Why does the Education Department accept teachers being off pay a normal process?

It is very inhumane to a teacher who duly resumes duty on time, fills out a resumption duty form and sends to the pay roll but yet gets off pay when the so called normal process of auto suspension is effected. 

Something is not right along the resumption of duty process and this should not be accepted as normal

This has been happening year in year out..

When the Education Secretary says its a "normal process" it's actually distasteful to a committed teacher who would be waiting for ages to get back on payroll.

I know this because most of my elder siblings are teachers and they have been badly affected by the so called auto suspension.

Sometimes their bank loan and interest go into arrears and when they are paid backdated in lumpsums much is taxed and of course the bank gets its share as well and they are left with just a little to brighten their lives.

Classroom.learning at Oksapmin Secondary School Picture by GC Giles Facebook 

What I am concerned and attempting to be frank here is that it should not be accepted as a normal process for teachers to be off payroll every year.

I stress processes are designed and controlled by humans so humans can correct failures in the process or system.

Our computers are dumb machines and so they act on instructions provided by humans so if the Education Department audits the process they should be able to find where the challenges are and of course correct them.

We should not accept it as normal that every year someone, a teacher has to be off pay.

There must be a No!

How could we demand commitment from teachers to deliver quality education when we put them off pay?

Salaries and wages are rewards that motivate someone to deliver an outcome and if that is missing, one can't expect the desired outcome.

The Education department has moved auto pay suspension to pay nine of 2023.

The department is predicting around 15,000 teachers to be affected.

That is just massive.

Can the Education department reduce this to Zero? I think they can.

What does this mean for the Green River people- BSP cash agent opens

What an awesome development news for the people of Green River, West Sepik.

Last Friday, (24/3/23) the BSP Financial Group launched a cash agent at the Green River LLG office.

Customers can make deposits, withdraw or transfer money.

I think the last time a cash office managed by the BMS existed was some 30 years ago.

The BSP cash agent is owned and managed by Komeali Trading and the owners together with BSP must be applauded.

What does this development mean for the people?

First well for public servants mainly teachers and health workers who pretty much are the face of the government when other public servants have left will now benefit much to mainly withdraw or deposit money.

The set up of the cash agent will also stimulate the unbanked to bank monies with BSP and we can seriously know how much cash is being traded around the Green River area.

The cash agent may well serve the people of Idam and Yapsie who can just travel down the Sepik do their banking and return.

But seriously for Green River this should trigger small to medium businesses in agriculture or service industries to open accounts and bank money.

In the past cash crops such as rubber was popular but today villagers have expanded into cocoa, vanilla and trade of spice products like eagle wood and masoi bark have become popular.

Their trading partners are in Indonesia and goods are moved there through the Sepik River to Indonesia at Patom or other regencies. 

What people need is a market to sell their produce and accessing bank services allow them to save and be in the formal business market.

With a bumpy logging road link to Vanimo trade stores can also start like before and also owners can bank their money at the cash agent.

The place has Telikom and Digicel networks and already the LLG manager Rodney Kane has ordered a diesel fuel generator from Lae.

Now these appears to be fundamental enablers for communication, services and business to function and ultimately servicing people.

Green River is sparsely populated and there is abundant arable land for agriculture with vegetables and fruits such as pineapple, cucumber and corn just to name a few can be grown in plentiful.

Of course very clean sago made after squeezing starch from the bark of the palm using very clean streams can be traded too.

There are 26 wards in Green River which spread from the upper lands Yuri area bordering West Papua to Upper Sepik in the Biak Huhi area bordering Telefomin district in the south.

Then you meander the Sepik down to the border with Namea LLG around Wagu and Sinou.

Then you have the inland  Nagu area Wagu Sinou along the Sepiik bordering Edwaki and Lumi.

Travelling back west you have the villagers along the highway bloc of Biaka, Konobasi, Miarofei, Akrani.

The Green River local villages on the fringes of the government station complete the population who live in sparsely populated regions.

Green River has one of the longest airstrips in the province, if not the country constructed by the PNGDF engineering battalion in the 1970s.

Port Moresby police to be on stand by at potential hotspots: No to protest

Police in Port Moresby will be stationed at potential hot spot areas to curb any unnecessary safety and security issues that may arise.

Metropolitan Superintendent Silva Sika told NBC National Radio yesterday afternoon.

