From across Papua New Guinea
Heavy rain, causing massive flooding and landslips have buried 14 people in Simbu Province This is according to a brief by Provincial Administrator John Punde to Prime Minister James Marape on Monday, after the prime minister flew on a helicopter to see firsthand affected districts of Gumine, Karamui-Sol Nomane, Kundiawa-Gembogl, and parts of Chuave and […]
Prime Minister James Marape accompanied by his wife Rachel on Good Friday flew in by chopper to East Sepik Province where he was given an aerial assessment of the devastation caused by flooding and the recent earthquake. The chopper flew the PM to Angoram and Pagwi-the district headquarter of Worsera Gawi where he met with […]
The Chief Secretary to Government, Ivan Pomaleu, has confirmed that there is no extra public holiday for 02 April 2024. “As far as official records go, Tuesday 02 April 2024 is a normal working day,” he said. He became aware of a fake National Gazette that is circulating in the social media today and released […]
The Continuous power outages in Daru, Western Province has affected business houses and the operations at the Daru General Hospital. NBC News visited the accident and emergency section of the hospital this morning and found sick people queuing up outside the waiting area to be served. The power supply had gone off around 6am and […]
Finance Minister Rainbo Paita kicked off the UPNG SRC Easter 9s finals today at VC Oval. Top four teams, SHSS Arts Warriors, SNPS Spartans, SBA West Eagles and SM Titans made it into the finals. Titans and Spartan go into the cup finals while Arts Warriors and West Eagles go head to head for the […]
The Black Orchids from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville have claimed the 2024 Sports Tok Rugby Sevens tournament cup following a convincing 22-7 win over the city boys, the Gerehu Natives. The last time the Black Orchids finished off as champions of the Sports Tok Sevens was in 2022. Meanwhile in the other results, Chauka […]
The first lot of LLG’s in East Sepik province started organizing their relief supplies on Thursday to the affected villages, provincial member Allan Bird says. Mr Bird said ward members will forefront the emergency assistance to all impacted communities with the support of public servants. He said the Australian government has also provided 250 disaster […]
Youths from the PNG Bible Church throughout the country will today end their Easter National Youth Convention in Kimbe, West New Britain Province. Apart from marking the celebration of Easter, the convention also marked the transition of leadership of youth executives as per stated in the amended constitution of the church. Hundreds of youths from […]
For a developing country like PNG, raising her voice at the global level on carbon emissions will continue to be a huge challenge. Acting Managing Director of the Climate Change and Development Authority, Debra Sungi told media last week at the National Press Club. She was asked how effective PNG is in holding to account […]
National teams from the Oceania Football Confederation have embraced the opportunity to compete against strong teams from around the globe in the FIFA Series over the past 10 days. Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and New Zealand have all been competing in the FIFA Series at tournaments in Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia and Egypt respectively and […]