The Milne Bay Province has successfully validated its Climate Resilient Green Growth Strategy (CRGG) for the province in a two-days’ workshop which concluded today. The CRGG Strategy captures how different sectors under the Milne Bay Provincial Administration (MBPA) have mainstreamed climate resilient green growth into their provincial plans and budget. After significant consultations with provincial stakeholders in 2021, the CRGG project implemented by the Global Green Growth Institute in Partnership with the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA), have drafted the CRGG Strategy for the province. The Strategy reflects the province’s climate change priorities to be implemented under Milne Bay’s…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a step closer to complete significant guidelines which will support its efforts in mitigating the impacts of climate change through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, known as, REDD+. During a workshop hosted by Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) today in Port Moresby, four guidelines referred to as the REDD+ Safeguards Guidelines were validated by CCDA, its partners and key stakeholders. The guidelines include, REDD+ Development Guidelines (RDG), Benefit Sharing Distribution System Guidelines (BSDS), Grievance Redress Mechanism Guidelines (GRM), and the Free Prior Informed Consent Guidelines (FPIC). CCDA’s REDD+ and Mitigation Division General…
The University of the South Pacific (USP) has collaborated with Pherrus Financial Services to provide places for workplace attachment for Pacific Technical and Further Education (Pacific TAFE) students enrolled in the Diploma of Accounting (Level 5), Diploma of Business Administration (Level 5) and Diploma of Human Resources (Level 5) programmes. Pherrus Financial Services will also reward $500 prize money for the most outstanding Pacific TAFE Accounting graduate at the USP Medals & Prizes ceremony. Pacific TAFE is committed to becoming the centre of excellence for lifelong learning through delivering high-quality Preliminary, Foundation, and skills-based education and training in the Pacific…
Arrangements for persons with disability (PWDs) to vote in the upcoming National General Elections has not been made clear as yet by the PNG Electoral Commission raising concerns from the PNG Assembly of Disabled Persons (PNGADP). A report by the Media Development Initiative stated that PNGADP Co-chair Jacqueline Garoau had said that there has not been efficient consultations with the PNGEC around disability access to polling and enrolment. In the 2017 National General Elections in NCD, PWDs were allowed to vote in a separate polling station at the Cheshire Disability Services at Hohola. This was the only station for the…
Access to quality childcare and education can have a remarkably positive impact on children, especially for those children who face developmental, physical or economic challenges. Ten years ago, BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) saw the opportunity to address this need to partner with Buk Bilong Pikinini (BbP) Children’s Libraries, with an emphasis on serving children from diverse backgrounds and with diverse needs as part of the banks community values. The partnership has seen BSP supporting BbP in funding its operations at 3 libraries in Lae (Unitech), Manus & Goroka since 2012. This year, BbP celebrates its 15 years of establishment…
THE Port Moresby General Hospital Emergency Department has reported receiving one casualty and 16 injured persons from a motor vehicle accident early this morning. The majority of the 16 injured were students from Badihagwa Secondary School and the lone casualty is the bus driver who was pronounced dead upon arrival. Acting Emergency Department coordinator Dr. Duncan Sengiromo said that the students were in shock and some were in tears but fortunately, they only suffered minor cuts and bruises. “One of the students just returned been confirmed to suffer from fracture of both legs (bilateral tibial fractures). That’s the only serious…
Port Moresby North West MP Lohia Boe Samuel was arrested and charged for murder and locked up at the Boroko Police Station cells today. Commander NCD/Central Assistant Commissioner Anthony Wagambie Junior said the MP was invited to Boroko. Police station, escorted to the NCD Homicide section and charged today under section 300 sub section (1) (b)(ii) of the PNG Criminal Code Act. The firearm is owned and licensed to the Member of Parliament. Mr Wagambie said the investigators had to piece together information and evidence before effecting the arrest today. At the time of the incident, the MP was in…
The New Ireland Government was saddened to hear about the passing of one of its former member of parliament, strong People’s Progress Party man and much loved Son of New Ireland Ben Micah this morning while sitting for its final Assembly sitting before the National Elections. New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan interrupted the house as a matter of public importance after receiving the news through a note passed onto him by the clerk of the Legislative Assembly. “Ben Micah was a great man. He was a great orator who did a lot for New Ireland and this country in…
With the up-coming 2022 National General Elections, many Papua New Guineans want to see changes after the elections when respected members & governors voted into parliament settle in their newly appointed seats as the voice for their people. Mr Gairo Kapana Provincial HIV/AIDS Coordinator Central Provincial Health Authority (CPHA) said from experience as a health worker going around the 5 districts in the province, most of the infrastructures are in poor conditions and need immediate renovations. “Manpower is also a day-to-day problem that is faced. Clinical staffs are not checking patients properly due to shortage of staff,” said Mr Kapana.…
Plates, bowls and spoons made from betelnut palms, hand-painted coconut shell earrings, paintings on bedsheet canvasses, and double-choc granola bars made from local spices, cocoa and other ingredients are the four PNG-made products to emerge as winners at the judging of the Lily ‘Homemade’ Competition today. The winners are: 1. Wearable – Coconut shell earrings by Daphne Vela, 31, Earth and Ocean Crafts PNG, Boroko, Port Moresby 2. Useful – Betelnut tree plates, bowls and spoons by Geno Geno, 38, The Seed Supplier, Gereka, Port Moresby 3. Artistic – Paintings created on homemade canvasses of secondhand white bedsheets thickened with…