This is to stop a protest March that has been mooted and speculated on social media Facebook.

Sika said any protest today would be illegal as police have not

recieved any two weeks notice and a round table discussion with any organiser did not take place.

Mr Sika  said the discussion was critical to identify safety threats and opportunities during any  protest.

He has urged city residents to go about their usual business today and assured them that police are ready and  capable of confronting  any safety concerns that may arise.

Protests in Port Moresby against the government in recent years have sometimes turned bloody nasty when opportunists take advantage and destroy properties and vehicles. 

This morning in Port Moresby it appears there was normal business with children being dropped off at schools, cars were on the road, those employed were going to work and major popular supermarkets opened as usual.

A Chinese and PNG nationals denied bail for suspected drug smuggling

A magistrate in Lae has denied bail for suspected drug smugglers who include a Chinese and six PNG nationals.

The National reports Magistrate Lorna Sani remanded the seven at Buimo jail after the police prosecutor argued that the district court could not hear bail applications for controlled substance that is more than 2kg.

The suspects were accused of helping each other move 52kg of methamphetamine from Lae to Bulolo and flown to Australia.

The suspects were Ning Hezhong, 64, from Fuzieng’s Fuging City, China; Levi Wartovo, 39, from Wau-Waria’s Kuimba village, Morobe; Hosea Tarere, 32, from Rabaul’s Pilapila village, East New Britain; Steven Temen, 28, from Gumine’s Sipagul village, Chimbu; Luke Meda, 33, from Central’s Tubusereia village; Joshua Tupana, 33, from Siwai’s Siroi village, Bougainville; and, Alfred Sanage, 35, from Dei’s Mala village in Western Highlands.

All were charged with one count of trafficking controlled substance.

They will have to apply for bail in the National Court while police proceed with the prosecution.

The National reports they will appear for mention in court on May 3.

The black flight transporting the illicit drug was intercepted in Australia.

PNG Police Commisioner David Manning said last week the successful drug bust was a result of collaboration between police commands in Australia and PNG.

He said they will continue collaborating with their Australia and regional counterparts to combat transnational drug smuggling and make the environment hostile for drug syndicates.

PNG Internal Revenue Commission prevents corruption by availing real time information online

 IRC LAUNCHES CoC SELF-VALIDATION APP ONGOOGLE PLAY STORE.

The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Internal Revenue Commission (IRC) has launched a self-validation mobile phone application to authenticate Certificate of Compliances (CoC). 

The digital product was launched at a small but significant ceremony at the IRC Headquarters in Port Moresby 

Thursday, witnessed by staff and the local software developer, Minsoft. 

At the launch, Commissioner General Sam Koim acclaimed this as another momentous achievement for IRC to become a digitally transformed organization. 

The CoC is a document issued by the IRC to taxpayers who enter into a contract in which eligible payments are expected to exceed K5000/per annum. 

Over the years, CoC fraud has increased. Investigations revealed that taxpayers and a few IRC officers have been colluding to produce fake CoCs. Since 2020, 287 cases of CoC fraud have been detected and investigated, resulting in 6 staff being terminated and three prosecuted successfully. 

Whilst committing resources to continue investigating these cases, the Commission invested in this product as a corruption prevention measure. 

Mr Koim said, “corruption, especially at the bureaucratic and administrative levels, flourishes when ‘motive’ and ‘opportunity’ meet. We are addressing ‘motive’ by improving terms and conditions and penalizing those doing the wrong thing. With automation and introduction of digital tools like this, we remove the ‘opportunity’ for human discretion.” 

IRC engaged Minsoft, a local software company, to develop an application named “Track Tru-IRC”, which is now available on Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tracktru. The CoC QR code solution will automate theauthorization of the printed CoC from SIGTAS (Standard Integrated Tax Accounting System) andprovide an effective and efficient avenue for the paying authorities to validate the CoC documenton presentation.

The software developer, Leonard Wanusim of Minsoft, stated that the application has two major software components. The first component is the Web Management Portal, which allows IRC staff to generate the CoC with a QR code embedded in the certificate. The other real-time software module is the ‘Track Tru-IRC’ mobile app on the Google Play Store, allowing users to validate a CoC document by simply scanning the entire document with the QR Code. After the document is scanned and validated, the result is transmitted to the Web Management Portal, where the IRC staff can monitor it. The transmitted data includes the GPS location, making it easy to find the people or businesses who do not comply.

