Month: December 2021
State funeral for B’ville MP next week
THE State funeral service of Central Bougainville MP Sam Akoitai will be held on Wednesday. Bougainville Regional MP Peter Tsiamalili Jr said Akotai’s casket would lie in state at the […]
No secret plot to overthrow SI prime minister, Toroama says
THERE is no secret plot to overthrow Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama says. Toroama said his government and the people of Bougainville would maintain a […]
Over 50 police officers retire
FIFTY-EIGHT long serving police officers in the border provinces of Western, East Sepik and West Sepik have retired, a senior police officer says. Assistant Commissioner of Police Border Command Peter […]
Pay our wages: Casual staff
By LULU MARK MORE than 100 health workers who served in the front line during the country’s biggest Coronavirus (Covid-19) Delta variant surge in Port Moresby from October have not […]
Rosso urges clans to resolve internal issues, develop land
BUTIBUM village clans in Ahi must resolve their internal issues to develop their land, Lae MP and Lands and Physical Planning Minister John Rosso says. “You must deal with and […]
Xmas Day drink costs man K1,000
A MAN has been fined a total of K1,000 by a Summary Court in Lae for drinking in public and resisting police arrest while another charge of resisting arrest was […]
Eddie finds hope in growing flowers
WHEN all seems lost, one just has to find the right path out of their hopelessness, flower vendor Eddie Mune says. The 39-year-old from Angapo village in Tari, Hela, spent […]
48-yr-old in court for alleged false pretence
A 48-YEAR-OLD man has been committed to stand trial in the National Court on one count of false pretence and one count of misappropriation of property. Magistrate Paul Nii, yesterday, […]
Increase in students engaging in criminal activities, says prosecutor
THE instances of school children engaging in crime is rising, a police prosecutor says. Prosecutor Sgt Vincent Suakai said this in the Lae Summary Court presided over by Magistrate Pious […]
The wait gets too long
By ALPHONSE BARIASI CHRISTMAS must have come and gone without a cheer for a particular group of ex-public servants. The exact number could not be ascertained but it is safe […]