Source: New Dawn FM (http://bougainville.typepad.com/newdawn/)
By Veronica Hannette
The Bougainville Mona Festival Chairman Lawrence Belleh and his colleagues are working round the clock to complete the ground work ready for the big festival
The Buka show ground will be the main host for the festival and so far so good the ground work has advanced and is ready.
Bougainville Mona Festival will be a yearly festival therefore the chairman of Mona Festival, Lawrence Belleh is appealing to the people to fully support and learn from such activity.
Bougainville Mona Festival is promoting culture and with that it can attract a lot of tourist to the province.
This cultural festival will also encourage the people to stand on strong grounds to hold their culture and traditions.
Therefore, cultural activities such as singsing kaur groups, bamboo bands and Solomon dances will be held at the time of festival.
Two traditional contestants, a male and a female from individual traditional group will contest during the three days show.
Meanwhile, CEO for Commerce, Mr Albert Kinani has confirmed that five Mona’s are set to participate at the festival, one from Halia, one from Hahalis, two from Gogohe and two from Malasang.
Mr Kinani is also appealing to business companies like Jomik, Likui, Pemana, Elutu, Deborah and Ela Motors to support the Mona festival.
He said, this show will attract a lot of people and for that reason businesses will make good money from the three day show.
The CEO also announced a new web site that would promote Tourism on Bougainville as www.bougainvilletourism.org.pg
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