The Port Moresby International School (POMIS) has started celebrations a week early as its students host a Cultural Show to mark Papua New Guinea’s 48th Independence Anniversary on Friday, 8th of September at the school campus in East Boroko. It was the first time after three years that the students celebrated again after it had been cancelled for the past three years due to the covid-19 pandemic in 2019. With the theme “Boldly Papua New Guinea”, school Principal Mr. Rowley said that it was an important event and a good way for the students to keep their cultures alive. “It’s…
Author: Tennyalle TAGETE
The Papua New Guinea University of Technology has through a press release from the Student Representative Senate (SRS) President’s office announced that they will be hosting a three-day event program from the 14th – 16th of September to celebrate the nations 48th Independence Day at the Unitech Campus in East Taraka, Lae. With the theme “Promoting Unity in Cultural Diversity by achieving a Transformed Mindset through Information and Empowerment” chairperson of the SRS independence committee Mr. Arthur Kondon says that their aim this Independence was to try to achieve unity among the students in view of the fact we all…
The National Capital District Rugby Union (NCDRU) has recently introduced a new strategy of collecting player data and using that data for future purposes that might benefit the union. The NCDRU caretaker board has introduced online registrations for their people in the community which include the players, technical officials, administrators and medical officers. The union database was developed to enable the organization to know its clubs and players, not only in statistics, but also on a personalized level. Caretaker President Ms. Cybele Wari stated that there were several reasons why they had come up with this new system for their…
An oil tanker belonging to the Kurumbukari Group (KBK Limited) overturned in the early hours of Friday morning around 1am – 2am along the highway not far out from Madang Town. The tanker is a part of the fleet of oil tankers that the Kurumbukari group had launched in November 30th 2016. The Kurumbukari group limited is an umbrella company of the Ramu NiCo Landowners Association in the Madang Province. Villagers who witnessed the accident said they saw the truck zigzagging down the road seconds before it ran off the road at Bahorr, along the 4mile market to the Gogol…
A Papua New Guinean youngster is on her way to being PNG’s very own violinist and hopes her story can inspire the younger generation of PNG to try out new things and discover their hidden potentials. 17-year old Charlene Sahoto who hails from a mixed parentage of Manus, Bougainville and Central province will most likely be going down in history as PNGs first Violinist. A grade 11 student previously at the Busu Secondary school in Lae, Morobe Province will be pursuing her dreams in music and the violin as she was accepted to the Fountainview Academy, a Music School in…
The National Capital District Commission (NCDC) this morning, officially launched the Amazing Port Moresby Independence Festival to commemorate the country’s 48th Independence Anniversary. The Festival, which will involve a number of organized events by the Amazing Port Moresby team that will occur from the 14th-17th of September. The Amazing Port Moresby Independence Festival 2023 Program is as follows: 1. Craft Markets at Ela Beach 14th-17th September, 2. Unity Walk from Murray Barracks to Ela Beach 15th September, 3. Amazing Port Moresby Festival at Ela Beach 15th-17th September, 4. Craft Market at Unagi Oval 16th September, 5. Amazing Port Moresby Festival…
A health centre in a rural part of Morobe Province is facing the challenges of power outage and shortage of medical drugs. A community health worker at the Situm Health Center in the Nawaeb District, who wished to remain anonymous, stated that there was no power at the health center and the workers use other light sources to attend to pregnant mothers and the sick patients at night. “Power is a big issue as there is some problem with the power connections to the health center, so we use solar lights and battery torches to help us.” “When there is…
The Emergency Department at the Port Moresby General Hospital continues to attend to emergency cases every day, with the department attending to a maximum of 180 patients during a 24-hour period. Emergency Physician at Port Moresby General Hospital Dr Mangu Kendino told PNG HAUSBUNG that at this time, nothing’s changed as the same volume of patients they see every day remains the same. “Strokes, tuberculosis, diabetes and all degree of trauma whether motor vehicle accidents/incidents, penetrating injuries and fractures, are common cases that we at the emergency department attend to on a daily basis.” The change in the climate weather…