A whole year later than scheduled, Team PNG proudly walked out into the Opening ceremony, at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium last night (Friday 23 July). Flag bearers Dika Toua and Morea Baru led the team into a stadium empty of spectators but full of athletes and the ceremony dancers. The order of the walk out was unusual with countries marching in, according to the Japanese alphabet, which saw Papua New Guinea sandwiched between Bahamas and Bermuda. Chef de Mission, Tamzin Wardley said the atmosphere was certainly unusual with no cheers as each country was announced but the show went on.…
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SP PNG Hunters unleashed some of the best football of their season before a rush of Mackay Cutters tries led to an upset result in the Intrust Super Cup clash at Bycroft Oval. The Cutters won 40-30, scoring four tries in 19 minutes in the second half to claw back a deficit before a strong Hunters home crowd. The Hunters had picked up from where they left off in last weekend’s stunning win over the Northern Pride in Atherton as winger Junior Rau marked his 50th game in style with three tries by the fourth minute of the second half.…
Dika Toua made Olympic history, as the first female weightlifter to compete at five Olympic Games as she finished 10th out of fourteen (14) athletes. Toua is not new to making history at the Olympics as back at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games she became the very first female to participate in Olympic weightlifting for females. Toua competed in the 49kg event, at the Tokyo International Forum, on Saturday morning in the first day of competition at the Games. Toua, at 37, was the oldest athlete in the field and had to change weight category due to the new Olympic…
An Inaugural Dawn Service which was initiated by the Member for Ijivitari, Richard Masere was held at Buna village beachside in Northern Province recently to commemorate Remembrance Day. The ceremony saw a number of ex-service men coming forward to lay wreaths in a show of respect for all the fallen heroes. During his keynote address, Mr Masere made an announcement in that the villages along the Northern beach head, will now have access to better infrastructure similar to what Kokoda has at present. “We will use this to our advantage to develop a tourism prospect which will attract tourists to…
CEO of St John’s Ambulance, Mr Matt Canon is overwhelmed by a feedback received recently on Facebook after his team in Lae arrived on time to Munum village which is approximately 40miles away from Lae City to help attend to a first-time mother who had already given birth however, needed much medical attention to assist with the after-birth process. The St John’s Ambulance Services team in Lae received a call and arrived on the scene less than an hour to provide medical care and attention to the 22-year-old first time mother. “The story shows that the emergency response system that…
A meeting was held recently at the University of Goroka campus in which the Student Representative Council Presidents from the Divine Word University, University of Technology, University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Goroka came together to discuss various issues affecting students in their respective Universities. UPNG Student Representative Council President, Mr Bradley Yombon-Copio said that the main agenda tabled by the University of PNG was the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for there to be a partnership and friendship between students in all tertiary Institutions around the country. “The MOU signed will look into student…
Imagine all the people. Somewhere near the end of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, John Lennon’s legendary tune rung out around the cavernous Games stadium. The song could hardly have been more apt. Because for the limited number granted access, imagining all the people was exactly what we were doing. One of the world’s biggest spectacles, the opening ceremony of an Olympic Games, taking place in an epic yet all but empty arena. Many of the essential elements remained. Booming fireworks, elaborate light shows, colourful performance routines painstakingly perfected for this once in every four years occasion. But for those…
57 new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Tuesday 20 July, increasing the total number of cases to 17,581 for Papua New Guinea. All 57 cases were recorded in five provinces with Morobe recording the largest with 49 followed by East New Britain with three, the National Capital District and West Sepik two each and Madang with one case. The COVID-19 death toll remains at 192. Forty-seven of the new cases are males with ten females. Their ages range from 10 to 56 years. Twenty-five were symptomatic at the time of testing and four had underlying medical conditions. One of the…
Madang’s historical resort is proud of its staff who have been vaccinated are are now receiving their second dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, said Sir Peter Barter, Melanesian Tourist Services Ltd (MTS) Managing Director. Sir Peter says the decision that the staff have made to get vaccinated is a selfless decision that can bring back the country to normal. “This achievement is amongst the best of any Company in PNG and a testament in your commitment to eradicate the virus from PNG.” The resort had previously facilitated a successful COVID workshop with Dr Livingstone Tavul, a former specialist with…
The University of Papua New Guinea will be hosting the 2021 Inter – Divisional Debate Competition on the 5th August at the School of Medical & Health Science NLT 1. With the theme ‘Plan, Execute & Deliver’, each respective school at the University will conduct their own internal debates and from there a team will be selected to represent their respective school. The schools taking part are the School of Law, School of Humanities & Social Science, School of Business, School of Medicine and School of Natural & Physical Sciences. SRC President Bradley Yombon Copio said that the inter school…