From across Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea’s top sprinter Leonie Beu will head to Paris for the Olympic Games after a stunning routine at the Oceania Athletics Championships. Beu’s strong performance at the championship which concluded last Friday booked her the only available Olympic Games ticket to France over hurdler Adrine Monagi. Following close assessment by Athletics PNG for […]
The demand for primary healthcare at the Mt Hagen General Hospital is stretching its resources. Western Highlands Provincial Health Authority acting chief executive officer Jane Holden revealed that patient numbers at the hospital’s outpatient ward had increased drastically by two hundred percent, after the 2022 National elections. She said as one of the specialist hospitals […]
Credit Corporation Sparrows received a special surprise donation of netball equipment and playing attire from New South Wales based netball clubs in Winston Hills Netball, Winston Hills Soccer, Oakhill Drive Netball, Impaia Netball Club and Glenhaven Netball. This was made possible through a new junior member of the club Evie Brogan who recently joined Sparrows […]
Twelve Pangu’s members who defected to the Opposition have been given the choice to appeal for re-admittance to the party. A meeting of the Pati’s parliamentary wing resolved on Thursday last week that the 12 MP’s led by Renbo Paita be given 7 days’ notice of their dismissal from the Pati. Four of the MP’s […]
New Ireland Governor and senior statesman Sir Julius Chan is alive and well. Speaking from Port Moresby this morning, Sir Julius noted that there is no rest for the wicked, who continuously spread fake news of him causing panic to the general public. “These wicked people seem to be working very hard with no rest […]
The opening ceremony of the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture was like a big family gathering of indigenous inhabitants of countries scattered across the largest ocean in the world. The extended family, tracing their Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian ancestral linage gathered on Thursday [Friday PNG time] at the University of Hawaii in Honololo, […]
Opposition Members at Crown Camp have officially informed the nation that the submission of court documents to recall parliament has not yet been lodged. A group of Opposition members, which includes former prime minister and Ialibu Pangia MP Peter O’Neill, held a press conference this afternoon in Port Moresby. Representing the group, Provincial Member for […]
Libert Kapris the son of the late Maprik MP Gabriel Kapris has won the Maprik by-election. The seat was left vacant by his father. The young Kapris polled a total 19,063 votes in the 15th exclusion of Hildeanne Wefin going past runner up and Pangu strongman John Simon who polled 17,407 votes. The absolute majority […]
Pioneering 74 students at the new Woodlark Junior High School in Milne Bay Province joined thousands of others yesterday [Thursday] to sit their first written expression exams on the Island. They were the first of three junior high schools to do so. Under the Government’s Education vision to leave no one behind, the junior high […]
NBC West New Britain has received a funding boost of K300,000, thanks to Governor Sasindran Muthuvel. In a low key ceremony this morning Governor Muthuvel handed over the cheque to ICT Minister Timothy Masiu. Those in attendance included NBC Board Chairman Ian Tarutia, NBC Managing Director Kora Nou, and staff of the NBC HQ in […]