BUKA, PNG – Bougainville Copper is to open an office on Bougainville Island this year as sentiment begins to build within Papua New Guinea for a resumption of mining of the giant Panguna copper deposit. The visit to Bougainville Island by the PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill earlier this year – the first visit by…
Papua New Guinea’s first liquefied natural gas cargo is expected to leave from near Port Moresby in the next four months, with the $US19 billion (K46bn) PNG LNG project set to perform a rare regional feat by coming on stream ahead of schedule. The ExxonMobil-run project, which would process gas from a gasfield in Southern…
FIJI TIMES – Bank South Pacific (BSP) has launched its new VISA debit card in Suva, which, among other things, will make travelling easier for its customers. BSP has extended its services with an instant card issuance over the counter, flexible and easy to use, access to VISA’s wide global coverage and acceptance and which…
Fiji TV – Fiji is one of eight countries in the region where 20 percent of the population still live in hardship – meaning they are unable to meet all of their basic needs. But according to a World Bank report, Fiji still leads the Pacific when it comes to efforts to reducing those hardship…
RNZI: Vanuatu’s Disaster Management Office says the death toll could rise as it establishes the full extent of damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Lusi. Three people have been confirmed dead and one person is seriously injured as a result of the cyclone. The office’s director, Shadrack Welegtabit, says almost half of Vanuatu’s population has been…
ABC: The giant ExxonMobil liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea is months ahead of schedule and is expected to deliver first gas by mid-year. The project marks emergence of PNG as a gas supplier to Asia and is expected to push economic growth next year to 20 per cent. Managing Director of Esso…
HOUSEHOLDS in Solomon Islands and Kiribati which are being headed by women are more likely to face hardship. This was revealed by a report entitled; “Hardship and Vulnerability in the Pacific Island Countries.” The report was jointly launched early this week at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji by the World Bank. It…
THE Correctional Service Solomon islands (CSSI) Women’s Network is a success story for women officers within the organisation. CSSI inspector Leah Alufo’oa said this has led to substantial improvements and has grown in strength since its inception and has become an effective voice in expressing women officers’ needs and issues in CSSI. She highlighted this…
Dear Editor – Firstly, I would like to quote some famous important saying and statements: No man is an island, and no one is indispensable Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. It’s human to want the reward, but not so human to meet the prerequisite requirement. We have the…
Dear Editor – When all required formalities regarding the construction of the Papua New Guinea Chancery in Honiara were completed, everyone was on high tune and forward looking to its impletion and subsequently, its official opening. It did not happen as expected but woes and anxieties filled the place of the short-lived jubilation. The building…