From across Papua New Guinea
The 2025 SP Sports Awards was staged last night at the Crown Hotel with winners revealed from the 36 finalists across 12 categories. The top honors went to weightlifting sensation Morea Baru and sprint star Leonnie Beu, who won the Sports Male and Female Athlete of The Year, respectively. Some of the country’s outstanding athletes […]
Two police officers have been arrested following a drug bust at a Port Moresby hotel in the early hours of Saturday morning. They were caught alongside three civilians in possession of methamphetamine, commonly known as meth. Assistant Commissioner of Police and NCD/Central Commander Benjamin Turi confirmed that the Police received a tip-off during their “keeping […]
All schools in Madang Province, ranging from primary to secondary schools and Technical and Vocational Education [TVET] centers, must have proper boards in place. This was the advice from the province’s Acting Education Director, Alphonse Igag, to all government and agency schools [schools run by churches]. He stressed, “No one person is supposed to be […]
Mainstream media journalists/reporters based in the Highlands Region underwent a thorough three days training on the usage of social media in their news content. The training is deemed as essential from the traditional method of gathering, packaging news to different traditional mediums like print [newspaper] and broadcast [radio and television]. The training was held in […]
Niugini Automobiles and Ela Motors are now the only distributors of Electric Vehicles [EVs] and Hybrid Electric Vehicles [HEVs] in the country. The EVs are distributed by Niugini Automobiles and HEVs by Ela Motors. The difference is EVs are 100 percent electric cars with no engine whilst HEVs have both an internal combustion engine [ICE] […]
Papua New Guinea is looking at transforming its transport sector to a low carbon transportation and climate resilient development to reduce its net emissions by 2030. This by introducing pure electric Vehicles and Hybrid electric vehicles to the Country. However, to have electric Vehicles, PNG must have a policy or framework in place first to […]
Former two-term MP and state Minister, Jimmy Miringtoro, is in a commanding lead following conclusion of 39 counts of the first-preference votes in the Central Bougainville by-election. Counting of first-preference votes concluded last night with the eight ballot boxes from Wakunai. Panguna District had 13 ballot boxes and Kieta 18 ballot boxes. After count 39 […]
The Papua New Guinea Defence Force is refocusing its attention on the provinces along the International Border to tighten security. With this focus in place, the Chief of the PNG Defence Force, Rear Admiral Philip Polewara, and his team held a meeting today with the Sandaun Provincial Government and Administration to work in collaboration on […]
Speeding kills, and so does drink driving. Madang’s top cop, Acting Superintendent Robert Baim, resounded this warning following a nasty road accident along the south coast of Madang yesterday afternoon. The incident occurred some 20 kilometres outside town. The incident involving a brown five- door vehicle left one man dead. Four other occupants of the […]
A woman who allegedly lured Papua New Guinea nationals to Australia with fake scholarships before exploiting them has been charged with debt bondage and other human trafficking offences. The Australia Federal Police charged the woman – a dual Australian and Nigerian citizen who was based primarily in PNG – after she arrived at Brisbane Airport […]