Dede Sophie

A woman was shot dead this afternoon, after hours of waiting to vote in the Moresby North-East electorate in the National Capital District. Reports received by this newsroom, indicate that people waited for hours until around midday when the ballot boxes were brought to Ward 9 of ATS Block Two. Voters waited since 8 o’clock this morning for ballot boxes to reach them and the crowd turned rowdy when ballot boxes eventually reached them and were brought to another location. NCD Metropolitan Gideon Ikumu  addresses the community [photo by NBC] Shots were fired by police, resulting in the death. NCD Metropolitan Gideon Ikumu was there to address the community while polling came to a stop. He said “Mipla needim ol man husat i witnesim stret namba plate blong polis kar i kam insait. Em wanem kain kar? Description blong kar. Den polis bai stat bihainim nau.” “Givim nem so that polis bai save husat em witness stap na lukim stret wanem samting kamap. Bicos taim yupla olgeta go nambaut nau, em b

Oh my goodness, we had one massive storm in the night followed by a second storm in the morning. With the surrounding fields saturated the excess water poured into the only road into the village! Unfortunately the autumn leaf fall was blocking the drains and so the inevitable happened! The only route in and out of the village was flooded, blocking only the toughest and tallest 4×4 vehicles. In fact after I videoed this even there was even more rain in the evening bringing the depth to approximately 3ft and one of the neighbours cars stalled in the middle of it entirely blocking the road for anyone at our end of the road! Anyway, by the next day it was all sorted and we were free. This is my story….