Day: September 26, 2017
Teams arrive for Melanesian Cup basketball challenge
New Caledonia and Solomon Islands arrived in Port Moresby yesterday for the inaugural FIBA Melanesian Basketball Challenge which starts tomorrow. Fiji is expected to arrive today for the basketball challenge […]
Koboni earn early grand final berth
CONCEPT Koboni turned on a superb second-half performance to outclass the Lamana Dockers by 31 points in the Port Moresby AFL qualifying final at the Colts Oval on Sunday. The […]
Unknown Garega breaks javelin record
A TOTALLY unknown athlete broke the national record in the men’s javelin at the Southern Region Athletics Championships in Port Moresby on Saturday. Twenty-two-year-old Lakona Garega from Abau, Central, threw […]
Foundation appoints Tapo PNG Games comp manager
By ISAAC LIRI PNG Sports Foundation has appointed sports administrator Sapau Tapo as the competition manager for the seventh PNG Games in Kimbe, West New Britain. PNGSF chief executive Peter […]
Tkatchenko praises team, commitment
THE National Government has started and invested in a dream which has now come to reality with the SP PNG Hunters winning the Queensland Cup grand final beating Sunshine Coast […]
Kase advises hospitals to stock up on medicine
HEALTH Secretary Pascoe Kase has advised hospitals and provincial health authorities to arrange with the Health Department to store their medicine requirements to avoid any shortages. Kase was responding to […]
K600mil spent on imported rice
THE country is spending up to K600 million a year on imported rice, says Agriculture and Livestock Secretary Dr Vele Ila’ava. “Rice consumption is increasing at five per cent annually, […]
Official confirms budget on agenda
By HELEN TARAWA THE 2017 supplementary budget is expected to be tabled by Treasurer Charles Abel when Parliament sits this afternoon, acting deputy clerk Basil Kambuliagen says. He told The […]
Reforming of curriculum training underway
TRAINING is underway for trainers of the Standard-Based Education curriculum to be taught in primary schools. “The training should capture all the strategies to allow primary school teachers and educationists […]
K3 billion UBS loan affects PNG economy: Pruaitch
OPPOSITION Leader Patrick Pruaitch says the decision by Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (KPHL) to sell its shares in Oil Search is because the Government is unable to service its K3 […]