The East New Britain provincial fisheries sector has been commended for partnering with the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) to deliver vital training to empower and equip its human resources for the marine industry. NFA provincial support manager Bolton Towok highlighted this during the graduation of 20 young men and women from a 10 weeks Competency Fishing Operations Level One training at Rabaul Hotel on Friday (Nov 4). The training was conducted by the National Fisheries College. He said as ENB prepares for the upcoming Rabaul Tuna Terminal project which will have ripple effects, it will need a skilled workforce in…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
EU-STREIT PNG equips 307 local fish farmers including youths and women in the rural Sepik River community of Papua New Guinea with knowledge and skills in riverine fishing and agribusiness as well as addressing gender-based violence. To build and enhance the capacity of fisher groups, including youths and women folks with necessary skills in riverine fishing as well as to run an agribusiness, the FAO-led EU-STREIT PNG Programme conducted 15 days of intensive training in three separate locations of East Sepik Province which brought together 307 fish farmers inclusion of youths and women. The trainings which comprised many theory and…
The body of the late policeman Senior Constable Nelson Kalimda will be repatriated to Port Moresby on Sunday November 6, says the outgoing Hela Provincial Police Commander Senior Inspector Robin Bore. Mr Bore said the body would be repatriated to Port Moresby as the Tari Hospital Morgue was not working. He said the body would not be buried nor repatriated back to East Sepik Province until the suspects involved in the killing are captured or voluntarily surrender to police. He said they closed their funeral service in Hela yesterday with the contributions from the general public and the Hela provincial…
A TikTok star is now facing serious charges after her latest viral stunt. Charges against Katie Sigmond, 19, are pending following a video of her hitting a golf ball into the Grand Canyon, the national park said in a statement alongside a screengrab of the clip on Facebook. “Do we really need to say, ‘don’t hit golf balls into the Grand Canyon?’ ” its statement began. It explained that on Oct. 26, a TikToker shared a video “showing her hitting a golf ball and throwing a golf club into the canyon near Mather Point.” It added that the community helped confirm…
Thousands of Australians have turned out for vigils in towns and cities across the country to mourn the death of Noongar-Yamatji schoolboy Cassius Turvey. A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after the alleged attack when Cassius and his friends were walking home from school in Middle Swan on 13 October. He died from injuries sustained during the attack 10 days later. Dozens of vigils and rallies in his memory were held around the country on Wednesday with an estimated 3,000 people turning out to show their support in Sydney at the Town Hall. In Perth, his mother led the vigil…
A rightwing French lawmaker has caused uproar by shouting “Go back to Africa” during a Black lawmaker’s comments at a parliamentary session broadcast to the public on Thursday. Grégoire de Fournas, parliamentary representative from the National Rally (RN) party, interrupted Carlos Martens Bilongo, a representative from the far-left party France Unbowed (LFI) during a session of the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament. Bilongo was calling on the French government to cooperate with EU counties – notably Italy and its newly-elected far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – to assist several hundred African migrants rescued from the Mediterranean sea. De…
Pacificana a Local MSME has partnered with BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) through registering as a BSP Mobile Merchant. Customers can now order and pay using Pacificana’s BSP Merchant Code 56997. Pacificana, a well-established local micro-SME has taken a positive step to diversifying their payment options by now becoming a Mobile Merchant. Located in the heart of Gordons, Spoonbill, this local SME is a home-based business with a customer reach stretching across PNG and abroad. They offer a variety of products ranging from clothing and accessories such as hair flowers, coconut earrings, pacific designed shirts, tops and polarized sunglasses under…
Prime Minister James Marape says the Government is investing in key infrastructure development such as the K125.7 million Kavieng Airport Development. He said this on Thursday, November 3, 2022, when opening the project which he launched in June 2020, built through the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Civil Aviation Development Investment Programme (CADIP) and Government counterpart funding, in front of a massive crowd in the New Ireland capital. The project covered pavement strengthening and 500m runway extension to achieve a total length of 2200m; construction of the new terminal building; construction of the new airport market facility; construction of the powerhouse…
To build and enhance the capacity of fisher groups, including youths and women folks with necessary skills in riverine fishing as well as to run an agribusiness, the FAO-led EU-STREIT PNG Programme conducted 15 days of intensive training in three separate locations of East Sepik Province which brought together 307 fish farmers inclusion of youths and women. The trainings which comprised many theory and practical sessions to ensure participants are well equipped with technical know-how and skills started in Chambri Lakes area of Wosera-Gawi District with fishers from 10 wards and continued onto Murik Lakes and Angriman areas in Angoram…
Star winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak replaces suspended prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves in the Kiwis squad for the World Cup quarter-final against Fiji Bati in Hull. The return of Watene-Zelezniak is the only change from the team which beat Ireland last weekend and the 27-year-old fills the vacancy caused by Waerea-Hargreaves’ one-match suspension for a high tackle on Wolfhounds prop Dan Norman. Apart from Waerea-Hargreaves, the other players to miss selection in the 19-man squad were prop Moses Leota, centre-second rower Marata Niukore, centre Sebastian Kris and hooker Jeremy Marshall-King. For the second time in successive World Cups, the Kiwis and Fiji meet…