Papua New Guinea reported four new cases of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the last 24 hours increasing the country’s total cases to 823. Two cases were reported in West New Britain and a case each reported in New Ireland Province and the National Capital District respectively. In West New Britain, a 35 year old female and a 12 year old male were both reported positive. Both cases did not show symptoms of COVID-19 but swab samples returned positive. In the National Capital District, a 63 year old male who lives in North-east electorate is the latest to be confirmed…
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Lae based Pharmaceutical company Chemcare have provided a donation of first aid supplies worth over K1,000 to Athletics PNG for its training programme in Kerowagi, Simbu Province. It is the second time Chemcare have come to the assistance of APNG in recent times, having also donated supplies for the training camp at NSI in Goroka leading up to the 2019 Pacific Games. President Tony Green was on hand to collect the supplies from Sales Representative Martha Nakaio which were later taken up to Kerowagi. On behalf of the athletes, Green thanked Chemcare’s Operations Manager Angus King for the generous donation.
Vehicle owners will have to fork out a bit more from their pockets to purchase fuel following an increase in retail prices for petrol, kerosene and diesel across the country. The Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (“ICCC”) hereby announced the new retail fuel prices for this month, which took effect on Friday, 8th January, 2021. “For this month, the Indicative Retail Prices (IRP) for petrol, diesel and kerosene will all increase on average, throughout PNG”, said ICCC Commissioner Paulus Ain. These increases in the retail prices for petrol, diesel and kerosene have mainly been attributed to the increase in crude…
Passengers travelling to The Australian Government has announced changes to the requirements for travel to Australia. All passengers travelling to Australia will at some point be required to provide evidence of a negative PCR test at time of check-in. At present that is still not yet a requirement for this PCR test for flights to Australia, but the Australian Government will advise when this will come into effect, and Air Niugini will provide this information as soon as we are notified. These PCR tests can be completed in Port Moresby at PIH and St John for a fee with results…
The Sport of Athletics is mourning the loss of Elanga Buala who passed away suddenly at her home in Lae today. Along with Iammo Launa and Barbara Ingiro – Sapea, Buala was , in 1984 one of the first women to represent PNG at the Olympic Games From a beginning in Volleyball, Elanga made the transition to Athletics in 1981 when she won the Open Women’s 100m title at the National Championships in Mt Hagen Overall she won seven national titles – 100m (1981 & 1982), 200m (1982 & 1983) and the 400m (1982, 1983 & 1984), and won a…
While the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will likely be the first to get approval in Australia, most of us will end up receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot, Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says. During a national coronavirus update, Professor Kelly said the fact the Pfizer vaccine needed to be made overseas meant we would be getting large supplies of the AstraZeneca vaccine. “We know that the Pfizer vaccine is the one that will have the most experience around the world, [because] it was the first to get the emergency use authorisation in the US, UK and other places,” he said. “But it is…
As Fijians continue to suffer financial constraints due to COVID-19, Lautoka residents Narayan Reddy and Allen Lockington have joined forces again to assist parents in getting their children back to school on the 19th of this month. Reddy says they have distributed more than 250 packs of stationery and school bags to families affected by COVID-19 in the Western Division. He says they are currently rolling out another 150 packs which include pens, pencils, books, shoes, school bags, rulers and mathematical sets. Reddy says they receive donations from their friends overseas and in Fiji and also ordinary people who wanted…
Indonesian authorities say they have found the location where they believe a Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from the country’s capital Jakarta on Saturday. The Sriwijaya Air jet was carrying 62 people when it disappeared from radar four minutes into its journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province. On Sunday, signals thought to be from the jet’s flight recorder were traced. More than 10 ships have now been deployed to the site with navy divers. “We have detected signals in two points, this could be the black box,” the chief of Indonesia’s search and…
Late Sir Mekere Morauta was laid in a tomb as his final resting place on Friday 8th January 2021 at Independence Hill, next to the National Parliament, ending an eight-day State Funeral Program accorded to him by the PNG government. Sir Mek was farewelled in a ceremonial gun salute and Guard of Honour performed by the PNG Defense and witnessed by his family members, parliamentarians including Prime Minister James Marape and his Deputy Sam Basil, other dignitaries and members of the public before his casket was lowered. The body of late Sir Mekere flew in from Brisbane on 31st December…
Natuharinah Lavett Holden, better known as Rhee in the PNG Music Industry is the winner who proved too triumphant to win the title of the Lamana ICE PNG IDOLS 2020 out of the four (4) other finalists. She walked away with a whooping K10, 000. Originally from Vanuatu and New Ireland Province, Harinah was declared the winner of the competition during the New Year’s Eve celebrations at the club. “My experience during the competition was very tough. There were a lot of good singers with raw talents that had me doubting myself that I might not make it to the…