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Douglas Tomuriesa, Pope Francis and James Marape

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  Opposition Leader Douglas Tomuriesa said he is disappointed and embarrassed over the way His Holiness Pope Francis was treated by Prime Minister James Marape over the last three-days during the Papal visit, and the lack of courtesy and respect shown by the Prime Minister. He said the Prime Minister continuously declares PNG as a ‘Christian country’ and prides himself on being a religious individual but he was surprised when the Pope was continuously snubbed by the PM over the weekend since the Pope’s arrival on Friday. “The Pope is the head of the Catholic church, the largest Christian church in the world and he is also a head of state. “PNG not only being a Christian country, but a country that prides itself as a ‘friend to all, enemy to none’, the PM should be according the Pope with the highest level of respect,” Tomuriesa said. The Opposition Leader pointed out that on Friday, the Prime Minister did not welcome the Pope at the airport, a tradition he had accorded to many other wo
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Buria Reds go into Southern league elimination final as underdogs

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  February 18, 2022 The National Sports By JACK AMI HIRI’S Buria Reds face Central Dabaris Development in the Southern Super League National Gaming Control Board elimination finals at Moresby South Stadium tomorrow (3pm kick-off). In the opening fixture at 1pm, Laumas meet Gulf Isou Development. The winners advancing to the preliminary finals on Feb 26 while the losers bow out of the inaugural title race. In the main encounter, the Dabaris look to be the better side against the Lealea village team who will be determined to spring an upset. Without captain Lega Batia due to religious commitments, Dabaris will pin their hopes on forwards Andape Tatape, Jayco Gulo, Robert Nana, Gomara Koba and Moi Goro. The Dabaris pack will be looking to combine well with their backline combination of Amon Lesley, Darrell Victor, Johnny Benson, Emmanuel Morea and Junior Wala. The Reds will count on forwards Lahui Ronnie, Danny Doko, Maino Kari and Havea Morea lay the foundation for backs Morea Heni Jr, A
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US$9bil P’nyang deal set

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  February 18, 2022 The National Main Stories PRIME Minister James Marape says a deal on the country’s third liquid natural gas (LNG) project is expected to be signed next week. He said cabinet had cleared the P’nyang Gas Agreement, which now awaits signing between the State and developer – ExxonMobil. Marape told  The National  yesterday that the US$9 billion (K30bil) P’nyang standalone project would be integrated with the multi-billion dollar PNG LNG project. The P’nyang agreement closely follows another multi-billion agreement made two weeks ago to reopen the Porgera gold mine. The US$5.4 billion (K18.5 billion) Wafi Golpu project is expected to be announced next week, Marape said. On a PNG LNG project related matter, Marape mentioned Santos Ltd’s positive indications of additional equity, based on his request to Santos, if they offload equity in PNG LNG as a result of their acquisition of Oil Search assets. He commended Santos chief executive officer Kevin Gallagher for the good in
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Coach Marum hails Segeyaro

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  February 10, 2022 The National Sports By PARKER TAMBUA COACH Michael Marum says the signing of Kumuls rake James Segeyaro by Manly Sea Eagles feeder side, Blacktown Workers, is a boost for Papua New Guinea ahead of this year’s Rugby League World Cup. The former North Queensland Cowboy, Penrith Panther, Cronulla Shark, Brisbane Bronco and Leeds Rhino was signed by Blacktown for the upcoming New South Wales Cup season. With Manase Fainu still not able to play under the National Rugby League’s (NRL) no-fault stand-down rule, Lachlan Croker has done a superb job stepping up into the hooking role for Manly. But the Des Hasler-coached side are still thin on dummy-half options and Segeyaro can fill the void in the squad, starting with Manly feeder side in the second-tier competition. Marum told  The National  yesterday that the Eastern Highlands native was still considered as one of the leaders in the Kumuls and he would be considered for the showpiece event in England at the end of year. “
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Prop Moide joins Lae franchise

