Briefs

Help rehabilitate juveniles
THE Morobe Juvenile Justice Committee has urged faith-based organisations and other civil society groups to help rehabilitate children in juvenile facilities, saying it is part of their pastoral and community service obligation. MPJJC chairman Pious Tapil made the call after expressing the committee’s gratitude towards Catholic Church priest Fr Arnold Schmidt for going out of his way to provide consistent literacy programmes and food for children in conflict with the law at the Buimo jail in Lae.

Families receive food rations
SEVEN families who were evicted from their homes along the river near the Bomana Correctional Service Institute received food rations and canvas from North East MP John Kaupa’s office recently. Community leader John Manaia said: “We have resided here for many years and been blamed for law and order problems in the CIS area but, as a citizen and people from Central, we have struggled to survive.”

Female prisoners get biscuits
FEMALE prisoners at the Buimo prison in Lae told Lae Biscuit company last Saturday that every day should be Mothers’ Day. While the rest of the country celebrated Mothers’ Day on May 10, the female prisoners recently received an encouraging visit and donation of more than 200 cartons of Toti cheese-flavoured biscuits delivered by the company’s sporting franchise, the Lae Snax Tigers.

Cops yet to make arrest
MOIHA Incorporated Land Group (ILG) chairman chief Manga Kauka is concerned that after two years, police have yet to arrest those who allegedly forged his clan’s ILG certificate. Kauka said the Moiha ILG from the Lower Koiari local level government were the rightful customary owners of 5,000 hectares of land in Central.