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 Flights into Nadzab in  Lae Morobe Province and Kiunga , Western Province Are expected to resume by midday today. That is according to  Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation Walter Schbaubelt. Flights into Nadzab and Kiunga resume [photo by FM100] He said it’s an unfortunate situation but public safety was of paramount concern now and into the future. He said on Friday he had a brief with the Director of Civil Aviation (CASA PNG) that their technical auditing team with NAC to finalize most of the 21 and 7 NAC airport defects read in Parliament on Friday. ” The CASA PNG team are on target to complete most if not all compliance issues to acceptable standards for ease of management, thereafter so these airports are issued with the Aerodrome Operating Certificate with Conditions from CASA PNG for airlines to resume flights into airports,” Schbaubelt said. He said the Marape- Rosso government through the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation sincerely apologies for ...

 PNG Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says he told Puma Energy bluntly in Singapore on Sunday (January 8, 2023) that he does not “tolerate the country being held to ransom”. He said this in Parliament on Tuesday (January 10, 2023) when answering a series of questions from Southern Highlands Governor Hon. William Powi in relation to the standoff between Puma and Bank of Papua New Guinea (BPNG) last Thursday (January 5, 2023) over foreign exchange (FX) issues that resulted in all Air Niugini flights being cancelled. The Prime Minister also informed Parliament that: • The country had K13 billion in foreign reserves at BPNG which was the highest ever since 1975, so lack of FX was not an issue; • Government had directed Kumul Petroleum Holdings Ltd and Mineral Resources Development Company to look at downstream processing of PNG oil and gas resources; and  • Puma had been directed to buy Kutubu crude oil from Southern Highlands from Santos in PNG Kina and be processed in-country at its Napa...