Little Sybil Aila, is a 6-year-old girl from a mixed parentage of Milne Bay and Central Province with a congenital heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot. Tetralogy of Fallot happens during pregnancy when a baby’s heart does not develop correctly, and this affects normal blood flow through the heart. It consists of four defects in the heart and its blood vessels and is fixed through corrective heart surgery. She was diagnosed in 2019 when she was 2 years old after the general family doctor identified a few issues that were not right and referred the family to the PMGH Children’s…
Author: Tennyalle TAGETE
The National Capital District Rugby Union Association is hosting the first Tag Rugby Program on the 23rd of September 2023 which will be held at the Murray Barracks Oval from 7:45am – 8:30am. Age categories are 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 and 13-16 years of age. Participant Fees are K2 and required to come with a Parent or Guardian. Caretaker President Cybele Wari stated that NCDRU first introduced Tag Rugby to their community in 2018 when the association identified a huge development gap in PNG’s player pathways and facilitating this junior program was to fill this gap. “We were the first…
The PNG Rugby Deaf Rugby Union Association will be competing for the first time in the Pacific Deaf Rugby 7s tournament to be held in Sydney from the 23rd to the 26th of February 2024, after being invited by the Australian Deaf Rugby Union. According to Aguna Frank, Coordinator of the PNG Deaf Rugby, since its establishment in 2018, the organization has not been getting the amount of exposure it needed to grow as an association. Apart from taking part in the 2020 Rookie 7s where they formed two teams and played each other and again in the 2022 provincial…
Trukai Industries has renewed its sponsorship for the Rabaul Frangipani Festival with a cash funding of K10, 000 that will go towards the two-day event which will include cultural dances, float parades and canoe racing from the 15th-16th September in Rabaul, East New Britain. Trukai Industries’ support as the Gold Sponsors for the 29th Frangipani Festival demonstrates the rice company’s support for the community, education, and the preservation of the PNG culture. Frangipani Festival event coordinator, Susie McGrade thanked Trukai Industries for its Gold Sponsorship and commended the company for its commitment to support local events in PNG. “Trukai’s support…
The Don Bosco Technological Institute celebrated PNG’s 48th Independence with a mini cultural show on Thursday in the school campus at East Boroko. With the theme “Strengthen Unity through Cultural Diversity” Vice President for Academic and Technical Affairs Dr. Catherine Nongkas stated that the young people of this nation needed to know what is important in these celebrations. “While we may come from different parts of the country, with all our dancing and singing and customs and traditions, we belong to one country and that’s what we want to get across.” “Not everything is happening the way we want it…
Potato production in Papua New Guinea is about to take a leap forward with the completion of a new tissue culture laboratory for the Fresh Produce Development Agency (FPDA) set to boost production in the country as stated in a media release by the Australian High Commission. The laboratory which was opened in Kainantu on the 12th of September 2023 will help to produce clean, disease-free potato and sweet potato seeds for planting materials that will be distributed to surrounding communities that will see the number of available seeds double and improve productivity across the country. This project was funded…
Chief Executive Officer of the PNG Rugby Football Union Sailosi Druma has assured the players of the teams that will be competing in the NGI and Southern Legs of the KPHL 7s that the tournament will still be held respectfully in Rabaul and Port Moresby. After a successful run of the first two legs of the KPHL 7s which started off in Hagen for the Highlands leg and in Lae for the Northern leg, Mr. Druma has stated that the last two legs of the KPHL Super 7s series should be completed by the end of the month of September.…
The University of Papua New Guinea Student Representative Council has cut back on the Independence Cultural Show, initially supposed to be held at the UPNG Campus on the 16th of September. This is according to a recent Press statement released by the UPNG SRC and the Vice-Chancellor’s Office. The Cultural show initially a part of the Amazing Port Moresby Festival celebrations was regrettably cancelled due to recent security concerns and issues affecting our city. A representative from the NCDC Amazing Port Moresby Festival team Mr. Wanpis Ako has said that this cancelation will not in any way affect the calendar…
As the country is preparing to celebrate its 48th Independence anniversary, a local cattle farmer living in Meporo village in the gulf province has raised his concerns about the agricultural developments and is questioning the Gulf Provincial authorities about all the funds that their Government has been acquiring every year. He has called on the Provincial Services Improvement Programs (PSIP) Procurement committee in Gulf to bring development to them. The purpose of the PSIP is to provide minimum service delivery standards through re-establishment of basic infrastructure and facilities under the following sectors: Infrastructure Support Services, Health Service Improvement, Education Service…
For a small community that is striving for grassroots rugby union, the NCD Rugby Union is having a great season for far as it went into round three of matches with nine games this weekend. Four U20 Division games, one women’s Division game and three Elite Men’s games. Looking at Saturday’s games, the Blue Heelers Women defeated the Southern Chiefs Women with a total of four tries to two that ended the game with Heelers women claiming the win 24-17. In the Men’s Premier Divison, Blue Heelers Men defeated the Goldie Warriors 27-5, as the Navy Basilisk snatched the win…