The National Capital District (NCD) Governor Powes Parkop continues to support and harness the potential of sports as a development tool to achieve the National Capital District Commission’s Safe-City vision. Governor Parkop recently attended the PNG Kickboxing teams fundraising dinner at the Dynasty Restaurant in Port Moresby, where he highlighted the positive impacts of sports in uniting people, instilling positive value systems and inspiring pride. The fundraising dinner was to help raise funds for the team to participate in a tournament in Miami in Florida in the US next week. He said, “The success of former kickboxing champion Stanley Nadex…
Author: Paula DAVID
The PNG WaSH Consortium, will be facilitating an inception workshop for a phase 2 of the Water for Women Consortium project on Tuesday, 8th of August in Port Moresby, with the aim at saving lives and reducing illness by improving global access to healthy and safe water, adequate sanitation, and improved hygiene,. The inception workshop is expected to bring together key government stakeholders/partners to align support for Water for Women Consortium (WfWC) Phase 2. The PNG WaSH Consortium consists of four international non-government organizations; World Vision, WaterAid PNG, Plan International and its partner, Live and Learn. The workshop also aims…
Star halves Jarome Luai and Nathan Cleary cruised the Panthers to a comfortable 26-6 victory over the Storm at BlueBet Stadium on Friday night. The defending champs are closing in on another minor premiership after shutting out the Melbourne heavyweights, holding their place on top of the competition ladder over the Broncos for another week after making it eight straight at home. Losing Jahrome Hughes (ankle) and Xavier Coates (hip) throughout the week didn’t help Melbourne’s cause but errors (11) and missed tackles (41) cruelled any chances of causing an upset in Sydney’s west. Melbourne surprised the home side early…
Broncos captain Adam Reynolds has withdrawn from Saturday’s Queensland derby match against the Cowboys due to groin tightness. The Broncos have also lost forward Kobe Hetherington (back cork). “Reyno won’t be able to play and that creates an opportunity for Jock [Madden] to come into the side,” Broncos coach Kevin Walters said. New Manly signing Matt Lodge suffered a suspected ACL injury during the first half of Thursday night’s match against his former club, Sydney Roosters. Lodge, who is on a train and trial contract, clashed knees with Lindsay Collins and will undergo scans to determine the extent of the injury but Sea Eagles…
The Roosters had Nathan Brown sent off but still managed to send the Sea Eagles packing with a 26-16 win at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday night. Brown was marched in the 63rd minute for a high shot on Ben Trbojevic but the Roosters scored a try in his absence to put the finishing touches on a win that keeps their slim finals hopes alive. The Roosters launched an early raid in the seventh minute and Daniel Tupou looked set to cross for yet another try but some desperate defence from Haumole Olakau’atu forced him into touch. Manly marched…
After going down 32-18 to the Brisbane Tigers last weekend, the SP PNG Hunters will return home to the Santos National Football Stadium this Saturday, 5th August to host the Redcliffe Dolphins in Round 20 of the QRL Hostplus Cup at 3pm. Saturday’s game will mark two weeks to the day since the Hunters last played at the spiritual home of rugby league in Papua New Guinea, having observed a bye in Round 18 before meeting the Brisbane Tigers at Totally Workwear Stadium last week. The Tigers proved too good in that most recent contest, despite the Hunters running out…
Businesses for Health (B4H) is joining forces with the PNG Cancer Foundation to encourage people who want to end their chewing habit to sign up for the “World No Buai Day” campaign to be held on the 6th of October 2023. B4H and the Cancer Foundation will kick off the campaign on the 4th of August to get the workers of PNG to consider the career, health and financial costs of chewing buai. The campaign is set to run for over 8 weeks. Although the mission of B4H is to end TB, chewing buai has a negative effect on so…
As an integral part of the National Education System, Prime Minister James Marape has praised the resounding success of the Flexible Open Distance Education (FODE) concept, launched in 2020, for providing a “new lease of life” to thousands of school leavers across Papua New Guinea. FODE is mandated to offer open and distance learning pathway as an integral part of the National Education System, where students study the same primary and secondary education curriculum in their own time, in their own homes, and at their own pace. PM Marape praised the Department of Education’s 2022 Annual Report, presented to Parliament…
Papua New Guinea’s 16-year-old long-distance runner Christina Moiyang from Simbu Province will proudly carry the flag for Papua New Guinea (PNG) at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago. Moiyang is slated to compete in the 800m, 1500m, and 3000m events at the Games. Moiyang started to make her mark in the athletics arena when she won the 1500m Under 16 races at the 2020 National Championships, and she has continued to show her mettle ever since. Despite missing the 2021 National Championships, she excelled at the Highlands Momase Regional Championships, taking top honours in the Open 3000m…
Ryan Papenhuyzen will make his highly anticipated return to football, in what will be 384 days since he suffered his knee injury in Round 18, 2022. The Melbourne Storm fullback will play for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Q Cup on Saturday at Sunshine Coast Stadium. “It hasn’t really sunk in yet so I’m sort of just going through the training week and trying to prepare like it’s a normal game,” Papenhuyzen said. While it’s been a long journey, Papenhuyzen said he sees this as another milestone to achieving his goals. “It’s just been a while between drinks. It’s…