Day: July 6, 2022
K163,000 given for Labuta police station
MOROBE’S Labuta local level government received, last Friday, K163,000 funding from the Morobe government to have a police station built near Situm Primary School. Situm Primary School and Situm health […]
Dept heads extend contract
FIVE senior heads of government departments and agencies have extended their contracts in a signing in Government House last Friday. They are Works and Highways Department secretary David Wereh, Commerce […]
Dialogue to review SARV national plan
A KEY dialogue to review the national action plan for sorcery related violence, has concluded with calls for strengthened collaboration in the country. An urgent dialogue to review the national […]
Briefs
Yoga Day celebration EAST New Britain’s Indian community celebrated International Yoga Day in Kokopo last Sunday. They also launched their Indian Cultural Association. Association secretary Nita Mahanta said: “We want […]
Eligible voters refuse to cast votes
By ROSELYN ELLISON PEOPLE have refused to cast their votes on Monday at a polling station in Kokopo, East New Britain, when most of their names were not on the […]
Tears of anger
By GYNNIE KERO A WOMAN was in tears at a polling station in Wewak, East Sepik, yesterday after she was disallowed from casting her vote as her name was not […]
Update roll early: Officials
By GLORIA BAUAI POLICE and election officials are recommending to whoever forms the next government to make the updating of the common roll a top priority well before the 2027 […]
Names missing in roll
By JAMIE HARO in Kerema SENIOR citizen Anna Opi has voted in Kerema in four general elections (GEs 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017). But yesterday, Opi was turned away because […]
Tari-Pori to start counting
By REBECCA KUKU in Tari COUNTING for the Tari-Pori seat in Hela will begin today, says assistant election manager Anne Pame. She said polling had been completed and all 16 […]
Quick counting saves time: Sinai
PAPUA New Guinea (PNG) Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai says the counting of ballots are being conducted at polling centres to save time. “We are conducting General Election 2022 (GE22) according […]