Deadly landslides have swept away homes in Venezuela’s Las Tejerias city, south of the capital Caracas. At least 22 people have been reported dead, and a further 52 are missing after the torrential rainfall caused by La Niña weather pattern. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez visited one of the worst-affected areas on Sunday. Rescue services are working to find those still missing, she said. President Nicolas Maduro described the situation as “difficult and painful”. About 1,000 emergency personnel were taking part in search and rescue operations, deputy civil protection minister Carlos Perez Ampueda added. The landslides happened after the El Pato…
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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PNG Power Mr. Obed Batia has condemned the attack on a PNG Power Limited (PPL) employee during the weekend at Wandumi bridge in Wau, Morobe Province. The assault occurred while the officer was attending to his routine job. Mr. Batia stressed that similar incidents have occurred to his officers on several occasions and that wasn’t the first time. “If power users or customers and clients are upset about any power issues or blackouts, they should report in a proper manner to the right forum rather than resorting to violence. Power blackouts and adversities do…
Villagers are pushing back against logging operations they say are encroaching on designated conservation areas. In mid-May, a bulldozer began clearing a logging road into an area of largely untouched rainforest near the village of Suburam, on Papua New Guinea’s north coast, between the mountains of the Adelbert Range and the Bismarck Sea. Towering kwila trees were among those locals say were felled by loggers. This is a coveted, high-value species that yields the rich red timber familiar in Australia as merbau. Landowners in the area say these trees are historically never cut down by them. They are considered ancestors,…
New Ireland Legislative Assembly Chairperson assisting Governor in Finance Misbil Nelson on Thursday 06th/10/22 issued a public call for openness and transparency on the part of the two Open Members for New Ireland with respect to the use of millions of kina worth of mining royalty funds that have gone to the District Development Authorities since 2021. Nelson said that “New Ireland is one of the few resource-rich provinces blessed with two Gold mines. The Lihir Gold mine, in particular, pays out large sums of royalties every month, as well as contributing to the National purse at the same time.…
He’s just turned 29, but Brian Kaltak is in line to make his debut as a full time pro, at last, for Central Coast Mariners in the Australian A-League. It’s taken the captain of Vanuatu’s national men’s team a good number of years to secure a professional deal, and when his trial with the Mariners was stalled by injury he feared his big chance may have been missed. But he was invited back by the team’s English coach, Nick Montgomery, and impressed him enough to win a place in the squad. Now after a career which has taken him from…
England players and officials believe the host nation hasn’t been getting the respect they deserve ahead of this weekend’s World Cup opening game against Toa Samoa at St James’ Park. Canberra captain Elliott Whitehead, the most experienced forward in the England team, was among those to question after the weekend’s 50-0 rout of Fiji whether the focus would now shift from Samoa. With Whitehead’s Raiders team-mate Josh Papali’i among a host of Origin stars to commit to Samoa, there is a lot of hype in England about the possibility of the Pacific nation causing an opening game boilover. “There is…
It’s been around 80 years since the plane it was attached to crashed. The aircraft and the four men believed to have been onboard have lain here since, undiscovered. It’s estimated there are between 500 and 600 crash sites across PNG from World War II, but the locations of many of them remain unknown. After this discovery, there will be one less Australian plane considered missing in action. The long jungle trek to discover a wreck The tip-off first came from a pig hunter who stumbled across the wreckage while tracking his prey. It was up in the hills of East New…
At around 11:30am Sunday morning, the 111 ambulance operations center received multiple calls about a motor vehicle incident on the Hiri-Tano Hwy about 100m west of Laloki hospital. Five ambulances, including a paramedic unit, and two emergency nurse units were dispatched to the scene. A total of 7 patients required treatment including four with serious injuries. All patients were transported to Port Moresby General Hospital. A total of 4 patients were the transported to hospital by St John and 3 by ambulance of Laloki hospital. However, it was frustrating for ambulance crews when bystanders forcefully remove patients from a vehicle…
Report any illegal power connection, either done by individuals in residential areas or done by business houses and get rewarded for reporting it. That is the word from PNG Power Limited (PPL) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Obed Batia when announcing the power company’s new initiative that would work both ways; reward people that report illegal connection and safeguard the power company from more illegal activities that drain its revenues. The new initiative- the External Reward Program called ‘Pawa Tokaut,’ will see PPL reward any individual who reports any illegal power connection with cash rewards. Mr. Batia said the new…
NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Gideon Ikumu said two people were reportedly killed in a fight between the Helas and Eastern highlanders in Erima yesterday. Mr Ikumu said, the two groups mobilized and exchanged projectiles resulting in some injuries, before police intervened and stopped the fighting. He said the NCD Homicide unit is now investigating these reported killings, but the community leaders must also step in to assist the police in their investigations. Mr Ikumu said the leaders on both sides of the conflict must identify the suspects involved in the killings and bring them to the police. The Metsup and his…