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Manning to implement gun buyback scheme

POLICE Commissioner David Manning wants to implement a “gun buyback scheme” to ease the proliferation of illegal firearms within Papua New Guinea. Commissioner Manning made this comment following the ongoing use of firearms in...

Police budget workshop underway in Port Moresby

A POLICE budget workshop is underway in Port Moresby for Provincial Police Commanders and their Provincial Administration Officers. The Police planners are going through the workshop to adjust their budgets for this year. When...

Asian killed in foiled robbery in NCD

A man of Asian origin was stabbed to death on Thursday when several armed criminals stormed into a mini mart at Gerehu and attacked the guards and employees with guns and knives. Security guards...

NCD Governor wants National Service introduced

NATIONAL Capital District (NCD) Governor Powes Parkop has called on the Government to establish the National Service to have civilians trained by military to be good citizens. He is willing to try that in...

Police orders US citizen to leave Bougainville

DEPUTY Police Commissioner and Chief of the Bougainville Police Service (BPS) Francis Tokura said that an American citizen was ordered to leave Bougainville yesterday for illegally entering the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. The US...

Australian man arrested over K800,000 theft in NCD

AN AUSTRALIAN man was arrested and charged by NCD Fraud investigators in Port Moresby on November 13 for allegedly stealing K800,000 belonging to another Australian man. The accused, Kenneth James West, an Australian citizen,...