Taurama Barracks comes clean with NCDC

NCD Governor Powes Parkop has pledged K20,000 as an incentive and prize money to the Taurama Barrracks’ initiative towards beautifying the barracks – home to about 2,000 soldiers and dependents of the First Battalion Royal Pacific Islands Regiment.
He made the commitment on Saturday when he launched a beautification programme there.
It would involve the barracks’ 600 soldiers and their families planting and maintaining flower gardens and generally landscaping the barracks grounds.
Parkop said the project was an initiative of the commander officer Emmanuel ToDick backed by NCDC and PNG Gardener Justin Tkatchenko.
He said a clean, hygienic environment that also boasted scenic landscaping and beautification through beautiful gardening environments for Papua New Guineans to live in was a prerequisite to a healthy, clean and fit society – a society that was free from diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and cholera.
Parkop said for an army barracks like Taurama to promote such beautification programme was heart-warming and most encouraging.
He said it was a beginning to an “attitude change for the better” that Papua New Guineans must adopt vigorously as it would be the beginning of the decline in unhealthy behaviour such as spitting betelnut at free will and throwing rubbish recklessly.
Parkop said unruly and unclean behaviour contributed to general laziness that could lead to petty crimes activities and, ultimately, serious crimes.