New UOG pro
Vice-Chancellor Dr James Yoko (from left), new
Vice-Chancellor Dr Gairo Onagi, acting Vice-Chancellor
Dr Michael Mel and outgoing acting pro Vice-Chancellor
Dr Jerry Semos during the ceremony.
WESTERN Highlands and Southern Highlands have no
back-up power supply after landowners allegedly
burnt down a pylon at the Paunda Power Station
along the border on Monday night.
PNG Law Society president Kerenga Kua was nearly
tossed out of Justice Bernard Sakora’s courtroom
yesterday for “defying” directions and being
“disrespectful”.
THE experimental move to give human resource
management powers to national departments and
provincial administrations is to make them more
responsible for their own decisions and actions.
A 39-YEAR-old man was jailed for 15 years by the
National Court for raping a mentally-retarded
girl at Kutubuta village on Buka island three
years ago.
THE issue of student unrest dominated a
discussion between the Office of Higher
Education (OHE) and the chancellors and
vice-chancellors of the four public universities
in Port Moresby yesterday.
THE rich may buy their way out of criminal
liability if compensation was allowed to
determine sentences, the Supreme Court said when
rejecting an appeal by two men convicted
manslaughter.
