PNG CAPITAL PORT MORESBY AT A GLANCE

PORT MORESBY: “Port Moresby is much better now than I moved in ten years ago.”

These are the words of Carolyn Blacklock who works and lives in the capital city.

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She is the acting Managing Director of PNG Power Limited.

She calls Port Moresby home away from home.

A jubilant Ms. Blacklock commended NCD Governor Powes Parkop for transforming the city, so residents-including herself-can come out onto the streets and ‘enjoy Port Moresby.’

“It is a beautiful city. You (dwellers) all are beautiful as well, and we all live in the beautiful city. However, we often forget just how lucky we are to have such a city.

 “Lots of people around the world don’t have what we have in Port Moresby,” she told participants of Walk and Yoga for Life this morning at Paga Hill Ring road.

She, however, said some think that life in the city is tough and uneasy.

PNG Power boss perceived it otherwise: “It is getting better. It is definitely much better than when I moved here ten years ago. The city is beautiful. The city is much cleaner, and the people are safer.

“We have got a long way to go but we are going somewhere. The problem is for communities which have not started the change yet and Port Moresby, under the leadership of Governor Powes Parkop, is more than started.

“It is well advanced on a progress to a safer, cleaner, greener city,” she said.

With a foreign visitor, she took part in the usual walk and yoga for life this morning.

Meanwhile, Blacklock, a domestic violence survivor, has called on men folk in the country to get educated about their role in domestic violence: thus, little boys and girls grow up respecting each other.

PPL CEO Carolyn Blacklock

“It is not about women being better. It is simply about them being equal. I hope you all do what you can to make sure we have a safer city for both men and women,” she said.

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PORT MORESBY RESIDENTS URGED TO CUDDLE HEALTH, FITNESS AND WELLNESS TO BE PART OF THEIR LIFESTYLE, WAY OF LIFE

National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is calling on city residents to make health, fitness and wellness to be part of their lifestyle and way of life.

People's governor Powes Parkop and participants of Walk and Yoga for Life doing basic Yoga stretches in Port Moresby

Mr Parkop yesterday morning (Sunday, August 05, 2018) used the Walk and Yoga for Life program at Paga Hill ring road to make this comment.

People's governor Powes Parkop and participants of Walk and Yoga for Life doing basic Yoga stretches in Port Moresby

“And that, if we make it part of our way of life or lifestyle, it will be successful other than just doing it occasionally on Sundays when we walk; on the week days we have yoga, kick boxing , acrobatics or other fitness classes. We must lift our life to be healthy, fit and well, and to have healthy lifestyle.

In this way, he said city residents can reap its benefits.

He has had to become the change they want to see in the city, he reiterated.

People's Governor Powes Parkop with other participants of Walk and Yoga for Life

He also called on others to do the same.

Mr Parkop testified that he had seriously embraced healthy lifestyle especially Walk and Yoga for his own good, so he can continue to provide prudent and sound leadership with an active, fit, healthy and well mind.  

“I have chosen to be in the right frame of mind to lead the city for change that we want to see in our city and the country,” he told thousands who participated in the WYFL.

Mr Parkop said he did this, so that the city residents can be motivated and inspired to follow his footsteps to live a high quality of life.

Participants of walk and Yoga for life doing basic Yoga stretches after the 8-Kilometre walk from Murray Barracks to Paga Hill Ring road

He admitted that it took him years to be better at it, saying they should not do it to impress him or others to gain favours.

If they are on this course, they will fail to sustain or make it become part of their lifestyle, he said. 

Governor Parkop went onto saying as part of his healthy lifestyle, he regularly visits his doctor for medical checks to ensure all his organs are in good health.

In this way, he said, he is aware of his blood pressure and status of each of his organs.

He further urged the residents to do the same, emphasizing its importance of saving them money from medication and preventing diseases or detecting problems affecting their organs at earlier stage than what can be regretted later when they are in their final stages.

According to him, he started practicing Walk and Yoga in 2014 when his weight was over 95 Kilograms, but now it was reduced to 83. 

Participants of walk and Yoga for life doing basic Yoga stretches after the 8-Kilometre walk from Murray Barracks to Paga Hill Ring road