Noah Kool

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Noah Kool Yalba
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Full nameNoah Kool Yalba
Born (1962-10-10) 10 October 1962 (age 61)
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1990 Papua New Guinea 1
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Noah Kool Yalba (born 10 October 1962) is a Papua New Guinean politician. He has been the Governor of Chimbu Province from 2012 to 2017, as a member of the governing People's National Congress. [2] [3]

Kool was a school teacher and member of the Papua New Guinea rugby league team prior to entering politics. [4] [5] He played in one match for Papua New Guinea, playing against the Great Britain Lions during their 1990 tour.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Chimbu governorship at a March 2004 by-election (for the People's Labour Party) and the 2007 election (for the United Party). [6] [7] He won the seat on his third attempt as an independent at the 2012 election, and joined the governing People's National Congress after the election. [8] [9]

In October 2012, he set up a permanent office for the province in Port Moresby to minimise the expense of trips to the capital by provincial public servants. [10] In February 2013, he was credited with the opening of the Chimbu Teachers College, the first tertiary institution in the province, as a means of developing human resources to support economic growth in what Kool described as a province "geographically rugged and unsuitable for any major economic development. [11] In May 2015, he called for tougher cannabis trafficking laws. [12] In late 2015, he repeatedly called for greater aid for the province in response to a devastating drought which had dried up water supplies and destroyed crops, declaring that it had become an "emergency situation". [13] [14] In May 2016, Kool announced that he had secured funding for the Simbu Unitech Satellite Campus, a Kundiawa campus of the Lae-based Papua New Guinea University of Technology. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Noah Kool rugbyleagueproject.org
  2. ↑ "Hon. Noah Kool, MP". National Parliament of Papua New Guinea. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Nominations By Electorate" (PDF). PNG Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Campaigning yet to pick up". PNG Post Courier. 24 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "Mori takes early lead in Chuave". PNG Post-Courier. 19 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "Writs for three by-elections issued, Trawen warns of Roll problems". PNG Post Courier. 26 March 2004.
  7. ↑ "Catholic priest wins Chimbu Regional". PNG Post-Courier. 31 July 2007.
  8. ↑ "Peace made as O'Neill holds PNG". The Australian. 3 August 2012.
  9. ↑ "Soso's win is historic". PNG Post Courier. 10 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "Simbu office in POM". PNG Post Courier. 9 October 2012.
  11. ↑ "Chimbu's first teachers college enrols 200". PNG Post Courier. 21 February 2013.
  12. ↑ "Kool wants tougher laws on drug trafficking". PNG Post-Courier. 29 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "Drought situation in PNG's Chimbu Province 'emergency'". Radio New Zealand News International. 11 September 2015.
  14. ↑ "The governor of Papua New Guinea's Chimbu province says recent rains have don". Radio New Zealand News International. 17 November 2015.
  15. ↑ "Unitech to open campus in Chimbu". PNG Post Courier. 17 May 2016.
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