North Coast Aviation

Villages – no matter how far from the city they are – need to be kept viable.

Chief executive officer of North Coast Aviation, Geoff Thiele, stressed that children need to be educated, and citizens need access to basic services.

Thiele came to PNG in 1979.

His first job in the country included flying trade store goods to Goilala, in Central Province, then going over to Wau, in Morobe Province, to pick up vegetables to take to Port Moresby.

The Cocoa Board of PNG’s Momase regional coordinator, Anton Ningi, highlighted the importance of the freight subsidy program, saying a lack of infrastructure is a costly burden for our rural cocoa farmers to shoulder alone.

Cocoa development in Garaina valley, in Morobe’s Wau-Waria electorate, started in 2015, where 81,000 trees were planted within the three stations of Garasa, Omora and Garaina.