Day: March 3, 2017
Call to ban music after hours
By DAPHNE WANI CATHOLIC Bishops Conference general secretary Fr Victor Roche is calling on the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) and the police hierarchy to ban loud music in the […]
Constables need good training: Magistrate
By DAPHNE WANI A MAGISTRATE yesterday questioned if probationary police constables were properly trained at the Bomana Police College in Port Moresby on how to out lay information in charging […]
Hotel funds work at hospital ward
By ELIAS LARI PATIENTS at Mt Hagen Provincial Hospital’s paediatric ward now have a clean and healthy place to stay at and be treated, thanks to Highlander Hotel. The Highlander […]
TB rate skyrocketing
By OGIA MIAMEL THE rate of new infections for tuberculosis (TB) per year in Papua New Guinea has increased from 3000 in 2005 to 30,000 in 2015, an official says. […]
TB training to be conducted at work place
TUBERCOLOSIS affects adults during their prime working years and so businesses for Health TB project will conduct workplace training to ensure people knew their referral pathways, according to project manager […]
Female candidates in training
FIFTY female candidates intending to contest the general election will attend a week-long training on parliamentary processes. Tracy Vienings, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) PNG acting resident representative, said […]
Archive plan underway
THE cost of implementing a 10-year National Library Archives and Records Services strategic plan is about K545 million, director-general Kakaito Kasi says. Kasi spoke during the launching of the strategic […]
Students celebrate opening of new classroom
PUPILS from the Baini Primary School in interior Salamaua, Huon Gulf and Bulolo in Morobe, were excited with their new four-in-one double classrooms and three teachers’ houses. The children from […]
Library services to be revived, says Kuman
THE library services will be revived and the archive services will be established in all the 22 provinces and 89 districts, Education Minister Nick Kuman says. Kuman said that when […]
PAP elects new leader
POLITICS is demanding and an expensive game but MPs have been urged to accept people’s demands, People’s Action Party founder and retired Brig-Gen Ted Diro said yesterday. Diro said that […]