The Yegiora Files

By Mathew Yakai A LOW key launching of Usino Junction-Yamagi road in the Usino Bundi electorate by the Chinese Ambassador, H. E. Ambassador Qiu Bohua on November 10 last year is gaining momentum and will come to use very soon. The K22 million road project funded by the Chinese Government includes a number of bridges built by chinese engineers which are strong and will last long. The Usino Junction-Yamagi road used to be impassable in the past, before 2005 after Ramu NiCo entered the area in the isolated Kurumbukari to develop the nickel and cobalt project. What is impressive to the commuters and locals is the type of bridges that are built are purely out of concrete cement and metals in their tons. Built by the Chinese engineers using local knowledge, the bridges are built to withstand the strength and currents of the number of rivers along the new road because when it rains, the rivers flood and can destroy the bridges. In this picture is a cement and iron bridge over Samson River...

After one year in Japan, nine young PNG engineers have returned home to a new job with the PNG LNG Project.   “This experience has prepared me for the challenges that lie ahead,” electrical engineer Cain Desiang reported.   Mr Desiang is referring to the comprehensive training he received from Chiyoda-JGC Joint Venture (CJJV) Project instructors in Yokohama in preparation for the new job that he and the others started at the LNG Plant Site on 1 March. CJJV is the contractor responsible for building the LNG Plant outside of Port Moresby.   The local engineers started their training at the Chiyoda Yokohama head office in February 2011. For the first two months they learnt basics for all elements of LNG plant engineering including Safety, Health and Environment, LNG Process, Utility Process, Piping and Instruments, Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning, Procurement, Construction, and Engineering IT. After two months, they were assigned to each engineering department to start t...

By GORETHY KENNETH THE Government is still negotiating with the Philippines authorities on the repatriation of some 50 Filipino fishermen still stranded and deemed staying illegally in PNG. But while this is happening, the Pinoy fishermen, are struggling to fend for themselves in the small township of Manus, with one already admitted at the Lorengau hospital while others are suffering from psychological matters. The Manus Government has not said a word on the issue but the National Government yesterday advised they were still in dialogue with the Philippines authorities over the repatriation of these men. It was announced last month that the Philippine Government officials were working with the PNG Foreign Affairs officials to repatriate them. But yesterday the PNG Foreign Affairs advised the process was slower than expected and that was because the fishermen’s exit documents were the reason for the set back. But they said that both Governments were in dialogue over the issue. “It ...