The Moresby Arts Theatre on Tuesday, 3rd August 2022 initiated their Youth Arts Program [YAP] with students from Tokarara Secondary School and also students from the University of Goroka. According to Dr. Jane Awi, this is the 7th year to run a successful program. Dr. Awi is a lecturer at the UoG and she also currently occupies the role as executive director for the Somare Research Institute, of which she heads 7 of the institutes. Dr. Awi explained that the YAP is a 6 week program for high school students [NCD schools in particular] and through the program, they help…
Author: Nigel-Francis MADO
Family members and supporters of the Lakatois were out in full force yesterday afternoon to welcome home the OFC Women’s Nations Cup champions at the Jackson International airport this afternoon. With their flight touching down on the tarmac, one could see the excitement and anticipation on the faces of those that turned up to welcome home our local girls after a successful campaign of the pacific. Led out onto the tarmac by a jubilant Papua New Guinea Football Association President, Mr. John Kapi Nato, emotions ran high as the lasses that left the country almost 3 weeks ago with only…
The Western Highlands Provincial Police Commander, Superintendent John Sagom has called on communities in the province to respect the counting process and the outcome of the elections in the province. With all that has happened in the past week, Supt. Sagom has stated all in all, the province has been peaceful, but is expecting anything to happen. “Everyone will have to respect the outcome. There is no need to fight amongst yourselves, these things should not be happening, and at all costs we are appealing to the people to not take up arms,” the superintendent said. As a precautionary measure,…
Friday afternoon (29/07/22) at the VIP Terminal at the Jacksons Airport here in the nation’s capital, Interim Prime Minister, James Marape, joined by Hela Governor elect, Phillip Undialu and Kavieng Open member-elect, Ian ling Stuckey to welcome back Bougainville Provincial member, Peter Tsiamalili Jnr to the floor of parliament and also newly elected governor for East New Britain, Michael Marum. Both members of parliament were welcomed into the loving arms of an exited Marape, who expressed great satisfaction. “On behalf of our team here I would like to convey our sincerest congratulations to both members of parliament,” Marape said. He…
The last electorate from Central Province to start the counting for their electorate, the Goilala counting have taken that challenge head on and in after just 2 days of counting, their team are ready to proceed to the exclusion process. In total, 84 ballot boxes, 42 each for the provincial and the open seat were breezed through by the counting officials. According to the Goilala Open Assistant Returning Officer, Mr. Kisito Samuel, it was not without issues but they have successfully pulled through and today moved on to the quality check for the open seat boxes. Today they have proceeded…
East New Britain Governor elect, Michael Marum, yesterday afternoon was welcomed back to the capital for the first time as an elected politician. Both himself and Bougainville Provincial member-elect, Peter Tsiamalili Jnr were welcomed by Interim Prime Minister, James Marape, Kavieng Open member elect, Ian Ling Stuckey and Hela Governor-elect, Phillip Undialu. After greeting with the Pangu heads, a press conference was held at the VIP terminal at the Jacksons International Airport. Being the only independent candidate amongst the Pangu elite, Governor-elect Marum was given the opportunity to speak first at the press conference. Governor-elect Marum, addressing the media for…
Official declarations for the Moresby South sitting Member Justin Tkatchenko has been delayed as the quality checks have just begun. But not without a little drama, because as quickly as they started with the first box, everything then went south this afternoon with scrutineers raising issues about the unused ballot papers. Although the ballot papers have been stored away, as they are considered dead papers, scrutineers again asked to see them, so they can see if they complement those that are live and in the boxes. Returning Officer for Moresby South Mr Tau Toea responded stating that that is not…
Counting for the Moresby South Electorate has been suspended for an indefinite period pending advice from Election Manager, Mr. Kila Ralai. Returning officer for Moresby South, Mr. Tau Toea, has advised that due to the security risk that was posed on Sunday outside the Vision City Mega Mall over the weekend, counting was suspended at 2am on Monday morning. “Due to the security risk posed by the attack on Sunday, upon consultation with the Election Manager, I have decided to suspend counting indefinitely, pending advice from the Election Manager.” He also advised that the decision that he made was also…
“The commotion in the Nation’s Capital this morning was not as bad as it was portrayed on social media.” That’s from NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Gideon Ikumu at a media conference today in Port Moresby. Ikumu said that the situation was manageable but due to social media, everything was blown out of proportion. “Rumors of a number of people dying are also false.” The NCD Police Boss further advised that the violence that was seen again in the Nation’s capital is a blowback of the incident from yesterday. He said there have been ongoing issues like these and they were being…
Counting for the Moresby North-West Electorate, had to be suspended Wednesday night, after an irate number of candidates fronted up at the PILAG gate in Waigani, to hand a supplementary petition to the MNW Returning Officer and demanding the PNG Electoral Commissioner address them and respond to the demands of the petition by 8am today. Candidate Mr. Isaac Lupari, speaking on behalf of the 12 candidates that were present last night, told the MNW Returning Officer Mr. Vincent Manukayasi that a copy of the petition had been sent to the PNG Electoral Commissioner, the Police Commissioner, NCD Metropolitan Superintendent, Venue…