Commissioner of Police David Manning signed a MoU between the Joint Security Task Force and the PNG Electoral Commission on Wednesday July 6 which effect Police coordination of logistic air support for the 2022 National General Election. The MOU, which was signed in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands Province, was witnessed by the Chair of the Inter-Departmental Election Committee (IDEC) Mr. Ivan Pomaleu, who is also Secretary for the Department of Prime Minister and NEC. Mr. Pomaleu said this is in recognition of the limitation of air assets available for contracting to the PNG Electoral Commission. “The contractors engaged by the…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
OUR CULTURE will sustain the country’s economy after all the extractive resources are depleted, says the Executive Director of National Cultural Commission, Steven Enomb Kilanda. While officiating the launch of Kala Community Culture Center at Kala Village outside Mt Hagen City in Western Highlands Province on Tuesday Mr Kilanda reminded the guests and villagers of the importance of preserving, safeguarding, developing and promoting their cultural heritage. He said after all the minerals that are currently being developed around the country are extracted, one of the fall back plan to sustain the country’s economy would be their culture. “Therefore, you must…
To create an enabling environment for cocoa, vanilla and fisheries entrepreneurs and to generate real possibility for economic growth that will enhance the livelihoods of rural communities, the UNDP under the EU-Funded Joint UN STREIT PNG Programme, is closing in on preparatory works with stakeholders to install solar generated clean and renewable electrical energy in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. In a one-day workshop organized by the Programme in Wewak, East Sepik Province, on Thursday 23 June, participating stakeholders from Division of Education, Sepik Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Mission, Division of Health and Catholic Health Service came together to…
To celebrate the launch of the American Chamber of Commerce Coral Sea (AmCham Coral Sea), the Chamber hosted young Papua New Guinean business leaders for a networking reception. Young professionals met with both the leaders of the AmCham and U.S. embassy officials to share their stories. This event marks AmCham’s first event within the business community upon becoming an official organization. Leaders chose this event as the first in order to spotlight that empowering young people and promoting inclusion is a cornerstone to the AmCham’s mission. Winifred Kula, President and Co-founder of PNG Digital ICT Cluster, attended the event as a…
Save the children is working with the National Department of Education and Provincial Departments of Education to implement trainings in 37 clusters and 27 districts in 6 provinces under its Boosting Education Standards Together (BEST) PNG project. Last week, the BEST PNG team held a week long training attended by 17 primary school teachers on Module 2 of the Standard Based Curriculum (SBC) Mathematics for Junior Primary (G3-G5) teachers for the Vanimo cluster in West Sepik Province. The implementation of the BEST PNG project is led by the National Department of Education (NDoE) in partnership with the Provincial Divisions of…
NCSL currently is urging its 143,000 members to update their personal member details to ensure the Society correctly captures member details onto NCSL’s core banking system. The mandatory updating of member records came into effect on Thursday 2 June, 2022 following a series of communications sent through the mainstream and social media, registered employers, SMS and other online advertising platforms. NCSL CEO, Vari Lahui said ensuring accurate and correct member details on file is a very important part of securing member’s funds and ensuring that NCSL deals with the rightful owner of the account and not someone pretending to be…
More than 1,500 members of the Joint Security Task Force began moving into the Enga Province from Hela as of Tuesday, July 5, in preparation for polling duties. Polling for the Enga Province is scheduled for today, July 7. Commissioner Manning who is in the Highlands overseeing the election security operations said, “The security operation focus has been in the highlands provinces based on the past experiences and intelligence reports but so far Hela has been reported relatively quiet with few isolated incidents which have been managed. We expect the same from the remaining provinces of Enga, Southern Highlands, Western…
As the incumbent Governor and Member for NCD, I want to once again express my absolute disappointment and disgust at the deferral of polling in the Capital City. The excuse made for the initial deferral from the 4th to the 6th of July and now from 6th to maybe 8th of July is completely unacceptable. I am furious and completely disgusted. I am sure our people are equally disgusted. Securing counting venues and preparing polling officials, ballot boxes and ballot papers are basic outcomes Chief Electoral Commissioner and his staff should have sorted out well before the 4th or 6th…
Athletics PNG have announced a team of eighteen athletes for the Commonwealth Games which will get underway in Birmingham later this month, with the Athletics competition running from 2 to 7 August. The team includes ten male and eight female athletes , seventeen of whom who were nominated last year to the PNG Olympic Committee and endorsed by the Justification Committee. However Athletics PNG held off making any formal announcement of the team to ensure that only those athletes who were fit and ready to compete at the Games would be included in the final team. President Tony Green said…
The Ulamagi Nazarine Clinic sees over 100 patients daily, serving not only the Gereka Community but 6 mile’s Dogura Community, back up the hilltops of the Koiari Mountains and even down the coastline villages of Barakau and Gaire along the Magi Highway in Central Province. Operating since 2013, the health facility has not received any maintenance assistance until this year. As part of its 2022 Community Project initiative, BSP Boroko Branch reached out to the Ulamagi Nazarine Clinic, giving the facility a facelift, replacing its fly-wire, installing new tables and shelves for proper medicine storage and installing a handwash basin…