Morobe province

A lease agreement was signed today at the outdoor stadium between the Lae City Authority chief executive officer, Robin Calistus, and the Papua New Guinea Sports Foundation CEO, Albert Veratau.

Member for Lae and Deputy Prime Minister, John Rosso, has always stressed on restoring Lae to its glory days; the days when families can enjoy the city and its benefits without fearing for their safety.

The event is expected to start at 11 am, and will be attended by Prime Minister James Marape, Deputy Prime Minister John Rosso, Morobe Governor Luther Wenge, Huon Gulf MP, Jason Peter, Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Walter Schnaubelt, and chief representative from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Hideaki Matsuoka.

The K750 million Nadzab Airport Redevelopment Project is jointly funded by the Japanese Overseas Development concessional loan (ODA loan) and the Government of Papua New Guinea through budgetary allocation.

Nawaeb MP, Theo Pelgen, visited Boac on Thursday, September 28^th, to assess the extent of the damages.

While he had planned to go to Bugang then Boac, Wideru and Busong, strong winds hampered his program.

“We will try our best now to see the extent of damages and from there, create an assessment report to determine how best we can attend to the situation in each area affected,” he stated.

“The people must understand that this is the work of nature. We have no control over it.”

Speaking at the Lae World Tourism Day Conference and Expo yesterday, PNGTPA’s executive manager from the provincial coordination & product development division emphasised on people, the planet and collective prosperity.

With this year’s World Tourism Day theme of ‘Tourism and green investments’, Kennewton Kennedy said over the past five to ten years, PNGTPA has increased investments in niche tourism products and services, the promotion of cultural events and festivities and the re-development of marketing strategies to better open up access to PNG’s wealth of destinations.

The hall, valued at K50,000 will host trainings and programs for the people of Nawaeb.

Nawaeb MP, Theo Pelgen, with Morobe Governor, Luther Akisawa Wenge, opened the new building at the Peter Ryan Memorial Primary School.

The school is located at Ward 18 of Wain-Erap and is the last area in the LLG that shares a border with Nabak LLG and Kabwum District, at the precincts of Saruwaged Range.

Pelgen said the community hall initiative will be rolled out to other wards and LLGs in Nawaeb with the aim to empower the people with life skills trainings.

Nawaeb MP, Theo Pelgen, said a total of K130,000 was distributed to all 47 wards in Wain-Erap, Nabak, Labuta and Ahi Urban.

“These funds were distributed to all celebrations happening from Friday and Saturday and are under discretionary as social support for the district activities,” he explained.

“We encourage the community as a whole to discuss on the usage of funds, for assistance to the school, church or any other required infrastructure within their ward.”

Cultural performances, live bands, food stalls and arts and craft markets were hosted concurrently at the Lae Botanical Gardens, DCA beachfront, the University of Technology and Butibam Village. Even each ward within Lae district hosted mini shows as funding was given to respective councillors by the Lae City Authority.

Despite the heavy downpour on Saturday, September 16^th, a large number of residents took part in the provincial government’s usual Independence Day commemoration at the Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium.

Prime Minister James Marape made the commitment to the people of Nawaeb yesterday at Boana Station.

A main road will be built from Wain to Erap, past Boana to Nabak and connecting to the Finschhafen road.

Supporting the Works Minister, Solan Mirisim’s announcement, PM Marape told locals – who had gathered at Boana Station yesterday to witness the launch of their five-year development plan – that funding will be allocated starting next year to link Nawaeb to Finschhafen and Lae.

To be hosted at the Lae Botanical Gardens, the LaeFest 2023 will have a series of traditional food, exotic cultural singsing, village life exhibitions, carving and weaving and SME arts & crafts.

For entry, children will pay K1 while adults pay K2.

Live music will be provided by Red Ink Tern, Reks Band, Aponge Masalai, Duaks, Ethnic DJ and Et Kalsa.

Residents wishing to book a stall can visit the old district headquarters at Huon Road, Top Town for more information.

The Lae City Authority says this is another industrial street road getting a much-needed facelift.

“It will be concreted,” said LCA.

“[A] Few months ago, we saw Sletfjord, another industrial street road adjacent to Erica, being concreted.

“Once work on Erica Street is completed, the two streets will complement each other well, making it convenient for business houses and industries such as Coca-Cola PNG to increase their productions while reducing cost in some areas of businesses.

“It’s one street at a time depending on funding availability.”