Day: November 9, 2021
Treatment centre relocated
MOROBE’S Coronavirus (Covid-19) isolation and treatment centre has been moved from the Sir Ignatius Kilagi Stadium to the Angau Memorial Hospital campus, an official says. Provincial health authority chief executive […]
Nurses up in arms
By LULU MARK NURSES, at loggerheads with the Government over “outstanding awards” they claim are due to them, yesterday began a sit-in protest which they promised to continue until their […]
Police explain recruitment
By JINA AMBA THE recruitment process for those wishing to join the police reservist programme has been outsourced to a human resource company “to select the best”, a senior police […]
All on Glasgow trip assigned tasks, says Mori
ALL members of the country’s delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, have tasks to do to justify their going, says Environment Conservation and Climate […]
Tribunal to decide Basil’s fate
By CHARLES MOI The State dropped one charge against suspended Bulolo MP Sam Basil at a Leadership Tribunal in Port Moresby yesterday. The tribunal led by chairman Justice Allen Kingsley […]
Covid centre complete
THE Enga health authority has completed building a Coronavirus (Covid -19) isolation and treatment centre at a cost of K420,000, a senior staff says. Authority director for medical services Dr […]
Birth attendant uses plastic bags as gloves to deliver babies
By GLORIA BAUAI A VILLAGE birth attendant (VBA) from a rural village in Morobe says she has been using plastic shopping bags as hand gloves for years to deliver babies. […]
Seminary reeling from virus
TWENTY-ONE students attending Good Shepherd Seminary in Banz, Jiwaka, have tested positive for the Coronavirus (Covid-19), the Catholic Church says. Seminary rector Fr Raphael Mel said the positive students were […]
Ex-Customs officer guilty of fraud
A COURT has convicted a former PNG Customs Service officer for corruptly receiving K5,000 to allow a shipment of contraband cigarettes into PNG three years ago. Justice Teresa Berrigan in […]