Author: Vasinatta Yama

Secretary, Ms Taies Sansan is encouraging women over the age of 40 years to undergo breast screening as the country has high rates of cancer, especially breast cancer. She made this remarks at the Port Moresby General Hospital this month, after her routine check up at the Mammogram Unit. “I’d like to encourage a lot…

Department of Personnel Management Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Whole of Government (WOG) branch continues to implement the GESI Policy through its Gender Equity and Sensitization and Mainstreaming workshops. The GESI team recently completed a two-day workshop for the National Energy Authority staff, Batch One for this month. The session was informative and enlightening for most of the…

Department of Personnel Management hosted a small but close gathering last Friday on the 24th of February to honor and celebrate the second anniversary of the life and death of Late Grand Chief Sir Michael T. Somare. It was attended by Secretary Ms. Taies Sansan, members of the Executive Management team and staff of the…

Department of Personnel Management Executive Management Team held its first EMT meeting for 2023 on the 20th of this month. All Wings and branches have outlined its yearly work plans. The Executive Resourcing Services Wing had a slow start due to New Year, but have advertised in the Newspapers a couple of position vacancies for…

Officers from Department of  Personnel Management Gender Equity and Social Inclusion branch for the Whole of Government have recently attended the Public Service Male Advocacy Network’s (MAN) first meeting of 2023, which was hosted by the Department of Prime Minister and National Executive Council (PM & NEC) this month. It was chaired by Mr. Henry Masin, Director,  Human Resource…

Secretary, Ms Taies Sansan who spoke on behalf of the bureaucrats and the 130, 000 plus public servants nation wide has joined the Prime Minister, Hon. James Marape in welcoming the review of Constitutional  Directive 4: Review of the Form and System of Government—Election  of the Prime Minister. The review is being conducted by the…

Behind every departmental heads is a hardworking personal assistant. Ms Judith Balaia said working as a personal assistant for the Secretary of a Central Government agency that is responsible for all the Human Resources mandate and functions of the public service can be challenging and daunting at times, but for her, it has been nothing…

Department of Personnel Management through its GESI Policy and Implementation Strategy and Mainstreaming have revived the Women’s Netball team. It used to be one of the sporting activity for female staff members that aims to promote physical activity and healthy living, but came to halt due to COVID-19. It was revived early this year were officers in government…

The Department of Personnel Management has commenced the DPM Reforms Regional Workshop for Momase Region this week in Lae Morobe Province. Deputy Secretary Policy & Reforms Mr. Ellison Kalimet who delivered the keynote address on behalf of Secretary Ms. Taies Sansan welcomed the participants from the Momase Region to the 3rd leg of the week-…

The Department of Personnel Management met with the Vanuatu Public Service Commission (PSC) for a sister agency partnership visit yesterday. The meeting was for the two agencies to share information and for Vanuatu PSC to learn the PNG Public Service procedures and processes, as the bigger brother in the Pacific. DPM presented information on the Public Service Business Processes,…