Day: December 7, 2018
Foundation provides care for villagers
A COMMUNITY-BASED facility called PNG Village Help Desk Foundation is helping government service delivery into villages, wards and local level governments in the country. Madlyne Ainie, of Inau’aia village, East […]
Australia-PNG border movement stops as islands run low on water
El Nino is forcing Australian communities along the Australian-Papua New Guinea maritime border to preserve their limited water sources by restricting Papua New Guineans from crossing the border, according to […]
Food gardens destroyed in fight
Food gardens that will have fed 1400 people has been destroyed in a fight between evacuees from Manam island living at the Asuramba Care Centre in Bogia, Madang. The gardens […]
Canopy crane to boost centre’s tree studies
THE NIUGINI Binatang Research Centre in Madang now has a canopy crane at the centre at Baitabag outside Madang to help the study of nearly a hectare of tree canopies. […]
Pylons go up as work starts to take electricity to people
MORE than 100 pylons have been erected along the Usino-Walium section of the Ramu Highway so people can have electricity. Usino-Bundi MP Jimmy Uguro, who was vocal about getting electricity […]
Pump problem reduces Madang’s water supply to a dribble
DISRUPTIONS and cuts to the water supply in Madang is due to problems with the pump which have reduced the flow, says Water PNG. In a newspaper advertisement yesterday, Water […]
This is Noah’s story
By ERIC PIET A PERSON living with a disability has written a book. Noah Agino, in partnership with graphic designer Peter Ella and Buk bilong Pikinini, published I am Noah […]
Fode to receive tablets
All Flexible Open and Distance Education (Fode) Centres will be equipped with tablets for students next year. Flexible Open and Distance Education principal Anthony Rayappan said the institution always had […]
Sheriff vows to challenge Lae eviction in court
THE eviction exercise carried out by National Housing Corporation in Lae on Wednesday will be challenged in court , a long-time tenant says. The property is at section 35, allotment […]
Bush walkers give K7000 to City Mission
Port Moresby Voluntary Bush Walkers Group last Sunday donated K7000 to Port Moresby City Mission. The bush walkers are a bush-walking group started by Ajit Muthu in the early 1980s. […]