The Commissioner General urged taxpayers to keep their compliance up to date so that they will  have no problem obtaining a COC. COC is free and autogenerated if the taxpayers' compliance status is current. It is an offence to produce and use fake COCs.

Contractors and paying authorities are urged to download the new App from Google Play Store and start using it to scan and validate CoCs.

IRC has also provided a CoC Lookup on our website for paying authorities and taxpayers to confirm the authenticity of CoCs. See CoC lookup | myIRCFor information about CoCs, please see Certificate Of Compliance | https://irc.gov.pg/tax-tools/certificate-of-compliance-lookup

 

Dorothy Tekwie writes about a a popular voice from Radio Wewak

 THE MIGHTY VOICE ON RADIO WEWAK

‐-------Liklik Stori blong "trupela meri Sepik"

MICHAEL SOMARE  OF RADIO WEWAK - MY RADIO "ANNOUNCER FRIEND"

Believe it or not, his voice the first voice I came to hear of a national radio announcer (they called them those days). 

The Tekwie Family was based in Amanab Government  Station from 1966-1969 where my father Joachim Tekwie (96) was the Station's "Powa boi" - he operated the Station's  large Generator that provided  electricity to a dozen houses at the station  from1965-1970. 

My father  had this old transistor radio and always turns it on at 5.30pm to ensure he goes and starts the generator at 6pm and turns it off at 10pm. Both times were important for him as those were the times for starting power (6) and turning it off at 10pm. He didn't  have a watch or clock so we got used to his turning radio on and off for telling time. We also got used to listening to radio  between  5 and 10pm and found  it interesting  because  there was this  radio  announcer called Michael Somare whom  our father said was his "friend" - of course our father never met him but he was  his friend because  he used to "tell him the time" to go and turn power on or off. We had thought it was true as our father did his training  at Wewak Power House and later at Rouna 2 Station in Central Province.

They did meet in about 1966-68 when Michael Somare actually  did visit Amanab with some white "radio announcers" from Australia  to talk to refugees who crossed the border after Indonesian troops bombed OPM bases on the other side of the border.

Our house was next to the District Office where the refugees were held and interviewed by the Kiap and the radio annoucers. My father had to kept the power running during the day for the kiap  to use his "two way radio" (VHF) to communicate with Vanimo. My sister Petronella "Petra" , brother John  and I were interested in the "radio annoucers" who had their cameras and tape recorders. I was the most "wild child " of the three of us and would  always hangout with my father as he works with the kiap. 

During that visit the kiap was under pressure  to fix the portable  generator  that he used to power the VHF radio and so I went along to watch. While there all the "radio annoucers" came out and my father  met his "friend" who also shook my hand and from that time  on Michael Somare was my friend too. I can not remember  what he said to me now but I saw him interviewing the refugees in the small court house and later my father  told us to listen to the news on Radio Wewak  by "our" friend Michael Somare. We would hear Michael  Somare saying "dispela em Radio Wewak, maus bilong Sepik"

In 1987 the Leader of PANGU Party was looking for a candidate  for West Sepik Provincial Seat after the incumbent  PANGU MP Karl Stack left to form League for National Advancement (LNA) with Sir Anthony Siaguru and John Nilkare.

 "Our" friend  Sir Michael endorsed me as his Pangu Party candidate for West Sepik Provincial seat knowing I, a female would be up against men, money  and conservative Sepik cultural attitudes. 

Karl Stack and his Sepik supporters made fun of his decision. Sir Michael later told me during endorsement  "yu mas winim dispela eleksen, ol man Sepik tok bilas long mi. Ol tok Somare painim man long snap long hausman na givim sipia blong em long ol meri"  I told him I will try my best. I didn't win but was determined  to make them eat their words. I returned to Port Moresby, got married, started family and got job as the  National Program  Manager for UNDP. Before departing for Port Moresby I handed my little brother  John Talu Tekwie all my records and notes on all the people of West Sepik who shared food, put campaign  houses for me, gave me funds, campaigned  for me  and prayed for me during 1987. I told John that I will go get a job and promised  to sponsor him in 1992.

