Police Minister William Onglo has confirmed that some funding for police for the 2022 National General Election security has been allocated to the Police Department and they stand ready to start the election operations. According to the minister the cost of running the election from their perspective is about K194million and of that amount, the government has transferred K111million already to support police election operations. “These are public funds, and it has to go through proper processes and procurement systems in order to run the elections,” said the police minister. “Since last year our department has been briefed by the…
Author: Emmanuel MAIPE
Police investigation into the recent shooting incident in a Port Moresby restaurant involving the Member for Moresby North- West Lohia Boe Samuel that resulted in the death of a man, is almost complete and police should make some arrests soon. That is the word from Police Commissioner David Manning this morning at a press conference at the Police Headquarters in Port Moresby city. Commissioner Manning was briefed regularly on a daily basis as to what the police investigators are doing since the shooting incident was first reported. “We have established that a firearm was involved, we have established that someone…
Police Commissioner David Manning has re-iterated that the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) is ready to provide security to ensure a safe, free, and fair in the upcoming 2022 National General Elections. Manning re-iterated this in response to an article published in one of the daily newspapers today stating that the police force may not be ready, especially with its stock of firearms and ammunition being down and the procurement taking longer than expected to get in new ammunition stock and the replacement of aging firearms. Manning said the message from his Deputy Police Commissioner Anton Billie, was taken…
The Kairuku-Hiri electorate is one of the seven districts in the country that could be split into two separate districts just before the country goes into the 2022 National General Elections, something the current sitting member is quite looking forward to. The electorate’s incumbent Member of Parliament Peter Isoaimo, said the district itself is huge and often it is difficult for one sitting member to manage. “As your member for Kairuku-Hiri, I can honestly tell you it is one of the difficult electorates. I am caught in between managing two district governments. The Hiri administration and the Kairuku district administration…
The Mineral Resources Development Company (MRDC) Limited has spent over K17million to landowners of four PNG LNG impacted villages in the Central Province alone in four years for their community projects. Mr. Augustin Mano, the Managing Director of MRDC said this during his key note speech at the opening of a massive community center yesterday at the Boera village built with these funds from the Community Infrastructure Trust Fund (CITF) held by MRDC. Mr. Mano was happy with the way the landowners have used the funds from their royalties from the gas project to build more infrastructure to support the…
Fourteen years of waiting has come to an end for the landowner groups of Hides 4 Petroleum Development License (PDL) 7 area in Hela province for their long overdue royalties from the gas resource from their lands that make up the country’s massive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project that has made billions for the country. Mr. Augustin Mano, the Managing Director of the company that looks after the resource project landowner royalties and equities- the Mineral Resource Development Company (MRDC) Limited, told the landowners of the six blocks that they will finally receive their long awaited K19. 6million royalty paid…
Intending candidates wishing to run under a political banner in the upcoming 2022 National General Elections, have been urged to only run under registered political parties and avoid the ones that are not recognised as legitimate ones. The Registrar of Political Parties and Candidates Dr. Alphonse Gelu said this will ensure the intending candidates are not fooled into signing up under unregistered political parties that could cost them during the elections. He said there have been cases of individuals and groups going around the country getting money from intending candidates. Under the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties,…
It’s all a go for the Australian Football League (AFL) Junior Program in the city of Port Moresby with the Junior Development program already given the go ahead to hosts its activities for 2022, which includes the schools’ competitions. According to the Manager of the AFL Junior Development Program Mr. David Topeni, the Education Department along with the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Sports Foundation has given the go ahead with strict COVID-19 measures in place to be followed during the running of these programs. Mr. Topeni said that they will commence with the Smart Start Niukick awareness program at the…
Consumers should expect the price of goods and services to increase in the country in the months ahead, something which the Independent Consumer and Competitions Commission (ICCC) says it does not have a direct control over and that the people should brace for it. ICCC Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Paulus Ain, said the increases are due to factors like the weak exchange rate of the Kina, the increase of global food prices due to the covid-19 pandemic, and the increase of international and domestic fuel prices. In terms of the value of the Kina, Mr. Ain said…
The announcement by the Minister for Public Enterprise William Duma in parliament this week on the government making funding available to pay outstanding payments owed to service providers, should be welcoming news for many that are still waiting, including the Independent Power Producers (IPP). NiuPower Limited is one of that IPPs and its External Affairs Manager Mr. Wellington Bellawa, has welcomed the announcement and said this should ease things a bit with payments owed for the company’s service to the people, which it provides through its partner PNG Power Limited (PPL). “The minister has made that commitment to ease some…