The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) is delighted to announce the signing of the local Human Resource (HR) Service Provider – Vanguard International as an in-kind sponsor over the next two years (2022-2024). The leading employment agency will be providing in-kind support to the PNGOC and Team PNG in the areas of its existing service specialisations of visa, national identification and passport processing, as well as consulting to the organisation on its existing HR policies, recruitment, athlete job readiness preparation and assisting athletes seek traineeships and employment opportunities. Speaking at the November 18th signing and reveal, Secretary General of…
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Prime Minister James Marape has announced the transfer of Planning Department and associated functions to be under the carriage of Finance Minister Rainbo Paita. “I have transferred the Planning Ministry to be under Minister for Finance, Hon. Rainbo Paita, as we work through the restructuring of what Planning and Central Agencies Coordinating Committee (CACC) will be like next year and going forward,” he said. “In light of the 2022 and 2023 budgets, Minister Paita takes carriage of Planning until the full restructure is completed. “This restructure will not only be at Planning, but at all other national headquarter offices, as…
Three years ago, environmental and weather factors screamed that NSW was entering a fire season on a scale unseen. Now, those same factors are stacking up in the reverse. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued severe storm and river flood warnings. I’ve been watching our rivers bleed out over the landscape, some with multiple major flood pulses along their lengths. The unpredictability of the storm system threatens areas with potential flash floods. River inundation is a slow destroyer of crops and inland towns, but flash floods are the killers. They are very difficult to spot until they actually start to…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has again highlighted football’s unique ability unite the world and reiterated a plea to world leaders to begin a dialogue as a first step to bring the conflict in Russia and Ukraine to an end. Speaking shortly after addressing the assembled world leaders at the 17th Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in Bali, Indonesia, the FIFA President re-emphasised his earlier comments about the unique opportunity the upcoming FIFA World Cup™ presents. “My message is actually very simple, it’s about football, and football unites the world,” the FIFA President said. “I also made a plea to the…
Prime Minister James Marape has always been vocal about connecting the whole of Papua New Guinea by road since taking Office in 2019 and returning after the recent National General Election. Prime Minister Marape continues to speak about the Connect PNG Program of which his Government has already commenced work on and ensuring funds are available to realize his vision. The Marape-Rosso Government has now legislated the Connect PNG Program making it legally binding for the next 20 years. This will now ensure successive governments are obliged to make funding available for the program, which commenced in 2020 and will…
Digicel, PNG’s leading Digital Operator and Telecommunications provider is Sharing More Joy to customers across PNG with over K500,000 in cash and prize giveaways. The 2022 Digicel Christmas Promotion dubbed “Share More Joy This Christmas” will award three amazing cash grand prizes of K100,000, K50,000 and K30,000 cash to three lucky Digicel customers. Cash prizes will also be awarded to 15 lucky winners every week for the duration of the promotion. Five Digicel customers will win K5, 000 cash and 10 customers will win K2, 500 cash every week and that’s not all; Digicel customers will also win daily prizes…
The death certificate for Shanquella Robinson has been released, but her family says it doesn’t answer enough questions about the 25-year-old’s death last month. Robinson, well known for her business braiding hair, was in Cabo San Lucas with a group of friends celebrating someone’s birthday. The 25-year-old turned up dead after just one day on vacation. The death certificate, obtained by Nexstar’s WJZY, lists the cause of death as severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation, which is instability in the uppermost vertebrae. Robinson and her friends had rented a villa and supposedly didn’t go out that night. According to…
Australia and the Western Provincial Government launched the PNGAustralia Western Province Strategy in Daru on 7 November 2022. The Strategy follows on from the memorandum of understanding signed in2021 and documents the shared vision for an inclusive, healthy, educated, stable and economically prosperous Western Province. The Western Province Strategy also reflects what was bilaterally agreed upon at the national level in the Papua New Guinea-Australia Comprehensive Strategic and Economic Partnership (CSEP) to drive growth, enhance stability and improve service delivery. The Strategy is set out along three pillars of action – improvement in human development, economic development and enabling infrastructure,…
Prime Minister James Marape has invited the United States of America to invest in downstream processing in Papua New Guinea, especially in fisheries. He made the invitation to US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of APEC 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, today. PM Marape said it was a privilege for PNG to have been given the honor of meeting Secretary Blinken. The bilateral also comes after the Biden administration hosted the first-ever U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit in Washington, D.C. on September 28–29, bringing together more than a dozen Pacific Island leaders and other keyPM…
The FAO-led EU-STREIT PNG Programme continues to provide learning opportunities to improve cocoa farmers’ skills in hard-to-reach areas of the Sepik region for increased profitability and improved livelihoods of thousands of households who depend on this cash crop. In collaboration with the Division of Agriculture and Livestock (DAL) in Angoram District of East Sepik Province and PNG Cocoa Board, a total of 1375 farmers, inclusive of women and youths from three villages, were upskilled in best block management practices, and cocoa propagation techniques – critical to producing pest tolerant seedlings. Conducted in Asangumut, Murken and Jungit villages (in Yuwat and…