Transparency International Papua New Guinea (TIPNG) conducted a week long civic awareness outreach in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province as part of its Building Elections Integrity through Partnership (BEIP) Project. A key part of the awareness in Goroka was a Civic Awareness Information Workshop that brought together key provincial election stakeholders, namely the Eastern Highlands Electoral Commission Office, Provincial Administration and the Goroka Police to provide updates on their preparations for the 2022 National Elections in Eastern Highlands Province. Participants at the workshop included members of various civil society organizations in Goroka: YWCA Goroka, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Helping Hand Youth Honey…
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BSP Financial Group Chief Operating Officer, Robin Fleming, has raised concerns over additional EFTPoS fees charged to BSP and other bank Cardholders by BSP EFTPoS Merchants for purchases, cash out and balance checking. Mr Fleming said this when responding to a query raised by a disappointing customer who was charged extra fees when trying to cash out K50 after his purchase using the EFTPoS terminal at Hot Rooster Shop in Buka. “BSP regularly informs customers that they should not pay additional fees to any merchant who tries to apply their own surcharge for use of a BSP EFTPoS terminal,” said…
BSP Financial Group Chief Operating Officer, Robin Fleming, has raised concerns over additional EFTPoS fees charged to BSP and other bank Cardholders by BSP EFTPoS Merchants for purchases, cash out and balance checking. Mr Fleming said this when responding to a query raised by a disappointing customer who was charged extra fees when trying to cash out K50 after his purchase using the EFTPoS terminal at Hot Rooster Shop in Buka. “BSP regularly informs customers that they should not pay additional fees to any merchant who tries to apply their own surcharge for use of a BSP EFTPoS terminal,” said…
The Western Pacific University continues our second week of registration and started our orientation program today with our 2nd co-hort of students and our returning pioneers. Our academic theme for the year is ‘Enacting a shared vision of WPU’s digital learning journey in 2022’. Our orientation week program commenced at 8:30am today Monday 21st February and includes presentations from our President, Vice Presidents and other key members of our academic and administration staff. Academic programs offered and policies involving students and their code of ethics and code of conduct will be highlighted. Is it important for students to attend so…
Two members of the 2022 SP PNG Hunters playing squad – Sherwin Tanabi and Anthony Worot – will spend this week training with the North Queensland Cowboys Young Guns side and will compete in a trial match this weekend against the Mackay Cutters. The match will be the curtain raiser to the North Queensland Cowboys vs Brisbane Broncos NRL trial. Hunters’ assistant coach Stanley Tepend will also spend the early part of the week in the NQ Young Guns camp as part of his ongoing professional development. It is just rewards for Tanabi and Worot who are nearing the end…
On 24 February the Australian High Commission will virtually launch the short film The Bilum Story, celebrating the remarkable PNG women social entrepreneurs who 10 years ago began to shine a spotlight on bilum as a national treasure, whilst driving inclusive economic growth for women weavers. The bilum story is an incredible example of the transformative power of the creative and cultural industry. It shows just what is possible when emerging entrepreneurs have effective access to international markets, support to strengthen their supply chains and are empowered to share their creativity and culture with the world. Australia through the PNG-Australia…
PAPUA New Guinea has now confirmed a total of 39, 909 cases of COVID-19 of which 14 are of the Omicron variant and 733 are of the Delta variant. This is from the last two updates – Thursday, 17th February and Friday, 18th Friday, 2022. On Thursday, a total of 13 new cases of Omicron were reported from the samples that were sent down to Australia, raising the total number of this new variant of COVID-19 to 14 so far. These 13 new cases of Omicron were among 333 new cases of COVID-19 reported on this day. The new Omicron…
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee in its capacity as the PNG Commonwealth Games Association (PNGCGA) is pleased to announce and congratulate Vavine Yore on being selected as one of 25 women from the Commonwealth and as a first successful recipient from Papua New Guinea to be awarded the Commonwealth Women’s Leadership Programme Scholarship (CWLPS) in 2022. The CWLP scholarship offers women in sport in the Commonwealth access to cutting-edge opportunities that will empower them to become leaders within their sport and community on their development journeys to being strong role models and agents of change to guide the next…
After a lot of rumours around the participation or not of Papua New Guinea’s sole full professional player in the next FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, Oceania Football Center is delighted to announce that HJK’s David Browne will take part in the competition donning the colours of his home country. The news were confirmed by PNG Kapuls head coach Marcos Gusmão when asked if the player was cleared or not to represent Papua New Guinea. The former Auckland City man was not in the previous list released by PNGFA; the football entity revealed the player was not eligible to represent the country since his passport was…
The Department of Implementation and Rural Development (DIRD) has clarified today that the disbursement and frontloading of Service Improvement Program (PSIP & DSIP) to sub-national administrations is done by the Department of Finance (DoF). DIRD which is mandated to coordinate, supervise, monitor and manage programs and grants under the SIP ensuring their effective integration and synergy with activities under public investment program (PIP) is no longer responsible for disbursing SIP funds, however only mandated to enforce governance and accountability through monitoring to ensure realization of impact developments. Secretary for Aihi Vaki stressed this following a news article published in the…