Tag: NCD
Aftermath of Port Moresby looting, rioting – 14-day state of emergency
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Fires from the 24-hour spate of looting, rioting and mayhem in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby...
PNG firefighters battle to stop Port Moresby blaze
PNG Post-Courier
As drivers and pedestrians continued on their daily business yesterday afternoon in Papua New Guinea's capital city Port Moresby, a cry went out...
Senior PNG police officer calls for mandatory drug tests for all...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A senior Papua New Guinea police officer has called for mandatory drug tests because the National Capital District (NCD)...
Commonwealth observers call for ‘urgent review’ of PNG electoral process
RNZ Pacific
The Commonwealth group that has been observing the Papua New Guinea national elections has called for an urgent review of the electoral process.
The...
PNG’s capital residents shocked with second deferral of polling day
PNG Post-Courier
Chaos. That is the one word for Papua New Guinea's 2022 national general election.
Unfortunately, the election has descended to that level, and polling...
‘I’m ready – energised,’ Port Moresby’s Parkop pledges to huge crowd
PNG Post-Courier
"Powes! Powes! Powes!" The city of Port Moresby was ringing with chants of support for its governor for the past 15 years --...
Former PNG election manager for Port Moresby jailed for ballot fraud
PNG Post-Courier
A former election manager for Papua New Guinea's National Capital District (NCD) who was charged with election fraud for corruptly receiving a...
People’s Party back all-women team for PNG capital hot seats
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
The People’s Party has made an unprecedented announcement to endorse four women candidates for all four National Capital District...
Garden Hills squatters evicted in Port Moresby crackdown on church land
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
Hundreds of settlers from the controversial Garden Hills settlement along Waigani Drive in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District...
PNG’s capital Port Moresby reaches crisis point over covid surge
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s biggest referral hospital has reached a crisis point as the covid-19 pandemic positivity rate surged drastically...
Parkop blasts PNG Lands Department for failing to protect public parks
By Frank Rai in Port Moresby
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has lashed out at the Papua New Guinean Department of Lands and Physical...
Parkop pledges no lockdown in Port Moresby due to ‘precarious’ economy
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Governor Powes Parkop says there will be no lockdown in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District (NCD) despite a...
Chaotic PNG election scene in Moresby with cancelled polling, 4 ‘arrests’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's general election has been rocked with many disruptions, the cancellation of the capital Port Moresby's one-day polling, and...
Under fire PNG elections chief vows he will not resign
Papua New Guinea's under fire Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato says he will not step down and will continue to ensure the general election is...
Parkop calls on PNG to use state veto power to revoke...
By Cedric Patjole in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is calling on the state to use its veto powers...
