National Capital District Commission’s environment health officers press on cleansing public health hazards and environment pollutions in the city. Following complaints by residents over flowing of raw sewerage from manholes located around the old Civil Aviation compound at Konedobu, they closed parts of Desh Besh Supermarket at Konedobu on Friday. Team leader Abraham Keple said fast food bar and the bakery would be closed for an indefinite period until the shop owner complies with the recommendations of improvement made under the Public Health regulations. The indefinite closure notice was served on the supermarkets management last Friday. Mr Keple said based…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
Access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities (WaSH) in Western Province’s South Fly District continues to be strengthened under the South Fly Resilience Plan (SFRP). The SFRP, supported by the Australian Government through the Papua New Guinea-Australia Partnership, aims to strengthen government and community mechanisms to improve WaSH standards and food security in the South Fly region. Australia is also building upon its existing investments supporting improvements to health and infrastructure needs in South Fly and working to address the harsh impacts of climate change, long dry seasons and flooding, which results in contaminated water, unreliable cropping systems and infectious…
Gulf Governor Chris Haiveta and his Provincial Executive Council (PEC) has welcomed PNG Football Association president John Kapi Natto and his Member Association Manager Stanley Khanna to its provincial capital to find ways to re-admit Kerema Soccer Association back into the football family. Mr Kapi Natto was on a familiarization visit last Thursday to support Mr Khanna to ensure Kerema Soccer Association returns to the fold as an affiliate member before he steps out of football. The trip to Kerema township was to ensure KSA meet all the guidelines and requirement to elect new office bearers to work together to…
The JPG Waghi Tumbe rugby league team from Jiwaka Province have created history by winning the preliminary finals with a 31-16 win over a seasoned PRK Mendi Muruks side thus booking the last spot and their first ever Digicel Cup Grand Final with a thrilling performance at the Oil Search National Football Stadium in Port Moresby. The boys from Jiwaka took to the field with a hunger and determination for a Grand Final spot and their efforts have proved that they are Grand Final ready come next weekend. In a display of tremendous footy from the Joe Frank led side,…
Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (Kumul Petroleum) welcomes the government’s decision to award a fourth Petroleum Retention License (PRL) to the national oil and gas company (NOC). This decision comes less than five months after the awarding of three licences. The Minister for Petroleum, Hon. Kerenga Kua, in officially announcing the award, described the occasion as momentous for Kumul Petroleum as Papua New Guinea’s NOC. “In April of this year, I announced the Marape-Basil Government’s support of the decision of the Petroleum Advisory Board (PAB) to grant PRL 48, PRL 49 and PRL 50 covering the Kimu, Barikewa and Uramu gas…
HEALTH authorities in West Sepik are seeking help to manage the COVID-19 pandemic as the number of cases rise. They are also advocating for provincial lock-down or a partial lockdown to prevent a possible second surge of COVID-19 cases. It had a lock-down early this year when it had its first surge. Director for WSP Public Health and Incident Manager Dr Trevor Kelebi said in a situation report submitted to the National Coordination Centre that the six-bed isolation ward at the Sandaun Provincial Hospital was full throughout the month of August and is managed by one health extension officer and…
SP PNG Hunters proved the lessons learned in their challenging Intrust Super Cup season as they held off a Central Queensland Capras fightback for a treasured 22-20 win in Rockhampton tonight. The Capras scored twice in the final minutes, including from a crossfield kick after the siren that bounced and fell for a try for the home team. That left them with a conversion from about 10 metres in from the sideline which swerved to the left, delivering a deserved victory to the Hunters. The visitors made it difficult for themselves at times with intercept passes, three sin-bins and dropped…
As part of their efforts to kick start their Community Service program, the boys from the Stagajah Band took the initiative to donate 3 acoustic guitars and K500 cash from the proceeds of their recent concert to the Cheshire Disability Services PNG in Port Moresby on Wednesday this week. Stagajah Band Songwriter and Rapper Gaiix said this initiative came about when the group decided to come together to give back to the community. He said the group has been in the music industry for over seven years now and it was only fitting that they did some donations for a…
Port Moresby Nature Park wraps up its special schools education program, ‘Culture Connects’ this week, educating over 5000 students throughout the 3-week duration of the program. The Culture Connects program is the third of a series of four special themed education programs run annually at the Port Moresby Nature Park through its education department since September 2016. Since the inception of this special schools education program, the Park’s Education team has had many successful highlights. One successful highlight to date is the working partnership with Teaching Colleges such as the Sacred Teachers College in Bomana where trainee teachers support the…
Grade nine students of Kopkop College impressed judges at the Moresby Arts Theatre after their performances, drawing attention to the real issues affecting young people, through story-telling and drama. The plays were scripted and directed by the students on topics such as homosexuality and suicide, police brutality and gambling which were put together over six weeks and took place amongst several high schools in NCD. Andrew Kuliniasi, who started off as a script-writer and producer at the age of 15, and is now the drama director at the Moresby Arts Theatre, described the student’s written scripts and acting skills as…