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  February 2, 2022 Sports By PARKER TAMBUA PREMIERSHIP-WINNING Hela Wigmen forward Tommy Moide has joined reigning Digicel Cup champions Lae Tigers for the upcoming season. The Hanuabada villager, who was instrumental in the Wigmen’s title-winning 2020 season, told  The National  yesterday that he wanted a new challenge away from Port Moresby. “It will be the first time for me to be away from my family,” former Hunters train-on squad member Moide said. “It’s a tough choice because my family has always been there for me. “But I have to try something new. “I believe that being based in Lae with the Tigers will help change my life. “I’m looking forward to the challenge.” Moide said his goal was to play more minutes for the Lae Biscuit Company-sponsored Tigers. “But I have to work harder and be more consistent all season,” he said. “The Tigers are the benchmark in PNG. “I know they have a good system, so I am keen to be part of the side this year.” The former Port Moresby Viper, Central Da
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Hunters say Rau failed to impress

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  February 2, 2022 Sports By ROBINSON LEKA INCUMBENT winger Junior Rau was overlooked for the final SP Hunters squad after he failed to impress on a train-and-trial deal, according to the Hostplus Cup side. Hunters head coach Matthew Church told  The National  on Monday that the flyer had been given an opportunity to prove himself during pre-season training prior to Christmas. “Junior was informed that he would have the pre-Christmas training block to impress the coaching staff to retain him after Christmas,” he said. “He didn’t meet the training level required of him by the coaching staff and was told that he wouldn’t be returning in the New Year.” Church said Rau was among eight players who had been offered train-and-trial deals. “He was released at the end of the pre-Christmas training block,” he said. “He was one of eight players from the 2021 squad who were only offered train-and-trial deals. “The other 13 returning players were offered 12-month full-time contracts – a first in th
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CJ: Cops must serve warrants

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  February 2, 2022 Main Stories By BEVERLY PETER and CLARISSA MOI CHIEF Justice Sir Gibbs Salika says more than 6,000 bench warrants are pending execution nationwide and blames the police for failing to carry out the court orders. “A total of 6,372 warrants are still pending and need to be executed by police,” he told  The National  yesterday. “Due to the police failure to carry out court orders to serve the warrants, the cases have been piling up for about seven years.” Sir Gibbs revealed that more than 11,000 criminal cases were still pending with more than half of it bench warrant cases. “Total pending criminal cases is 11,221 as of last December. “That comprises of people on bail, custody and bench warrants. “But we will find strategies not to count those bench warrants because it is the work of the police to get them and they are not doing that. “Bench warrant cases are a problem and are being added yearly. “Bench warrant cases constitute about 55 per cent of the cases that are st
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Manly Sea Eagles offer PNG Kumuls’ Segeyaro a new deal

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  February 1, 2022 Sports FORMER North Queensland Cowboys, Penrith Panthers, Cronulla Sharks, Brisbane Broncos and Leeds Rhinos hooker James Segeyaro has been linked with a move to the Manly Sea Eagles. The 154-game National Rugby League (NRL) veteran, who had 10 games alongside that in the English Super League during a career which stretched between 2011 and 2019, said on the weekend that he had been offered a deal. Papua New Guinea international Segeyaro’s last stint in first-grade came to an end with the Broncos in September, 2019, after a drink driving charge saw Brisbane end his contract. He was then barred from playing rugby league after he was handed a 20-month suspension for being found to have the drug ligandrol in his system. Given this ban was backdated, clubs have been able to offer the rake a deal since June 2 of last year. However, none had previously been forthcoming until now. While Segeyaro didn’t say which club had offered him a contract in his Instagram post, it is n
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Election preparations on track

