Gulf still behind in development

The National Letters

I AM appealing to my people in Gulf to elect leaders who will bring change to the districts and province
I recently visited my district after many years when I travelled to bury my younger sister at the Lese Oalai village.
I observed the plight of our village people who are suffering from rundown educational and health facilities.
Clean drinking water has become scarce and business opportunities and government services to improve the lives of our people are not there.
Every election we are electing leaders to live in Port Moresby and they travel by plane or helicopter to Kerema without experiencing the struggles by our people travelling by road.
Kerema is connected by road to the capital city of Papua New Guinea and should be in the advance stage unlike other provinces where vehicles and cargoes are shipped in containers by sea.
Kaintiba in the Gulf’s northern part still remains the least developed area without a road access.
Kerema still remain unchanged where our mothers and sisters sell their produce without a proper market along the roadside with dust from passing vehicles.
I will expect a new Kerema MP-elect to bring much needed government services and improve the lives of our people with plans to have the following:

  • ESTABLISH a teachers college;
  • ESTABLISH a nursing college;
  • ESTABLISH and upgrade technical vocational education schools;
  • PLANNED rural electricity in every villages;
  • ENGAGE clean water supply with water aid to every village;
  • INVOLVE Wash programmes in all schools;
  • UPGRADE health and educational facilities;
  • ESTABLISH small-medium enterprises programmes in villages; and,ESTABLISH commercial agricultural activities such as cocoa and vanilla farming; and more plans to improve the living standard of our people in villages.

I will wait to see such programmes to happen for our Gulf people from 2022 to 2027.

Mark M Karulaka
Wewak