Workmen digging up the
main street at Lae central business district following
the release of K600,000 from the District Road
Improvement Fund by the MP for Lae Bart Philemon.
THE Department of Petroleum and Energy has reported
that Papua New Guinea light crude oil prices
increased between 27% and 40% during the first six
months of the year.
A MAJOR
coffee buyer from Germany who, in his younger days,
lived with the people of Asaro valley in Eastern
Highlands province, returned to his former home in
Goroka last week to do big business.
RETIRED PNG rugby league export and Kumuls winger
Marcus Bai has announced he is coming out of
retirement to play in the one-off Telikom PNG Origin
match at the Lloyd Robson Oval, in Port Moresby this
Saturday.
Grassroots sportsmen and women in East Sepik have
been given until next Tuesday to pay up their levy
fees of K500 or forget the PNG National Games, Sepik
Grassroots Sports Council chairman Terence Moka has
warned.
Metallurgical Construction Corporation (MCC)
Limited, developer of the Ramu Nickel Project in
Madang project, is committed in supporting impact
areas in all facets of social developments.
MCC officials making their sports contribution
to the people of Rai Coast in Madang province
last Friday.
THE Ombudsman Commission will investigate claims
that a telecommunication company bribed some
politicians and also threatened them with a
“political crisis” if they did not support it.
COMMUNICATION and Information Minister Patrick
Tammur assumed responsibility over the
telecommunications industry yesterday and
declared that the media was creating confusion
over the mobile phone issue.
THE students at the PNG University of Technology
(Unitech) in Lae, Morobe province, have accepted
the Government’s decision and will return to
class today.
THE National Capital District Commission (NCDC)
board meets tomorrow for the first time since
the general election and top of its agenda are
the appointment of the city manager and the
budget.
A HAILSTORM was reported to have caused severe
destruction to coffee and food gardens and
injuring several people living in an isolated
area of Nupagimi near Mt Kuru situated between
Henganofi and Okapa districts, Eastern Highlands
province.
