Nauru

Projects have been implemented by DEMA to assist in preserving the breadfruit staple food tree by managing a replantation farm site in Menen District.

Nauru Media News reports DEMA Horticulture Farm Manager Bern Dowouw said they are focusing on replanting staple foods in particular the breadfruit tree.

The objective of the project is to improve the security of food that is being consumed by the locals and with that other staple food trees will also be replanted.

With the frequent amount of imported goods, local staple food trees tend to be forgotten.

The new home-owners received their new home under the infrastructure’s smart house project.

In a soft home opening ceremony last Friday, proud new home owners Roda and Edina Baguga officially received their home key and invited everyone present to tour their new home reports Nauru Media News.

Edina, a mother of four and grandmother of twin girls was thrilled to have their new home being officially handed over to them, despite the delays.

She added that she was blessed to be one of the selected locals to receive this smart house under the government initiative.

The tool has been used as an alternative measure to assist in manually addressing the standard of animal health, since veterinary services are not readily available in the country.

The Department of Environment, Management and Agriculture recently sent two representatives to attend The Performance of Veterinary Services Evaluation Pathways Orientation Training Workshop for the Pacific Islands in Nadi Fiji last month.

The game featured a better final term by the Blues outscoring Tigers 3 goa

The Blue played, kicking to the bridge side goals. They were much better at the contest and tackled well.

Final scores showed that the Tigers 10.9.69 defeated Blues 4.4.28.

Blues also took a slender lead after the first term kicking to the Yaren-end goals.

The Tigers opened the scoring but settling down the Blues peppered their goals but wayward kicking didn't advance their score.

The SNAP programme was conducted over 3 days with a variety of activities which commenced from Tuesday to yesterday.

The programme aims to educate children about the effects of Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol and Physical – SNAP.

A statement said “The First day of the SNAP programme saw a good number of children in attendance to join the programme with its first activity on Hygiene. Young children were educated about the importance of Hygiene.”

The event was held over three days with a different module being studied on each.

Local educators carried out the course for the first time after being trained under the Oceania Sports Education Programme in October.

People taking part in the course represented sports including table tennis, chess, rugby and spearfishing.

"It is with the hope that coaches will make a difference in their sport and communities, all for the development of sports in Nauru," the NOC said.

"More courses will be delivered soon targeting community groups." 

According to Nauru Civil Aviation, the runway lights are a major indicator for visibility when the aircrafts take off or land.

The lights act as navigators and provide visual guidance to the aircrafts.

Nauru Media News reports more than five runway lights were vandalised at the runway side in Yaren near the end of runway.

It’s now a major concern for civil aviation because the vandalism has happened twice on the 5th and 6th of April.

A total of 4 cases of confirmed ROTA virus infection were recorded by RON Hospital this week according to Nauru Media News.

The ROTA virus is a virus that is commonly spread amongst infants and children with common symptoms of watery diarrhoea, high fever temperature and vomiting.

ROTA vaccination is the key prevention of minimizing the outbreak of the virus, apart from the vaccination of other factors that contribute to the transmission of the virus which can be prevented through hygiene and proper sanitation.

Concerns have been raised about the Micronesian Presidents Summit endorsing Nauru's controversial former president Baron Waqa to be the next Forum secretary general.

RNZ Pacific reports Waqa is due to take up the role in 2024, replacing Henry Puna.

It was part of the Forum's effort to appease its disgruntled Micronesian members, who had threatened to leave the regional agency.

A statement confirmed that just this week a total of 4 cases of confirmed ROTA virus infection was recorded by RON Hospital.

“The ROTA virus is a virus that is commonly spread amongst infants and children with common symptoms of watery diarrhea, high fever temperature and vomiting.”

“ROTA vaccination is the key prevention of minimizing the outbreak of the virus, apart from the vaccination of other factors that contribute to the transmission of the virus which can be prevented through hygiene and proper sanitation.”