NCDC Governor Powes Parkop

Moresby is your city too: Parkop

This was the message from NCD Governor Powes Parkop, in a recent visit to Bougainville to launch the Little Doctors program as well as his Social Democratic Party (SDP).

“I want to assure you Bougainvilleans that I am the Governor of your capital city Port Moresby, it is your city too,” Parkop said.

“And I would like to convey my sincere greetings from the people of NCD to you people here on Bougainville.

“You also contribute to building Port Moresby with your skills and ideas and of course, your Panguna mine when it was still operational.

More than 1000 participate in PNGDF walk

More than a thousand men and women in the force, NCDC Governor Powes Parkop, including the Australian Defence Force, Navy, the NCD Yobatics team and some city residents, took part in the walk, which started at 3am.

The walk covered 16 kilometres. It started from Murray Barracks headquarters to Boroko, Five-Mile roundabout to Courts then to the Poreporena Freeway to downtown, Ela Beach, Koki, up the Two-Mile hill and back to PNGDF headquarters.

The PNGDF final walk concludes the physical training activities of the year 2016.

Sanap Wantaim calls for partners

The campaign, “Sanap Wantaim” (Stand Together), seeks to bring men and women, boys and girls as allies and partners in making the city of Port Moresby safe for everyone.

The campaign is established to rally men and boys throughout the city to stand side by side with women and girls as partners and allies seeking to make the city safe for women and girls and inspire awareness and advocacy to action.