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Electoral Commission faces staffing shortages ahead of 2027 elections

The Special Parliamentary Committee on Elections has heard that many Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission staff have reached the compulsory retirement age or are on short-term contracts.

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Police crackdown on illegal PMV protest in POM

Twenty PMV buses were impounded today and their drivers and crews arrested after staging an illegal protest over rising fuel prices, disrupting the city’s public transport system.

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Drought dries up Arokoi river in Kutubu

More than a thousand people who depend on the main Arokoi river in the Kutubu area of Southern Highlands province are now looking for water for consumption following El Nino induced drought that dried up the river system.

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