City Pharmacy Limited (CPL) Group officially opened their second City Pharmacy branch in Kimbe, West New Britain Province. The new branch, located at Hamamas Plaza now complements their existing City Pharmacy branch in the Kimbe Township, offering more availability and access for customers. The opening of Kimbe 2 further strengthens City Pharmacy’s commitment to providing quality and affordable healthcare and wellbeing retail services to the people of West New Britain, and Papua New Guinea. City Phamacy Kimbe 2 was officially opened with a traditional singsing group, led by CPL Chief Executive Officer, Navin Raju, West New Britain Governor, Sasindran Muthuvel…
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The National Gaming Control Board (NGCB) has signed a Sponsorship Agreement with the Ipatas Cup by way of exposing raw talents through the biggest off-season rugby league tournament in the country. The signing of the Sponsorship Agreement stiffens NGCB’s commitment to uphold the pledge of K500, 000 per annum for four years, made by the Minister responsible for NGCB, Manasseh Makiba. Minister Makiba made the pledge on the 05th of March of this year at the Lae Rugby League Oval in Morobe Province during the 2022/2023 grand final between the Homel and Saints of Western Highlands and Morobe Prides. During…
The Government has set aside a five day official State Funeral program for Former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea and East New Britain politician, Late Sir Rabbie Namaliu who passed on in March, 2023. The program begins tomorrow 13th April for the East New Britain leg and ends on Tuesday 18th of April in Port Moresby for the burial. East New Britain Province will receive the former PM’s casket tomorrow on a chartered flight from Port Moresby for a Public Funeral Service to be held at Raluana United Church. The casket will then overnight at Raluana village, the home…
CPL Group through their Supermarket brand, Stop & Shop, is pleased to launch the Roots Festival for 2023 for another year running and with that is proud of the partnerships they create, especially with their local SME’s and farmer networks across the country. The festival is a celebration of their farmers that supply local produce, especially root crops such as kaukau (Sweet Potato), Taro, Yam, Radishes, Carrots and many others, to their Stop & Shop supermarkets in Port Moresby. CPL Group Chief Executive Officer, Navin Raju stated that as PNG’s leading retailer, CPL is proud to have a business model…
A Sponsorship Agreement has been signed between National Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and Bougainville Pro-Boxing to enhance the partnership going forward. NGCB is proud to announce its partnership to develop the sport in Bougainville as well as driving important messages and awareness to the communities through sports, particularly the code of boxing. In the Agreement, the NGCB will provide a sponsorship of K1.6 million for a period of four years to the Bougainville Pro-Boxing to develop the code, which will be paid in instalments of K400, 000 per year. During the Agreement signing, Minister responsible for NGCB and Minister for…
A pair of best friends from Texas are proving that adventure doesn’t have an age limit – even when you’re 81. Ellie Hamby, a documentary photographer, and Sandy Hazelip, a physician and lecturer, toured the world in 80 days, adventuring from the beaches of Bali to the deserts of Egypt. The octogenarian grandmothers started their ambitious adventure on January 11, according to the blog the two have used to document their travels. Their first stop was a location that eludes even many seasoned travelers: Antarctica. Getting to the southernmost continent first required crossing the Drake Passage, the notoriously rough waters…
A university lecturer believes artificial intelligence has the potential to personalise learning and provide students with in-depth feedback. AI-driven technology has been on the rise with open access tools such as ChatGPT, allowing people to ask the bot any question. Students have been able to use the technology to help them write assignments, with some universities introducing ways to detect bot-written work. Alex Sims, an associate professor in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland, said there are benefits that can come from AI tech within the classroom. “It can give much more individualised feedback; it can…
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” powered up at the box office with an impressive opening. The movie ran up the score with more than $200 million in the US and Canada for its five-day opening run, according to a news release, and an estimated $377 million worldwide – the latter topping the box office launch record for an animated movie, previously held by “Frozen 2.” It marks the biggest global box office opening of the year, with “Super Mario Bros.” standing ahead of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” which brought in the $225.3 million during its February opening. The movie is…
Other members of BTS have gone solo, but none as big as Jimin. According to Billboard, his “Like Crazy” single has debuted at No. 1 on this week’s Hot 100 chart, making him the first South Korean solo artist to ever top that chart. The successful start for “Like Crazy” was driven by sales of the five different versions of the song, Billboard reported. Grammy-nominated BTS is one of the most successful boy bands in music history. In addition to Jimin, its members are Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, V, and Jungkook. Jimin’s new song sold 254,000 song downloads and CD…
273 students of Mapex Training Institute in Port Moresby have finally attained certificates and diplomas during the schools graduation on Friday after continiued postponements since 2022. The graduating students are from last years batch of graduands especially from the Business Management Department that couldn’t graduate due to certain policy issues between Mapex Institute and Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology. Founder and Chief Executive Director, Mr. Marcus Palem Kara, said this was a special occasion for the institute as it portrayed yet another successful outcome for the school since its establishment in 2015 and with challenges encountered throughout…