Tag: Powes Parkop
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...
Parkop calls on PNG to use state veto power to revoke...
By Cedric Patjole in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is calling on the state to use its veto powers...
Images: Citizen journo’s diary of a student protest in PNG
For three weeks, more than 5000 students at the national University of Papua New Guinea have had a stand-off with the government of Prime...
Take your resign petition directly to PM, Parkop tells students
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has appealed to the University of Papua New Guinea student leaders to deliver their petition to the Prime...
