The Department of Personnel Management will be undertaking measures to enforce time and attendance of public servants. This will be done through the enforcement of the Special General Order 11 of 2019 (SGO11) which is a binding lawful instruction determined by the National Executive Council. Department of Personnel Management Secretary Ms Taies Sansan has issued a circular instruction advising all heads of national departments, government agencies and provincial administrations to take heed of the measures to be enforced to ensure SGO11 is implemented accordingly. Ms Sansan said, SGO11 clearly states that each agency head must deduct from an officer who…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
The SP PNG Hunters have welcomed back some key players ahead of Saturday night’s Intrust Super Cup clash with the Redcliffe Dolphins at Moreton Daily Stadium. Hunters coach Matt Church was a relieved man when he conducted his early training sessions this week with 22 players available for selection after a much-needed weekend’s respite as part of the Intrust Super Cup’s split round. It was a major change to two weeks earlier when there were just 10 players on the Tuesday who could be considered genuinely fit to take the field in the Round 7 match against Souths Logan Magpies.…
Get Safe Online Pacific in partnership with NICTA has launched a Papua New Guinea – Tok Pisin Website following its success in raising awareness on online safety and security issues in many Pacific island countries. Head of International Relations for Get Safe Online, Ms Jenny Thornton said they are delighted to have partnered with NICTA to deliver online safety messages here in PNG and are looking forward to working closely with the organization into the future. “The organization hopes that having the website in Tok Pisin will greatly increase its accessibility to more citizens in Papua New Guinea as previously…
Often in fire emergency situations, a fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device used to extinguish or control small fires and it is not an easy task putting out fires during a fire emergency as it takes skills, courage and a lot of critical thinking and most importantly quick reaction when attempting to extinguish fires. 22 participants from the Lae International School successfully completed a 3 day Fire Extinguisher training at the Buablong Boarding Campus in Lae on the basic handling of the fire extinguishers, the different types of fire extinguishers and the different components of the fire extinguishers…
The Special Parliamentary Committee on Gender Based Violence (GBV) conducted the first-of-its-kind public hearing on the issue at the APEC Haus. The two-day session, which started yesterday led by Charles Abel, aims to understand the challenges faced by survivors and service providers, identify gaps in the system, and make recommendations to the Parliament on the way forward. One of the priority areas is to investigate the roadblocks behind the funding and implementation of the 2016-2025 National GBV Strategy. The 7-member Committee summoned various stakeholders including the Minister of Community Development, Youth and Religion and his team, Minister for Police, Royal…
Papua New Guinea has recorded 35 new COVID-19 cases this week, increasing the total number of cases to 15,222. The cases were reported in six provinces with Morobe reporting the highest of 16 cases. New Ireland reported seven cases, National Capital District and Southern Highlands reported four cases each, Western Highlands three and Hela a single case. Of the 35 cases recorded, 28 were males and seven were females. Their ages range between 16 to 64 years. At the time of testing, 19 cases were showing symptoms of COVID-19. The country’s COVID-19 cases now stand at 15,222 with 156 known…
With less than three days before the May 28 deadline, only two from the 15 National Soccer League franchise clubs have paid their EOI non-refundable Fees of K10,000 and have also submitted their Expression of Interest (EoI) forms to the PNGFA Competition Department. The two teams are Port Moresby Strikers (formerly Southern Strikers) and Hekari United FC from Port Moresby. Other teams are yet to meet the affiliation and registration requirements includes Kimbe FC (NGI), Lae City, Lae City Dwellers, FC Morobe Wawens, Morobe United (Lae) Tusbab Stallions (Madang), Kutubu FC (Kutubu), Star Mountain FC (Tabubil) Hekari United FC, Vitiaz…
BSP Financial Group Limited Chairman Sir Kostas Constantinou OBE, announced that the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) had approved BSP’s application for listing and that BSP officially joined the ASX on Tuesday 25 May 2021. At a virtual ringing of the bell ceremony in Port Moresby, with CEO Robin Fleming and Company Secretary Mary Johns, Sir Kostas said that BSP had been listed on the PNGX since 2003, but the board had determined last year that a listing on the ASX would benefit shareholders by giving them access to a far more liquid market, and also give BSP potential new sources…
BSP is the only bank operating in Moro since May 2008 and has been assisting the communities since 2009 with community projects valued at up to K275,000 to date. “Our reach in Moro covers employees from the camp sites and customers in the nearby villages, capturing over 12,000 customer base,” Mr Faunt added. Inu Health Centre, located at Inu Station along the Lake Kutubu, is one of those remote communities that BSP recently assisted. Moro Branch Manager Bau Kiso and his team installed solar lights at the Inu Health Centre, lighting up the centre, a project valued at K30,000. “They…
THE man who dared to use the Tok Pisin word ‘koap’ to describe sex during the first-ever television campaign against HIV/AIDS many years ago, causing an uproar among members of the society, got his jab against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Dr Clement Malau was the founding Director of the National AIDS Council Secretariat when he did the advertisement in the 1990s. His family was ostracised about it but he has no regrets. He describes it as a sacrifice that needed to be made to save lives. In a society that regarded sex as a taboo subject at the time,…