A day at Nature Park on Saturday, March2, 2019, with my kids.
It also happened to beWorld Wildlife Day.
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World Worldlife Day on March 2 2019 at Nature Park in Port Moresby.
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On Saturday Jan 26, 2019, I accompanied Tourism Promotion Authority Chairman and Nawaeb MP Kennedy Wenge and TPA officers, Hudson Arek and Joel Ombo, to Nawaeb High School at Hobuc, on the foothills of the magnificent Saruwaged Range.
Tourism Promotion Authority chairman Kennedy Wenge says the TPA is committed to develop tourism in the remote Siassi islands of Morobe.
Tourism Promotion Authority Chairman Kennedy Wenge presents the K10,000 to Siassi LLG representative Willa Omole.
He made the committment on Friday during a short visit to Siassi Lutheran High School where he presented K10,000 for development of tourism, arts and culture education at the school.
Siassi dancers welcome Tourism Promotion Authority Board chairman Kennedy Wenge to Siassi High School on Friday.
Wenge made the presentation of behalf of Tourism Arts and Culture Minister Emil Tammur and TPA chief executive officer Jerry Agus to Siassi LLG representative Willa Omole.
School Chairman John Gerson assured Wenge the money would be put to good use.
The Siassi islands, because of their remoteness, have an intact traditional culture and untapped tourism potential.
Wenge said this potential must be tapped into to bring about development on the island.
He said TPA's committment to develop tourism on Siassi had seen him travel the long distance across the Vitiaz Strait.
"The rich culture of the Siassi islands must not be lost," Wenge said.
"My presence on the island today shows our commitment to develop tourism here.
"People from all over the world must travel here to see the rich arts and culture of the island.
"What TPA can do is market the Siassi islands as a tourism destination in Morobe."
Wenge said the Government was keen to develop tourism throughout Papua New Guinea.
"Siassi is one of the best places to develop tourism," he said.
"Tourism is an industry that puts money directly into everyone's pockets."
Wenge said last October, he attended the Evangelical Lutheran Church of PNG's national women's conference at which he had made a commitment to return.
He lived up to his words on Friday.
"We want ships and planes to come to Siassi," he said.
"We wants wharves and airstrips.
"When these are in place, visitors will come.
"Siassi is the first place I have visited as it has so much potential for tourism."
Siassi tourism promoter Clyde Aigilo welcomed the TPA support.
APEC Authority documents show that at least 500 vehicles have been procured by the O’Neill Government for APEC, many of them Land Cruisers and Prados similar in luxury to the Bentleys, Maseratis and Mahindras.
“The astonishing total indicates that a free-for-all of greed is taking place under the guise of APEC,” Sir Mekere Morauta, Member for Moresby North-West said yesterday.
“Many of them have been claimed by the Prime Minister, the APEC Minister and top APEC Authority officials, who already have vehicles allocated to them as part of their contracts.
“Others have gone to ministers and their outriggers, public servants and the heads of statutory bodies who are also allocated vehicles as part of their contracts."
Sir Mekere said the APEC Authority documents do not reveal the total cost of vehicle acquisitions.
But it must be astronomical, he said.
Nor do the documents indicate whether public competitive tenders were called for all these vehicles, as required by the APEC Act, whether their procurement was scrutinised by the APEC Probity Auditor, as required by the Act, or whether they are to be disposed of after APEC by competitive public tender as required by the Act.
The details are: Prados and Land Cruisers208 HiLuxes88 Forerunners11 Rav 4s30 Hyundai Accents23 Ford Rangers and Everests12 Maseratis40 Mahindras80 Bentleys3 Mazda BT50s5 TOTAL500
“This vehicle procurement by APEC highlights the greed and self-indulgence of the Prime Minister and the APEC Minister,” Sir Mekere said.
“It highlights their twisted priorities - spending tens of millions of kina on luxury vehicles at a time when ordinary Papua New Guineans are suffering unprecedented hardship, and the nation is almost bankrupt. What is the total cost of vehicles purchased for APEC? K100 million? Or more?
“That money should have been spent on health and education and other essential services, not a giant party for foreigners and PNC cronies.
“Just as the need to solicit donations from Australia, China, New Zealand, the USA, Japan, Canada, Indonesia and Korea demonstrates that Papua New Guinea cannot afford APEC, if we really needed 500 cars to host APEC, that also shows that Papua New Guinea cannot afford to host the event.”
The full details of the vehicle arrangements are available here, https://apecpngtenders.org/tenders/ under the item Transport Managing and Maintenance.
Opposition Leader Patrick Pruaitch said yesterday he was dismayed to learn that the O’Neill Government had effectively censored the PNG media and threatened one of the pillars of democracy in this country.
Pruaitch said two prominent Opposition leaders, East Sepik Governor Allan Bird and Madang MP Bryan Kramer, had been scheduled to discuss the scandal surrounding the import of 40 Maserati cars from Italy on FM100.
Reports coming in from Port Moresby, Lae and various parts of Morobe indicate these broadcasts were blocked by the O’Neill Government in an unprecedented action.
Pruaitch said: “It has long been acknowledged that freedom of the press in PNG is a key pillar of the nation’s democratic institutions, acting as a safety valve on many issues of public interest.
“Freedom of the press and the role of the media has helped PNG retain its reputation ‘as one of the persevering democracies in the developing world,’ as one political scientist put it.
“From this perspective this is a sad day today for all Papua New Guineans.
"It says a lot that no one is surprised by this development because the O’Neill Government is the first PNG Government on record that has set out to manipulate the mass media in the past few years.”
Pruaitch said he was adding his voice to the call to all Papua New Guineans, in the public and private sector, to stand up and say, ‘enough is enough’, and demand an end to waste and corruption by supporting the nationwide strike on Thursday and Friday initiated by colleagues in the Opposition.
"This government is the recipient of more revenue than any government in the nation’s history, but it is constantly broke and unable to keep up with budgeted payments for education and health and causing numerous offices to be locked out of their premises for failure to pay rent.
“These are problems that have never been encountered on this scale in the past.
“The O’Neill Government has no trouble paying for luxury cars, without going through normal government tender processes.”
