Arawa

UC Arawa final 2023 Unisocial event

The Pastor and the Church members invited the Arawa Safe House and Arawa Police Station to collect boxes of garden food to help those in need during this holiday season.

Over 40kg of garden foods were donated by members of the church to these two public entities so that they would be able to feed more than 10 families and help people, who are in desperate situations due to unforeseen circumstances.

Universal Church meets community in Arawa

The Universal Church has been present in Papua New Guinea for over five years, and has expanded the work to various locations, which include Arawa in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

The very first service in Arawa was held in Tupakas primary school on the 1st of May 2022. Services were held four times a week, until October 2022, when the church moved to Arawa Christmas Park, Patjoen Building, and is now opened daily to cater for the spiritual needs of the community.

Arawa Christmas In True Spirit

In Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, the Christian Life Centre (CLC) celebrated Christmas night with lots of sweet cakes and buns, while watching with the dramatizing of the birth of Jesus Christ played by the Church youth and Sunday School. 

Bougainville chocolate festival returns to Arawa

This year’s festival, to be held in Arawa, Central Bougainville, is expected to draw thousands of people, farmers and international chocolatiers.

It will be the fourth since it began in 2016 and will be staged on Thursday and Friday, 8 and 9 August, 2019.

Festival Co-chair and Secretary for Primary Industries, Thomas Betitis, says a key aim of the festival is to connect Bougainville cocoa farmers and their world class cocoa beans to international markets and buyers.

NASFUND Buka undertakes awareness drive

The trip is part of the overall branch marketing awareness drive to ensure contributing employers are informed and updated about the features of the new system.

The new system will enable employers to load their monthly contributions, create new membership numbers for new staff and other features to save time from driving 4 hours to the NASFUND branch based in Buka town. 

Family sustain injuries following road accident

Police report that the family was traveling from Buka to Arawa in a 10 seater when their vehicle collided with another vehicle belonging to PNG Power Limited.

The family’s vehicle was badly damaged while the children and their mother have been admitted to the Arawa Hospital and are reported to be in critical but stable condition.

The father, Sams Biun, received a wound to his hand.

Biun explained that the other vehicle was at fault because it was on the same lane they were on and speeding which led to the collision.

Arawa polling delayed, voters turned away

Voters assembled at the Marimari Haus Lotu polling venue early this morning only to be turned away by the polling team.

The team of five polling officers and one police officer arrived to find out that the electoral roll is yet to be printed by the electoral office in Bougainville.

The polling team says three polling venues in Ward five, North Nasioi, are yet to receive the electoral rolls as the electoral office in Bougainville has not printed enough.

Lera presents Kobuan SDA with new truck

The truck was funded under the 2016 Provincial Services Improvement Program (PSIP) at the cost of K130, 000.

The ceremony was witness by SDA church members and also the community of Kobuan village whom for the first time have received assistance from the government.

The Kobuan SDA church took the initiative in seeking assistance to improve and strengthen their outreach programs and activities in the region.

ARoB celebrates K8.6m resealed road

This project lays the foundation for greater economic activity in the region.  

The K8.6 million project was delivered as part of Australia’s long-running partnership with the Autonomous Bougainville Government to help maintain Bougainville’s road network. It complements the recent K4.7 million project to seal a number of town roads in Arawa. 

BSP Arawa closure slows business activities

The bank was closed two weeks ago.

This has has resulted in business and local people travelling to Buka for banking.

A concerned businessman in Arawa, Lawrence Matau told Loop PNG that millions of kina worth depositing is now in their hands and they will spend money again to travel to Buka.

“According to the bank staff, communication problems was the issue that causes the closure. This is what really frustrating to us business houses in Arawa as any problems should be fixed in ample time. We don’t want to go to Buka,” Matau said.