PNG Gossip Newsletter - 6 Feb 2015

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PNG News Links

Contractors continue camp outside HQ -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82466

Police force labelled incompetent -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f89bbe

Human Rights Clinic Teams with Scientists to Investigate Conditions at Gold Mine -- http://giaman.com/pg/?3f0e61

Ramu NiCo Plans to Raise Production -- http://giaman.com/pg/?fc44aa

Pedestrian footbridge for Hohola -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82469

Former Port Moresby Governor Wari Vele calls on Parkop to resign -- http://giaman.com/pg/?5e8ddd

PNG Power installs STATCOM-SVG to boost electric city in Madang -- http://giaman.com/pg/?516e84

Pacific Angel 2015 in Goroka -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f0c5a6





Misc. Links

A Taste of Biocultural Revival -- http://giaman.com/pg/?8ee7c3

PNG Facts -- http://giaman.com/pg/?8baf19

Off Their Nut In PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4717a2

A Trail of Murder and Revenge -- http://giaman.com/pg/?167610

Papua New Guinea Books Useful Articles & Information -- http://www.pngbuai.com/

Recipes from PNG -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/recipe4.html

Food, Dining, & Drinks in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?c9ac0b

University of Papua New Guinea -- http://www.upng.ac.pg

Blog of the Pacific Institute -- http://giaman.com/pg/?17bbbc

Milne Bay Island Hopping -- http://giaman.com/pg/?0c4ac3

Missionaries almost erased a tribe's history, but for a Pasadena man's tape recorder -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4c6bbc





PNG Images

Villagers to protest police killing -- http://giaman.com/pg/?429045

Tok Piksa - Episode 4, 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?3b2fb2

Go underwater with National Geographic photographers -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4aeb43

Road to Port Moresby - Episode 11, 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?9adaff


News Items

US Small Grants Program

The US Ambassador's Small Grants Program deadline is rapidly approaching. The deadline is the 13th of Feb at 4:30pm PNG time.

The overall objective of this round of the Ambassador's Small Grants Program is to increase the capacity of community based organizations in Papua New Guinea to effectively work within their communities to reduce women's HIV vulnerability associated with alcohol abuse and violence against women and girls.

-- http://portmoresby.usembassy.gov/we-small-grants.html





Death Penalty

13 people on death row are expected to be executed this year after Cabinet endorsed the proposed guidelines for the implementation of death penalty, it has been revealed. Cabinet approved the guidelines for the three modes of punishment - death by hanging, administration of anaesthetics followed by injection, and death by firing squad.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82405





Churches Oppose Death Penalty

The Church Leaders Council has reiterated its opposition to the death penalty, saying no one but God has the right to end a person's life.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82483





New Colonels

The Defence Force will now have four new branch heads that will support the commander in implementing his 2015 intent and priorities of the force. The four new colonels are Siale Diro, Wenzel Esekia, John Rakatani, Dominic Bolongor and Ben Siria.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?bf68ec





Games Security

The public and the Government expect the Defence Force to provide adequate security during the Pacific Games in July, commander Brig-Gen Gilbert Toropo says.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82398





Vale Daniel Mona

The member of Goilala, Daniel Mona, has died. He died in hospital in the Philippines. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has expressed his sorrow at the untimely passing of the MP. "I am deeply saddened by the untimely passing of a promising young leader who was an active supporter of our government on the floor of Parliament."

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a1559f





Police Motorcycles

The Chinese Embassy has donated 20 motorcycles to the police force to help in their work.

Last year China donated 10,000 sets of uniforms.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82486





Madang Legal Year

The legal year has been opened officially on Madang with the theme "to serve without fear or favour".

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?2b2eb7





Cooking With Gas?

Hamish McDonald asks "Will the benefits of Papua New Guinea's first LNG project and wider economic boom empower locals?" One person doing the asking is Charles Lepani, the PNG high commissioner in Canberra and former head of Port Moresby's National Planning Office. He sees "a yawning gap or chasm between policies and politics on the one hand in Papua New Guinea, and the will and capacity to spend PNG's increasing wealth on the priorities that will bring about qualitative change in the lives of our people, particularly the rural majority."

