News

Air Niugini needs K800 million to fund effective re-fleeting program

11/07/2012 18:59
      Speech by Sir Mekere Morauta, KCMG MP Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you Prime Minister for coming today (Wednesday 11 July 2012).  I take this opportunity to congratulate you for your sweeping victory in Ialibu-Pangia. We are here to...

Air Niugini pays K6.45 million dividend to PNG government

11/07/2012 18:54
      MEDIA RELEASE The Minister for Public Enterprises, Sir Mekere Morauta, today (Wednesday 11 July 2012) accepted a dividend payment cheque from Air Niugini for K6.45 million. The dividend is the first the airline has paid since it was corporatised in...

Rural Papua New Guineans notch up K8 million transactions

01/07/2012 23:15
    BSP Rural Ltd staff Ossie Bale uses a tablet to open new bank accounts for women vendors in East New Britain.     The value of transactions by rural-based Bank South Pacific (BSP) customers in Papua New Guinea has reached K8 million (A$3.4 million). Speaking...

PNG Perspective website gets close to 2 million hits

06/06/2012 14:32
PNG journalist and blogger Alexander Rheeney uploading content and editing the website.   The Papua New Guinea Issues in Perspective (PNG Perspective) website has chalked up close to 2 million hits since going live in August last year. The website was created to analyse development...

Mekere: lock in funding for infrastructure to avoid missed opportunities

05/06/2012 17:58
 Sir Mekere: PNG could miss opportunity to harness potential.    Papua New Guinea (PNG) will fail to harness its potential unless it restored discipline to its budgetary processes, locked in funding for rural and national infrastructure maintenance, and recapitalise its...

Singirok condemns Namah's storming of Supreme Court

05/06/2012 07:40
(L-R) Former army commander Brigadier General Jerry Singirok and his former PNGDF captain Belden Namah.   The former army commander of Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah has described the parliamentarian’s storming of Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court as signs of an MP desperate for...

Somare: 2012 O'Neill-Namah government budget highly irresponsible

04/06/2012 20:50
    PRESS RELEASE The Treasurer, Don Poyle, has admitted theO’Neill-Namah 2012 budget faces a massive K500 million deficit that is destinedto become one of the most irresponsible budgets brought down by any PNG Government. In a statement issued today, the MP for Angoram,Hon....

Somare: go back to your electorates and stop making PNG a laughing stock

31/05/2012 00:47
    PRESS RELEASE The Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare has called on Mr Peter O’Neill and his rogue team to stop making PNG the laughing stock of the Pacific and the Commonwealth. Sir Michael said: “I urge all members of parliament who are intending candidates to return...

O'Neill overcomes attempts to stall his re-election as Prime Minister

31/05/2012 00:29
PNG's national parliament re-elects Peter O'Neill as Prime Minister.   Papua New Guinea politician Peter O’Neill has been re-elected Prime Minister but not before overcoming what appears to be separate attempts by parliament speaker Jeffrey Nape and his deputy Francis Marus to stall...

O'Neill government coalition partners in nervous wait for 'new PM'

30/05/2012 09:53
A nervous wait for PNG's politicians after acting speaker Francis Marus declares PM vacancy.     There is disquiet among the O’Neill government’s coalition partners as Papua New Guinea’s politicians wait for today’s special sitting of national parliament to elect a new Prime...
<< 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 >>