PNG Gossip Newsletter - 16 Jul 2016

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Neo Melanesian English
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hap tok word quotation / passage / statement
tok amamas friendly talk
tok giaman a lie
tok gris flattery / seduction
tok gumi a tall tale
tok hait a secret
tok i go pas an introduction / a foreword
tok insait conscience
tok kros a scolding / harsh words
tok maus the spoken word
tok pilai a joke
tok ples a native language / a mother tongue
tok profet a prophecy
tok stil to divulge a secret
tok tru antap an oath
tok win idle tales / rumours

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PNG News Links

Lae CID Records Reveal Big Drop in Major Incidents -- http://giaman.com/pg/?14db2d

PNG court orders the recall of Parliament to hear no-confidence motion in Prime Minister -- http://giaman.com/pg/?070a22

Parliament must abide by laws : Judge -- http://giaman.com/pg/?bdf9f3

Tensions set to mount as Papua New Guinea court rules vote against PM must proceed -- http://giaman.com/pg/?3abd79

Lae Community Raise Concerns Over Liquor Licencing -- http://giaman.com/pg/?d6a256





Misc. Links

EMTV Online Business PNG - Episode 23, 2016 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?704c05

Pacific Fashion To Advocate On Violence -- http://giaman.com/pg/?1914ee


News Items

Segeyaro at Leeds Rhinos

New Leeds Rhinos signing James Segeyaro has arrived in Leeds and has been officially unveiled as a Rhinos player

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?203975

Burrow believes Segeyaro will give Rhinos a boost -- http://giaman.com/pg/?c999d9





School Girl Arrested

A girl attending Kimbe Primary School in West New Britain has been arrested and charged for posting what police said were defamatory and false statements on Facebook. Provincial police commander Supt Jim Namora said yesterday that the girl (name withheld) was identified after police saw a post she allegedly made on Facebook.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?785551





Helifix Adds to Fleet

Nationally owned helicopter company Helifix has welcomed a new helicopter to its fleet.





Wisil Qualifies

Toea Wisil from Papua New Guinea just ran an Olympic Qualifier over 100m Womens. Stopping the clock at 11.29s means a direct Qualifier for Rio being 0.03 under the mark with a perfect tail wind of 1.9m/s.

-- https://www.facebook.com/oceaniaathletics/





Boats to Help Combat Piracy

In the efforts to minimise law and order issues, the Morobe provincial government has purchased two boats each with a 75 horsepower outboard engine motors at the cost of K66,000 each. The two boats will go towards assisting the Salamaua Local Level Government (LLG) in combating law and order issues as well as policing sea piracy matters.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?e5259e





Air Niugini

The national airline is planning for the introduction of direct air services between Papua New Guinea and the Peoples Republic of China following the recent signing of an historic air services agreement. The Chairman of Air Niugini, Sir Frederick Reiher, said the air services agreement would enable Air Niugini to introduce seasonal charters between Port Moresby and Shanghai during the Chinese New Year celebrations early in 2017 and for other holiday periods next year.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?8784ad





Lifebrandz

Lifebrandz has said that it plans to acquire all the shares of Tolukuma Gold Mines, a company incorporated in Papua New Guinea that owns a non-operational gold mine there, for US$212 million. The purchase will be made by allotting new shares to the vendor.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?f1d289





Melanesian Spearhead Group

The four Melanesian prime ministers of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji will come together in Honiara, Solomon Islands today as Chairman Manasseh Sogavare hosts the 23rd Melanesian Spearhead Group Special Leader's Summit.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?fbefbc





Morobe Students Raise Funds

A week after the termination of 2016 academic year, students at the University of Papua New Guinea have already vacated the campus. Those who are not Port Moresby residents have started leaving for home, but some are still waiting for airline tickets to leave for their respective provinces. Students from Morobe have started raising funds to get home.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?ff17d4





Vanuatu Students Repatriated

Ni-Vanuatu students are being repatriated from Papua New Guinea, after months of protests and tensions at universities there. The Daily Post newspaper reports that twelve students from the University of PNG in Port Moresby and nine from UniTech in Lae, will return to Vanuatu today.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?bda1e1





Gardens Planted in Drought Recovery

People in Papua New Guinea have planted additional gardens to counter a weaker than expected harvest.

Much of the Highlands, along with other parts of PNG, suffered badly from eight months of severe drought brought by El Nino from the second half of last year.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?186789





Viking Chant Heard

The globalality of Football - The PNG Under 20 Women's World Cup team has been heard practicing the Viking chant.