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  February 1, 2022 The National Main Stories THE Electoral Commission is way ahead with the preparations for the 2022 general election, says Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai. “All the work plans are done and ready for implementation,” he said. “We have plans for the enrolment of voters, election materials, logistics, ballot papers and ballot boxes.” The commission is now enrolling those not in the common roll, especially the first-time voters. “We are into checking, verifying and confirming each and every voter in each of the council ward,” Sinai said. “Work on electoral roll verification and updating is in progress in the 22 provinces, 331 local governments and 6375 council wards.” He urged every citizen to make sure they are enrolled in their council ward. “We are actually targeting young voters who would be turning 18 year by April when the election writs are issued,” Sinai said. “It is a democratic right for each citizen to vote in an election. “So to take part in the voting proc
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Kumul scores 3 on club debut

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  February 1, 2022 The National Sports NEW Leigh signing Nene Macdonald shone on his Centurions debut as he scored a hat-trick in the hosts’ 50-4 win over fellow Papua New Guinean Dion Aiye’s Whitehaven in round one of England’s second-tier rugby league competition on Sunday (local time). Leigh were keen to maintain their impressive record against Whitehaven, having won the previous 12 meetings stretching back to 2009. The last time Whitehaven had beaten Leigh at home was on final day at Hilton Park in 2008. Whitehaven had lost their warm-up games against Workington and Swinton while Leigh lost at St Helens the previous week. After some early pressure on the Whitehaven line seven minutes in, PNG international Macdonald scored the first try of the new season after some silky work by Ben Reynolds. Unfortunately, Reynolds’ conversion was narrowly wide of the target. Fifteen minutes, Leigh’s Kieran Dixon crashed over in the corner after a sweeping move across the line and Reynolds found th
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Three killed in Madang

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  February 1, 2022 Main Stories By SYLVESTER WEMURU THREE teachers in Madang have been killed by violent criminals in the space of a week, according to police. Madang provincial police commander acting Supt Mazuc Rubiang said students started school this week and the teachers had resumed their duties last week. But the families, students and some teachers in the province were mourning the death of the three men. Supt Rubiang said two deceased teachers were identified by their relatives. Their bodies are at the Modilon Hospital morgue while one is still missing at sea. He said the teacher missing at sea had been among a group of seven passengers on a boat who went missing after being attacked by the armed criminals at Tabali Point on Jan 13 while on their way to Rai Coast from Madang town. The teacher was identified as Mai Nafa-Tipang, a primary school teacher from Rai Coast’s Nayudo local level government. Supt Rubiang said the elementary school teacher murdered at Jopto on Jan 14 taug
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Cockfighting ops busted

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  February 1, 20 22 Main Stories Police rounding up the men and a woman at Sumomini, West Sepik. By MIRIAM ZARRIGA in Vanimo POLICE have busted an illegal cockfighting operation run by expatriates in the mountains of Vanimo-Green’s Sumomini in West Sepik on Sunday afternoon. About 30 men from Indonesia, Malaysia and China, and a woman from Indonesia, had been taking bets on the cockfights were arrested. Police Commissioner David Manning was informed of the bust by policemen in Vanimo on Sunday afternoon after they returned from the mountains. Manning told  The National  that the cockerels were specially bred and conditioned for increased stamina and strength to get them more aggressive. “The cockerels are injected with drugs brought in by their owners. “The birds are then fitted with razors, known as gaffs, and the ‘armed’ cockerels are then put into a ring, called cockpit, to fight until one is maimed or dead. “I have told the policemen to ensure that the expatriates are dealt with un
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Douglas Tomuriesa, Pope Francis and James Marape

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  Opposition Leader Douglas Tomuriesa said he is disappointed and embarrassed over the way His Holiness Pope Francis was treated by Prime Minister James Marape over the last three-days during the Papal visit, and the lack of courtesy and respect shown by the Prime Minister. He said the Prime Minister continuously declares PNG as a ‘Christian country’ and prides himself on being a religious individual but he was surprised when the Pope was continuously snubbed by the PM over the weekend since the Pope’s arrival on Friday. “The Pope is the head of the Catholic church, the largest Christian church in the world and he is also a head of state. “PNG not only being a Christian country, but a country that prides itself as a ‘friend to all, enemy to none’, the PM should be according the Pope with the highest level of respect,” Tomuriesa said. The Opposition Leader pointed out that on Friday, the Prime Minister did not welcome the Pope at the airport, a tradition he had accorded to many other wo
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MARAPE: INCORRECT WORDING ON WARRANT

