Tag: Powes Parkop
Indonesia’s Widodo set to visit Port Moresby next month
RNZ Pacific
Indonesian President Joko Widodo is set to make a state visit to Papua New Guinea next month.
The one-day visit is scheduled for July...
Port Moresby governor Parkop stable and recovering after cardiac scare
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is stable and recovering at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Australia, according...
When will enough be enough? Port Moresby’s struggle with ethnic war
SPECIAL REPORT: By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Port Moresby’s "amazing city" tag in Papua New Guinea is fast losing its varnish and appeal --...
Parkop calls for full probe into brutal murders of two Moresby...
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop wants the city’s police to fully investigate the gruesome murder...
Port Moresby back to normal after 36 hours of election tension
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
After 36 hours of unrest, fear and anxiety, Port Moresby city woke up yesterday morning to a quiet start...
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...
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...
Titanic power struggle tipped for PNG’s ‘game changer’ election
PNG Post-Courier
Today is officially the last day of campaigning in Papua New Guinea's 2022 National General Election.
Count tomorrow until Monday as rest days, but...
‘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 --...
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...
PNG interim restraining order over eviction of homeless Morata settlers
PNG Post-Courier
Papua's Guinea's National Court has issued an interim restraining order stopping the planned eviction of thousands of Morata settlers on portion 2733 in...
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...
Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns....
Shocking footage has been circulating on social media showing National Armed Forces (TNI) Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages in Suru-Suru 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...
Parkop challenges ‘least liveable cities’ ranking for Port Moresby
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has challenged Port Moresby’s almost bottom ranking in the 2021 edition of The Economist Intelligence...
Prosecuting gender violence culprits still a problem, Parkop tells women
By Janet Kari in Lae, PNG
Prosecution of perpetrators of gender-based violence around the country still remains a massive problem for Papua New Guinea, says...
‘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...
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...
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...
‘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...