Prime Minister James Marape announced that the government is moving to ensure that a standalone University for medical studies is established by 2025. He was speaking at a ball night which marked the end of training for the final year medical students’ class of 2022 at the University of Papua New Guinea. This year’s cohort is the 50th since the first cohort recited their Hippocratic oath in November 1972. “In 1972 the medical faculty graduated six medical students. The population was just on three million. Over the last fifty years we have graduated an average of thirty new doctors per…
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Jacob Alick may be returning for only his second season in the NRL, but the Kumuls star is full of learnings after a successful World Cup campaign. Upon returning to Parkwood a week earlier than expected after proudly representing his grandmother’s Papua New Guinean heritage in the UK, the 23-year-old feels he’s taken so much away from his month and a half abroad, coming back determined to make in-roads in 2023. “It was a once in a lifetime experience for me; especially going over to PNG for the training camp. It was the first time I’ve been there and it…
Air Niugini, in partnership with the Australian government will service this route under the Australian government’s Pacific Flight Programme which underwrites flights during the initial establishment phase. The programme has supported over 450 flights in the Pacific since December 2020 and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic across 14 routes and 11 countries. This has helped keep Pacific communities connected, maintain supply chains and deliver critical medicines. The programme removes airlines’ commercial risk operating an agreed flight, assuring regular and scheduled flights for passengers and cargo. Air Niugini Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Alabaster said the weekly flights will be operated by the…
Lionel Messi’s lifelong dream of guiding Argentina to World Cup glory will remain alive until the last day of Qatar 2022, as La Albiceleste outclassed a weary-looking Croatia in a 3-0 victory in Tuesday’s semifinal. Two first-half goals, the first a Messi penalty and the second a solo effort from Julian Alvarez, put Argentina in a commanding position at the interval, a position that Croatia never looked like recovering from. Alvarez secured the victory with Argentina’s third goal in the second half following a wonderful Messi assist, providing the South American team and its 35-year-old captain with a chance to banish the demons of the 2014 final…
Kokoda Hospital in Oro (Northern) Province will provide better services to 25 thousand people in the Kokoda region following a 1.1 million Kina refurbishment of its facilities. The project, co-funded by the Australian Government and the Oro Provincial Government under the Papua New Guinea ̵Australia Partnership and Kokoda Initiative, was officially opened on the 80th Anniversary of the Kokoda Campaign in November 2022. The refurbishments will promote high quality and equitable health care for communities in the northern regions of the Kokoda Track with improved access for persons with disabilities, extensive repairs to maternity and pediatric wards, antenatal clinics and…
The issues surrounding the National Airports Corporation are far from over even after the government stepped in to stabilize operations by suspending controversial Managing Director Rex Kiponge over management issues and appointing a caretaker Managing Director in Joseph Tupiri. Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Walter Schnaubelt made no reservation after revealing in a media gathering that NAC was financially broke. “Now that we have installed an acting Managing Director, part of his conditions of employment include drafting a terms of reference (TOR) to seek a financial institution to come and conduct a full audit of NAC. I need to know…
Officers from Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) went for Coral maintenance and monitoring trip to Motupore Island, Bootless Bay in Central Province on Sunday 11th of December 2022. This trip was the second visit. Staff from CCDA went to maintain and monitor corals they planted in August in the Bootless Bay. According to CCDA’s Adaption and Projects Division, General Manager Mr Jacob Ekinye, corals provide an ecosystem for life underwater. They protect coastlines from the damaging effects of wave action and tropical storms. Corals are source of nitrogen and other essential nutrients for marine food chains and they also…
Any “estimate” is just that, an “estimate” based on whatever method the party doing the estimation employed. The estimate may either be close to the actual (truth) or far away from it depending on the method used. This applies for the population as well. Population estimates are based on methods used by Demographers (generally) in the estimation. Population estimates should never be taken to mean actual or factual. The only factual or rather close to factual will be the census figures (i.e. depending on how credible the census operation is) which we will know after the census is done. Without…
No injuries were reported after part of a cliff collapsed onto a beach Friday in coastal Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles County, the Southern California city said in a statement. The landslide, at 10 a.m. local time, forced the closure of the beach and comes as an atmospheric river event – or a plume of moisture streaming in from the Pacific Ocean . The potent storm system could mean more danger in the area in the coming days, geologist Pat Abbott told CNN affiliate KCBS-TV. “Sea levels are rising, gravity is pulling, and now when you talk about heavy rains coming…
Medai houses and journalists who abuse ‘freedom of the media’ in Papua New Guinea will be held to account as Government starts working at strengthening this area that has fallen in standards over the years especially with the advent of internet technology today, Prime Minister James Marape said. Prime Minister Marape said today (12.12.22) the Government would do this while taking every care not to compromise the media’s right to the freedom of speech in consultation with the Media Council of PNG. The Prime Minister said: “The Government will now work at holding the media accountable to the highest standard.…