Capital Insurance has announced a 3rd year partnership with Cricket PNG to provide insurance to the Kumul Petroleum PNG Barramundis Men’s & Kumul Petroleum PNG Lewas Women’s team. Capital Insurance has formed a close partnership with Cricket PNG over the past years supporting them in the insurance services and other community initiatives. The announcement was made at a business mixer hosted by Capital insurance in collaboration with the PNG Cricket Teams. Capital Insurance Chief Executive Officer, Mr Jeremy Norton said that he was pleased to announce the partnership. He said this year, they have increased their sponsorship and as a…
Author: Tasminnie ISIMELI
80 Participants from nursing colleges and community health workers’ schools around the country attended a week long training for health professional educators in port Moresby recently. Participants from 15 nursing and 17 CHW schools were introduced to the Continuing Professional Development Program which aims to equip educators with skills to be able teach the new curriculums and be able develop curriculums in the future. The training was a joint effort of the National Department of Health, Department of Higher Education Science and Technology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing , Midwifery and Development and the Australian Government through the Department of…
The South Sydney Rabbitohs scored two tries in the final five minutes to down premiers Penrith 20-18 in a Thursday night classic at Accor Stadium. After Latrell Mitchell grabbed his second of the game in the 75th minute to close the gap to two points it was Cody Walker laying on the match-winner for Isaiah Tass with a pearler of a pass with 90 seconds to play. The try was especially sweet for Tass given that he had missed a crucial tackle in the lead-up to hat-trick hero Stephen Crichton’s first four-pointer for the Panthers. In a high-quality contest Crichton…
International Committee of the Red Cross has been around for 60 years and were the first ever Humanitarian Organisation whose first mission was to help wounded soldiers. They currently have over 100 programs all over the world and here in Papua New Guinea they will now partner with the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. Head of Mission for ICRC in Papua New Guinea, Mr Georgios Georgantas said that Red Cross started their work in the country in 2000 and in 2007, they established an office here. He said that they have 4 approaches in the work that they carry out;…
Hela Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Chief Superintendent Joseph Tondop is confident that Hela will change for the better following the capture and arrest of four criminals wanted for a string of serious crimes committed in the province. PPC Tondop said that the suspects were arrested between the moths of March and April by the Joint Security Forces in Hides and Tari with the assistance of communities within Hela. Mr. Tondop said the assistance police is getting from the people shows that the people want law and order to prevail within the province. He stressed that law and order is everyone’s…
Police have arrested five men for stealing a mobile phone from the Managing Director of a security company and later attempted to extort K500 for the return of the phone. On Monday, April 10, 2023, Mr. Anthon Kaupa, the Managing Director of Kuima Security Service was at his office in Taurama with one of the suspect and others when his mobile phone went missing. The next day, the suspect and his accomplices allegedly called Mr. Kaupa and told him that they had his phone with them and asked him for K500 for its return. They told him to meet them…
The Kikori District Development Authority (KDDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with faith-based Non-Government Organization (NGO) Samaritan Aviation Incorporation (SAI) aimed at improving health access for the hard-to-reach population along the districts delta areas, river systems and water ways. Eoe said that the MoU highlights the importance to provide efficient health care and health services for those in the areas not connected by roads or rural airstrips, but only accessed by SAI’s sea planes. “The partnership is focused on KDDA’s five-year funding commitment of a hundred thousand kina per year to support the aviation ministry to set up…
Save the Children is implementing a project with 3 Provincial Health Authorities in East Sepik province, Autonomous Region of Bougainville and Western province. Save the Children’s Safe Children, Healthy Mothers nutrition project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program. 14 solar panels and generators were presented to East Sepik Provincial Health Authority and, 9 to the AROB’s Department of Health recently. The Western Province PHA is yet to receive theirs. Technicians from the East Sepik Provincial Health Authority with Save the Children have been carried out he 220 watts solar panels and generators in health…
Young Wilchi Paddy Kapin was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma (Cancer in the eye) in his right eye on the 9th February, 2023 at the Port Moresby General Hospital. Retinoblastoma is the second most common cancer in children and it affects children under the age of 5. Wilchi was born a healthy baby and in January at just a year old, his mother noticed that he had something like ‘cats-eye’ so she took him to be examined at St John and then referred to an eye specialist at the Port Moresby General Hospital. This is where WIlchi’s parents were informed that 60%…
Port Moresby General’s Obstetrics & Gynaecology Division like all provincial and district hospitals around the country will be able to provide proper support to difficult births and save the lives of mothers and newborns. This is thanks to the donation of 35 Vacuum Sets by the United Nations Population Fund Country office recently. 24 hours a day midwives at Port Moresby General Hospital and throughout the country strive to ensure that mothers experience safe deliveries while reducing maternal and newborn deaths. Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Port Moresby General Hospital Professor Glen Mola, welcomed the life saving sets and…