Tag: PNG law and order
PNG police investigate bomb threat at Goroka courthouse in Highlands
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea police in Eastern Highlands are investigating a bomb threat that was sent via an email to...
East Sepik governor Allan Bird on how to ‘change the trajectory’...
Interview by Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
The man being touted by the opposition as the next leader of Papua New Guinea says the...
Namah not happy with Marape’s reply over PNG ‘warlords’ question
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's former opposition leader Belden Namah says Prime Minister James Marape never answered in detail the questions...
Wapenamanda massacre: PNG leaders angry over tribal war ‘barbarity’
By Gorethy Kenneth
Papua New Guinea’s image on the international stage took a battering yesterday when graphic images of dead bodies piled upon each other...
Stamping out ‘local terrorism’ a high priority for PNG, says Governor...
PNG Post-Courier
Northern Governor Gary Juffa has joined Papua New Guinea's police chief and the Prime Minister in calling for Papua New Guineans to lay...
‘Heroic efforts’ save 7 PNG teachers and families in kidnap attempt
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
In what is described as a "significant relief", seven Papua New Guinea teachers and their families were rescued from...
PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them
By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby
Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last...
Porgera mine ‘killing fields’ – 21 Papua New Guineans die since...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The successful restart of Papua New Guinea's New Porgera Limited gold mine is currently at high risk due to...
PNG authorities try to quell unrest after 16 prisoners on run...
RNZ Pacific
A curfew has been imposed in part of Papua New Guinea and extra police have been moved in to quell unrest over the...