Tagged: Papua New Guinea

PNG confirms 11th COVID-19 case

Papua New Guinea confirms the 11th case of COVID-19 after aggressive contact tracing and a step up in targeted testing. Case 11 is a 26 year old female that resides in Port Moresby and...

PNG confirms 9th COVID-19 case

EVERYONE in Papua New Guinea has a responsibility to ensure coronavirus 2019 or COVID-19 does not spread throughout the country, medical experts said following the announcement on Saturday of the 9th COVID-19 case. The...

Governor General appoints Manning as Controller

The Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, Grand Chief Sir Bob Dadae, by virtue of the powers conferred in Section 41 (1) of the National Pandemic Act 2020, acting with and in accordance with the...

PNG joins countries without COVID-19

PAPUA New Guinea has not had any cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for the last 44 days which makes it COVID-19 free as other countries without any cases yet. However, health authorities and...

Female suspect in visa racket

Four arrested over fake visa racket

A FOURTH suspect into the Papua New Guinea fake Visa racket was apprehended on Saturday at the Vision City car park. The operation was conducted by the Members of the PNG Immigration Special investigation...

29 citizens repatriated from Jayapura, Indonesia

A total of 29 citizens, comprising of 25 detained illegal border crossers, four stranded citizens and a baby were successfully repatriated back into Papua New Guinea from Jayapura, Indonesia through the Skouw/Wutung International Boarder...

1,120 promoted in 2019 police promotions

A total of 1,120 policemen and women were promoted to various ranks in the recently concluded 2019 Promotion Board sitting. This included a total of 166 policewomen who were promoted to various ranks including...