News just in: Nine new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the last 24 hours in East New Britain, Madang and NCD increasing the country’s total to 970. Of the nine new cases, five (5) of them are from Madang, two (2) in ENB and two (2) in NCD. Total cases are at 970 with 10 known deaths. Keep your C-19 safety practises, listen to the news on this stations and follow our website pnghausbung.com for more.
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The National Executive Council recently endorsed the first government policy on Volunteers, titled National Policy on Professional Volunteerism, which falls under the National Volunteers Service of Papua New Guinea. The NVS was established by an Act of Parliament in 1990 for the purpose of delivering government services to villages and communities in rural and remote areas of PNG. The Prime Minister James Marape, MP said it is now 30 years into operations and still performing its original mandate of ensuring that the government’s commitment to delivering services is maintained by NVS. He said this when announcing the NEC decision to…
Air Niugini is upgrading selected flights to Gurney Airport, Alotau MBP to larger Boeing 737 aircraft. The first ever Boeing 737 service will touch down in Gurney at 1120am on Friday 26th February. Thereafter the B737 aircraft will become a regular sight at Gurney Airport, with three weekly services from 28th March, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Fokker jet aircraft will continue to service Alotau on all other days of the week. Chief Executive Officer, Mr Bruce Alabaster said that by using the B737 to Alotau this will allow the Fokker jet aircraft that currently service the route to be…
The Bureau of Meteorology, state health departments, the Western Australian opposition leader, charities and Facebook itself are among those to have been hit by Facebook’s ban on news in Australia. On Thursday morning Facebook began preventing Australian news sites from posting, while also stopping Australian users from sharing or viewing content from any news outlets, both Australian and international. The social media giant said it made the decision in response to the news media bargaining code currently before the Senate, which would force Facebook and Google to negotiate with news companies for payment for content. While the ban was only meant to target Australian…
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) in conjunction with Trukai Industries have reaffirmed efforts to continue to raise funds for Team PNG through the sale of Trukai Fun Run shirts. As a result of Covid-19, the Trukai Fun Run was cancelled in 2020 primarily for the safety of participants. In 2021, both organisations will be taking a new approach by downscaling the mass event to smaller activities to comply with the varying Covid measures. Since its inception in 1983, the Fun Run has been the major fundraising event for the PNGOC. The event consistently raises funds for Team PNG…
Living in the big city of Port Moresby can be very challenging especially in trying to earn an honest income just to put enough food on the table to feed a household. With the hassle and commotions going on, rise in crime, and with all the civil incidents occurring daily in a typically fast-paced city life; and especially with the COVID19 pandemic cases increasing in the country, life is waiting to fall apart if we allow it to. However, this has not been seen as an obstacle for two persevering women, Heni Arua and Manoka Gorogo. Heni, (51) and Manoka…
Link PNG, a subsidiary of Air Niugini, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hides Gas Development Company (HGDC), a major landowning company engaged with ExxonMobil, the operator of the PNGLNG Project- to provide chartered services for its personnel engaged within the LNG gas project in the Komo Magarima District, Hela Province. The MOU sets the platform for a partnership arrangement between LinkPNG and Hides Gas Development Company (HGDC) to operate regular Charter flights into Komo Airfield. The signing paves the way forward for the two parties to engage in firming the charter service schedule. Link PNG Acting General…
Former Papuan New Guinean international James Segeyaro will be free to resume his playing career in June after he was handed a 20-month suspension by the NRL Anti-Doping Tribunal. Chaired by the Ian Callinan AC QC with panellists Dr Sharron Flahive and Sean Garlick, the triubnal found Segeyaro breached the NRL’s Anti-Doping Policy in September, 2019 when he tested positive to the presence of Di-Hydroxy LGD-4033 (Ligandrol). The tribunal found that the 30-year-old, who was playing for the Broncos at the time after stints with the Cowboys, Panthers and Sharks, bore a significant degree of responsibility for the positive result…
Air Niugini is pleased to announce that it will increase services between Port Moresby and Hong Kong from once to twice weekly, commencing Saturday 03rd April 2021. Services will be operated by Air Niugini’s Boeing 767 aircraft, in partnership with Cathay Pacific Airways under a code share arrangement. Flights to Hong Kong were resumed in October last year, operating once a week on Wednesdays, opening up new opportunities to bring freight and essential travellers to and from Port Moresby via Hong Kong, including the export of live crabs, lobsters and other products from Papua New Guinea to the Asian markets.…
The youth of the Laloki community, just outside Port Moresby, kept occupied during the school holidays by participating in the ExxonMobil PNG (EMPNG) supported PNG Flying Labs, a local non-governmental organisation, where they attended basic coding and drone flying classes. Under the theme “breaking barriers”, the three-week workshop introduced thirty-seven young learners, nearly half of them girls, to digital tools that promote team building, the importance of well-being, and problem-solving skills through computer game coding, robot building, and drone piloting. “Without EMPNG’s assistance and endorsement from Laloki Ward 1 Councillor, Hon. George Pote Girisa, we would not have been able…