Lynda Babao O’Neill

Her message was directed towards the young women of the country.

She noted and commended many of the pageant’s past contestants who graduated in political science.

However, Babao said many more women in the country were taking politics as their next step in life, instead of the first.

She said in developed countries, women take this as a career path.

Babao was speaking during the pageant’s announcement of its first contestant.

Family, close friends, colleagues and the public were present to pay their last respect to the late Ruby Ann Laufa.

Her sister, Sherridan Laufa took to the podium to give her sister’s eulogy to the congregation.

A line of tributes were given by some of her close friends from the University of Papua Nrew Guinea, the Legal Training Institute, the Pageant, colleagues and friends.

Present also to pay their last respect was former Miss South Pacific Queen, Abigail Havora and the Patron of Miss Pacific Islands Pageant PNG, Lynda Babao O’Neill.