It is the 7th season of the Men of Honours Awards and PNG Air has once again come on board as a sponsor of the event, continuing its partnership with the Digicel PNG Foundation initiative for another year. The Chief Commercial Officer for PNG Air, Mr. Simon Pitt announced that the commercial airline company will remain a sponsor for the event going forward. “As a company we are proud to continue our partnership with Digicel PNG Foundation for a second year as the official carrier for the Men of Honours Awards. It is also perfect for our employees to see…
Author: Emmanuel MAIPE
The residents of the city of Port Moresby and the Central province are expecting power loadshedding this weekend because one of the gas- to- power plants just outside the PNG LNG plant site in the Central province, will be closed for a major upgrading work. According to PNG Power Limited, the Dirio gas power plant that supplements the power supply to Port Moresby, will be shut down on Saturday 04th of March at 7am and coming back online on Sunday 05th of March at 6pm. The shutdown is important because it will allow for the installation of the Statcom. The…
Police in the nation’s capital Port Moresby are currently on the road cracking down on public transport operators who continue to defy the basic traffic road rules and, putting the lives of the public at risk. The National Capital District (NCD) Metropolitan Superintendent Silva Sika said the road rules are the laws of the land and as such, must not be broken. He said Public Motor Vehicles (PMV) and taxis commonly break road rules and most of the time they get away with it, but this won’t be the case from now on because breaches to vehicle registrations will be…
Passengers traveling with Air Niugini into Mt. Hagen city will be transported on board the airline’s Dash 8 aircraft, instead of the jet aircrafts. This is because of the current runway repair works being carried out by the National Airports Corporation (NAC) at Kagamuga airport. The restriction will come into effect on Wednesday 08th March and will continue until the 30th of April when runway works are scheduled for completion. Once complete, these essential runway repair works will ensure the continued operation of Air Niugini’s larger jet aircraft into Mount Hagen. The airline company said the situation is beyond its…
The very recent fuel crisis that hit the country was a wakeup call for everyone involved in the fuel industry including the government, when the issue of the shortage of foreign exchange to purchase crude oil or finished products hit home. Speaking on behalf of one of the country’s fuel distributing companie- Puma Energy, the Country Manager and Director Mr. Hulala Tokome said the solution to this matter is a sustainable solution on the supply of foreign currency for the purchase of fuel and not just a government intervention from time to time whenever there is a dire need for…
There is excitement in the air in Palau as the first flight of a weekly service from Australia kicks off. Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr said flights connecting Brisbane to Palau through PNG began on Tuesday. The service is new and is being underwritten by the Australian government’s flight programme, Whipps said. He said Air Niugini is flying the route, which was not in operation pre-pandemic. “The weekly flights will be operated by the airline’s Boeing 767 aircraft every Tuesday from Brisbane to Palau via Port Moresby with the return flight on Wednesday,” Air Niugini Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Alabaster…
Although its a priority of the Government to ensure tax revenue is adequate to fund priority development projects, the increase Corporate Tax for Commercial Banks to 45% was put through without proper consultation, and will in the long run, see commercial banks struggle with its services to customers. That’s from Kina Bank Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director Mr. Greg Pawson when highlighting the potential impacts on Kina Bank as a result of this increase in Corporate Tax. “The reality is that we are a public listed company, and we rely on our shareholders to continue to invest, we…
The BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) continued to record yet another profit in 2022 despite all the challenges the year brought . The BSP group Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Ronesh Dayal, said the group recorded a net after profit of K1billion, which is up 5.7% from 2021. He made these remarks today when presenting the group’s 2022 Full Year Results Mr. Dayal said, “This good result is attributed to the reopening of the borders post COVID and the improved economic activities.” “Although the results were good for 2022, it could have been better.” “The results were impacted by…
Prime Minister James Marape has made a call to the criminals responsible for holding hostage Australian Professor Bryce Barker, alongside fellow members of his research team in the Southern Highlands province, to surrender to police immediately before the law catches up with them. He said what had happened was serious and now the second phase of this operation will be to have those criminals arrested and charged accordingly. Marape said the first phase of the operation was completed with the release of the three hostages, including the Professor Bryce Barker. Prior to their release, the criminals had released the first…
Home at last, the last remaining hostages taken by criminals in the Southern Highlands have been released unharmed by their captors and are now back safe in Port Moresby with their families. Prime Minister (PM) James Marape was at hand to receive them this afternoon at the APEC Terminal. Marape said the work to have them released was a joint effort by police, the defense force and the provincial governments of Southern Highlands, Western and Hela provinces. “I want to thank the police commissioner, his men and women, the defense force commander and all his men, governor Undialu and all Hela leaders and a host of…