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The NCD-Central Command office was shaken yesterday by two violent incidents that left one man dead and a woman fighting for her life.

Over 100 participants gathered in Port Moresby on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, for the Consultative Implementation Monitoring Council’s annual flagship event, the 2026 National Development Forum, at Dr. Momis Hall at Somare Institute of Leadership and Governance [SILAG]

Australia’s inaugural Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Micaela Cronin, has been appointed to the board of Papua New Guinean non-government organisation Femili PNG.

Prime Minister James Marape says his decision to travel by road from Port Moresby through Gulf, Lae, Goroka, Simbu, Jiwaka and into Mt Hagen was deliberate-to see first hand how infrastructure is connecting the country and to challenge Papua New Guineans to become more productive.

At 2am Sunday, 6th of September 2026, Deputy Prime Minister John Rosso was on the road.

A three-day total restriction on the sale, purchase, and public consumption of alcohol will be enforced across Central during the 51st Independence Day anniversary celebrations this month.

Hela governor Philip Undialu says law and order in the province is a matter of both provincial and national importance, particularly as Hela is host to the PNG LNG project.

The four principal Landowners Associations [LOAs] of the Chinese-operated Ramu Nickel and Cobalt project in Madang Province have jointly resolved not to participate in the proposed Community Development Agreement [CDA] negotiations, scheduled for Lae later this month, unless critical outstanding issues affecting the existing project are properly addressed.

United Finance Limited [UFL] has awarded K51,000 in cash prizes to 81 customers across Papua New Guinea to mark the nation’s Independence anniversary.

The Member for Middle Ramu, Kansol Kamdaru, says he is devastated over yesterday's tragic plane crash in his remote district, which claimed the lives of three people.