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.
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.
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.