Category: Business
Bank explains policy on card replacement, fees charged
BANK South Pacific Financial Group Limited (BSP) has clarified its Kundu Card charges after seeing numerous illegitimate card replacement within a calendar year. Retail bank general manager Daniel Faunt said […]
Brace for third vanilla boom: Bird
EAST Sepik Governor says the country is bracing itself for a third vanilla production boom. “I expected a price increase in cocoa and I knew vanilla (too) was coming,” he […]
Cepa to lead environmental audit of Porgera Mine
THE Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (Cepa) will lead a major environmental audit into the Porgera Mine, says acting managing director Jude Tukuliya. The audit will cover the Porgera mine’s […]
Progress of state-owned firms must be tracked: KCH
THE progress and development of state-owned entities (SOE) in the country must be well documented as they provide essential and basic services that drive the economy. Professor David Kavanamur, managing […]
EHP coffee cooperative earns K800,000
AN Eastern Highlands cooperative has earned about K800,000 from shipments of coffee beans to China. Members of the Huwa Coffee Farmers Cooperative Society sent their first export in four containers […]
Poultry association runs training on raising broilers for market
THE Poultry Industry Association organised a training for poultry farmers in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands to teach farmers and individuals how to raise broiler chickens. Association president Stanley Leahy told […]
BSP Porgera branch resumes operations after year’s closure
BUSINESS houses, workers and people in Porgera can now access banking services after the Bank South Pacific Financial Group Limited (BSP) re-opened its Pogera Branch on Monday. The bank had […]
Businesses call for action
By ZARA KANU LEBO MILNE Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Jeffrey Abel is calling on leaders to address the ongoing power issues in Alotau. The chamber has organised […]
Sinivit locals encouraged to budget, save
THE East New Britain Savings and Loans (ENBSL) team has encouraged people of Pomio’s Sinivit local level government to focus on savings and budgeting from their daily earnings. ENBSL marketing […]
PPL makes little from Lae firms, looks to boost grid
By GLORIA BAUAI LAE city, the country’s industrial hub, accounts for just 15 per cent of revenue for the national power supplier, PNG Power Limited (PPL) due mainly to poor […]