The annual National Mask and Warwagira Festival for the people of East New Britain has come back this year and Bank South Pacific is proud to associate itself with the event as the silver sponsor. The National Mask and Warwagira Festival promotes the unique cultures of the Tolais, Baining and Pomios. The festival kicked off this week Wednesday and will end tomorrow Saturday 13th of July, 2024, in Rabaul. Kokopo Branch Manager Johnson Tetega in presenting BSP’s support of K10,000 to the National Mask & Warwagira Festival Committee on Wednesday 10th July, at the start of the event, stated that…
Author: Kerebi DAVID
The Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) has honoured two exceptional graduates from the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) with the TPA Academic Excellence Award at a ceremony held on Tuesday 2 July, Port Moresby Mr. Harmson Waliya and Mr. Rendy Ono, both recipients of the prestigious award, expressed their heartfelt gratitude for TPA’s unwavering support in their careers in tourism. The event saw attendance from UPNG’s Head of Division Tourism and Hospitality Management, Dr. Joyce Jazmin-Rayel, along with her lecturers from the School of Business & Public Policy, including TPA staff. Harmson, who graduated in Business Management…
Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) is proud to announce that one of its employees has joined more than 15 other participants from across the Pacific who are now eligible to graduate with a Certificate IV in Climate Resilience from Fiji’s prestige university. TPA’s Product Development Officer, Lemban Kaki has completed his final presentation assessment for the Certificate IV in Climate Resilience at the University of the South Pacific (USP), the assessment was conducted from Saturday 22 to Sunday 30 June 2024. Mr Kaki, who is now back in the country, is to graduate come September this year at…
The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) today presented a cheque of K300,000 in super contributions for the PNG Fisheries Observers to the Nambawan Super Limited (NSL) during a small gathering in Port Moresby. NFA’s Acting Managing Director, Leban Gisawa, when presenting the cheque, stated that the 240 Fisheries Observers and their families will benefit from the super contributions to the NSL Choice Super Account after they retire or leave their jobs. “The observers have savings for life after their tenure.” “It was through a consultant review in 2022 that paved the way forward with this new approach for all fisheries observers…
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) and Expertise France under the European Union-funded Forestry-Climate Change-Biodiversity (EU-FCCB) Programme, which is aimed at protecting and conserving forestry and biodiversity and promoting sustainable livelihoods. The EU-FCCB Programme is an EU-funded initiative to support a development model that reconciles forestry, climate change, and biodiversity with sustainable, inclusive, and gender-responsive green growth at national and pilot subnational/community levels in PNG with three implementing agencies, Expertise France, CIFOR-ICRAF, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The MOU reaffirms the collaboration and partnership between the two entities, as…
Lack of delivery of quality health and education services across Papua New Guinea is simply the lack of proper planning at the district level, community advocacy organization ACT NOW has described this as a critical failure that is undermining all service delivery. Research by community advocacy organization ACT NOW has revealed that two-years on from the last national election, just one quarter or 25% of Districts have published a five-year development plan for 2023-27. “Good planning is essential for the delivery of quality services,” said ACT NOW Information Coordinator Cathy Tukne. “It is shocking to see that despite Districts now…
Today marks exactly two (2) weeks since the landslide in Enga Province and the process for evacuation and relocation of affected communities has started already. In an interview with Enga Provincial Administrator Sandi Tsaka, he highlighted that the evacuation and relocation exercise in itself is another challenge faced by his administration. Tsaka said the land slide has not only affected the communities in its impact zone, however due to the fact that the landslide is still very hectic, the initial impacts zone of the landslide has grown significantly in size, further villages down the hill and others on adjacent arears…
Bank South Pacific is pleased to have its Community Partner – Brisbane Broncos in Port Moresby again this week to launch the banks’ 2024 Financial Literacy Program in schools. BSP Retail GM Daniel Faunt was happy to welcome Brisbane Broncos CEO Dave Donaghy, Skipper Adam Reynolds and other club representatives to Port Moresby on Monday 3rd June 2024. Faunt explained that BSP partners with such reputable club Brisbane Broncos as both organizations share similar core values and community commitments. The partnership with Australian National Rugby League club, the Brisbane Broncos as a community partner has helped reached over 3,000 school-…
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide an additional K2 million for emergency humanitarian assistance based on needs identified in Enga Province last week. The additional funds now bring to total K4million as part of U.S. contribution to the Enga relief effort. Ambassador Ann Marie Yastishock stated that by listening to the community and following their lead, the United States is supporting the people of Enga Province as they recover from this tragedy. “This increase in funding is in direct response to what USAID experts heard and saw in Wabag and Mulitaka last week.”…
Enga Provincial Government is the first Provincial Government to sign an MOU with Climate Change Development Authority and Global Green Growth Institute on Climate Finance Initiative for Resilience and a Sustainable Transition (Climate FIRST) on Monday in Port Moresby. Climate FIRST was jointly announced by the Hon. Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia, and the Hon. James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, during their Annual Leaders’ Dialogue in Canberra on 8 February 2024. This partnership program aims to increase PNG’s access to large scale climate finance and investments to strengthen the climate resilience and adaptation of PNG and…