Tag: Port Moresby
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...
‘Girl Power’ wows Port Moresby with new anti-violence video ‘No More’
PNG’s "first ever" girl band makes debut appearance in Port Moresby. Video: EMTV News
By Stacey Yalo in Port Moresby
With hopes of empowering more women...
New Chinese-built Koura Way road construction on target in PNG
By Delly Waigeno in Port Moresby
Another major road construction in Port Moresby, the Koura Way, is expected to be completed in September.
It is being...
Images: A day in the life of polling in Port Moresby
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
One of our University of Papua New Guinea citizen journalists has been on the ground photographing polling around Port Moresby -...
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...
‘It’s like a bad dream coming back,’ says Parkop on Moresby...
By Gloria Bauai in Port Moresby
Is history repeating itself for the Moresby North West electorate in the Papua New Guinean general election?
In 2012, polling...
‘Make election less disruptive’, pleads commissioner ahead of PNG ballot
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
More than 800 election monitors will be deployed nationwide to observe and make independent reports on Papua New Guinea’s...
PNG police, forces launch Moresby security operation for elections
The joint parade of disciplinary forces in Port Moresby at the weekend. Video: EMTV News
By Theckla Gunga in Port Moresby
A joint parade between members...
The ‘battle of Paga Hill’ – controversial PNG doco finally on...
When the police roll in with bulldozers to clear a waterfront residential area in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby and make space for...