Commissioner of Police David Manning contacted former PNG Power Ltd (PPL) Chairman Peter Nupiri and requested that he make himself available for interview regarding charges laid against former PNG Power Managing Director Carolyn Blacklock. Blacklock was arrested and charged by Police on Monday, 30 August 2021. Manning’s request followed Nupiri’s press statement refuting the allegation that in August 2018 he did conspire with Blacklock, PPL’s former acting Managing Director, to fabricate her contract of employment, giving effect to her being paid K1.7 million in back pay between December 2017 and August 2019. Nupiri was reported in the Post-Courier claiming Blacklock’s…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
Ase Boas will play an important Intrust Super Cup match on Saturday night in a rare milestone moment for the SP PNG Hunters’ men this season. Boas will play his 116th match for the Hunters when they take on the Central Queensland Capras in Rockhampton. That will move him ahead of Adex Wera for second place in the Hunters’ all-time games list behind, o00nly starting hooker Wartovo Puara Jnr (125 matches). The Hunters and Capras have the most inexperienced squads in the competition with PNG featuring fewer than 800 combined games’ experience in the Intrust Super Cup. Boas and the…
Jokadi Bire is approaching the next stage of his young life with the same dedication, commitment and positive thinking that drove him from a tiny PNG town into the heart of the SP PNG Hunters. Jokadi is plotting a new future and giving thanks for his remarkable escape from a heart condition that almost took his life in June. He has been told that he can now expect to live a full life. But the 22-year-old is coming to terms with the fact that he can never play rugby league again, a reality he admits has been difficult to accept…
NCD Governor Powes Parkop led political leaders of the city and Motu Koita villages to start negotiating for peace and reconciliation, rebuilding and restoration at Baruni village this week. Witnessed by police and other stakeholders, Governor Parkop, Deputy Governor and MKA Chairman, Hon. Dadi Toka Jnr and Moresby North-West MP, Hon. Lohia Boe Samuel met with emotionally-charged factions from both sides and other locals who gathered at Baruni Oval for the first time since the killing and arson incident over the weekend. The incident happened when a youth from the village was allegedly stabbed to death by fellow locals during…
The Southern Highlands Province has a new permanent Provincial Administrator, after the acting position was made permanent after four years during a swearing in ceremony at Government House in Port Moresby this week. Appointed at a time when the province is going through difficult times, with the governors seat challenged in the courts, the new administrator is calling for unity and cooperation among the people. The newly appointed provincial administrator, Mr. Jerry David, has just one thing he wants to see happen, and that is for the people to work together with his provincial administration. “We will need the collective…
Members of the Special Police Forensic Criminal Investigation Team (SPFCIT) on Monday arrested and charged former Acting Managing Director of PNG Power Limited, 48-year-old Australian woman Carolyn Blacklock in Port Moresby. The team established under office of Commissioner of Police have been conducting a combined forensic and criminal investigation into high level financial crimes. Blacklock is alleged to have conspired with one other person to forge a purported employment contract as Acting Managing Director of PNG Power Limited, and defraud the state-owned entity, and the State itself over K1.7 million between period August 2018 and August 2019. She has been…
SP PNG Hunters have lost fullback Terry Wapi for the rest of their Intrust Super Cup season just when they were set to field an unchanged squad for the first time in 2021 against the Central Queensland Capras in Rockhampton on Saturday. Wapi left the field with a head knock after scoring two tries against Souths Logan Magpies last Sunday but a fractured finger was more troublesome, ruling him out of the remaining two games of the season. With Norman Brown absent through injury, utility Edwin Ipape will wear the No. 1 jersey at Browne Park after playing well in…
Port Moresby Nature Park wraps up its special schools education program, ‘Culture Connects’ this week, educating over 5000 students throughout the 3-week duration of the program. The Culture Connects program is the third of a series of four special themed education programs run annually at the Port Moresby Nature Park through its education department since September 2016. Since the inception of this special schools education program, the Park’s Education team has had many successful highlights. One successful highlight to date is the working partnership with Teaching Colleges such as the Sacred Teachers College in Bomana where trainee teachers support the…
Contributors to National Superannuation Fund (Nasfund) who are yet to receive their new look membership identification (ID) cards, can now apply for one, for free. Effectively September 1st 2021, the previous fee of K10 for the production of a new Nasfund membership ID card, has been removed. In addition, a request to exchange an old Nasfund card for a new-look Nasfund membership ID will also be free of charge. However, a K10 fee will still be applied to requests for lost or destroyed replacement membership ID cards. According to Nasfund Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ian Tarutia, this decision to remove…
The 2021 Youth Arts Program has given students the confidence to express their stories on stage, an avenue which a Year Nine student from Kopkop said gave them an opportunity to relate to the issues affecting their lives. Adriana Mulavo, a year nine student attending Kopkop College said dramatizing these sensitive topics gave her and her class the chance to talk about the issues that they see happening around them. “These topics dramatized on stage (police brutality, suicide, gambling) needs to be talked about and really needs changing…Telling these stories, in a way helped us to express ourselves. Because most…