Day: April 1, 2021
Men charged with armed robbery
By ZEDAIAH KANAU THREE men were charged in the Waigani Committal Court yesterday with committing armed robberies in Port Moresby’s Gerehu in two separate cases. Two of them were alleged […]
Czuba returning to court after police file
DEPARTMENT of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (DHERST) secretary Fr Jan Czuba will return to court in a months’ time for submissions after his police file was served on […]
Drifters rescued in B’ville
FOUR survivors from Milne Bay have been safely brought ashore in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville by the local authorities with support from regional member Peter Tsiamalili Jnr, according to […]
Partnership helping 1,000 youths
THE flexible and open distance education (Fode) has partnered with the Commonwealth of Learning to sponsor 1,000 youths with grade 12 background for a free online certificate course. Fode principal […]
Committee backs Icac inquiry
SPECIAL Parliamentary Committee (SPC) on Public Sector Reform and Service Delivery chairman Gary Juffa welcomes Prime Minister James Marape’s decision to hold an Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) inquiry into […]
K100,000 set for health centre
KAVIENG MP Ian Ling-Stuckey has presented a K100,000 allocation for infrastructure development of New Hanover’s Umbukul sub-health centre in New Ireland. Ling-Stuckey, who is also Papua New Guinea’s Treasurer, presented […]
Businessman helps church programme
LAE businessman gave K20,000 to the Seventh-day Adventist church to develop small-to-medium enterprise (SME) businesses to support church activities in the city recently. The SDA church said, in a statement, […]
Sorcery-Covid torture
By MIRIAM ZARRIGA and LULU MARK POLICE have rescued a woman and her daughter who were accused of practising sorcery and tortured for several days after her community health worker […]
Repatriation ‘suspicious’
By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK PAPUA New Guinea Covid-19 Controller and Police Comm David Manning says he is not approving any repatriation of Papua New Guineans from Indonesia because he is suspicious […]
Hospital shuts down after 22 staff infected
By ROSELYN ELLISON ST MARY’S Vunapope Hospital in Kokopo, East New Britain, yesterday shut down operations for seven days after 22 workers at the hospital tested positive for the Covid-19. […]