Suspended Southern Highlands Governor William Powi is expected to seek the Supreme Courts view on the decision by the National Court Judge David Cannings in suspending him as governor while allowing him to be on full pay. This newsroom was reliably informed also that the Provincial Executive Council would be announcing a care-taker governor by today. It is understood that the suspension of Powi as governor would take effect on Tuesday, August 31st. Powi said he had no issue with the National Courts order for a recount, however it was not logical to have him suspended from functioning as governor…
Author: Samuel RAITANO
Students dormitories and classrooms in Pangia Secondary School in Southern Highlands Province do not have electricity connected and is a concern to parents and students. Pangia Secondary School is located in the Ialibu Pangia District. Previously it was known as Pangia Provincial High School. This school was converted into secondary school in 2009 by local MP and former PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. It is a boarding school of over 700 plus students who study at the school from grades 9 up to grade 12. Simon Kondo, a parent said children have raised concerns that out of the eleven boys…
Five suspects, including the husband of a woman whose dead body was found in an abandoned vehicle at Kaupena checkpoint at the Southern and Western Highlands border are in Mt Hagen Police cell now. According to a member of the Police Highway Patrol 17 at Kaupena checkpoint Nick Noah, the incident happened at around midnight,Monday, where the main suspect, and his accomplices transported the corpse of his wife, from Southern Highlands to Western Highlands in an identified vehicle, perhaps to stage a cover-up. However, they behaved suspiciously at the checkpoint when seeing police and civilian guards still around, as the…