PM to open Memorial Park

Prime Minister Peter O’Neill will open a Memorial Park at the Divine Word University campus on Friday to mark the 1st anniversary of the Airlines PNG Dash 8-100 plane crash near Madang town that claimed 28 lives while four survived. 

The DWU Community is putting up the Memorial Park in respect of those who died on the plane crash of 13th October, 2011 where 11 were relatives of university students.  

Ten of the family members of students were travelling to Madang for the DWU Missioning Ceremony for outgoing final year students when they were killed in the plane crash. 

 

One relative was an elder brother of a continuing student who was on a business trip to Madang from Lae. This will be the second time the Prime Minister will be at DWU campus after he first went there few days after crash on October 13, 2011 and attended the funeral service organized by the university.  

At the service, the Prime Minister had committed K500,000 for the next of kin to assist with funeral expenses. Mr O’Niell gave the money to President of DWU, Fr Jan Czuba who then divided it equally among the next of kin.  

The Prime Minister will be at DWU as the guest of honour at the 4th Missioning Ceremony of DWU where outgoing final year students are “missioned” to move out of the University into the professional world. Ends/