A video of a group of students ganging up on a fellow student at Popondetta Secondary School in Northern Province has gone viral on social media causing outrage with parents of students attending the school. Popondetta Secondary School Principal, Mr Clarence Honani said the incident happened yesterday however the school was unaware until the video was posted and shared. “There were 5 grade 10 girls involved and the video shows one of the students hitting the victim, a grade 9 student while her friends watched on and took the video.” “It is unknown at this time why they did that…
Author: Tasminnie ISIMELI
Polling started slow this morning for Southern Highlands province with some electorates starting early while others had their officials complete their quality checks before polling could start. Provincial Election Manager, Mr Alwyn Jimmy said people who are eligible to vote must make their way to the polling areas and cast their vote. “If you miss out today, you can vote tomorrow.“ “No issues as yet with people whose names are not on the list to vote.” Mr Jimmy said that they will deal with the issue of names not being on the common roll when the issue arises. He added…
Polling kicked off in Morobe Province on Monday and at the University of Technology, polling ran smoothly. The University Vice Chancellor, Dr Ora Renagi said that ever since he was eligible to vote, he has been voting during the National General Elections. “By casting my vote, it is my way of expressing the kind of leader that I want to be in Parliament.” “Voting is the democratic right of every individual and no one should stop them from voting.” He said that the Electoral Commission must make available every opportunity for everyone to vote. Dr Renagi added that during the…
The Bilum Em I life Exhibition was launched at the National Museum and Arts Gallery as an education centre for Bilums this week. The partnership between United Nations Population Fund, Goroka Bilum Weavers and The National Museum is to educate the population on the hidden messages behind the different bilum designs. Goroka Bilum Weavers representative, Florence Jaukae in her remarks spoke about the different patterns, the meanings and how the patterns came to be. “Bilum em mama, It is a culture that needs to be respected, protected and preserved for the future generation.” “Our bilums are as diverse as we…
“There are no cases of Monkeypox reported in Madang.” “The post on social media regarding the case that was reported on social media is false.” This is what the Madang Provincial Health Authority Director, Mr Martin Daimen said when he was interviewed by this newsroom. Dr Daimen mentioned that so far there has been no word from the National Department of Health about monkeypox reaching our shores. There are currently no measures on how the Provincial Health Authority will combat the disease. Meanwhile, attempts to get comments from the National Department of Health’s Disease Surveillance program, Mr Berry Ropa have…
Kwikila Secondary School, a pioneer high school in the Central Province, established in 1959, have rarely seen much infrastructural development in the schools 62 years of existence, becoming a boarding school in 1960 and gaining secondary school status later on. After six decades of operation serving students in the province with rundown infrastructure, Central Governor Robert Agarobe came to the aid of the school pumping in a whooping K2.5 million under the provincial governments phase one ‘restoration of schools program.’ The first new infrastructure from the program are two staff houses that were completed and launched this week in the…
Evelyn Mopafi from Ungai Bena District in the Eastern Highlands Province has been helping women in her district to sell their bilums using the social media platform, to improve their livelihoods. So far she has assisted about 300 weavers to sell their bilums and help them to earn an income from weaving and selling bilums through their Facebook page ‘Apo Meri’. She recently came up with a new initiative to purchase reusable pads from the sale of bilums, called the BILUM4PADS. “First we were just helping then to sell their bilums then we discovered the Queen pads and thought it…
The popular boy band Stagajah remained true to their words and had presented musical instruments to the Jubilee Catholic Secondary School in Port Moresby this week. This first-of-its-kind initiative was made possible after the renowned band held a concert in Port Moresby, “Juca Go Back Night” and committed 50% of the funds raised to the Arts Department of the Jubilee Secondary School. This week the Stagajah band presented 15 acoustic guitars valued at around K9,000 to the school which they had purchased from the funds they raised. “This is the first of its kind whereby we have members of certain…
A fight started between Gigo and Laleki youths in West New Britain Province on the 10th April, 2022 when youths from Laleki stole a mobile phone belonging to a youth who resides at Gigo. According to West New Britain Provincial Police Commander Chief Inspector John Iara, the youths from Gigo then mobilised and crossed over to Laleki where the fight erupted at around 8pm. Port Moresby based Mobile Squad 3 (MS03) was deployed to West New Britain Province to assist boost police manpower over the weekend where a total of 167 arrests were made in the early hours of this…
For the month of March, Coca Cola Europacific Partners PNG are celebrating some of the many inspiring women across CCEP as part of the International Women’s Day Celebrations. One such inspirational woman being celebrated is Ms Adlyn Nagwi, the Head of Talent at Coca Cola Europacific Partners PNG. Ms Nagwi is currently in Sydney, Australia for a secondment and recently spoke to our newsroom about her thoughts of the International Women’s Day theme: Gender Equality today for sustainable tomorrow. “A simple definition of that (IWD Theme) is enabling that equal power and opportunity for both genders to make the world…