Obura-Wonenara District

Precedent set by EHP district

Local MP Mehrra Minne Kipefa, while presenting the 2016 District Support Grants of K500,000 compliance reports on Wednesday, said the district had opted to take a new approach by way of furnishing their reports in an electronic format for distribution and swift appraisal.  

Kipefa, who is also the Minister for Labour and Industrial Relations, said standards for electronic recording, processing and distribution of financial and other business reports (digital reporting) is the way forward for easy accessibility of acquittal information for decision-making.

K1.7m road for remote EHP

The Coffee Industry Corporation’s Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (coffee) is set to construct the 5km road.

Contract signing for construction of the Nombia-Bibiori road was at the Central Supply and Tenders Board (CSTB) office in Port Moresby on Friday, 20 October, 2017.

The road will service over 20,000 people of the Lamari LLG in the Tairora area of Obura-Wonenara to transport their coffee to the nearest Kainantu town. The area is known for producing very high quality organic coffee.