PNG Pepes, our national netball team is all set to attend the 2nd Pacific Netball Series (PNS). PNG Netball would like to thank PNG Sports Foundation through its S&C Coaches for partnering with Netball PNG in preparing this team. Netball Australia, under the PacificAus Sports program will host these games from 13th October to 21st October 2022 in Sunshine Coast, Australia. NPNG would also like to thank Netball Australia for creating pathways and platforms to strengthen High Performance programs. Pepes depart our shores on Wednesday 12th October and return Saturday, 22nd October 2022. PNG will be playing against other Pacific…
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Barrick Chief Executive Mark Bristow, in PNG for quarterly operational reviews, said that the incorporation of New Porgera Limited (NPL) on 22nd September, following execution of the New Porgera Shareholders Agreement by Barrick (Niugini) Limited, Kumul Mineral Holdings Limited and Mineral Resources Enga, marked an important step towards the long delayed restart of the Porgera mine. Once certain conditions are fulfilled, the company intends to apply for a new Special Mining Lease (SML) in coming weeks. Bristow said that New Porgera will work with the State and the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) to ensure that the SML application process proceeds…
It took scientists 375 years to discover the eighth continent of the world, which had been hiding in plain sight all along. But mysteries about the land mass still remain. As we head towards the end of another extraordinary year, BBC Future is taking a look back at some of our favourite stories for our “Best of 2021” collection. Discover more of our picks here. It was 1642 and Abel Tasman was on a mission. The experienced Dutch sailor, who sported a flamboyant moustache, bushy goatee and penchant for rough justice – he later tried to hang some of his crew…
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…
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…