Day: February 5, 2019
Police seek help to probe reports of drug smuggling
WEST Sepik police are seeking assistance from their Indonesian counterparts to investigate reports of an Indonesian police officer involved in smuggling drugs with villagers in Vanimo district, provincial commander Chief […]
Hospital to close over funding
By REBECCA KUKU Kudjip Provincial Hospital in Jiwaka will close on Mar 1, says administrator Dr Scott Dooley. He told The National that they had to put up the notices […]
Cabinet gets rid of two agencies as part of reform
Office of Urbanisation and the Coastal Fisheries Development Agency (CFDA) are now abolished, according to a National Executive Council decision. As part of the Government’s public sector reform agenda aimed […]
Briefs
Call to review benefits deal THE Government has been called upon by landowners of the PNG LNG project in Hela to review the licence-based benefits sharing agreement (LBBSA). Gas field […]
PM: Reopen case
By Rebecca Kuku PRIME Minister Peter O’Neill wants police to reopen the case of the 14 men discharged by a court on Friday over the alleged burning of an aircraft […]
Sir Gibbs urges judges to complete all decisions
By TREVOR WAHUNE CHIEF Justice Sir Gibbs Salika has asked judges to complete all decisions they had reserved. During the opening of the legal year in Port Moresby yesterday at […]
Classes disrupted after parents close admin
By TONY PALME CLASSES were disrupted as some parents closed down the administration building at the Fatima Secondary School in Jiwaka yesterday, demanding information on the grade 12 pass rate […]
Schools charging fees against govt policy, says Kombra
SCHOOL charging project fees are going against the government’s free education policy, says Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra. Kombra was responding to Sumkar MP Chris Nangoi who had enquired about […]
Opposition will still file vote of no-confidence motion: Maisu
THE Opposition insists it will file a vote of no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, Opposition deputy leader Timothy Masiu says. “We in the Opposition are representing the eight […]
Bishop thanks missionaries for service
THE Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria in Germany Prof Heinrich Bedford-Strohm has thanked the overseas missionary doctors and nurses who have been serving in rural parts of […]