Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has assured that workers superannuation contributions will not be directly impacted by the notion of ‘super tax’ on dominant industry players like Bank of South Pacific and Digicel.
There follows numerous criticisms and concerns from concerned citizens and superfunds in the country. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea says the call for vaccination is a genuine call but must be done without suppressing an individual's freedom.
Head Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of PNG Dr Jack Urame says, like other churches, the Lutheran Church also believes the pandemic is affecting human well being and the society at large and for the sake of saving human lives people have to be vaccinated. ![]() The Asian Development Bank has approved a 150 million US Dollar loan or about K528 million to help Papua New Guinea (PNG) improve its State-owned Enterprises services. Most essential services included energy, water, telecommunications, ports, and air transport are expecting boost and improvement under this loan program. ![]() NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Gideon Ikumu said investigations will commence immediately, to ascertain how four dangerous criminals escaped from the Boroko cells today. Two of them identified as Patrick Gonopa 25, and Murphy Miro 31, both from Kairiku, Central, were chased and recaptured by detectives, as they were attempting to flee into the East Boroko suburbs. A detective involved in the recapture said, they heard the metal gate clanging at the back entrance of Boroko cells and saw the inmates running away towards Boroko market. THE United States has added Coronavirus (Covid-19) to its travel advisory list of reasons why Americans should not travel to Papua New Guinea (PNG).
The US department of state (Bureau of Consular Affairs) updated its level 4 (do not travel) travel advisory last Tuesday. The Travel.State.Gov also maintained all its previous dampers for people planning to travel to PNG. They are: crime, civil unrest, health concerns, natural disasters, and kidnapping. It said the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (had issued a level 4 travel health notice for PNG for Covid-19, indicating a very high level of Covid-19 in the country. ![]() SIMON Sinai has been appointed Electoral Commissioner by the Electoral Commission Appointments Committee. Prime Minister James Marape, the committee chairman, said they would advise the Head of State to appoint Sinai Electoral Commissioner for a maximum of four years or until he reaches 60, whichever occurred first. The appointment is effective from Dec 1, 2021. Sinai replaces Patilias Gamato who he served under during the 2017 general election. Sinai had been acting in the position in the past 15 months. ![]() Further to previous updates, the National Airports Corporation (NAC) has advised that the completion of runway works at Lae (Nadzab) and Kavieng airports have been delayed into 2022. Kavieng is now expected to return to Fokker jet operations around the third week of January (instead of this month), whilst jet services to Nadzab are expected to resume in April 2022 (instead of January). ![]() The PNG Government accounts will be closed on December 31st this year. Minister for Finance, Sir John Pundari revealed this saying this will give ample time for government service providers in the provinces to be paid for their services rendered. He was responding to a series of questions from the Governor of East Sepik province, Allan Bird in parliament this morning. ![]() Amendments to certain sections of the National Capital District Commission Act 2001 have stripped off several important powers of the NCD Governor Powes Parkop. The governor is the chairman of the NCDC Board. The amendments were aimed to set a clear demarcation of functions of the Board, Chairman and the City Manager and improve governance of the city. The amendments were introduced to Parliament as a Private Members Bill by Central Governor Robert Agarobe yesterday and were passed. Agarobe says, currently the chairman is vested with more authority and power than the board and the city manager. Some of those include Section 5 and 6 powers of the chairman to appoint members of various interest groups to the commission. |
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