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His Excellency Ambassador Nobuyuki Watanabe of Japan Visits Oro Province by  Gary Juffa  - 24 January 2023. A wonderful visit to Oro by His Excellency Ambassador Nobuyuki Watanabe of Japan. On Monday Ambassador Watanabe visited Kokoda to pay his respects to the fallen of World War 2.  Meanwhile today Ambassador Watanabe shall be visiting Orobay to look at a potential fisheries project that has come about after a joint effort by the NFA and OPG who signed an MOU in August 2020 with then Minister Dr Lino.  We anticipate a state of the art Fish Market to be built by the NFA with funding assistance from Japan at Orobay. The OPG meanwhile is building a facility that will be owned by it’s development arm, the Northern Provinces Resources Limited next to that facility in an effort to supply our fishermen and fisherwomen. Personally I appreciated the opportunity to give him some perspective of Oro culture and traditions and explain the challenges we face and what we are doing to over come them

  Hon. Richard Maru, MP "PNG Kina was stronger than the Australian and American Dollar in the early years after independence, though the country had only one mine back then in Bougainville.  Today, we have 8 resource projects, including the LNG project but our Kina value is so weak, we have the highest number of unemployment with 85% of our young people unemployed, and the highest level of debts since independence.  This is because we have failed to build the agriculture sector of this country over the last 47 years.  While the resource sector is still important for income and jobs, our future is not in gold and copper and gas as we have seen over the last 47 years, it is in agriculture, fisheries and forestry. We must go back to the land and utilize it." ~Hon. Richard Maru Minister for International Trade and Investment, and Yangoru-Saussia MP

PM MARAPE ANNOUNCES MINISTER WILLIAM DUMA AS ACTING-PRIME MINISTER APPROVED FOR RELEASE: DECEMBER 3, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has thanked all 118 MPs for their support over the last two weeks, culminating in yesterday’s (December 2, 2022) marathon session in which the 2023 Budget was overwhelmingly passed. He also announced that he is leaving for Sydney, Australia, today (December 3, 2022) to attend the 16th PNG Mining and Petroleum Investment Conference. PM Marape said Deputy Prime Minister Hon. John Rosso was out of the country on duty travel in Europe and Africa, and in their absence, United Resource Party Leader and State Enterprises Minister Hon. William Duma would be Acting Prime Minister. “I will be out for the country for three days and will be back next Tuesday (December 6, 2022) afternoon,” he said. “I ask our people to give their support to Hon. Duma, who has been an MP since 2002, while he is Acting Prime Minister.” PM Marape appealed to everyone in Papua New G

KNOW YOUR STATUS OF SETTLEMENT IN URBAN CENTRES IN PNG TO MAKE PROPER DECISIONS AND TO ACT ACCORDINGLY. ARE YOUR LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY SETTLING IN PNG? Port Moresby and Lae Cities have high density of settlements in the country. Within these cities, we have formal and informal settlements. The formal settlements are allowed by law and the informal settlements are not recognized by law. Informal settlements fall under three categories and they are classified based on land tenure. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gMRxnbAP #portmoresby #Lae #MtHagen #Goroka #Kimbe #Rabaul #papuanewguinea #pngs #eviction #evictionnotice #Evictioncleanout #EvictionPrevention #EvictionDrive #settle #settlement #settlementagreement #settlementcheck #settlements Understanding Different Categories of Settlements in Papua New Guinea by Vincent Payati   The word "settlement" refers to a place where people live. It can be a single house in a remote area or a mega city with millions of peo

FOURTEEN (14) DEAD IN TRAGIC ROAD ACCIDENT NBC News PNG Fourteen (14) people are dead in a tragic road accident along the Highlands Highway at Tomba in the Western Highlands Province, last Friday. Five others survived and are being treated in hospital. Its alleged a Toyota land cruiser occupied by three people - a male driver and two females - was travelling from Wabag to Mt. Hagen when it collided with a 25 seater PMV bus which was heading towards Wabag from Mt. Hagen. Police say the PMV bus was overloaded with cargo and passengers. Police are yet to establish the cause of the accident but according to eye-witnesses, both vehicles were travelling at high speed and failed to avoid each other. Police say 14 people - 7 males and 7 females - died at the accident scene while locals rushed to the scene to rescue those trapped inside the vehicles. A child was among the five that were rushed to the Mt. Hagen General Hospital. The horrific road accident was witnessed by a long convoy of vehicl