As we prepared  for 1992 National  General Elections I met Sir Michael  during a UN event and we talked about 1992 NGE.  He told me "mi laik  tru blong rausim dispela waetman em tok bilas long mi". I told Sir Michael  to support  John Tekwie as "mi givim sipia blong yu long liklik brata na em bai win". Sir Michael didn't think I was serious and went and endorsed our Uncle Paul Langro. I rang Ted Diro than Governor for Central and Leader of People's  Action Party . He listened to my report of work John had been doing since 1987 and endorsed  John Tekwie  but did not support him with campaign funds. I printed John's black and white posters and few dozen black and white  T shirts. Our father  used K11,000 of his 30 years retirement funds to help me sponsor John. John became 2 term Governor  for West  Sepik. 1992-2002.

I ran into Sir Michael  after  John won  the seat and he called me over and shook my hands saying "yu trupela meri Sepik, yu save long tromoi sipia na kilim abus" 

That was my story with my "radio annoucer" friend - GC Sir Michael Thomas Somare.

 RIEP  Chief! Till we meet again.

Strong winds rip off roof of a Central Province village school classroom

 

Pictures and words by Paul Maima freelance Journalist

A DOUBLE grade four classroom( four in one ) in Porebada Primary School was destroyed last night due to heavy down pour and strong wind.

It is affecting 160 sudents, 40 students in each class. The School was suspended this morning while the administration is attending to the problem.

According to School board Chairman Mr. Tau Karoho, Porebada Primary School is a level 7 school with 850 students and 25 teaching staff.

He said most of the Classrooms including staff houses have deteriorated over the years and thus it was very unfortunate that four clasrooms were destroyed due to bad weather.

" We have notified the Central Provincial Education authority of the incident this morning." He said

" The school is suspended indefinitely as we are consolidating a way forward to get the school back as soon as possible."

" Climate Change is definitely having a toll on us and I am appealing to the Central Provincial Government, Hiri Koiari District Development Authority, Exxon Mobil, MRDC and other developing agencies to assist us for the construction of the new classrooms for class to resume." Mr. Tau said

The School Board Chairman who was a former School inpector said, all 18 classrooms needs to be rebuild but they do not have the financial capacity to do so.

The school which was established in the 1950s has educated the Porebada communities and the neighbouring village for many years.

Photo caption: The destroyed classroom in Porebada Primary School

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PNG Police Commissioner says they will make the region hostile for transnational crime elements

 Police Commissioner David Manning has commended PNG police for collaborating with their Australian counter parts stopping transnational crimes.

Police Commissioner David Manning

He made the commendation following a successful interception of a black flight aircraft and apprehension of five men in Queensland, Australia smuggling 52 kilograms of methamphetamine worth around AU$20 million on the aircraft.

 

Manning said in a statement the black flight is a small aircraft used to fly undetected into certain areas to pick up and deliver illicit drugs. 

The Australian drug smugglers mainly use remote unmonitored airstrips, which PNG and North Australia have. 

He said these black flights are conducted by criminal syndicates in an effort to transport narcotics which cause harm both in PNG and within Australia.

Commissioner Manning said this was not a new investigation as the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) and the Australian Federal Police and other law enforcement agencies in Australia have been working closely since November 2022.

Mr Manning said the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary is committed to working with its partners in the Pacific to break the criminal business model. 

He said transnational crime and narcotics trade have no place in PNG or the wider Pacific region.

“With our partners we are committed to make our pacific region a hostile and disruptive environment for the transnational criminal element. We are also committed to strengthening our drug legislation to ensure that penalties reflect the severity of offending here in PNG,” Mr Manning said.

Police have also apprehended a 42-year-old male Chinese national at the Lae's Nazab airport on Wednesday. He said the suspect is currently detained and being questioned by police.

Mr Manning said a similar method was previously attempted in 2020, which saw the pilot of a light aircraft (David Cutmore) sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. 

He said four people remain before the court in PNG and four more remain before the court in Australia.

Police investigate huge truck crashing into a police vehicle on a busy road

Port Moresby police are investigating a traffic accident that caused vehicles in traffic to have bumped into one another following an initial collision with the first vehicle. 

Police say a police officer attached to the Police Headquarters in Port Moresby, driving the first vehicle which the truck crashed into was lucky to have  survived the accident on Wednesday, March 22.

 A dump truck ran into his vehicle from the back and caused his vehicle to crash into another vehicle infront and the collision effect impacted several other vehicles.

