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Central villagers get wheelchairs
The Papua New Guinea Rehabilitation Centre (PNGRC) Incorporation
in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Boroko in Port Moresby
presented nine wheelchairs to disabled people in the Central
province last Saturday.
PNGRC manager Ross Tito presented four wheelchairs to four
people at Barakau village while his colleague, coordinator of
PNGRC Trevor Uau Sereva presented one wheelchair Kevau Avoea,
who is suffering from cerebral palsy, at Seme village.
Besides that, Hekoi Igo of GHPA Self Help Organisation (SHO)
gave away four wheelchairs at Gaire village.
Mr Tito said that with the help of the media in covering
services delivered to the rural areas both by the government and
the non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it had helped a lot
in the business of delivering of assistance that were needed by
the village population.
Hagen councillors joins AIDS battle
THE Mt Hagen City Council has for the first time, pledged to
work together with Anglicare Stop AIDS and Mercy Works to fight
HIV/AIDS in the city.
During a meeting last Friday in Mt Hagen, the councillors said
that they would work with the two organisations to promote
HIV/AIDS awareness.
Councillors Joseph Nikints, Thomas Bakri, Mark Mandai, Ruth
Mapun and Max Mumu told representatives of the Anglicare Stop
AIDS and Mercy Works that they would carry out awareness within
their communities and also in the settlements.
Project officers of Anglicare Stop AIDS Lucy Watt said the
purpose of the meeting was to involve councillors in the city to
work with them to minimise the spread of HIV/AIDS in the city
because the city was regarded as high risk center.
Ms Watt said they also came up with many ideas, which they would
integrate into their master plan.
Morobe GGA seeks funds for NZ trip
THE Morobe Girl Guides Association (GGA), one of the oldest
organisations in the province, is seeking funds to take part in
the 100 year Jamborea in New Zealand early next year.
Provincial commissioner for Morobe GGA Mata Siserta last
Wednesday made an appeal to the public to help with funds to
send representatives to the Jamborea.
Mrs Siserta told The National that GGA’s headquarters in Port
Moresby had requested eight members from the Morobe branch to
attend the Jamborea with other members around the country.
She said this was a special occasion for the GGA in PNG to
participate because it would bring recognition on the GGA
programmes in PNG, adding that Port Moresby, Western and Morobe
had been selected to attend.
Mrs Siserta said Morobe GGA had been a least recognised group in
the province but had silently achieved a lot by producing good
female administrators both in the public and private sectors.
She can be contacted on 4757504 or mobile 6904872 for donations.
NVS on recruitment drive
NATIONAL Volunteer Services (NVS) in the country is seeking to
recruit skilled Papua New Guineans who are unemployed to join
the organisation as volunteers who would contribute meaningfully
to the growth of the nation.
Executive director for NVS Mark Mondia made the call last week
after reviewing the NVS implementation plan for 2008.
“NVS is looking for those that have professions and are
unemployed, retrenched public servants and tradesmen to submit
their expression of interest to NVS for consideration,” he said.
Mr Mondia said they intended to recruit 30 or more volunteers
for the coming year.
MRA well represented: Wali
THE work of the Board of Mineral Resources Authority’s (MRA) was
well thought out to address the need for a sustainable mining
industry that is worth in excess of K7 billion annually. MRA
managing director Kepas Wali said this in response to concerns
that there was no landowner representatives on the MRA Board,
which comprised six members representing the State and four
others from the mining and private sector. He said the issues on
composition of board members were adequately debated and dealt
with at the cabinet level and Parliament before the MRA Act was
passed. The MRA was created to give PNG the cutting edge in this
high tech, competitive environment involving multi-national
mining corporations. MRA’s key role is to ensure sustainability
of the receipts from mining which have continually been PNG’s
leading primary export commodity.
Clan pushes for recognition
THE Yarena landowner group in the Kagua district in the Southern
Highlands province wants Government authorities, donor agencies
and contractors to recognise them as part landowners of the
Kanayari quarry. Chairman Thomas Wala said landowners had been
deprived of royalties from their quarry since 1978 when the Land
Court recognised them as landowners. Mr Wala said the local land
magistrate recognised them as landowners together with the Isale
clan of Ialibu district in 1978 and claimed that despite the
ruling, all royalty payments went to Isale. He said if this was
not corrected soon, his clan would stop contractors from getting
the quarry for the sealing of Ialibu-Kisenapoi, Ialibu-Pangia
and Ialibu-Kagua funded by Asian Development Bank.
Cr unhappy with voting system
COUNCILLORS in the Nebilyer district, Western Highlands
province, want the council presidents to be elected by the ward
councillors and not the people. A long serving councillor in the
Nebilyer local level government council Paul Wak, who claims to
represent many of the councillors in the district, said if
presidents were to be elected by the people, the presidents
would not look after the councillors. He said that if the
current system was changed and the people voted for the
presidents, he claimed there would be abuse of process and power
at the third level of government by the presidents.
Man dies in road accident
A MAN is dead and two are in critical condition at the Vunapope
Hospital in East New Britain after they were hit by a truck last
Saturday. The two, with a woman, were pushing a generator set in
a wheelbarrow to a relative’s house along the Tamtavul Road
between 7pm and 8pm, when the truck bumped into them from the
back. The deceased was thrown about 4m away from the road on
impact while the other man got tangled under the vehicle
received facial injuries. Their female counterpart also received
multiple injuries to her body.
Leaders serve eviction notice
LEADERS from two tribes living around Highlands Agriculture
College near Mt Hagen have given a two-week notice to people
illegally occupying land and other buildings of the college to
move out. The illegal occupants are from the Keme tribe and had
been residing on the college premises for more than a decade
now. Lucas Palge, a paramount chief of the Keme, served the
eviction notice last Monday.
 
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