![]() Story and photo by Port Moresby General Hospital PORT Moresby General Hospital is sponsoring three radiation therapists and a medical physicist to study abroad at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. The radiation therapists include Firman Dunstan, Richie Pumi and Tonny Sula who will be away for studies for 10 months and the medical physicist Sanja Ipu's duration of study is for 18 months. Head of the Cancer Clinic and oncologist Dr. Peter Olali it is good for the hospital because once the Cancer Centre is completed and fully functional, it will need manpower to provide services to the people. ![]() By PNG Marketing Magazine Thousands turned up to join the Country’s leading retailer PNG’s leading retailer, CPL Group conducted a mass walk-in-interview last weekend (August 7-8) to hire suitable candidates to fill in various roles at their newly established Distribution Centre in Port Moresby. The two-day campaign saw thousands of people, from students to newly graduated students to professionals and unemployed individuals seeking employment opportunities. ![]() A WORKSHOP to equip law students with skills and knowledge on how perform when out in the field is underway at the Legal Training Institute in Port Moresby. The Civil and Criminal Advocacy Workshop started yesterday and will conclude at the end of the month. Legal Training Institute (LTI) acting director Angelyn Paranda told The National that the workshop was held every year. She said the workshop would be in three parts with the first one to be run by the Victorian Bar Association with the involvement of judges and lawyers in Australia. PNG EDUCATION Minister Jimmy Uguro is urging parents to ensure school-aged girls do not participate in prostitution.
Uguro condemned the involvement of school-aged children in prostitution and want parents to meet their responsibilities by sending their children to school and making sure they stayed in class. “Parents must try to meet their children’s demands by providing school fees, food, clothes, accommodation in order to reduce such illegal activities and behaviour,” Uguro said. “I condemn school girls being involved in any form of prostitution.” He said the fact that young girls were involved in these activities showed that parents were irresponsible and people were not doing more to stop this. ![]() A cabinet minister has urged the new interim council for the University of Papua New Guinea to address the rowdy students’ behaviour and delays in releasing grades to students. Minister for Higher Education Research Science and Technology Wesley Raminai made the remarks at the commissioning of the interim council saying information technology systems not computing students marks and other issues should be addressed to see improvement in the quality of teaching and learning “As members of this new UPNG interim council, I ask you, to do something for this ailing university,” he said. “You all, as Papua New Guineans and eminent professionals, can see the problems and I think, I cannot solve it by myself, it has to be all of us. “All alone men and women in all sectors to contribute and reshape and regenerate a new energy of learning, teaching, administration and management.” ![]() Alotau MP Charles Abel says education has been a key element in what he has been doing in Milne Bay and Papua New Guinea. He said in a recent interview with Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) to mark the fifth year since the opening of a BbP the Library Learning Centre at Lelehoa Primary School just outside Alotau town. BbP in a statement said hundreds of 5-year-old children have been able to attend the programme at Lelehoa Primary School and have received solid foundations in literacy, numeracy, health awareness, digital learning and cultural knowledge before starting school since 2015. ![]() Grade 11 students of Kopkop College learnt about weather forecasting and disaster management activities in the country, following their visit to the National Weather Office in Port Moresby. “The objective of the excursion is for the students to hear, observe and learn from the specialist people who work 24 hours to collect atmospheric data or weather data in order to forecast daily atmospheric conditions,” Geography teacher Jorute Rodney said. He said the trip supplemented student knowledge on natural process and disasters, under the unit on oceanography and ocean currents circulation. At the weather station, students learnt that data was collected and entered and directly sent to the world’s meteorologist database in Geneva, Switzerland. A CATHOLIC priest says there is more work to do on child prostitution, which goes beyond the law enforcement agencies.
Catholic Bishops Conference general secretary Fr Giorgio Licini said families, schools, churches and citizens should educate young people not to sell themselves for material goods. He made the comments after recent reports of people operating brothels in Port Moresby. “It should be the duty of schools to look carefully into the situation of each student and see that not one is forced into prostitution due to school fee obligations,” Fr Licini said. “It is the duty of everybody to help neighbouring families that they have not enough to eat. ![]() FIGHTS among groups of school students reflect a general lack of discipline and counselling among the children. Add to those peer pressure and hormonal-driven adolescent conduct and you have situation which can be counter-productive and a hindrance to character development if not effectively harnessed early. The behaviour is often seen in sports arenas, intra-school and inter-school functions. It relays the message to teachers, parents and guardians that a problem exists which if not nipped in the bud quickly can adversely affect the development of a young person. There are many reasons as to why school fights are occurring. Whatever the reasons, the fights caused by aggrieved persons who are not happy over something that is not right according to their reasoning based on their judgment to warrant such dangerous behaviour that can be harmful and life threatening. ![]() FORMER Papua New Guinea Prime Minister’s 13 captain Bernard Goma Jr is grateful to finally attain his bachelor’s degree after juggling education and rugby league. The Mendi Muruks prop has had his education disrupted a number of times due to rugby league but the will to persevere had driven him to complete his University of PNG (UPNG) studies. Goma graduated last Tuesday with a bachelor of arts, majoring in political science and minoring in public policy management, from UPNG’s school of business administration. |
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