Both our PNG Kumuls and Santos PNG Orchids are doing well. I am so proud of both teams for representing PNG very well as worthy ambassadors. I have seen the PNG Kumuls promote PNG coffee in the market of the host country. I have also seen the United Nations and United Kingdom Aid support the coffee trade and other trades. Further, I have seen the PNG Orchids doing well in working cohesively with the PNG High Commissioner paying respect as partner ambassadors. As far as sportsmanship is concerned, our players have come a long way and I am confident that…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
PNG Dataco Limited will now be providing secure cloud storage solutions to Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH) after signing an agreement last week. Through this agreement, PMGH will be using PNG Dataco’s data centre infrastructure to host its hospital data and do cloud services on shore. With the data centre, PNG Dataco bears the risks and responsibilities of maintaining and employing its communication infrastructure, the servers and data storage services which PMGH can lease for a certain period while concentrating more on its core business of providing healthcare services. Traditionally, organisations engage in the costly exercise of having their own…
Under the National Health Plan 2021-2030, Port Moresby General Hospital is now the National Specialist Referral and Teaching Hospital aligning with the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) to train all categories of health workers in the country. The PMGH Board representative Mr Luke Liria said the PMGH Corporate Plan 2022 – 2024 is aligned to the National Health Plan 2021 – 2030 and that the Board is ready to implement the National Health Plan 2021-2030 specifically the: Key Result Area 3: Increasing Access to Affordable Health Services; and Key Result Area 5: Strengthening Health System. “The…
Premiership-winning Panthers Jarome Luai and Brian To’o carved Greece to bits as Samoa claimed a comprehensive 72-4 victory to put their World Cup campaign back on track. Eight days on from being humbled by England in a 60-6 loss, Samoa piled on the points in Doncaster, with Luai setting up five tries on his way to player of the match honours, while To’o had a colossal 370 run metres, with 17 tackle busts thrown in for good measure. Samoa led 42-0 at the break, and the game was effectively over within the first 20 minutes, with Samoa 12-0 by the…
Distribution of the Government’s tuition fee free education commodity component for schools in the Rabaul District of East New Britain province was rolled out last week. It contains teaching and learning materials for students. They include exercise books, pencils, ball-point pens, rulers, sharpeners and erasers. The kits are packed differently to meet the needs of students from primary to high schools. Rabaul District Administrator, Benedict Mode said today that distribution of the basic learning materials which comes under the support of commodity component kicked off on Monday (Oct 17) and was successfully distributed to the 54 schools in the district…
Prime Minister James Marape has congratulated ExxonMobil on its 100 years in Papua New Guinea and says the company is welcome to stay on for another 100 years. He said this when addressing ExxonMobil’s 100th Anniversary Dinner in Port Moresby on Saturday night, which was also attended by Ministers, Governors, MPs, members of the business community and senior executives of ExxonMobil. PM Marape said he had attended ExxonMobil’s 100 anniversary and asked the company to be around for PNG’s 100th anniversary, and hopefully by then, ExxonMobil in partnership with Government had contributed to a better-developed PNG. “Tonight is worth celebrating,”…
A 10-year-old girl from Inverness has become one of the youngest people to conquer all 282 Munros in Scotland. Quinn Young began the challenge with her dad Ian when she was just four years old. She climbed Ben Nevis shortly before turning five. She told BBC Scotland: “I feel proud of myself, but also a little upset because the adventure with my dad’s kind of finished.” Munros are Scottish peaks of more than 3,000ft (914m). Quinn wanted to complete her ‘Munro bagging’ challenge before she finished primary school. She said: “It’s a big deal because it’s something I’ve been doing…
Towards the end of the 1985 sci-fi classic “Back to the Future,” the archetypal mad inventor Doc Brown announces “where we’re going, we don’t need roads” as the time-travelling DeLorean lifts into the air. Whilst flying cars aren’t yet filling our skies, a number are in development. Last week the Chinese XPeng X2 successfully completed the first public test flight of its two-seater flying car at GITEX technology expo in Dubai — and it even shares the DeLorean’s famous gull-wing door design. The XPeng X2 lifts vertically off the ground using eight propellers, without need for a runway and is…
The Solomon Islands Secretary to the Prime Minister is defending a $US308,000 trip to the UN General Assembly. Dr Jimmy Rodgers told local media the money was worth spending because government ‘got all the agendas brought up at global level.’ Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs Collin Beck added the cost of the trip is small compared to its benefit. The Solomon Star obtained documents listing charges of the trip. The Solomon Star obtained details of the types of hotels used, and daily rates for each hotel in Australia, New York, and the Pacific Leaders’ Summit with US President Joe Biden…
Indian vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it had to dump 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine after they expired. The firm stopped producing Covishield in December last year due to low demand, CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Thursday. SII, the world’s largest vaccine maker, has been making the local version of AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria jab. Covishield accounts for over 90% of the doses given in India. India has administered over two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines. More than 70% of the Indian population has taken at least two doses, according to the federal health ministry. In…