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Hospital lost K380,000 after applying health policy The National, Thursday November 27th, 2014 THE Nonga General Hospital in East New Britain has lost about K380,000 in revenue since the free and subsidised health care policy came into effect, hospital board … Continue reading →

A way forward for peace in Bougainville Post Courier October 30, 2014 An agreement was signed between the Panguna Peace Building Strategy (PPBS) and the Siwai District Peace & Security Committee enabling the two parties to work together to address … Continue reading →

Church’s new pastoral plan emphasises social concerns http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2014/09/churchs-new-pastoral-plan-emphasises-social-concerns.html#more 30 Sept. 2014 A new Pastoral Plan for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands places great emphasis on the family, the poor, youth, street kids and a wide … Continue reading →

First PNG Children Website In The Making By Sr Mary Claude Gadd – Madang The Catholic Children’s Ministry PNG was created by the Catholic Bishops of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands at their Annual General Meeting of April 2013 … Continue reading →

Abandoned kid learns to survive on city streets Post Courier, July 28, 2014 ANGU Mathew is about seven or eight years old. The Tari lad has a very striking smile that he has developed over the appreciation of very little … Continue reading →

Whose children are malnourished and dying? http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2014/07/we-must-not-ignore-the-80-whose-children-are-malnourished-dying.html#more By Fr John Glynn WeCARe! Foundation. 21 July 2014 THE headline on the front page of the Post-Courier last Wednesday, Malnutrition Kills, was accompanied by Unicef statistics which are terrifying in their implications. … Continue reading →

These notes begin with some references to the ongoing political turmoil in Papua New Guinea. They are longer than the usual summaries, but are included here in full, in the hope that they will shed light on the situation.   … Continue reading →

  Labour ward overcrowded Post Courier, 5 May 2014 Sixty-five babies were delivered on Thursday night at the Port Moresby General Hospital, the second highest so far this year. By 2pm on Friday, when this reporter was taken through the … Continue reading →

Thousands remain in evacuation centres ABC News Fri, 11 April, 2014 Authorities in Solomon Islands say 23 people have died and 9,000 are homeless following disastrous flash floods, landslides and strong winds.
 
The Solomon’s National Disaster Council says the victims who … Continue reading →

UN to analyse Human Rights, Humanitarian Law Post-Courier, 28 February 2014 The United Nations in Papua New Guinea announced yesterday that there will be a mandated analysis on the international human rights and humanitarian law standards related to the right … Continue reading →