The Badihagwa Technical Secondary School in Port Moresby will no longer be accepting any more transfer in students as the school is already full to capacity across all grades. Principal Mr. Maru Bala made this statement after a good number of parents have been turning up at the school since week one of the academic year looking for space to transfer their children from other schools. The school has 34 classes with at least over 50 students in one class. “Normally we are supposed to have 45 students in one class but due to the Free Education Policy, we have…
Author: Rolland BANABA
A secondary school principal in the National Capital District has blamed the recent clash between neighboring Motuan villages Hanuabada and Baruni on the sale of illicit drugs such as homebrew and marijuana openly in Hanuabada and other villages. “Illicit drugs are sold openly in the villages to youths,” said the Principal of Badihagwa Technical Secondary School. “Unless and until these drug abuse issues are addressed then we will start to see such unnecessary fights and other related social problems minimized.” The principal said the school is always affected when people from Hanuabada, Tatana and Baruni are involved in such…
Peter Tsiamalili Jnr has been declared Bougainville’s duly-elected regional MP tonight following a by-election for the region. Tsiamalili Jnr was declared by Provincial Returning Officer Alwyn Jimmy after reaching the absolute majority of votes after the 4th exclusion with a final total of 37, 534 votes at the Hutjena Secondary School Hall Counting Centre. The absolute majority was 36,163 after 4th exclusion. Simon Dumarinu was the runner-up with 34,790 votes to finish second. Listen in to the news on this station & follow our website pnghausbung.com for more on this story. Picture sourced: United Bougainville Front
Investigation undertaken into the misappropriation and stealing of K268 Million belonging to Community Mine Continuation Agreement Communities in Western Province by Special Police Forensic Criminal Investigation Team which is headed by Commissioner of Police David Manning made two more arrests early this week. About a fortnight ago, Managing Partner of Young & Williams Lawyers Mr. Gregory James Sheppard was arrested and charged with two (2) counts of false pretense and another 2 counts of conspiracy after his law firm was paid K52 Million from the WPPD CMCA Trust Funds as legal fees. Two directors of Ok Tedi Fly River Development…
The Media Council of PNG is partnering with ExxonMobil PNG to facilitate a Social Media Training over Zoom video conferencing. This is an initiative by ExxonMobil PNG, the operator of the PNG LNG Project, to open up its access to social media training expertise, to the members of the MCPNG, with a specific focus on mainstream media news online teams. Social Media has become the ‘go to’ place for news and current issues, and its scope and use by mainstream newsrooms has expanded to include advocacy, crowd-sourcing of information, and identifying audiences, listener and readership. It is encouraging to see…
Persons seeking free COVID-19 tests in the nations capital, Port Moresby will have to dig deeper to pay for the service that St John’s Ambulance provided for free for the last 6 months until Monday this week. St John Ambulance Services will no longer conduct the free drive-through Covid-19 testing service at the Taurama Aquatic Center as of this week for an indefinite period. The decision was made by the PNG Sports Foundation and it is disappointing to St John since it is the only place that is fitting to conduct Drive through Testing while the pandemic continues in PNG.…
A young woman died at her Five Mile home in the nations capital, Port Moresby at around 6’o’clock this morning after a tree had fallen on their house following extreme weather conditions experienced in the city and other coastal areas in the country. The strong gusty winds and the heavy rains that started around 4am this morning caused several destruction around the city including two reports of fallen trees on houses, in Korobosea and Five Mile area. St John Ambulance Services received emergency calls and rushed to the two locations in time and managed to rescue two people that were…
News just in! The National Court this afternoon has ordered for the removal of David Manning as Police Commissioner and declared his appointment UNLAWFUL. This decision was based on the facts that Mr Manning does not qualify for the position as he does not have a tertiary qualification. The order will take effect within 7 days from today. Listen to the LegendFM news, NauFM news and YumiFM news or follow our news website pnghausbung.com for more on this story. Picture courtesy: David Dotaona
PNG’s biggest referral hospital, the Port Moresby General Hospital’s mortuary is piled beyond its capacity with unclaimed bodies and requires additional space to accommodate for more bodies that are brought in daily. The need for space is not the hospitals only concern, the morgues deteriorating state has worsened overtime and needs the urgent attention from responsible authorities. The mortuary is already overcrowded with 220 bodies waiting to be claimed by relatives and given proper burials. The morgue has a holding capacity of 120 bodies. Director for Medical Services at the Port Moresby General Hospital Dr Kone Sobi took the media…
The newly appointed Metropolitan Superintendent for NCD , Acting Chief Superintendent Gideon Ikumu says he will not deviate from performing his established duties as the city’s top cop, despite allegations levelled against him. “The welfare and safety of the people of NCD is greater and upon me,” said Mr Ikumu. Acting Chief Superintendent Ikumu addressed the media in Port Moresby clarifying certain allegations against him during his term as Provincial Police Commander in New Ireland “to set the records straight” Ikumu said allegations of an assault and a motor vehicle accident in New Ireland took place while he was PPC…