Madang

Iguruwe community spokesman， Samuel Masawa said the first truck that was carrying tinned fish destined for Mt Hagen skidded off the road as it was ascending the hill and turned over  blocking the road.

Masawa said vehicles and PMV buses transporting buai buyers have had to wait for hours。Stranded passengers after the long wait eventually decided to break open the containers to help themselves to the tinned fish。

“Most of the buai buyers who helped themselves to the loot were from Western Highlands,” Masawa said。

The new supermarket built at the corner of Hilltop Street and Integrity Drive adds to the new infrastructure development that’s boosting the convenience of the student population and the academic staff.

A DWU Finance staff, Raphael Bahin told PNG Loop that construction work on the new supermarket commenced last year and was expected to be completed early this year. However, materials to do finishing touches did not arrive on time due to transportation problems, particularly caused by the bad road and damaged bridge along the Madang-Lae highway.

Ganglau aid post build during the colonial serves locals from Ganglau, Mindre, Jangag, Bobidik and Tugyak villages, however, in recent past it is assisting people from the highlands region and the hinterlands of Rai Coast who had moved to near Basamuk just to seek employment.
Currently the Ganglau aid post is attending to over patients per day, which is beyond the requirement of such health facility and government rating.

These statistics were revealed by the Occupational Health and Safety and nursing officer at Ganglau aid post, Paul Konare.

Potholes have grown inside like small lakes right in the middle of the road and vehicles had to drive through it or avoid it be moving in snail pace to cross.

Vehicles are currently travelling  in a long queue into town each morning as a result of those in front avoiding the potholes and moving at a snail’s pace as well as the pedestrian crossing at the Modilon Hospital.

A section of the road near the Emmanuel Lutheran Church had seen several road contractors receiving taxpayers money to fix the road, but the problem has not been fixed.

He said bulk betelnut buyers from the Highlands and travellers must not use or pile up their wares around the Handy Mart area because it is not a designated route 100 PMV stop.

Sorum said the designated PMV stop for route 100 buses and trucks is the LBC stop near Wagol.

Recently, the urban PMV stop near Handy Mart service station at Jomba is being used by Highlands betelnut buyers as their pick-up point. These bulk betelnut buyers are piling up their bags anywhere near the Handy Mart PMV stop  and is an eye-sore and a concern to the local authorities in Madang.

Edward Magarua Kiza, a former public servant and now a successful businessman in Madang, says the only way for his Usino-Bundi people to get out of poverty and unnecessary traditional obligations and participate in economic changes is to learn and understand the standard business principles.

He said this during the launching of the Wekumara Poultry Project workshop on January 31, at Uria Village in the Ward 19 area of Usino LLG.

These betelnut buyers are now piling their bulk purchases anywhere along the main Modilon road as they wait to catch any Route 100 bus destined for the Highlands.

Those that get their supply at Four-Mile market along Madang-Ramu Highway just pile up their stock near the market and fetch any PMV bus to go and fetch them to travel up to the highlands.

There used to be a designated PMV stop for highlands travellers at LBC near Wagol, however, an ethnic clash towards the end of last year had chased out the betel nut buyers away from there.

Ramu NiCo Management (MCC) Agriculture Supervisor Allan Wawah in announcing this at the weekend, said these trainings would give the women first hand information on piggery, poultry and farm enterprises management.

“We see that social and economic indicators speaks for itself where many of the women do not have a saving culture, lack of involvement in income generating activities and most are illiterate,”  Wahwah said.

Albert Denguo is an industrious man who together with his wife are hard working when it comes to tilling the land. This is obvious when visitors to their area at the Enekuai relocation site admire plants the couple grow around their house and nearby gardens.

The Enekuai relocation site is one of two sites which landowners of the Ramu NiCo cobalt/mine were relocated to after mining development took place on the plateau.

Moreover, most of these single-lane bridges were built during the colonial era and are more than three to four decades old and pose risk of collapse.

Russel Meluk, chairman of Maigari Landowner Company in the Ramu Nickel Project in Madang pointed out recently.

Melluk’s concern follows numerous traffic accidents   near single-lane bridges along the North Coast Road and the Madang-Ramu highway in Madang over the years.

“The Madang-Bogia road has so many single-lane bridges which have been the cause of many accidents with many lives lost over the years,”