Milne Bay Province

But if seafarers in the past have succeeded, the ancient seafaring wisdom will prove worthy again.

A journey which began in August 2016 where, for the last nine months, a Danish adventurer and filmmaker Thor F. Jensen has been sailing around PNG and Papua in a Milne Bay traditional sailing canoe.

This may be the world’s first circumnavigation of the island of New Guinea in a traditional sailing canoe.

Team five in Daga LLG is the first in the province to finish.

The team has packed its materials and is waiting to be airlifted back to the LLG headquarters.

There are 78 teams in total.

Milne Bay Province commenced polling on Saturday, despite bad weather and no police presence.

Election manager Daga reported a relatively good polling period so far.

But as per the PNG Electoral Commission, polling was supposed to begin on Saturday, June 24.

Kiriwina-Goodenough Returning Officer Gansen Kadi said all materials only arrived in the electorate today, noting a delay in disbursement from the Electoral Commission.

He added that materials for Goodenough LLG are yet to arrive.

Kadi partly blamed the rainy weather for the delay.

Esa’ala Open Electorate has three local level governments.   

A polling booth shall operate until all electors present and desiring to vote have voted, between 8am and 6pm, as specified in Column 4.

ESA’ALA OPEN ELECTORATE

23 teams in the electorate started the polls yesterday, while six more teams are expected to do so by Monday.

From these six teams, four are for the Daga Rural LLG and two for the Makamaka Rural LLG - the reason being late training, according to Alasana.

In general, he said polling commenced smoothly with no reports of security issues despite the delay in police presence at polling areas. Police should be dispatched to locations by today.

But there is a bigger issue for some voters.

Samarai-Murua Open Electorate has four local level governments.  

A polling booth should operate until all electors present and desiring to vote have voted, between 8am and 6pm as specified in Column 4.  

SAMARAI MURUA OPEN ELECTORATE

BWANABWANA RURAL LLG

KIRIWINA-GOODENOUGH OPEN ELECTORATE

GOODENOUGH ISLAND RURAL LLG

This follows the passage of Milne Bay Church Government Partnership Program (CGPP) Bill 2016 by the Provincial Assembly in Alotau last Tuesday (Dec 13).

The Bill, which was passed by a unanimous vote, was presented by the chairman for Community Development and president for Huhu, Lelena Metoa.

The father, Julias Maputuna, from Goodenough Island, is taking his family home for the first time for Christmas after living in Moresby for 17 years.

Their journey started this morning at Boroko where they got on a PMV to Kupiano in Central Province.

From Kupiano, they will travel by dinghy to Mailu Island in Central, which is about 121km from Alotau Town.

They plan to spend a night on the island before heading out to Five Bay in Suau, MBP, by dinghy.

Last week, in a meeting after the site inspection were conducted to all three (3) local level government council (LLGs) in the district, DIRD noted that the district already had various government sectors like education, health, works, police, commerce, forestry, disaster officer, community development, agriculture, business development officers and about 100 public servants working in the district.