Drugs supply runs out
Lae clinics turn away the sick

The smiles of giving... The Lamana Hotel this week donated K6,630 to the PNG Children’s Foundation in an effort to support the foundation in its work. The funds will help with the general running costs of the foundation from fuel for PNGCF bus to electricity for Kids Haven, the foundation-run home for foster children. Lamana Hotel general manager Yiannis Nicolaou (left) sharing a joke while handing over the donation to Kids Haven care giver Hane Lagaru as PNGCF assistant and driver Julie Passingan (centre) and PNGCF adviser Nene Santa Cruz look on.

TOP STORIES:

Report gives ’07 polls thumbs up
- THE 2007 elections in Papua New Guinea have been commended in a report by the Commonwealth-Pacific Islands Forum election assessment team.

Unitech under guard
- THE Papua New Guinea University of Technology in Lae, Morobe province, is under police guard.

Court to hear two poll case
- THE National Court will proceed to hear two election petitions by two former provincial governors against their replacements.

BUSINESS:

K1billion benefit package for Ok Tedi villagers
-PEOPLE living downstream of the Ok Tedi Mining Ltd will receive a benefit package of over K1 billion and four times better that the previous one.

CIC boss denies coffee group’s claims
-THE chairman of the Coffee Industry Corp has denied claims that some of the board members had pressured others into terminating an export licence held by the PNG Coffee Growers Federation (PNGCGF).

Datec launches ICT expo
-AN exposition on information and communication technology (ICT) solution and service providers will be held for the first time in Papua New Guinea at the Crowne Plaza in Port Moresby starting today.

EDITORIAL:

Better news from Baisu
-RECENTLY we had occasion to express dismay at the allegedly wholesale looting of Corrective Services property by certain employees at Baisu jail.

SPORTS

A rising star
Magini inaugural winner of Brad Fittler Award

Swokin Magini (seated, left) with the World Team after the Under 17 champions in Russia last year. Photo by WALLY HIAMBOHN

Port Moresby softball gets a lot more serious
- PNG Power and Airways Bears will give the Digicel Port Moresby men’s softball competition a stir when they clash in the match of the weekend on Sunday.

IBS gets down to business
- INSTITUTE of Business Studies is in the mix to battle for glory in the Corporate Nines rugby league challenge.

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