From across Papua New Guinea
The Opposition has finally announced it’s new look shadow cabinet, which consists of some senior members of the current Parliament. Opposition Leader Douglas Tomuriesa when announcing his 14 men cabinet, said that the alternate government is now being named to keep the government to account, and also provide their alternate policies. Mr. Tomuriesa said that […]
Two African men from Senegal and their local accomplice from Daru were intercepted by PNG Immigration and the Transnational crime unit over the weekend at a settlement in Daru, Western Province. The trio flew into Daru on Sunday with the intention to travel to Australia the same afternoon when they were rounded up by PNG […]
Funding delays have prolonged the PNG Electoral Commission from carrying out ward roll updates for the 2024 Local Level Government Elections. Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai said the electoral roll voter enrolment exercise is scheduled to be rolled out this month, pending availability of funds. “The Electoral Commission is still waiting for funding from the responsible […]
Member for Goroka Aiye Tambua made his first appearance in court this morning. Mr Tambua appeared before Magistrate Paul Nii and arraigned on the charges laid against him. Magistrate Paul Nii read out the 62 counts of sexual offences which were brought against Tambua. He was arrested and charged Monday afternoon and locked up at […]
A supermarket giant in the nation’s capital continues to pump millions of Kinas into the local economy by buying locally grown garden produce. City Pharmacy Limited [CPL], which operates the chain of Stop and Shop Supermarkets in the nation’s capital buys 80 percent of vegetables and other fresh produce from its network of farmers and […]
The Australian Government through its PacificAus Sports program has partnered with the Australian Olympic Committee [AOC] and Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee [PNGOC]to support 33 elite athletes from Papua New Guinea in their preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Australia’s support will assist PNG athletes to compete across seven sports including athletics, swimming, boxing, […]
Significant runway repairs in the next four to five months will limit Air Niugini aircraft operations at Tokua Airport. While this will inevitably lead to major unavoidable disruption in passenger and cargo services, Air Niugini in a media statement said it was an essential decision for infrastructure improvements. The reduction of the runway to just […]
10 students from the Hiri West in Central province were provided necessary tuition fee support from NiuPower under its inaugural scholarship program. At the inauguration of the scholarship program last week, NiuPower paid K180,000 in tuition and boarding fees to the Port Moresby Technical College and other suppliers for the ten scholarship recipients. Additional support […]
The issue of writ for the by-elections scheduled for last Thursday [February 29] has been deferred to this month due to lack of funding, Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai says. He said the cash-flow situation in the country has made it difficult to secure necessary funds to conduct the by-elections as initially scheduled. “We have rescheduled […]
Media Leaders from the Pacific and Australia have agreed to meet regularly for the next five years, on agreed areas of regional media cooperation. The summit was co-hosted by the Managing Directors of the ABC, David Anderson, and PNG National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and Pacific Island News Agency (PINA) President, Kora Nou, at the ABC’s […]