Family planning services including vasectomy are crucial for families to better plan on the number of children they want to have. Many men who want vasectomies live in remote areas where it is difficult to access health services. When an outreach team arrives in a village, men and women from neighbouring villages will walk long distances to access family planning services. Teams set up their mobile sterilised rooms and start the day providing education and peer counselling sessions with clients before assisting couples with their family planning needs. The following is a story of one such outreach conducted by Marie…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) marked the one year to go to the Solomon Islands 2023 Pacific Games with a donation of the Port Moresby 2015 Pacific Games Relay Books to the 11 libraries run by Buk Bilong Pikinini (BbP) in Port Moresby. The donation to the BbP libraries occurred at the early learning center located at the University of Papua New Guinea library. The event included a fun-filled educational session with Team PNG athletes sharing about the different sports, the Olympic Values and the Games that they have participated in. The donated pictorial book contains pictures of…
James Tedesco admits the Kangaroos need to beat Toa Samoa in the World Cup Final for the tournament to be a success, but the days of Australia dominating the international game are over. The Kangaroos are raging favourites to stop Samoa becoming the first tier two nation to win the World Cup, but Tedesco says the tournament has shown at least five nations are now able to beat each other on any given day. “Samoa proved that by beating England, who everyone expected was going to be in the grand final,” Tedesco said. “The Samoa-Tonga quarter-final went down to the…
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) is delighted to announce the signing of the local Human Resource (HR) Service Provider – Vanguard International as an in-kind sponsor over the next two years (2022-2024). The leading employment agency will be providing in-kind support to the PNGOC and Team PNG in the areas of its existing service specialisations of visa, national identification and passport processing, as well as consulting to the organisation on its existing HR policies, recruitment, athlete job readiness preparation and assisting athletes seek traineeships and employment opportunities. Speaking at the November 18th signing and reveal, Secretary General of…
Prime Minister James Marape has announced the transfer of Planning Department and associated functions to be under the carriage of Finance Minister Rainbo Paita. “I have transferred the Planning Ministry to be under Minister for Finance, Hon. Rainbo Paita, as we work through the restructuring of what Planning and Central Agencies Coordinating Committee (CACC) will be like next year and going forward,” he said. “In light of the 2022 and 2023 budgets, Minister Paita takes carriage of Planning until the full restructure is completed. “This restructure will not only be at Planning, but at all other national headquarter offices, as…
Three years ago, environmental and weather factors screamed that NSW was entering a fire season on a scale unseen. Now, those same factors are stacking up in the reverse. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued severe storm and river flood warnings. I’ve been watching our rivers bleed out over the landscape, some with multiple major flood pulses along their lengths. The unpredictability of the storm system threatens areas with potential flash floods. River inundation is a slow destroyer of crops and inland towns, but flash floods are the killers. They are very difficult to spot until they actually start to…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has again highlighted football’s unique ability unite the world and reiterated a plea to world leaders to begin a dialogue as a first step to bring the conflict in Russia and Ukraine to an end. Speaking shortly after addressing the assembled world leaders at the 17th Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in Bali, Indonesia, the FIFA President re-emphasised his earlier comments about the unique opportunity the upcoming FIFA World Cup™ presents. “My message is actually very simple, it’s about football, and football unites the world,” the FIFA President said. “I also made a plea to the…
Prime Minister James Marape has always been vocal about connecting the whole of Papua New Guinea by road since taking Office in 2019 and returning after the recent National General Election. Prime Minister Marape continues to speak about the Connect PNG Program of which his Government has already commenced work on and ensuring funds are available to realize his vision. The Marape-Rosso Government has now legislated the Connect PNG Program making it legally binding for the next 20 years. This will now ensure successive governments are obliged to make funding available for the program, which commenced in 2020 and will…
Digicel, PNG’s leading Digital Operator and Telecommunications provider is Sharing More Joy to customers across PNG with over K500,000 in cash and prize giveaways. The 2022 Digicel Christmas Promotion dubbed “Share More Joy This Christmas” will award three amazing cash grand prizes of K100,000, K50,000 and K30,000 cash to three lucky Digicel customers. Cash prizes will also be awarded to 15 lucky winners every week for the duration of the promotion. Five Digicel customers will win K5, 000 cash and 10 customers will win K2, 500 cash every week and that’s not all; Digicel customers will also win daily prizes…
The death certificate for Shanquella Robinson has been released, but her family says it doesn’t answer enough questions about the 25-year-old’s death last month. Robinson, well known for her business braiding hair, was in Cabo San Lucas with a group of friends celebrating someone’s birthday. The 25-year-old turned up dead after just one day on vacation. The death certificate, obtained by Nexstar’s WJZY, lists the cause of death as severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation, which is instability in the uppermost vertebrae. Robinson and her friends had rented a villa and supposedly didn’t go out that night. According to…