Santos today announced that had it had come on board as a platinum sponsor of K300, 000 for the World Indigenous Business Forum (WIBF) 2023 which will be hosted in Port Moresby on October 24-26, 2023. Santos Papua New Guinea (PNG) Country Chairman Mr. Leon Buskens said they were more than happy to be a sponsor. “We are happy to be a part of this inaugu...

Air Niugini's Acting Chief Executive Officer Gary Seddon says the national airline strives to provide the best services it can to its customers despite the many challenges it is facing. He shared these remarks at the Business Breakfast Meeting hosted by the Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the 30th of August at the Gateway Hotel. He ...

Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says he is satisfied with his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. The Prime Minister and the President met at the presidential office in Paris where bilateral exchanges were had covering a wide range of issues, high among them Climate Change and financing accessibility for Forest Nations.  PM Marape said: ...

Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, MP has commended the Government of Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for their commitment in promoting sustainable development. The Prime Minister made the commendation when delivering his keynote address on the first day of the Indonesia Sustainability Forum recently in Jakarta Indonesia. He comme...

Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has invited the business community of Israel to Papua New Guinea, offering land in a Special Economic Zone specifically for Israeli businesses in the country. Prime Minister Marape made the invitation to the Israel Manufacturers Association. The Prime Minister wasted no time, as he came out strongly advocating PNG’s ...

Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has affirmed Papua New Guinea’s strength in accepting, tolerating and living with diversity. Prime Minister Marape made this statement at the reception of the opening of the new Papua New Guinea Embassy in Jerusalem recently (5/9/23). “In 1975 when we assembled into one nationhood, we brought together over 860 differ...

Papua New Guinea’s relations with the State of Israel is very important, particularly as PNG seeks to draw from Israel’s development experiences over the last 75 years, Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has said. Prime Minister Marape said this after a bi-lateral meeting on Tuesday (05.09.23) afternoon with Israeli Foreign Minister His Excellency Mr Eli...

The ABG Department of Mineral & Energy Resources facilitated a group of ten landowner leaders from Panguna to participate in the inaugural PNG Community Affairs and National Content Conference and Expo (CANCONEX) at the PNG University of Technology in Lae this week. The group comprised of male and female family representatives from the five major l...

The construction of the fabrication and training facility by Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited will create direct employment for up to 1000 Papua New Guineans and create business for local companies in the country. Construction of lay down and necessary associated site work, including services rights of way and site access roads has now started after th...

The Papua New Guinea Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Hon James Marape is committed to supporting secretariat to facilitate the works of the Pacific ICT Ministers for the next two years until the Ministers meet again to deliberate. PNG’s Deputy Prime Minister Hon John Rosso gave this assurance when representing the PNG Government durin...

Prime Minister Hon. James Marape convened a significant meeting recently at his office in Port Moresby with Telstra Group Chief Executive Officer, Vicki Brady, and Telstra International Chief Executive Officer, Roary Stacko. The meeting was also attended by the Senior Vice President of Digicel PNG Limited, Lorna Macpherson. During the meeting, Ms. Brad...

Prime Minister and Member for Tari-Pori, Hon. James Marape, has thanked stakeholders involved in the construction of the newly-opened Tari Airport terminal in Hela Province. Hela is an important province for the country as it hosts significant national projects in Hides Gas and PNG LNG, but has been needing restoration in its airport facilities since t...

In a significant stride towards boosting rural development and agri-enterprise in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as part of the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, established four resource centres in areas that are grappling with serious challenges in access to ICT services, including digital skills, digital t...

Five Melanesian leaders, including Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, concluded the 22nd Melanesian Spearhead Group Leaders Summit in Port Vila recently (24.08.23) after a fruitful round of talks that covered environment and climate change mitigation, security, and nuclear waste disposal management. Vanuatu’s Prime Minister and MSG Chair, Hon. Alatoi Is...

The Department of Personnel Management through the Office of the Secretary officially approved the proposed organizational structure for the Department of International Trade and Investment (DITI) on Thursday, August 24, 2023. Acting Secretary for DITI, Mrs. Jacinta Warakai Manua said with this approval, the department that was established under NEC Decis...

Ambassador of Vietnam to Papua New Guinea (PNG), His Excellency Nguyen Tat Thah in his meeting with the Minister for International Trade and Investment, Hon. Richard Maru said Vietnam was keen on Trade and Investment with PNG. His Excellency Thanh said the Government of Vietnam was keen to invite Minister Maru to lead a small trade delegation to Vietnam n...