Day: September 20, 2017
Poor turnout but Treasurer happy Opposition MPs turned up to meeting
DEPUTY Prime Minister and Treasurer Charles Abel has welcomed the participation of MPs and governors from the opposition in the formulation of national budgets. Yesterday, he met seven of the […]
Budget will focus on cost-cutting, says Abel
THE Supplementary Budget to be tabled in Parliament next week will focus mostly on cost-cutting to restore the fiscal discipline of the 2017 national budget passed last November. Deputy Prime […]
Leaders linked to criminals
By LUKE KAMA A SENIOR police officer says some politicians and bureaucrats are being protected by or associate themselves with criminals. National Capital District Metropolitan Superintendent Benjamin Turi told The […]
Police investigate Independence Day deaths
LAE police are investigating two deaths during the Independence Day weekend – both alcohol-related, Metropolitan Superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jr says. He said at the New Block settlement on the Back […]
Sorcery suspects tortured, one killed
By MALUM NALU A WOMAN is dead and another is nursing serious injuries in hospital after they were tortured with hot irons and cut with razors by people who accused […]
Belief in sorcery, related killings rise unchecked in Enga
SORCERY-related killings and the belief in sorcery (sanguma) have increased markedly in Enga over the past 42 years, according to a missionary. Anton Lutz is an American Lutheran church missionary […]
‘Brave’ officers to get proper burial
By JAMES GUMUNO FAMILIES and tribesmen of the two policemen killed in Wabag during the election have finally decided to lay the bodies to rest. The tribesmen of late Constables […]
PNG lacks planning for mass evacuation, disaster official says
THE country has no plans or strategies in place for conducting mass evacuation in major disasters. Evacuations for people affected by natural or man-made disasters so far had been done […]
Tvet schools to include climate change course
Climate change will be included in the teaching curriculum for technical and vocational education training (Tvet) institutions. A team, led by Joe Siris, the Metal Fabrication and Welding curriculum officer […]
Israeli firm invests in farming
By GYNNIE KERO A DELEGATION led by National Planning and Monitoring Minister Richard Maru toured the proposed site of several multi-million kina projects in the Sepik Plains, East Sepik on […]