The Mosquito carrying Malaria bites at dawn and dusk – either early hours of the morning or when sun sets from 4pm onwards. Therefore it wise to keep your body covered and protected from getting mosquito bites at these times. As advised, Malaria is endemic. Living in places like PNG and especially in Port Moresby…
Malaria infections are fatal. They can affect everyone from unborn babies, children, men and women. Malaria and Pregnancy The risk of Malaria affecting pregnancy and pregnant mothers are high and can lead to aborting of pregnancy, still birth or even early or premature delivery if the mother is in late stages of pregnancy. That is…
Malaria, an infectious disease, that thrives in the tropics is one of the major causes of admissions and deaths in Papua New Guinea. The disease transmitted from one mosquito to another is endemic in PNG and the neighboring countries in the Pacific. Due to the region’s proximity to the equator, the transmission of the disease…
Capital Insurance Group (CIG) have become aware of e-mails, text messages and phone calls claiming to be from employees of Capital Life Insurance Company (CLIC). They claim that the recipients have won cash prizes as a promotional incentives from the company. They illegally request personal information including bank account details, or to pay a ce…
Capital Insurance Group wishes to advice all our stakeholders and clients that testing and treatment of Covid is not covered under the existing insurance policy with CIG. Testing and related costs will be the local governments arrangement and specific instruction will be issued by the local government on quarantine measures. Please contact your bro…
Capital Insurance Group wishes to advice all our stakeholders and clients that for the well-being and health of all our staff we have made a decision to close our PNG office, located at TISA Haus Waigani for the next 2 weeks starting Friday 19th of March. We will reoccupy the office on Tuesday the 6th…
CIG has passed another milestone launching its first ever fully operation Client Service Centre in PNG. The establishment of the Centre was led by our local inhouse IT, Marketing and Business Operations team. Allowing CIG the advantage to have a tailored system that will not only act as the primary point of communication for services…
Having a trained workforce means your employees are learning new skills that can improve the way they work, reduce necessary costs and mistakes, build confidence, and create a better working environment. CIG continues to invest in their employees ANZIIF education for 2021. Across the group, we currently has 26 qualified senior associates and associ…
Another success for CIG for 2020 was the launch and first year of its inaugural ‘Tavur Leadership Program’. The program is expected to take 3 years per batch and aligns with the company’s vision to build local capacity that will hopefully run the company in the future. The company selected seven (7) promising employees that…
The Chairman of Capital Insurance Group, Mr. Michael O Koisen OBE, announced on 20th January 2021 the appointment of Mr. Jeremy Norton to the role of Chief Operating Officer for the Capital Insurance Group of companies. Jeremy has strong technical, commercial and leadership background with more than 20 years insurance industry knowledge across a br…
