Commissioning

New heads of missions for Australia and New Zealand

The appointees are Sakias Tameo, High Commissioner to New Zealand; Ponabe Yuwa, Consul General to Sydney; Reatau Rau, Consul General to Brisbane; and Damien Arabagali, Consul General to Cairns.

They were commissioned in an official ceremony at the Central Government Office and delivered their charges by Minister for State Assisting the Prime Minister, Justin Tkatchenko.

The wives and family of the four senior officers were present to witness this significant occasion.

Locals Gear Up For Airstrip Commissioning

Namatanai MP, Walter Schnaubelt will launch several projects including the commissioning of Namatanai airstrip, flight training centre, fire station and a powerhouse station.  

The Namatanai airstrip is a major project development for the district with Tropic Air making its inaugural commercial flight this week. 

For the first time in 20 years, locals will no longer cross the St. George Channel to reach Kokopo, East New Britian or travel four hours along Buluminsky highway to Kavieng to catch a flight. 

Parents flock to DWU to witness missioning of students

The ceremony is likely to see more than 350 plus students in the fulltime programs commissioned from the four faculties – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Faculty of Business and Informatics (FBI), Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. 

This year’s missioning ceremony is a milestone for the university as 9 Masters sStudents in disciplines including Masters in Research Methodology under FASS, FBI and Education plus Masters in Education Leadership will for the first time be participants in the annual event.

Annual influx of parents at Divine Word Uni

The commission ceremony is a planned annual event for DWU where final year students are presented with the DWU Cross as a sign of them being appreciated and sent out to the world as DWU servants fully equipped with ethics, skills and knowledge to change the world.

It is also the special moment where the parents are invited and thanked to witness and see the students being commissioned.