Day: June 8, 2017
Students urged to look after environment
By JAMES GUMUNO THE students of new Tapolga primary school in the Upper Nebilyer district of Western Highlands have been urged to look after the environment as they grow up. […]
Medicine shortage
By Rebecca Kuku DOCTORS are concerned about the shortage of medicine around the country which they say is putting lives at risk, even causing deaths in some cases. Members of […]
Turi urges police to arrest sellers breaking traffic rules
POLICE are supposed to arrest vendors selling items on the streets and breaking traffic laws, National Capital District Metropolitan Superintendent Benjamin Turi says. Traffic laws forbid people from conducting such […]
Legal officers to assist elections
A State lawyer will be based in each province during polling and counting to provide legal advice to Electoral Commission officers. Inter-Departmental Election Committee (IDEC) chairman Isaac Lupari said it […]
Highway upgrade appeals to Chimbu
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill yesterday sold the idea of Highlands Highway development to the people of Chimbu. O’Neill launched the Gewa-Gembogl Road sealing project and campaigned for Kundiawa-Gembogl MP and […]
Police accused of diplomatic breach
By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK The alleged entering of the Indonesian Consulate without notice by three police officers on Monday night to search two Indonesian-made ambulances in Vanimo has irked the West […]
460,000 registered voters for Morobe
By JUNIOR UKAHA MORE than 460,000 people are eligible to vote in this year’s elections in Morobe. Provincial election manager Simon Soheke provided the figures when updating progress in the […]
Drug convict sentenced to 10 months
THE GOROKA district court has sentenced a 30-year old man to 10 months imprisonment after finding him guilty of being in possession of marijuana. The dried marijuan leaves were found […]
PNG urged to learn from past El Ninos
The country needs to learn from past El Nino events so that it can minimise the social, humanitarian and economic impacts, says Institute of National Affairs executive director Paul Barker. […]
Two more officers from Manus govt arrested, charged
TWO more officers of the Manus provincial government were yesterday arrested and charged with abuse of office and misappropriating K100,000 meant for fisheries projects in the province, police said. This […]