Papua New Guinea’s leading paint manufacturer and supplier has partnered with the country’s leading superannuation provider to make superannuation more accessible to its staff. DuluxGroup and National Superannuation Fund (Nasfund) today launched the Nasfund Internet Booths – a facility that now enables its staff access to the Nasfund Member Online Portal. Through this facility, DuluxGroup staff at its Lae and Port Moresby sites will now be able to access the Fund’s Member Online Portal within the comfort of their office. According to DuluxGroup Human Resources Manager Andrew Topo, this development is in line with efforts to promoting a savings culture…
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Tony Giowen , the Ward 25 councilor of Wampar LLG in Huon Gulf District has thanked Morobe Governor Hon Ginson Saonu for his efforts to work with leaders of the three tiers of Government and the people to bring development and change to their community. Councilor Giowen also acknowledged his support to the council wards through the development grants of K5,000 last year. Giowen said the funding they received had been used to upgrade their local aid post. “This is where my K5000 Ward Development Funding will go to work” -Ward 25 Councilor for Tsili-Tsili Tony Giowen pointing to the…
This was after the Selection Panel met last week to deliberate on nominations that were received from around Papua New Guinea and reached an agreement for the top three finalists for each of the 12 categories on offer in this year’s awards. This year’s nominations were slow but eventually picked up during the last two weeks before the closing date for entries, much to the delight of the SP Sports Awards (SPSA) Committee. Apart from the National Capital District, a good number of the entries received were from the other provinces. Chairperson for the SPSA Selection Panel, Warwick Vele, said:…
SP PNG Hunters will wait until after Saturday’s final training session before finalising the team to meet the Souths Logan Magpies at Davies Park on Sunday. Hunters coach Matt Church said last Sunday’s loss to Brisbane Tigers in the sixth round of the Intrust Super Cup had left his team with minor injuries and two suspensions which were impacting his ability to finalise the squad for Sunday. Forwards Samuel Yegip and Benji Kot accepted one-match suspensions from a Tigers clash that evened the Hunters’ win-loss record at 3-3 and left them seventh on the ladder, one place above defending champions…
If anyone is going to refuse wearing Crocs, it’s Victoria Beckham. But it seems Justin Bieber never got that memo – instead, he thought it would be a fantastic idea to send the fashion icon a sample from his new line of Crocs. The Spice Girls star took to her Instagram Stories to show off the interesting shoes she received from the singer. “A lot of people have been asking me what I’m planning on wearing after lockdown,” she wrote to her 28.9 million followers. “What do we think about this suggestion from @justinbieber?” Beckham then gave her viewers an…
Afghan families have been burying their children who were killed in explosions outside a secondary school in the capital, Kabul, on Saturday. More than 60 people, mostly girls, are now known to have died in the attack that hit students as they left class. No-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi, an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants. The Afghan government blamed Taliban militants for the attack, but the group denied involvement. The exact target for Saturday’s bloodshed is unclear. The blasts come against a backdrop of rising violence as the US looks to withdraw all its…
A British mother has been killed by burglars in Greece who held a gun to her baby’s head after they tied up her husband. Three men strangled Caroline Crouch, 20, after forcing her to reveal where $54,000-worth of cash and jewellery was kept at her home in Athens. Her husband Charalambos ‘Babis’ Anagnostopoulos, 32, a helicopter pilot, survived after he was tied to a chair and blindfolded with duct tape at the home in the Glyka Nera suburb of the city. The robbers forced their way into the two-storey house at 4.30am this morning after breaking a CCTV camera and…
The family of Joey ‘J-Keyz’ Tau who is the second son of Papua New Guinea Music Legend Buruka Tau is seeking urgent Medical Appeal to all friends and families of Joey who is in a critical condition suffering from a swell as a result of a tumor in his head and needs an urgent MRI scan to determine his treatment. “Joey currently is off the oxygen and on medication for swelling and seizures and few other antibiotics and he has only been eating fruits and juice”, said his sister Beatrice. 32 year old Joey has been suffering from his epilepsy…
At least 55 people are dead and there are fears of a “full scale war” after the simmering conflict between Israel and Palestine hit worrying new levels. Relentless rocket fire and rioting in mixed Jewish-Arab towns continues to fuel growing fears that violence between Israel and Palestine could devolve into a “full-scale war”. The conflict has already claimed 55 lives, including 14 children, in the most intense hostilities between the two in seven years. Palestinian militants have launched more than 1000 rockets since Monday and Israel’s army is also responsible for hundreds of air strikes on Hamas and other Islamist…
Australians don’t know when they will be vaccinated after mixed messages from the government, and it’s all based on one central budget assumption. The deadline for when all Australians will receive their COVID-19 vaccines remains unclear after mixed messages from the nation’s top leaders. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday delivered a free-spending federal budget based on the assumption a “population-wide vaccination program is likely to be in place by the end of the year”. Mr Frydenberg told reporters on Tuesday: “The assumption is that every Australian who wants to get two shots of the vaccine (will be able to) by…