Day: July 25, 2022
3 in ICU after eating pufferfish
THREE people are fighting for their lives in Port Moresby General Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) after they were believed to have eaten poisonous pufferfish on Friday. Hospital emergency physician […]
Decision under review
THE National Court has allowed landowners of four clans in Hela’s Angore to challenge Petroleum Minister Kerenga Kua’s March 30 decision on the identification of beneficiary clans. The landowners are […]
Mechanic free after police fail to provide evidence
By GEORGINA KOREI A MAGISTRATE has struck out a stealing and dishonesty case of a 54-year-old man due to delay of police evidence after he had attended court several times […]
Attempted murder case struck out
A MAGISTRATE has struck out an attempted murder case yesterday against a person with special needs because police failed to give evidence. “I will strike out this case,” Waigani Committal […]
‘Kabwum counting sabotaged’
By JIMMY KALEBE KABWUM returning officer Keteng Ondop believes last Sunday’s burning of some ballot boxes was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the election in the district because the results […]
Mapex eyes uni status
MAPEX Training Institute aims to become a technical university to provide alternative education and skills training for students in the future, chief executive director Marcus Kara says. Speaking during the […]
New classroom to ease overcrowding issue
A LEVEL seven primary school in Port Moresby opened a four-in-one double classroom for its lower grades to be used this term. Philip Aravure Primary School head teacher Robert Sailas […]
Global shame
By REBECCA KUKU PAPUA New Guinea was shamed internationally yesterday when General Election 2022 (GE22) candidates’ supporters turned the streets in the federal capital Port Moresby into a battlefield. Innocent […]
EC: No more petitions
By LULU MAGINDE ELECTORAL Commissioner Simon Sinai has instructed all Returning Officers (ROs) and their assistants not to accept any more petitions or disputes and to complete counting without delay. […]
Supplementary elections to be held: Sinai
THERE will be a supplementary election held in Kabwum and Markham, Morobe following the burning of ballot papers there, says Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai. “We have seen people getting mad […]