Tag: PNG Post-Courier
PNG Post-Courier: Let’s talk first on media policy and transparency
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
The discussions on Papua New Guinea's new draft media development policy will come to the fore today when the media industry presents...
Nightmare over for final 3 PNG freed hostages – police hunt...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The look on the faces of their families said it all, as they cried awaiting anxiously for their loved...
Two countries, two kidnappings – Port Moresby shows Jakarta how it’s...
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
Two countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
On...
PNG gunmen free one of 3 women held captive, reports Post-Courier
PNG Post-Courier
The Post-Courier has exclusively been advised of the release of one of the women held captive by armed men in the Bosavi mountains,...
PNG military chief warns troops to ‘shape up or ship out’
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea Defence Force commander Major-General Mark Goina has issued a warning to all serving members of the PNGDF to "shape up...
PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinean Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey has clarified that the miscellaneous item of K2.6 billion in the budget will be spent on settling...
Star Post-Courier ‘frontline’ reporter Miriam Zarriga now new chief-of-staff
PNG Post-Courier
Miriam Zarriga, one of Papua New Guinea's top experienced journalists, has been appointed as the PNG Post-Courier's new chief-of-staff.
With more than 10 years...
PNG daily Post-Courier joins fight against gender-based violence
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
The Post-Courier daily newspaper is one of 15 companies in Papua New Guinea that have pledged to fight against...
Deaths, buried villages reported as 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits PNG
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake has been felt across Papua New Guinea with widespread damage to villages and an unconfirmed...
Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The alleged shooting of Indonesian fishermen by Papua New Guinean soldiers last week where one Indonesian was reportedly killed is a...
Women – just two – back in PNG’s Parliament but more...
ANALYSIS: By Orovu Sepoe, Lesley Clark and Teddy Winn
The results of the 2022...
Armed PNG election supporters cause chaos in capital, attack bystanders
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Running like a pack of animals, a group of political party supporters in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby...
Post-Courier: Our capital Port Moresby our last stand for peace
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier editor Matthew Vari
For weeks, we have seen the election violence as it spread in horrific proportions around the Highlands...
Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The headline of this editorial, we believe, expresses what every eligible voter, business house and candidate in the nation’s capital feels...
Fierce fighting continues in PNG’s Porgera with death toll reaching 17
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Seventeen people have been killed, hundreds of families made homeless, dozens of houses razed and government services ground to...
Marape, Electoral Commission say PNG election preps are on track
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's general election will go ahead as planned in June with CCTV (closed circuit television) to monitor...
Isaac ‘Iron’ Nicholas, the fearless PNG reporter who led from the...
OBITUARY: By the PNG Post-Courier
"Iron" we called him. And so he was, our iron man at Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier in Lawes Road, Port...
Alex Rheeney: Frontline media lessons of the past – from PNG...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Alexander Rheeney
It was probably one of those rare times when I “became the news” as a journalist.
I had accompanied Greenpeace activists...
Post-Courier: PNG presence must reflect climate change solutions
EDITORIAL: By the Post-Courier editors
Prime Minister James Marape has defended the massive cost of sending a 62-strong delegation to the COP26 Climate Summit in...
PNG Post-Courier: Time to consider piracy as a serious issue
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier
Ten years ago, a dinghy carrying 5 medical research institute scientists disappeared in Papua New Guinea's West New Britain waters.
The...
PNG’s oldest daily, Post-Courier, celebrates a half century
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby
The publishers of the PNG Post-Courier, South Pacific Post Limited, have launched 50th anniversary commemorative postage stamps to mark...
Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row
Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has published an extraordinary attack on two leading journalists over their reporting of the Covid-19...