6 magnitude earthquake will have to wait a little longer for relief assistance to reach them. Reports received by the Simbu Provincial Disaster Office from the 6 districts suggests that damages to properties and infrastructure may have been severe but the extent is unknown until an assessment team is able to visit the districts. Simbu Province Disaster Coordinator Paul Brown said his office is unable to ascertain the extent of damage within the 6 districts due to logistical issues faced. He said, they will be able to carry out…
Author: Kerebi DAVID
National Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection Authority (NAQIA) in partnership with Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation (FAO) are currently running a three (3) days practical training for African swine fever (ASF) Stock Inspectors here in Port Moresby which started on Monday 22nd of August and will finish on the 24th August 2022. These trainings here in Port Moresby and other previous trainings outside of Port Moresby were made possible through funding from the United States Aid. The purpose of the trainings is to strengthen the field capacities for African swine fever detection and animal emergency responses in Papua…
Parts of Papua New Guinea will experience average rainfalls despite the dry and cold conditions faced around the country, including East New Britain Province that is going through a dry spell with no rains in the province for the past three (3) months. Director National Weather Service Jimmy Gomoga said despite the few months of dry spell, there’s good news for ENB – they will not experience a drought in the province with some improvements expected in the weather pattern in the coming months. “This improved situation will be felt in all the parts of the New Guinea Islands except…
Port Moresby North East Open Counting update as of 8am 12th August, 2022. 1: John Kaupa 17 606 2: Andapanga Baliawe 17 143 3: Diane Unagi-Koiam 15 714 Absolute majority stands at 25 292. 3rd candidate Dianne Unagi-Koiam is the decider now. At this moment, counting officials for Day shift have not been allowed in for counting and Night shift counting officials to continue counting untill declaration is made for the seat. Counting officials just returned from 30 minutes break, but Exclusion #73 the final Exclusion can not proceed because the Returning Officer, and few AROs are not yet in…
The Central Provincial Government Central Dabaris will be going up against the Kimbe Cutters in Round 13 of the Digicel Cup challenge in Kimbe this weekend and the Dabari boys are looking for a back to back win. Coach Steve Gunua said they won Isou in their last game 24-6 and are looking forward for a back to back win with crossed fingers. Coach Gunua further stated that if they win the Kimbe Cutters this weekend, it will be their second back to back win. “The last back to back win was in round 9 and round 10 against the…
Almost a year now and Kwikila Health Centre in the Central Province has being serving patients under a makeshift canvas tent. The health centre has gone under a major renovation late last year and since then all health services was done outside of the health centre, under a canvas tent. Sister-In-Charge, Anna Atop said the renovation was already completed, however the refurbished health center is yet to be opened for use. “I do not know what the delay is, it’s probably with the Provincial Health Authority, but then we can’t continue like this because it’s affecting our service to the…
“The Law has been breached, conduct of polling and the whole process of the election was unlawful and we as candidates of the 3 seats of NCD have all the evidence.” This is from one of the Moresby North West candidates Mr Issac Lupari during a recent media conference in the city this week. Mr Lupari said all candidates have agreed on 3 points to go by ; 1) All candidates have agreed to engage a lawyer to do a thorough check on the whole process of this election, and the lawyer will put a stop to all the counting…
Polling in Simbu Province was quiet and smooth with no disturbance. Simbu Election Manager Mr Tom Sine said most ballot boxes from all the districts have being brought in for counting already. However, ballot box from the isolated part of Gumini District, and ballot boxes from Nomane and Karimui in the Sol-Nomane Karimui district have not being brought in yet due to bad weather. Mr Sine said if weather is good later on during the day then chopper will be sent to retrieve the ballot boxes so hopefully counting can start tomorrow.
The 5-day polling period for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville will kick start tomorrow, Wednesday 06th July. AROB Election Manager Justine Pantumari said Autonomous Region was suppose to start their polling on Monday, however they had to postponed because it was a public holiday in the regions calendar. Monday was Remembrance Day for French Admiral and Explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) who was the first Explorer to discover the island of Bougainville. Mr Pantumari said a thorough checklist of the materials were done and Returning Officers and Assisting Returning Officers were all dispatched with their materials to their respective regions,…
“We are voting for road access into Mt Bosavi region,” said Mr Andrew Awabi, who is the Chairman for Mt Bosavi Sustainable Agriculture Development Inc. For decades and generations there has never being a road access into the Mt Bosavi region and the people of Mt Bosavi have being cut off from the rest of the country. “Mt Bosavi lies between four (4) provinces, part of it towards the Western Province side, another part to the Gulf side, other side toward the Hela Province and the other part towards the Southern Highlands Province, however it is sad to see no…