According to police, the policeman was travelling in a white double cab at around 11am along the Baruni Road leading to Motukea Wharf when the dump crashed into his vehicle. 

The vehicle driven by the police officer Picture by Police

Police officers who were notified of the accident quickly responded and assisted the policeman to hospital.

Back of the vehicle first impacted by the truck 

 

The driver of the dump truck was taken to the Police station and he is being investigated.

Multitelevision channel access available

 Anyone would recall having a multi  television channel access in Port Moresby was a luxury.

Not only with respect to costs but the process to be qualified for subscription was cumbersome.

If you're at a remote out station, this is a dream.

Hotels and motels were the common customers for the pay television multi channel access- not employed individuals.

Then in 2013 Digicel introduced the Digicel Playbox gadget. 

Well smaller in size than the decoders for one channel TV and multichannel decoders. 

And the best news was anyone in Port Moresby can just pay for as low as K200 connect Playbox to the HD TV screen using HDMI cable or RCA connectors, your antenna costing K60 can be pointed to Burns Peak and you can have access to multi channel television at homes.

The introduction of the Red Dish costing K800 and very portable  also makes it easy to install anywhere in PNG. 

If you are at remote West Sepik you can have access to multi tv.

Well from K800 red dish Digicel is making a promo selling it and the play box at K199.

Massive discount so head to Digicel HQ at Gordon's now and invest in one hot red dish and play box.

They have sent put a broadcast promo message to Digicel customers.

Happy watching 

Highway Beef biscuit price sky rockets

 My favourite Highway Beef biscuit is now selling at K3.00 at our neighbourhood Indian owned Mini Mart.

After sometime the taste of this biscuit returned when I recall my late dad used to attend church fellowship with prisoners at Vanimo jail.

When he returns home the prisoners gift him this beef biscuits and corned beef.

His string bag is usually full.

Back to my piece on the biscuit, the price of goods at this Indian owned mini Mart is cheaper than big shops like J Mart Boroko Foodworld and RH Vision City.

But ultimately prices have gone up.

Belden Namah survives an election win challenge over bribery allegations

By Cashmir Waken and Elias Nanau

The Waigani National Court has on Friday March 17, dismissed the election petition, challenging the win of Belden Namah as Member elect for Vanimo Green River open  in the 2022 National elections.

This is the first election petition filed against Namah since his entry into politics and winning the seat in 2007, 2012 and 2017 national general elections.

Hon Belden Namah -Source: Facebook

The election petition was dismissed after the petitioner Erick Kowa who was the runner up in the 2022 election and his counsel failed to appear in court during the status conference on the 3rd of  March 2023.

The election petition was dismissed  following a successful application filed by Namah's counsel from Young and Williams law firm.

Mr Namah has welcome the decision with his supporters outside the court house on Friday afternoon.

His counsel made a submission earlier this week to have the petition dismissed on grounds that the Petitioner Erick Kowa and his counsel did not attend the status conference on March 3rd.

The status conference is the final phase under the election petition rules before a full trial.

Despite the petitioner's submissions to explain his absence during the status conference, the court was not satisfied with their reasons.

Judge Joseph Yagi who is the judge administrator for election petitions says the petitioner has failed to provide an explanation and evidence for his reason to miss the status conference.

He says the status conference is a mandatory proceeding which must be attended by all lawyers especially the petitioner's Counsel.

Yagi says though there were serious allegations of bribery in the petition which resonate with dishonesty and corruption, the petitioner and his counsel were not serious as they failed to comply with court orders and attend status conference of the election petition.

Justice Yagi has dismissed the election petition under rule 18 for summary determination. 

Hon Belden Namah entered National Parliament after the 2007 National Elections as a National Alliance MP.

He was appointed the Minister for Forests but within that same term was critical about the Somare led government and broke ranks, joining the Opposition which comprised Sir Mekere Morauta, Sam Basil, Jame Maxtone-Graham and few others.

He later became the PNG Party leader and had a strong aspiration to be the first Prime Minister from Sandaun.

Mr Namah was in jail before 2007 for mutiny because of his involvement in dismantling Sandline who were engaged by the Sir Julius Chan government to flush out rebels in Bougainville.