Every day brings news of the travels of the Viking chant, made famous by the supporters of the Icelandic men's national football team at the EURO 2016 in France. Vísir reports it has made it all the way to the island nation of Papua New Guinea, north of Australia, which is about as far away from Iceland as you can go without embarking on a trip to the moon.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?597998





Vale Pastor Geoffrey Pomaleu

54-year-old Pastor Geoffrey Pomaleu, the head of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Papua New Guinea, has died in Lae on the 4th of July - a day after collapsing at a camp for pastors' children. His body is being flown around the country for seven separate funeral events over four days.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?c38e74





U21 Netball Squad

The national selectors announced a train-on squad for the Papua New Guinea Under-21 netball team to compete at the Oceania qualifiers.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?46f60c





Asylum Seekers Threatened

Refugees from Manus Island have been held hostage during an armed hold-up in Port Moresby over the weekend, with reports at least one detainee was assaulted and hotel security were fired on by up to five gunmen. A detainee, who asked not to be named, confirmed that he hid under a table during the attack, and that around half the group of 17 was held hostage.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?7fd243

Two asylum seekers threatened at gun point in Port Moresby, one injured -- http://giaman.com/pg/?ab1567

PNG Police Confirm Armed Robbery Of Motel Holding Sick Asylum Seekers -- http://giaman.com/pg/?0f4aec





Hunters Update

The PNG Hunters, playing in the Intrust Super Cup, are now on 26 competition points, made up of a total of 11 wins, five losses and two byes.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5cc40b





Police Seek Medical Records

Port Moresby police have obtained a search warrant to obtain medical reports of the UPNG students who were injured during the standoff between students and police on the 8th of June. This is part of an internal investigation into the incident. The search warrant had already been served to the Port Moresby General Hospital

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?b20b5b





PNG Strikes?

A civil society group in Papua New Guinea says its call for peaceful strike action is being enacted by people in the country's three main cities. The group issued the call after the Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, ignored its ultimatum to stand down by midnight last night to face fraud allegations.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?c64c18

Air Niugini has been reported as having to cancel flights but will not participate in the strike -- http://giaman.com/pg/?839737

PNG health workers threaten strike action -- http://giaman.com/pg/?5f5c5a





Telikom in Lae

Telikom is running a promotion on free internet service with its ADSL2+ technology for customers in Lae. The National reported Lae Telikom sales manager George Ireng as saying the promotion started on 2 July and will end this month.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?8fcd6a





Storm Sign Justin Olan

Australian National Rugby League (NRL) team, Melbourne Storm has announced the signing of Hunters winger and PNG international, Justin Olam.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?d73ef7





Opposition Confident

Deputy opposition leader Sam Basil says he believes a no confidence motion in the Prime Minister Peter O'Neill will be successful, despite not knowing whether his bloc has the numbers.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?6a5e25

PNG Supreme Court orders PM to face no-confidence vote after riots -- http://giaman.com/pg/?effd61





UPNG 2017

The University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) students will re-enrol in 2017 after the university closed prematurely in 2016. Students are confused as to whether they will need to apply again for next year to secure.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?39b6c7





Coming Events

Note: please verify any date mentioned as dates change and events can sometimes get cancelled. Of course I may also put down a wrong date.

Port Moresby Craft Markets - Laguna Hotel - 1st Saturday of the month (9 am - 2 pm), PNG Arts - 2nd Saturday of the month (9 am - 2 pm), Holiday Inn - 3rd Saturday of the month (9 am - 2 pm), Ela Beach - 4th Saturday of the month (6 am to 12 pm)

The National Mask Festival -- http://giaman.com/pg/?2cc7f8 -- July 13 - 17 Rabaul

The ABU Pacific Media Partnership Conference 2016 - 24 to 27 August in Port Moresby -- http://giaman.com/pg/?473731

Pacific Youth Leaders (PYL) Basketball Camp 2 - 11 of September 2016 in Port Moresby

2016 8th FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup tournament (13 Nov - 3 Dec, Port Moresby) -- http://giaman.com/pg/?18525e

Christmas Day - 25 December 2016

Boxing Day - 26 December 2016

New Year's Day - 1st January 2017

Surfing Association PNG - World Surf League tour championship in January 2017

Pacific Mini Games - Vanuatu 2017

2018 - APEC summit to be held in Port Moresby -- http://giaman.com/pg/?a3e64e

Do you have an event that you want advertised? - Use the submission form located at -- http://www.pnggossip.com/misc/ctc.html




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Created 16 Jul 2016
Updated 26 Jul 2016


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