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 MARAPE: INCORRECT WORDING ON WARRANT Post Courier  24th July 2024  PRIME Minister James Marape has assured the Gulf people that no funds meant for them including the Papua LNG project, have been diverted elsewhere. And Treasurer Ian Ling Stuckey on Friday also announced that Gulf funds were intact and the earlier warrants were withdrawn and that the issue has been rectified due to an incorrect wording. But yesterday an irate Gulf Governor Sir Chris Haiveta said his position still stands – that he will file the court proceedings today and allow the courts to correct the system and get to the bottom of this. This is over the K60 million IDG and Business Development Grants of which K20 million is supposedly for Gulf Province that Sir Chris is now taking to court. Marape said the Pangu-led government is committed to allocating development funds to all resource areas, including Ramu and Lihir, and will uphold fairness in all resource projects. This comes after an incorrect wording on a war
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PAITA CORRECTS MARAPE’S WRONG CLAIMS

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 PRESS STATEMENT Tuesday 11 June 2024 For Immediate Release – Finschhafen MP and Alternative Prime Minister nominee Hon. Rainbo Paita has expressed his disappointment in Prime Minister James Marape over what he described as “blatant misstatements” and a “poor choice of words” by Mr Marape in reference to the recent PANGU Pati caucus meeting. In response to Mr Marape’s media statement on Sunday June 9, 2024, Mr Paita corrected the Prime Minister on several misleading points expressed in the statement, and again defended the decision of the 12 MPs, which includes him, to leave not PANGU Pati, but the Party Leader Marape.  Mr Paita said: “Mr Marape proudly stated that the party unanimously voted to maintain his position as party leader, and maintain the position of the deputy party leader, but I place on record that we, the PANGU MPs who have challenged Marape’s leadership, were NOT given an opportunity to vote on this matter. “At the time of the meeting, we were still PANGU Pati MPs and
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PNG fighting 3 battles: Onglo

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  May 4, 2021 Main Stories By MIRIAM ZARRIGA POLICE Minister William Gogl Onglo says the country is fighting three huge battles: the fast – multiplying Covid-19 pandemic, the spiralling economy and escalating law and order issues. “Ethnic clashes in the National Capital District, the Alotau issue and tribal fighting in Kainantu are all matters that need urgent intervention,” he said. In a phone interview with  The National,  Onglo said the fear and anxiety within the community should be addressed. “The reality is that we now have three huge battles to fight,” Onglo said. “We have the pandemic, the economy and the escalating law and order issues. “Law and order is everyone’s business and any under-lying causes into the ethnic clashes need to be identified and resolved by the leaders of the communities. “The law has to work due to the breakdown in law and order around the country. “We are commencing preparations for the 2022 General Election and we need to resolve the disputes and ethnic
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4 held over cop’s killing

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4 held over cop’s killing POLICE arrested four suspected cop killers in Dobel’s Tari Camp in Mt Hagen on Wednesday, Western Highlands Commander Superintendent John Sagom says. “They were arrested by Mt Hagen-based Mobile Squad members in connection with the murder of Senior Constable Nelson Kalimda (on Oct 20),” he added. Sagom said the suspects would be under strict watch by Mt Hagen police throughout the process of investigations. “While they are in police custody in Mt Hagen police station, they will not be released under any special circumstances. “The arrest of the suspects is the first step to pave way for the criminal investigation process to run, and thus the Mt Hagen-based police must not under any circumstances let them go or release them on bail,” he added. According to the mobile unit, it is believed that the suspects were in Mt Hagen earlier this week and they drove around in a white Toyota LandCruiser when caught. It is also believed that the prime suspect came to the pro
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