Scott Waide posted: " In June last year, we got a call from distraught mother saying they were being evicted from their home on Doyle street, Eriku, Lae. I was assigned for the job and given a brief background that this family had been evicted before. This was my first evic" No protection: How PNG families are being evicted from their homes By Lucy Kopana In June last year, we got a call from distraught mother saying they were being evicted from their home on Doyle street, Eriku, Lae.  I was assigned for the job and given a brief background that this family had been evicted before. This was my first eviction story I was tasked to cover. I set out with our camera man, Raguel Kepas, not knowing what to expect. We arrived at the house, and the mother Ellen Tigia Bis opened the gate and motioned us to go inside.  She told us they had been served an eviction order, and the police would be there anytime to evict them. At that, she gave us an interview and she produced the doc...

Scott Waide posted: " For the last five years, I have been repeating the same story: 'We have a crisis in the health system." The rest of the country can see it. The people who are victims of the medicine shortages all over the country keep speaking out about it. Health" It took a change of government before health workers truly felt free to openly discuss the medicine shortages. By Scott Waide For the last five years, I have been repeating the same story: ‘We have a crisis in the health system.” The rest of the country can see it. The people who are victims of the medicine shortages all over the country keep speaking out about it. Health workers have cried while being interviewed because they simply can’t save lives. And we’re not talking about the expensive cancer treatment and operations families have to pay for. It’s the basics that are lacking. Antibiotics, malaria drugs, family planning drugs and consumables. The clinics don’t have them. Or even if...

CHINA WUYI CO TO INVEST MORE IN EASTERN HIGHLANDS PROVINCE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. By EHP Governor's News Page The Eastern Highlands Provincial Government under the Numu administration has been focusing on 3 key policy priority areas; Road infrastructure, Agriculture and Business Investments. In its endeavor to realise its development aspirations in the province, the provincial government has opened its doors for investment in the province. Last Wednesday, a high level delegation from China Wuyi Co Limited visited Eastern Highlands Province. China Wuyi Co Limited is a subsidiary of Fujian Construction Engineering Corporation in Fujian Province, China. A State Owned Enterprise actively involved in construction and engineering. It carries out international projects as the overseas arm of the Fujian Construction Engineering Corporation. The Company reported $334 million in international project work in 2012, placing the company among the 250 largest international contractors as ranked by...

MARAMUNI ROAD UPDATE Dr. Tom Jeremiah Lino (MP) camping with workers to ensure road reaches on time. Video above by Wabag District Development Authority. A very humble and down to earth Dr. Lino Jeremiah Tom is a quiet achiever. His fear of the Lord has enabled him to think clearly and made wise decisions during his term.   PROFILE FOR MP WABAG 2017 - 2022  (Source: https://wabagdda22.com/about-wabag-dda1/profile-wabag-mp) Hon. Dr. Lino Tom, Minister for Fisheries & Marine Resources and Member for Wabag.  Educational Background MBBS: 1997-2001 University of Papua New Guinea Master of Medicine in Surgery: 2006-2009 University of Papua New Guinea Work Experience 2002-2003-Residential Medical Officer at Angau Memorial Hospital-Lae Morobe Province 2004-2005-Surgical Registrar-Porgera District Hospital 2006-Surgical Registrar- Goroka General Hospital 2007-Surgical Registrar-Port Moresby General Hospital 2008-Surgical Registrar-Royal Darwin Hospital-Darwin, NT, Australia 20...

JUSTICE SYSTEM AN EXECUTIVE CLUB FOR FEW: GOVERNOR BIRD By Allan Bird MP, Governor for East Sepik Province | The SUN of Papua New Guinea. It seems the rich and the powerful cannot be touched by our judiciary system. They can hire the best lawyers money can buy while police prosecuters are living in the settlements. Even when the Police Prosecuters are good at their job, well the workers in the courts help the rich and the powerful to get away with by robbing the future of our children. It seems that there is no place in PNG for good, decent and honest people. Only the rich and powerful, and evil people can get ahead in PNG. This is not a good sign.   I urge all good PNGeans to rise up, take back our country from the evil that has taken hold of our nation. As evil continues to win, good people will continue to lose hope. This is happening already.   Let's beat evil together. Don't let them win. If we all give up and give in, if evil people continue to win and there is no...

Eastern Highlands Provincial Government Sets Up a New Coffee Company in Goroka By EHP Governor's News Page Rumbia Coffee Export Limited (RCEL) is a new coffee company in Goroka, incorporated under the Companies Act 1997 in 2019 with Investment Promotion Authority (IPA).  It is owned by 600, 000 plus people of Eastern Highlands Province through the Eastern Highlands Provincial Government (EHPG). The establishment of the company with an initial funding of K2 million as a seed capital is a concept which is a strategic intervention and initiative of the Governor of Eastern Highlands Hon. Peter Numu. It is his vision to invest and develop Coffee in the province according to two of his priority areas inclusively; agriculture and investments, which are in alignment with the country's Medium Term Development Plan (2018-2030 MTDPIII) under the economy recovery strategic plans, encouraging growth in Small to Medium Entrepreneur (SME) in agricultural sector. While oil and gas are ranked f...

NCD POLICE BOSS CONDEMNS GRUESOME TORTURE OF WOMEN Police in the National Capital District has condemned the gruesome torture of two women over sorcery accusations by a group of about 20 men. NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Gideon Ikumu says they fled before police arrived at the scene.   Mr Ikumu strongly condemned these criminal acts and requested the families and relatives of the two victims to provide their statements. He says from the statements, the perpetrators will be identified for arrests to be made.   Mr Ikumu says the timely intervention of Fox 304 and a Gordons police unit led by their Police Station Commander Inspector Robert Wane saved the two women. He adds, the pair were accused of practicing sorcery, held in captivity, beaten up and thrown into a fire, going by the burns they sustained.  One of the women managed to escape from her captors and ran down a hill before she was rescued by police while the second victim was found badly wounded an...