When he was pardoned from jail he got heavily involved with landowners from the inland Vanimo Green River district to stop Vanimo Forest Products to be given a logging permit to extract timber from the Amanab FMA blocks 1-4 and Amanab 5-6.

Adjacent to the Vanimo district court house, Namah and the landowners would hold banners calling for the Provincial Forest Management Committee to award forest logging licence to MOMA GVG  Resources.

There were other landowner groups who were bidding to develop their forest resource as well but were not active publicly like Namah and his group.

Mr Namah had already become well known in  Vaniimo Green for his fearless actions against Sandline and chartering F28 Air Niugini jets to Vanimo.

He sponsored the Momase Regional Volleyball tournament in Vanimo making him more popular and won the 2007 elections unseating AOG Pastor from Imonda Philip Inou.

Mr Namah, from Somboi village in Bewani has set history as the only Vanimo Green River electorate MP who has held the seat for four consecutive terms.

After the 2012 National General elections he was leader of the opposition and at one stage, he was one man standing.

He was not moved. He said one man plus God is many.

Mr Namah orchestrated the controversial overthrow of Somare on August 2, 2011 and installing Peter O'Neill as Prime Minister.

This was after a strategic and bonding trip Sir Mekere, Sam Basil, Dr Allan Marat, Jamie Maxtone Graham, Koni Iguan and others took to Vanimo with Namah.

During the launch of Vanimo Green district road works machinery at Dasi he told his people there would be a new government and less than a week later Peter O'Neill was installed as Prime Minister. 

He has become popular for few wrong reasons too but he always maintains his actions were for  the good of people.

He started Sandaun Border Rangers which was categorised as an illegal force.

He stormed the National Court while a court was in session and a disciplined force member assaulted the associate to former  CJ Sir Salamo Injia.

Mr Namah was an outspoken and a non -nonsense MP, who spoke against and made calls on many national issues, this drew popularity and admiration from people as well.

In his close to 20 years of politics, he has said after winning the 2022 national election he wants to concentrate more on development for his Vanimo Green River district.

The dismissal of his election petition should now be a huge relief for him.

 

A story about a pastor's son connecting youth to church work

 “When I was a child, I would sit on my mother’s lap and she would tell me the stories of our people. It meant that my whole life I’ve known who I am, because I know my story... 

I’m so grateful for it because today it’s fading away. It’s harder for young people because of the noise of modern life … they don’t take time to spend with their elders and learn their stories.”

Kim Allen (28) is a volunteer youth leader in our partner the United Church in Papua New Guinea (UCPNG). He is responsible for engaging UCPNG youth on an island off the southeast coast of Papua New Guinea where he grew up.

His father was a pastor, his mother told him the traditional stories of their people, and his grandparents were Bible translators who worked with Australian missionaries.

Guided by the positive impact they made on his life and his community, Kim follows in their footsteps, acting as a facilitator to connect youth to the work of the church.

“The challenges we’re facing are school dropouts, unemployment, early marriage and the impacts of climate change,” he says.

But the underlying problem affecting young people today, is what he describes as ‘noise.’

“Young people are exposed to so much noise, with the internet, mobile phones, drugs, peer pressure, music. They can’t focus."

“It used to just be in the cities but is coming to the islands and rural areas too now.”

What’s the answer?

“The first step is to help them be aware of themselves and their lives as children of God,” says Kim.

“With that awareness we can then meet them at a practical level, training them to be good citizens, to work against violence, to build up their communities…"

“The church gives them hope and a solid foundation to be human. We see that as intrinsic to spiritual development.”

For Kim, having greater awareness of ourselves and others starts with our stories. And that comes through inter-generational dialogue.

“In PNG and across the Pacific, we don’t read books so much because it’s not a reading culture. We do storytelling from person to person,” he says.

“When our elders tell stories the children go, oh that is my story, I am part of that.”

Not only does it increase comprehension and literacy, but children grow up to make an impact around them. 

“If [young people] know their story, they know that they have values. They know to have respect for elders, respect for each other and respect for the environment.”

What a beautiful vision.

Stoy By The Uniting World

NBC Bougainville jumps on WhatsApp to share news

 Thursday 16th March

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It's an extension of the same news bulletin broadcasted on our radio service on 95.5FM.

The community encourages feedbacks, news pointers and tips and alerts that can further help with our news gathering and dissemination across Bougainville.

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