After 3 years of waiting the people of Metemana in the Lavongai LLG on Friday 11th February, finally witnessed the grand opening of a four in one classroom for the Ranmana Childhood Centre. This was made possible through a K120,000 grant from the New Ireland Government in 2019 and the sheer determination of the school board and Local teacher Daniel Lasvut. New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan was present to witness the occasion, along with members of the Provincial Executive Council, members of the New Ireland Education board including Chairlady Dr Kappa Malpo and CEO for Education Benson Apelis and…
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The Juha landowners of petroleum development license (PDL) 9 in Hela province want the National Government and Exxon Mobil to start constructing a gas pipeline project to bring it into production of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The landowners today while demanding the government also thanked Petroleum Minister Kerenga Kua and the Department of Petroleum & Energy for their stance on clarifying Juha PDL-09 Project not identified yet but missed out on many privileges. Leaders from both Hela and Nomad Local Level Government (LLG) in Western Province want to see the production of their gas resources out of the Juha PDL…
Former NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne has had his sexual assault conviction overturned and is set to face a third trial. The Court of Criminal Appeal on Monday quashed his conviction after he last year applied to the state’s highest court. Mr Hayne, 33, had been in jail for over nine months having been sentenced to at least three years and nine months in prison for the alleged sexual assault of a woman in her Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in 2018. A District Court jury in March last year found the former Dally M winner guilty of two…
The girl in a video that went viral on social media recently, where she was apparently being questioned by a member of the police force, has come forward to the police to give an official statement. ACP Anthony Wagambie Jnr sent out a message on facebook assuring the girl’s safety and appealed to her to come forward which she eventually did last week Wednesday. NCD Metropolitan Superintendent, Gideon Ikumu says the girl came to the Boroko Police Station and gave a full statement, adding that her statement implicated a number of policemen. Police are currently in the process of investigating…
Joe Biden on Saturday night warned Vladimir Putin that the US would “impose swift and severe costs on Russia” if his forces invaded Ukraine. In a phone call that lasted more than an hour, the US president said an invasion would “produce widespread human suffering and diminish Russia’s standing”. The call was the culmination of a frantic day of diplomatic activity aimed at averting a war in Ukraine, which the US has warned could start as soon as Wednesday. It brought “no fundamental change” to the worsening crisis, according to a senior US official briefing reporters afterwards. The official said the two leaders…
The UFC’s reigning middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is facing former champion Robert Whittaker again at UFC 271 today in Houston, Texas. In 2019 Adesanya knocked Whittaker out in the second round in front of a hostile Australian crowd, to claim his undisputed championship title. Since the pair last met, Whittaker has gone on an impressive three fight win streak, while Adesanya has comfortably defended his belt three times, with his only UFC loss coming from a step up in weight-class to take on the light-heavyweight champion at the time, Jan Blachowicz. SOURCE: RNZ NEWS
The New Zealand government is being urged to prioritise sending more vaccine supplies to Pacific nations, in order to stem the spread of the Covid Omicron variant. Over 2000 people have tested positive to Covid-19 in Kiribati and two people have died. Low vaccination rates have led to hundreds of deaths in Papua New Guinea and 50 deaths in the Solomon Islands. Although Tonga currently has 108 cases, its vaccination rates have still been promising. Similarly the Cook Islands, Samoa and Niue, appear to be successfully vaccinating their populations. New Zealand has donated at least 1.2 million doses of Pfizer…
From 16th February the Controller has advised of changes to the requirements for passengers travelling to PNG. 1. No PNG Pandemic Controller Approval will be required any more for arrivals from 16th February 2. Passengers arriving from India and Philippines are no longer required to quarantine for arrivals from 16th February 3. All passengers will still need to show evidence at check-in of being fully vaccinated. PNG Citizens returning to PNG, or those under the age of 18 are exempted All passengers will still need to complete a negative PCR test within 72 hours of scheduled flight departure, and will…
BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) is advising schools registered as Mobile Banking School Merchants in the country to accept legitimate e-receipts provided by parents to ease the burden of queues in branches and improve schools’ operational efficiencies. Despite the BSP Mobile Banking *131# school fee payment platform being available for all to use, BSP branches continue to see influx in the number of people lining up in queues across the country. For example, in Mt Hagen, due to schools’ insistent on paper receipt and their reluctance to accept e-receipts for school fees paid via the Mobile Banking *131# School Fee…
The Deputy Controller of the National Pandemic Response Dr Daoni Esorom has expressed concern over people’s non-adherence to COVID-19 protocols and the measures and directives put out through the Controller’s office. “In the midst of a surge in the number of cases in the country, there’s still large sections of the population who are not adhering to the measures and directives put up by the National Control Centre through the Controller’s Office. The non- adherence to these measures is resulting in the increasing number of cases currently being seen,” said Dr Daoni. Dr Daoni has warned that as a result…