Briefs
Authority to adapt options
THE Climate Change and Development Authority has now seen the need to adopt alternative options to strengthen its stakeholder engagement and to conduct workshops through the strict Covid-19 measures put in place by the Government. The authority in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute, USAID Climate Ready, the Australian government, United Nations Development Programme and other key development partners have led the progression of essential groundwork required to strengthen PNG’s engagement with the Green Climate Fund.
Company donates equipment
A HELICOPTER company has donated personal protective equipment (PPEs) worth K50,000 to Gulf and Western to support the fight against Covid-19. Hevilift Ltd representative at the National Operation Centre (NOC) Samantha Lee said the PPEs came from Australia and included hand sanitisers, face masks, gloves, face shields and thermometers and would go towards the medical centres of the two provinces and resource shareholders who were subsidiaries of Mineral Resource Development Company.
Classes begin today
VANIMO Primary School in West Sepik will begin classes today, according to head teacher Paul Pohu. He said the school had more than 900 students from grades three-eight with 24 teachers. He said the school had prepared washing basins and sanitisers for students. Pohu noted that classes for grades three-seven would be put into shifts every day given the high number of students in each of the grades. He said eighth graders would have a full day of lessons.
School starts programmes
A PRIVATE school with 1,500 children and 70 teachers in Port Moresby recently started programmes aimed to minimise crowding. Zion Zeal Christian School principal Jonathan Kapak said the school would offer online classes and had placed children in two groups in each class from kindergarten to grade 11 in the school’s five chapters in Port Moresby.
College to observe orders
THE Kopkop College in Port Moresby re-organised to observe and comply with Covid-19 SOE orders by moving to double-shift classes which resumed recently. The school management placed desks a metre apart in the classrooms and marked benches located outside the classrooms at a metre apart to enable everyone to observe social distancing.
MP pays allowance
HENGANOFI MP Robert Atiyafa is paying an allowance of K50 per day for health officials and police officers engaged in Covid-19 awareness in Henganofi, Eastern Highlands. He said other non-essential officers involved in the awareness were receiving K25 per day.
Authority supplies materials
THE Rigo development authority has supplied materials to local women’s fellowship groups to sew masks for students in the district. MP Lekwa Gure said 50m of cloth was given to each ward for women to sew masks for students to wear to school.