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 As the country goes into its second day of polling for the 2022 National General Election, Police Commissioner David Manning has once again appealed to the people of Papua New Guinea for their cooperation in making this election free, fair, safe and corruption free. Photograph of the security operations launch [Supplied] “It is the mission of the members of the security forces to ensure we have a free, fair, safe and corruption free National General Elections 2022. But this responsibility is not solely ours alone but for every citizen of Papua New Guinea,” Mr Manning said. Mr Manning made this comment when he launched the 2022 National General Election Joint Security Task Force parade at the Sir John Guise stadium in the nation’s capital, Port Moresby, on Friday 24 June. Speaking from Tari, where he witnessed the one-day polling for the Hela Province yesterday (Monday July 4), Mr Manning said the commitment of the security forces for a free, fair and safe election is evident from the

The Papua New Guinea Kumul Consolidated Holdings (KCH) has paid dividends to the State after 7- years.  The country’s Minister for State Enterprise William Duma officially handed over a dummy cheque of K80 Million Kina to Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey and Prime Minister James Marape this week.  The dividend amount from all state-owned companies bypasses the executive government projected estimates by K60 million.     The conference room at the Manasupe Building was packed with board and executive management of State Owned Companies, to witness, long overdue dividend payments to the state.  The last combined dividend payment by Kumul Consolidated Holdings was in 2015.  State Enterprise Minister William Duma before handing over a dummy cheque worth K80 million praised Prime Minister James Marape for reforms introduced when taking office in 2019.  Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey praised the state business arm for exceeding the government’s projected estimates of K20 Million. NBC News / PNG Today

Flights in Papua New Guinea are affected following restrictions on fuel supply.  PNG’s airline, Air Niugini has announced that it is cancelling all flights in the country after fuel supplier failed to supply fuel to the airline. The airline released the following statement.  ///  Air Niugini wishes to advise the travelling public that due to issues with Puma Energy accessing. US Dollars , Puma has decided to suspend the supply of Jet A1 fuel within PNG including to Air Niugini and all other airlines effective from today. This restriction applies to Port Moresby and all the airports around PNG. Unfortunately there is no alternative supplier of aviation fuel in most airports, including Port Moresby. Consequently Air Niugini is forced to announce that all domestic flights from 0001 tomorrow (Thursday 5 January) have had to be cancelled due to Puma Energy’s refusal to supply Jet A1 fuel to the airlines. These cancelations will have to be ongoing until Puma’s restrictions are removed. Air N