260623 BPNG DONATES K30,000 to CPA PNG Bougainville Branch
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The Bank of Papua New Guinea was among other corporate organizations who took the initiative to donate funds especially to the Bougainville Certified Practicing Accountants (BPA) Buka branch.
Bank of Papua New Guinea (BPNG) Project Corporate Affairs Director Ron Sikar made a presentation of K30,000.000 remittance as their contribution to the Bougainville CPA office.
According to Sikar, BPNG invests in staff development and saw it a priority to give to the association.
He said to contribute BPNG sent a fair number of employees to attend the NGI CPA Conference in Bougainville.
BPNG is at the core front of doing Digital payments, as they would normally give cheques, he added.
Sikar gave a remittance of K30,000.00 in payment to the CPA PNG Bougainville Branch.
Bougainville CPA Buka Branch Salome thanked Sikar on behalf of the BPNG.
She said BPNG had shown similar support to CPA PNG Bougainville office by BPNG sponsoring 36 to 40 participants, this year.
Rihatta added that K500,000.00 was raised last year, however, CPA PNG Bougainville office has now raised almost K1million.
CPA PNG Bougainville office has hosted the NGI CPA PNG Conference twice in row. ENDS//////AK

The last refugee held on Nauru to be evacuated to Australia after 10 years arrived last night, in a welcome and long overdue move for refugees. However, around 80 people still held in Papua New Guinea need urgent evacuation.

This is a testament to a decade of powerful resistance from refugees and the efforts of countless people to expose the harm caused by offshore detention.

Since July 2013, 3,127 people who sought safety in Australia have been taken to offshore detention in Nauru and PNG. Since this date, people have been resettled in third countries, hundreds were returned to the countries they fled and others remain in Australia after being transferred for healthcare. Eighty people remain offshore in PNG.

The refugees still trapped in PNG have been separated from family and friends and denied their freedom and safety for a decade. People in PNG need to be offered urgent evacuation to Australia to receive medical care and pursue permanent resettlement.

While there is no one currently held in a detention facility in Nauru the Albanese Government will continue to maintain detention facilities in the country, spending $486 million this year alone according to the Federal Budget. The Albanese Government also has an agreement with a for-profit prison company, MTC, to oversee the facilities on Nauru until September 2025 at a cost of $422 million.

At least 14 people subjected to offshore detention have died, many due to treatable illnesses, and everyone held offshore has endured a decade of human rights abuses.

After a decade of cruelty enacted by successive governments, people held in PNG need to be immediately evacuated to Australia. Everyone subjected to offshore detention needs safe and permanent resettlement.

Betelhem Tibebu, human rights activist and refugee previously held on Nauru said: All my friends are so happy this week. We dont have to lose any more friends, people dont have to get sick, no trauma, and no fear. Nauru, it killed us mentally, for us Nauru is hell, where we lost our lives.

For ten years we have been so scared. Every six months when we renew our visa we hear that we can be sent back to Nauru. I never sleep peacefully because I worry they will take us back at night, not just me but all of us. I want everyone to know this is a fear for us. I am happy no one is there now.

They should not have left the person alone there on the island alone by himself, from thousands of refugees to one person, can you imagine? He is a hero. I swear, I am so happy everyone is released. That place should be closed, it is where so many young people lost their future. For 10 years that place for us was fear.

Thanush Selvarasa, human rights activist and refugee previously held on Manus Island, PNG said: This is very exciting and happy news hearing no one will....