Tag: Port Moresby
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...
Port Moresby public’s cry for safe public transport finally answered
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
The public’s cry for a safe, affordable and efficient public transport system in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby...
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...
Lawyers threaten PNG police with contempt over settlers eviction halt
PNG Post-Courier
A Supreme Court ordered mass eviction of settlers on land between Papua New Guinea's University of PNG, Gerehu Stage 3B and Morata stage...
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...
Port Moresby backs off ‘total’ lockdown in city, says Governor Parkop
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has announced that there will not be a total lockdown of Port Moresby.
He...
Governor Parkop takes back Moresby park for ‘benefit of our people’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has vowed that NCDC has the municipal mandate to protect public interest and manage the...
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...
‘Sleeping giant’ PNG anti-fraud unit has power to recover millions of...
By Frank Rai in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Fraud and Anti Corruption Directorate is a "sleeping giant" resting beneath the hills of Konedobu...
‘Stop fighting or be tossed out of Moresby,’ warns Parkop
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has warned Papua New Guinean ethnic groups to stop fighting and killing each...
Two PNG security firms fight running battle at country’s biggest airport
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Two Papua New Guinean security companies currently providing services at the Jacksons International Airport terminal in the capital Port Moresby attacked...
Port Moresby hospital emergency chief explains tragic oxygen death
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's main hospital emergency chief has clarified the tragic death of a female patient dying while trying to access...
114 Port Moresby Hospital staff test positive as PNG covid crisis...
By Christine Kildi in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s biggest referral hospital in the country, Port Moresby General (PMGH) is seeing a massive increase of...
Somare family says thank you to PNG for the love at...
The Loop PNG livestreaming of the Sir Michael Somare funeral in Port Moresby today.
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Somare family has thanked the people of...
PNG warned 680,000 covid vaccine doses needed to ‘save health system’
By Lulu Mark and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A medical academic has warned the Papua New Guinea government to immediately bring in more than...
Tongan missionaries ‘in hiding’ in PNG as angry looters target Asian...
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva Tonga
A group of Tongan missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Papua New...
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...
Port Moresby hospital under strain with overcrowding, says doctor
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's biggest hospital is straining to provide medical services to the growing population of the capital Port...
Port Moresby hospital scales down services due to covid breach
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby General Hospital is scaling down its services due to covid-19 cases being detected on...
PNG suffers first reported covid-linked death – woman with breast cancer
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A 48-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea's Central Province who has died after a battle with stage 4 breast cancer has...
PNG confirms 4 new covid cases – breach in testing lab
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Deputy Controller of the Pandemic Act, Dr Paison Dakulala, has announced four new covid-19 cases in...
Paga Hill resettlement refugee mothers plead for help from Governor Parkop
By Meleasie Goviro in Port Moresby
They said it was an emotional day for them, to celebrate Mother’s Day in iconic Paga Hill in Papua...