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?1227cf





Hybrid Rice

A private company and a local government in Papua New Guinea are keen on growing Philippine-sourced hybrid rice as a field trial being done by SL Agritech is dispelling the belief that rice cannot be grown in that country.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a6da16





US Ambassador Visits Lae

U.S. Ambassador Walter North has visited UniTech in Lae, Morobe Province. He spoke with the first year students as part of the University of Technology 2015 Orientation Ceremony.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?c6e6f2





UPNG Academic Year

The University of PNG will start its new academic year on the 16th of March with arriving at the university on the 1st of March.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82467





Manus Refugees

Papua New Guinea has granted refugee status to 30 Manus Island detainees as efforts continue to return most asylum seekers held there to their home countries. Another 80 who have had their applications rejected intend to appeal

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?0ec7c1





Media Niugini Limited

The parent company of EM TV, Media Niugini Limited, is now 100 per cent PNG-owned. Telikom PNG, through the Independent Public Business Corporation, now owns 100 per cent of shares in Media Niugini Limited.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?874fb5

EM TV, under Media Niugini Limited, is Papua New Guinea's longest-running television network.





Melanesian 'Oppression'

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has promised to do more to speak out on behalf of Melanesians in Indonesian West Papua.

Apart from Vanuatu, governments in the Pacific have been slow to speak out on human rights abuses in West Papua, especially after Fiji was instrumental in getting Indonesia admitted as an observer at the Melanesian Spearhead Group of nations.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?fcda02





Lae Water Shortage

Lae, is facing a major water crisis after a bore pump broke as a result of frequent power blackouts in the city.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?77bb70





Wet Season

A weather forecast has explained that the country was currently experiencing the peak of the wet season and this may continue for the next three months with possible moderate cyclone and heavy rains.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a56f9d





Rabaul Queen Case

Three years on from the Rabaul Queen inter-island ferry disaster in Papua New Guinea, court proceedings against the ship's owner Peter Sharp and four others are yet to be determined.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?57fb63





No Police Compo

A senior officer says police will not pay the medical expenses of people injured during the clash with Hanuabada villagers last month

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82470





Kokopo Taxi Service

The increasing demand for taxi services over the years in Kokopo has ensured that the existing service is one of the fastest growing in this town.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?41a38a





Canoe Team

The Papua New Guinea Men's Outrigger Canoeing Team returned from the Australian National Springs title in Queensland, Australia with a Gold Medal and two bronze medals.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?8cfb7b





Public Servants Warned

Deputy Chief Justice Gibbs Salika has warned Government officials, MPs and public office holders not to dip their fingers into public monies. Salika said a single act of dishonesty destroys all the good work one has done.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?23a610





New Malaria Treatment

Australian and Papua New Guinean researchers say they have discovered a treatment that completely cures one of the most common strains of malaria worldwide. But the treatment still needs to be assessed and approved by the World Health Organisation and the Papua New Guinean government.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5476b0





New Court Complex

Chief Justice of PNG Sir Salamoa Injia told a gathering at the ground breaking ceremony of the new National and Supreme Court complex in Waigani, Port Moresby that the construction would be completed in time for the APEC meet in 2018 and he would be happy to invite the President of US Barrack Obama to view the new construction.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5a250a





Madang / Goroka Highway

An alternative highway to connect the Eastern Highlands province to Madang has been launched. The 53 kilometre road will run from the Dunantina Local Level Government area in Henganofi to Ramu. It has been estimated the road will take six months to complete. People along the route have been warned not to demand compensation unnecessarily from the state during the construction phase.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?1080be





Westpac Vanimo

Westpac Bank has installed a new Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) outside a local branch in Vanimo.

The new ATM facility is located outside the new Vanimo Supermarket. The supermarket also contains a Westpac branch, allowing customers to apply for personal loans or cards and conduct a range of banking transactions.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?16332e





Coming Events

Note: please verify any date mentioned as dates change and events can sometimes get cancelled. Of course I may also put down a wrong date.

MV Ammari to visit PNG in 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?b0355c

Pacific Games - PNG 4 to 18 July 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78

Remembrance Day, 23 July 2015

National Day of Repentance, 26 August 2015

PNG Medical Symposium, usually September 2015

Goroka Show, September 2015

PNG Independence Day, 16 September 2015

Morobe Show, October 2015

Alotau Canoe and Kundu Festival, November 2015

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2015

Christmas Day - 25 December 2015

Boxing Day - 26 December 2015

Trade Pasifika - 2016 in Port Moresby

Pacific Mini Games - Vanuatu 2017

2018 - APEC summit to be held in Port Moresby.

Do you have an event that you want advertised? - Use the submission form located at -- http://www.pnggossip.com/misc/ctc.html




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Updated  16 Feb 2015


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