The SP Sports Awards for this year will be happening on Saturday Night May 27th at the Crown Hotel and the event will feature an important icon in the boxing arena, Australian former world champion boxer Jeff Fenech, who will officiate as a guest speaker for the event. Jeff Fenech who is also known as “Marrickville Mauler” Fenech won titles in three weight divisions in the span of 20 fights in just 3 1/2 years. Fenech in his seventh fight captured the IBF bantamweight title on April 26, 1985, with a one-sided ninth-round TKO over champion Satoshi Shingaki of Thailand.…
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Locals and community leaders of Rau village in Wakunai District in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville have recently celebrated the official opening of a permanent and fully furnished community government building. This is an initiative from the Australian government who is partnering with the Autonomous Government of Bougainville (ABG) and the Government of Papua New Guinea. This partnership will see the roll-out of 19 community buildings across Bougainville. The Rau community hall is the first to be completed out of 19 community halls that will be built across the region of Bougainville. It is a 225 square metre building fully…
More than 400,000 people are to receive a medal in recognition of their contribution to the King’s Coronation. Made of nickel silver, it has the royal cypher on one side and images of the King and Queen Consort on the other. Recipients include police, ambulance workers, choristers and military personnel working at the Coronation. It will also be given to emergency service workers, prison staff and members of the armed forces with more than five years of full service. And living recipients of the George Cross or Victoria Cross will receive the medal. The first coronation medal was awarded to…
PNG Defence Force Commanders Cup which was off for 3 years because of Covid-19, returns this year. With the return of PNG Defence Force Commander’s Cup this year, Teachers Savings and Loan Society (TISA) came on board with a K25, 000 as sponsorship. In announcing the sponsorship, Group CEO for TISA, Mr Michael Koisen stated that TISA is delighted to support this event because a lot of their service men and women are members of TISA and its one way of giving back to the members Mr Koisen highlighted that this event is also special because for the first time…
Murr Village, a community of 300 people and live along the Oriomo River in Western Province’s South Fly district now have much to celebrate after the installation of rainforest harvesting units that will provide the community access to a clean and safe water supply. After a Hydrogeology survey and confirmation from the District WASH committee on selected communities who lack groundwater sources, rainwater harvesting units are now being set up. This is funded by the Australian Government through the Western Province Partnership’s Water Security Project. Murr was one of the selected villages identified as lacking groundwater sources and earmarked by…
BSP has confirmed that as of 1st May, 2023, seventy-five percent of funds have been repaid by customers who have overdrawn their accounts in April, with an outstanding balance of less than K2.0m expected to be repaid over the next few weeks. Further yet BSP assures all customers who have been experiencing issues with their account balance that BSP has now verified all accounts and confirms that all account balances are now correct. That’s from the BSP Group CEO Mark Robinson in a statement yesterday. According to Mr Robinson, on Friday 7th April, some customers withdrew funds from their accounts…
The recent 68th UPNG graduation saw many students graduate with flying colours and amongst the graduates was a young man from the Milaku clan, Koblaku tribe in Mul Village from the Gumine district of Simbu Province. Zebedee Gore Andrew who graduated on Friday 28th April 2023, with Bachelor in MBBS (Medicine and Surgery) has an incredible story of his own struggles in his education path over the years. His biological father Jack Mila Gore was a former village councillor and a LLG President of Gumine District, and when Zebedee was just a child, his father handed him over to be…
Community policing police officers and Police officers from Gordon police station on Sunday, April 30th, paid a visit to Eight Mile Last Block Settlement and had talks with people from Chimbu and Eastern Highland who had a confrontation earlier on after an Eastern Highlander died and several houses belonging to people from Chimbu were burnt to ashes. According to NCD Metropolitan Superintendent, Silva Sika, the deceased from Goroka allegedly became sick after he with someone from Chimbu some dog meat. “After his death his relatives alleged that the man died due to sorcery thus the relatives of the deceased man…
The Scottish-Australian chef’s death was confirmed by his family, who said they were ‘devastated’ after he died on Sunday. Jock Zonfrillo, judge on MasterChef Australia, chef and author, has died at the age of 46. His family confirmed his death on Monday, saying “our irreplaceable husband, father, brother, son and friend” died on Sunday in Melbourne. No cause of death was given. A Victoria Police spokesperson confirmed that the death was not being treated as suspicious. A report will be prepared for the coroner. MasterChef Australia’s new season was due to premiere on Monday night, but Network 10 confirmed that…
Police have arrested 65 people for smuggling 50kg of drugs – some hidden in toothpaste tubes – into Vietnam. It follows last month’s arrests of four Vietnam Airlines cabin crew found with the tubes in carry-on bags after a flight from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City. They said they were hired to transport 60kg of toothpaste but didn’t know it was ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine. Vietnam is a major drug-trafficking hub despite having some of the harshest drug laws in the world. About half of the 327 toothpaste tubes the flight attendants were transporting contained drugs. Investigators said the…