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]
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| Full name | Noah Kool Yalba | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 October 1962 Papua New Guinea | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
References
edit- ^ Noah Kool rugbyleagueproject.org
- ^ "Hon. Noah Kool, MP". National Parliament of Papua New Guinea. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ "Nominations By Electorate" (PDF). PNG Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "Campaigning yet to pick up". PNG Post Courier. 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Mori takes early lead in Chuave". PNG Post-Courier. 19 July 2012.
- ^ "Writs for three by-elections issued, Trawen warns of Roll problems". PNG Post Courier. 26 March 2004.
- ^ "Catholic priest wins Chimbu Regional". PNG Post-Courier. 31 July 2007.
- ^ "Peace made as O'Neill holds PNG". The Australian. 3 August 2012.
- ^ "Soso's win is historic". PNG Post Courier. 10 August 2012.
- ^ "Simbu office in POM". PNG Post Courier. 9 October 2012.
- ^ "Chimbu's first teachers college enrols 200". PNG Post Courier. 21 February 2013.
- ^ "Kool wants tougher laws on drug trafficking". PNG Post-Courier. 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Drought situation in PNG's Chimbu Province 'emergency'". Radio New Zealand News International. 11 September 2015.
- ^ "The governor of Papua New Guinea's Chimbu province says recent rains have don". Radio New Zealand News International. 17 November 2015.
- ^ "Unitech to open campus in Chimbu". PNG Post Courier. 17 May 2016.