The Magpies have return to the Colts Oval with fresh new faces after two years outside of the premier Port Moresby Australian Football League (AFL) competition and just last weekend saw the football club from Gerehu had their first match of 2022 Moni Plus AFL season during the opener. According to the club’s Founder Mr. Bruce Sovara, the team had to cancel its participation in the competition when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020. There were a lot of disturbances brought about by the measures and restrictions put in place during that period of time that saw the club…
Author: Emmanuel MAIPE
Port Moresby candidate Michael Kandiu has signed his nomination this afternoon marking the start of his campaign to run for the NCD Regional seat . Kandiu and his supporters turned up this afternoon at the Sir John Guise stadium to sign the nomination for along with the Returning Officer. After nomination, he said he just want to see this election run fairly and has made some recommendations to the PNGEC earlier to ensure a safe, free and fair election. This is Mr. Kandiu’s third time to run for the NCD regional seat. He contested in 2012 and 2017 elections where…
The body of the late Deputy Prime Minister and Member for Bulolo Sam Basil arrived at the National Parliament Grand Hall this morning to lay in state for fellow members of parliament to pay their respects to the late members and his family. The casket arrived at the steps of parliament just after 11am and was received by the Speaker of Parliament, Job Pomat. The family of the late member arrived earlier and were led into the parliament grand hall to wait for the casket of their beloved father to arrive. The speaker led the procession of the members to…
The Governor General Sir Bob Dadae has gone ahead to sign all 486 writs this afternoon at the Government House in Port Moresby, officially starting off the 2022 National General Elections. This turn of events occurred despite the PNG Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai announcing earlier this afternoon the deferral of the elections by another week to Thursday 19th May 2022 at 4pm. Governor General Sir Bob Dadae said the start of the 2022 National General Election was delayed for too long already, with the earlier deferral, and as such he went ahead with the current date (12th May) to sign…
The Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) rigorous selection process of interested persons to run under its party banner for the 2022 National General Election, has seen only two female intending candidates to contest in the election selected. The two female candidates are Dorothy Tekwei for the West Sepik Regional seat and Angela Nelson for the Alotau Open seat in Milne Bay province. According to Party Leader and Governor for National Capital District (NCD), Powes Parkop, the two females were selected among a huge number of people that submitted application requesting the run under the party banner in the election. “Many have…
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) senior men’s Australian Football League (AFL) national team, the PNG Mosquitoes, continue to reign as world champions now that the biannual International Cup has been further postponed to 2024. According to PNG AFL Commission, the Mozzies will remain world champions for another year and the women’s Flames national team, remain in the top 10 of the world rankings. The PNG Mosquitoes will now be defending their title next year after beating New Zealand in 2017 in the last International Cup. The next event was to be held in 2020 but due to the COVID- 19…
The need for sustainable investment or supporting community initiatives to better the lives of people long after a resource project ends, was one of the main topics discussed during a recent media workshop on the media coverage of the extractive industry. A presentation by Ok Tedi Development Foundation (OTDF) at the recent two days Chamber of Mines and Petroleum Media Workshop, highlighted the need to report or put out more information to the public on what extractive resource companies are doing in the project impact communities in terms of community initiatives apart from the usual extraction of raw materials. OTDF…
The boys from the Northern- Momase team are the champions of the inaugural Port Moresby Australian Football League (AFL) MoniPlus Easter Cup challenge after a tough battle for the cup against a strong Highlands region side in the grand final at the Colts Oval yesterday. The Northern side secured a total of 5 goals and 5 behinds reaching a total of 35 points, ahead of the Highlands side who secured 4 goals, 4 behinds to reach a total of 28. The Northern side team captain, Emmous Wartovo, had nothing but praises for his boys who put up a good challenge…
Even the rain couldn’t stop it from happening, the inaugural Port Moresby Australian Football League (AFL) MoniPlus Easter Cup challenge kicked off this afternoon with a total of six teams: four men’s and two women’s teams, each representing the four regions. Port Moresby AFL Association President Mr. Douglas Lai who was at the sidelines today, said the men’s division started things off. The first game saw the Momase region with 7 goals and 5 behinds to reach 47 in the fourth quarter to defeat Southern which secured 4 goals and 3 behinds reaching total 27. In the second match of…
The government should have made better decisions back then on some projects in the resource sector that would have eased current economic burdens, than just to resort to imposing additional tax on vital service providers today to make up for lost revenue. Opposition Leader Belden Namah who made this statement, said although the state may be arguing that the additional tax imposed on Digicel PNG and BSP Financial Group will go towards increasing tax revenue for the country, it may only put more burden on the people. Instead, Namah said that there are other projects that the government could have…